IF/THEN at HIVE

Posted by Jim Catel on February 26, 2009

AIGA Seattle kindly asked us to present at HIVE along with Gabe Kean from Belle & Wissell. The theme of our presentation was “Honesty” and how honesty influenced the design approaches we applied for three recent projects; Frye Art Museum, Henry Art Gallery and MIX 09. Thanks to Jeff Barlow, Halli Thiel and HADW. Check out the video.

How Not to Buy a New Video Camera

Posted by Andi Rusu on February 6, 2009

Today was our first day of shooting for the Henry Gallery’s NW Artists DIG module - an interview with local artist Claire Cowie in her studio. Andi’s friend was kind enough to loan us his professional equipment and save us some rental fees.

The moral of this story, to spoil it for you, is always attach the expensive camera to the tripod before you walk away from it.

The camera was ON the tripod. It looked attached.

Andi walked over to attach the wireless microphone to the stand-in (Ricky) and the DP innocently went to frame the shot, and by just thinking about touching the camera it crashed to the floor. Time stopped for a moment, as bits of plastic flew from the camera. The camera survived with some cosmetic damage, and the shoot was a success. But Andi felt so bad about breaking his friend’s camera that he went immediately to Glazer’s and bought an even nicer one for him. So we now own a slightly used, slightly roughed up video camera.