Friends & Family Golf
A little post wedding golf scramble with old friends and family members. Pretty nice day in 90 degree weather. No one is missing from the photo either. Black magic!
Mosquito party, on my face.
Went camping this past weekend to the Olallie Lake area in Mt Hood National Park. A three mile hike in from a lonely Jeep trail already deep in the woods. My friend Sef caught some trout for dinner while we became dinner for some very intense mosquitoes. Possible visit from a bear to our camp as well. I thought I could sense some thing at 3 A.M. at our sight but, the silence was deafening when way out in the bush. The only evidence of a visitor to camp was a massive, hot deuce that was twenty feet away from my tent.
A great weekend of breaking in the new Jeep and clearing the head out. My newly acquired free time is fantastic! I am taking advantage of things that I always kind of put off to do later. Welcome to my summer.
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Product
Collecting a bunch of logos for a frusciantedesign.com overhaul.
‘55 Nomad
Here is one out of left field. A car show poster for a fully restored 1955 Chevy Nomad. Former 12er, Jimmy Carson, tapped me to layout a poster to be used at car shows and travels with this particular car. He got Chris Hornbecker to take some shots of the car. I drew the type from elements on the car itself. This piece ended up at 40×27 framed.
First Wednesday
I have been going through a reductive phase lately. Trying to make posters in the simplest way possible. This one is for First Wednesday at East Lounge in Portland. First Thursday is always a hullabaloo in the Pearl district here. Just more elevator fodder at WK. Plenty of white space so there is room for people to draw penis’s on it.
Layer Tennis
Layer tennis with Josh Nelson today. Make a image, pass it to your friend and you have to use something from the previous file to make a new one. This stuff gets pretty rank when you play for keeps. No offense intended to anyone or anything. Just making stuff. I served up the first volley.
This will bring perspective into the whole thinking, if you can call it that.
Hope Phones
New work for non-profit organization, Hope Phones. This organization was started by Stanford student Josh Nesbit and takes old phones that are donated, reprograms them with Frontline SMS software and gives these phones to doctors working in Malawi, Africa. Thus when a doctor needs medical information on a patient a simple text message can deliver the patients medical history, saving valuable time and money.
This series of 3 posters was intended to be used in the building at Wieden+Kennedy to get old phones donated by WK employees. Trying to tell the story was a mouthful when trying to explain what Hope Phones is and does. In the process of making these posters, the visual language simplified the whole program and are going to be used by the organization for their own promotions.
Make it worth it
Seeing as how the wordpress Paparrazi who apparently love my site are hanging on every word (see previous post about spammers on wordpress site blogs), let’s talk about something shall we.
I love an upset. I love the underdog. I love when someone who was assumed to not even be a factor, becomes the winner. I love surprise. I love when all the predictions do not deliver. This can and does happen all the time, just not on the biggest sporting/media scale. Tonight the Orlando Magic of the NBA beat the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2009 NBA Eastern conference finals to advance to final round.
Now don’t get me wrong, I love Lebron. How can you not. Anyone with the weight of the world on him like he has, Lebron is without a doubt first class. FIRST CLASS. That’s a period at the end of that.
Now I work in the house that built Nike. I have a huge respect for the brand and the people who work on it. Safe bets are never really safe and Dwight Howard and the Magic put another coin in the slot on that fact. Now a few weeks back we (I say that in the collective sense of an agency) produced the Nike Most Valuable Puppets campaign. I love these spots. They are funny and well done. Hats off to Murphy, Ponte, Williams and everyone else who did these. Even bigger props to Big Al who approved all of this on the client side. Doing good work takes guts and that is solely on the client, always.
That’s unusual
So last night I updated my blog software, layout and all that code bollocks. That was the first time in at least a couple of months. Either there is a lul in the fresh and exciting content of what is happening on the interwebs or I have honestly hit a nerve with the web community and my clearly poetic prose. 3 comments from absolute random sites that go no where. I can smell shit the same as an elephant and this smells like someone has been eating a lot of curry.
Let’s call them out shall we. here is a screen shot of the comments that are not going anywhere on this site. The internet might be a ghetto of full of cowards but you can hawk your wares on some other block. 
Tomorrow I will introduce you to my GFY™ campaign that launched a few months back. Here are the links. I am sure to win some fans with this move.