Stuff That Dreams Are Made of

August 24th, 2010 by Kate & Brooke

After looking through nearly 15,000 submissions spanning 103 countries, the judging panel on the 2010 International Photography Awards, chose this image from Erik Almås as a Special Effects Winner. Go Team Special.

In-house Producer: Filiz Rezvan; Assistant/PA: Audrey Rudolf; First Assistant: Tom Hood/Hood Is Good, Second Assistant: Andrew Fornasier; Hair and Makeup: Mary Frances Pierson; Prop Stylist: Rosy Strazzeri-Fridman; Stylist: Shannon Dunn

3D/CGI Artist: Michael Tompert Raygun Studio; Additional Retoucher: Erik Pawassar, Jellysquare

More of the campaign here

See some early behind the scenes here

Celebrating Some Summer in Seattle

August 19th, 2010 by Kate & Brooke

Timothy Archibald, Team Play

August 19th, 2010 by Kate & Brooke

Fairly certain that Timothy had to have been a team sports kinda kid. Otherwise, how best to explain an infectious all-for-one, one-for-all spirit. A playful mindset that shows up everywhere in the Archibald world(s).

Seeing these outtake images from a recent Timothy commission, on location out at Lucas Valley Ranch, amidst the Eichler home developments, captures some of that work-as-play; or is it play-as-work with Team Archibald? And come to think of it, real estate developer Joseph Eichler known for unique developments himself. Ain’t serendipity grand, especially at 8:00 a.m.?

Shannon Amos, definitely all heart: Find more of her hearty work here

Heimo Schmidt Telling Another Story

August 11th, 2010 by Kate & Brooke

Through the lens. And specifically as it relates to the world of commercial photography, the need for a visual artist to pull it all together to tell a clients story. For this Camelbak story, featuring iconic bike rider Kirt Voreis, Art Director Kristin Bumgarner of Formium Agency (located in Petaluma—the City formerly referred to as the Egg Capital of the World), tapped Heimo for the job of coming up with ways to get this job done: With more than 20 years of hydration leadership, CamelBak joined forces with its top athletes to develop a pack collection dedicated to riders who insist on pushing their limits with every run on the mountain. The Don™, The Capo™ and Consigliere™ are a collection of hydration packs not to be messed with. Of course doing a wheelie, bare footed, in a hospital gown is not for sissies either.

Lastly, for now, for those that love a good non-sequitur as well for those that know and love Heimo for them, when asked from where this random one came in to being, his classic, dry response, “I just liked how he looked and took his picture”.

DOB: 08.07.10

August 7th, 2010 by Kate & Brooke

Amy Dresser, a New Face in The Tidepool

August 4th, 2010 by Kate & Brooke

We are thrilled to shout out that we’ll be agenting for the illustration side of multi-talented artist Amy Dresser. Plenty more to come, hold please.

Erik Almås, Yoking it up

July 29th, 2010 by Kate & Brooke

The word Yoga means “to join or yoke together,” and it brings the body and mind together into one harmonious experience. Fast forward 5000 + years to Yoga Journal and the bringing together of Erik and Sara McLachlan for their 35th Anniversary Cover.

Yoga Journal’s Making of Here

And Our Behind, Behind The Scenes Here

Sara Remington, Amuse Bouching Us

July 29th, 2010 by Kate & Brooke

Sneak peek at one of Sara’s Summer projects—no fruits were harmed in the making of these pictures…

More over here at Ms. Remington’s blog

Erik Almås, Many Layers

July 21st, 2010 by Kate & Brooke

Starting off with an invite that clicking here will lead you to a behind-the-scenes-tribute made by the always-collaborative Harrison & Star for a Genentech job well done. Note the images and then watch the show – or exercise your independence and watch the show first is fine too

Energy BBDO back with with all their energies for Bayer, with Buddy:

Shall we Dance? Part 1 of 2-part campaign for a Ritz Carlton commissioned from Duncan Channon:

Even for those of us shrouded in the San Francisco fog, this is one to wet the summer editorial whistle, from a recent commission for Genlux, the Summer 2010 issue:

And more at Genlux on-line here

Knowing the competition for this Annual is so very tough, like a zillion entries, we’re using this opportunity to multi-task highlighting Erik’s inclusion into the 2010 Communication Arts, Photo Annual while sharing how proud we are of him for making it look easy – on-line, on stands and in mailboxes now:

Lastly, for now, more of Erik’s diverse world is on Facebook: Here Or here for the website

Eat Your Greens, Especially When They Look Like This

July 20th, 2010 by Kate & Brooke

Mixt Salads: A Chef’s Bold Creations by Andrew Swallow with Ann Volkwein hits shelves complemented perfectly with photography from a talented and hard-working Sara Remington.

Michael Tompert AKA Raygun or Vice Versa

July 14th, 2010 by Kate & Brooke

Working for/with photographer Robert Schlatter meant that for their most recent collaboration, Michael found himself and his CG capabilities embedded on the front lines with Goodby and Robert on a 12-concept HP campaign.

additional behind the scenes located here

Bill Cash, Just the Facts Ma'am

July 12th, 2010 by Kate & Brooke

Fact is that it doesn’t take more than a few minutes to figure out that Bill just isn’t the kind of person to take the easy way out on ANYTHING—case-in-point, 2 of our favs from the latest Team Cash production:

plenty more facts at bill cash photo dot com

Heimo Schmidt

July 12th, 2010 by Kate & Brooke

Only thing that we can currently show from the latest of Heimo’s last few assignments, one of the heroes from a portraits-on-white library for Publicis Dialog starring LG Electronics spokeswoman, Stephanie Duchaine. Watching Heimo seamlessly multi-task as DP for motion content while capturing for the print, brings home that the gap between the mediums is closing at a rapid clip. Bring it.

if you want to know what we see, click here to get a daily dose of heimo’s creativity, a picture a day, @ the luddite’s journal

this link will take you to heimo’s site, newly updated

or go direct to the LG motion

as well if you’re happy and you know it, click here to become a fan of stephanie’s on facebook

Oh, and definitely sharing what we dubbed as a classic Heimo chosen for our recent DM.

Timothy Archibald, Photographer, Parent, BookMaker

June 30th, 2010 by Kate & Brooke

We couldn’t be more proud than okay, maybe if we had birthed it ourselves. A few years in the making and without further ado, “Echolilia”, a personal, passion project now in book form, published by Echo Press, has arrived:

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