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I was reading an article about one of the founders of “Modern Dog”, a design company out of Seattle, and found a quote that was a nice reminder about design:
Strassburger said:

So last night was the lecture…
I was working on my presentation til about 5:15. Threw it on an external hard drive and made my way down to the Tulsa Little Theater. Aside from not being able to read my notes, (because I don’t know how to use Keynote apparently), I think it well.

If you are in town this Thursday I will be speaking at the ADCT [Art Directors Club of Tulsa] event at the Tulsa Little Theater and I would love for you to be there. I’m going to be talking about design, inspiration and why you should love what you do – maybe a few other things.

I’m a big fan of the word Propagate..
Propagate
Main Entry: prop·a·gate
Pronunciation: \ˈprä-pə-ˌgāt\
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): prop·a·gat·ed; prop·a·gat·ing

If you haven’t picked up an issue of Monocle yet – please do so. It’s a fantastic magazine.
“Complimenting their initial foray into the retail scene in London, The Monocle Shop LA recently opened its doors in Los Angeles’ Brentwood location. The magazine’s store now offers another brick and mortar point of retail for not only the

I was wrapping up the Bruce Springsteen project and pulling off the last stencil when I stumbled upon this photo opp. I like working on stencils of this scale. It’s fun. I’m usually cutting super large stencils and I found working on these ultra small pieces require a stupid amount of concentrating.
A lot of work goes into such a small piece. It’s cool.

Taking a late night break to flip through some of my favorite magazines. I’ve been a huge fan of Michel Gondry for a while now. He initially rocked my mind when he did the “Lucas with the Lid Off” video back in 1994 (and if you didn’t know, he did that entire music video in camera) – THEN Beck’s “Deadweight” in 97…

I’d like to thank everyone for making it out to the show Friday night, we had lots of friends drive in from out of town and we truly appreciate it! Thanks to you, it was a great success. Thank you, thank you, thank you. We could not have done it without you. If you missed the show, art will be up til the end of the month. I didn’t do a great job of documenting the event, but here are a few pictures.

dang, where do I begin?
I’d like to apologize to everyone for being a bit behind on my correspondences. This frenzy I have been in started last week and forecasters say it should should continue on through middle of next week, so please be patient. Busy is good and I’m stoked. Trying to find a balance: mentally, physically, geographically, creatively and socially. It is awesome.

Last week I had a post titled  which had some stills I had shot while I was on location. We were there to do an on camera interview with Mike Sexton, but I couldn’t help but take a few shots of his environment – it was incredible. Jason Burks was my DP, Joel was our grip and we set up in Mike’s little studio above his garage.