Most certainly unexpected.

(apparently it means “double colon” in hebrew)

I went to this show on Sunday and it was siiiiiiiiiick. They used all vinyl and all 45’s with a pedal for looping. Also, the screen in the background was somehow looped into the beat of the music. The graphics were incredible, it looked like maybe they used after effects for some of it…? It was beat juggling, booty shakin, scratchtastic fun! This may explain my delayed reaction time on Monday.

Once again we descended (or maybe ascended) upon Tahoe for our annual retreat. We had a monster four-story house with a pool table, ping pong table, “sauna”, etc. It was bittersweet, for if we continue to grow as we are, this might be the last time the entire Seattle and Sac crews can become as one, like a web designing Voltron.

We rocked out, worked hard, snowboarded, gambled, drank, ate and were quite merry. In lieu of a slideshow, I thought I would show some photos with my own commentary. The first are from the Sac office before we embarked.

Mark, Robert and Garrett talking about Ground Control.

Ryan, Josh and Matt probably talking about nothing important.

Vics, Koa and Max in the ‘waiting room’.

Greg doing some shit.

ML on the case. Project, managed.

Greghog Day, popping up in that ass.

The super group BKWLD

It’s not often that we get to direct and shoot photos and videos, so we really sunk our teeth into a fun project with did in conjunction with Runyon, Saltzman and Einhorn out of Sacramento. The project was a website for the California Department of Education, State of California & California Community Colleges (quite a mouthful).

The site is about showing the amazing pathways and opportunities available to students, who might not realize they can ‘profit from their passion’ by going to a California Community College.
In order to harness this idea, Jeff came up with a great design that didn’t feel ‘corporate’ or ’state-y’, to help resonate with the target. We wanted to give the feeling that it was made for students, by students.

We also included testimonials from some real graduates and students of the CA Community College system, to help reinforce the story even more. Greg, Jeff, Josh and I shot the videos in our own office, to give it a less polished and more grassroots feel.

Here’s a few photos from the shoot and of Jeff busting some Photoshop madness.

Been too long since my last post! Which is pretty indicative of the amount of work and traveling myself and fellow Buk-caneers have been doing.

Last month, Josh and I had the opportunity to go to the Outdoor Retailer Show in lovely Salt Lake City, Utah. We got to hang out with one of our favorite clients, Kelty, as well as meet and greet just about every other outdoor company in the world. From Marmot, to Northface, to Solomon, to Oakley, to Helly Hansen, etc. Other than the usual “we make websites that melt faces” talks, we were showing off our Visual Merchandising Tool (which is the cat’s ass, trust me. Don’t trust me? Email us about it.)

Here’s a couple photos of Kelty’s booth:

There was tons of beer drinking at the booths; Josh rose to the challenge:

As did I, along with a boatload of swag from Kelty:

I was looking for a way to get screen sharing to work better when people are looking at my screen. Because I have two monitors, one of which is really big, I was hoping there would be some way to only share one monitor. So far I haven’t found a solution (please tell me if you do), but I did find this article on other sharing enhancements.