STUDIO.NUMBER.NINE

“Here’s where the movement starts. Where we stop nodding along and ask “why”, “how much” and “how necessary”. Here’s where we curb runaway health care costs.”

s part of NORTH’s second “We’re Live Downtown” campaign for Portland’s Downtown Marketing Initiative, I helped to concept, design and execute a reactive environment ( interactive art installation ) using Flash-based motion detection software and three local artists’ interpretation of what snow in Portland looked like to them ( artist courtesy of P.I.C.A. ).

summary: Feel like your friend has been neglecting his colon? Does your brother look more like The Michelin Man than Superman? If you answered yes to either of those questions then you’d probably be a perfect candidate to send a Regence Health eCard. As part of the Join the Conversation 2.0 campaign, NORTH recently launched [...]

the installation finally went up amid a whole lotta hoopla…

the installation hoopla continues. on top of the site madness and the incredible job the NORTH crew has done on this year’s round of commercials (soon to be featured on downtownportland.org and in a limited way on YouTube) our little installation has been gathering some pretty good momentum. we’ve encountered more challenges than even i [...]

t-minus three days till live on the downtown installation. we got a lot done today unfortunately it didn’t start happening until about noon, so it’s been a loooong day… the windows were cleaned and blacked-out, the camera hole was stiff bristled with goo-gone, we completed (twice… don’t ask) the “den of inequity” that will shield [...]

ok so most of my time lately has been take up by working on the various areas of NORTH’s newest campaign for downtown portland. the tv spots (which i have to say are pretty badass, you’ll see them soon), the website, and the most fun part for me, the 13′ x 7.5′ rear-projected interactive art [...]

look it up. it will make sense. so here it is, at long last. the 897035th version of studionumbernine.com. hopefully only some minor tweaks to get this thing running like a fine oiled macheen and then i’ll be posting thoughts, ideas, pictures, videos and whateverthehellelse comes into my brain or across my desk(s). if you’re [...]

i played some role in this whole thing… what it was exactly is undefinable. as usual. teso says: “Last week I had a showing at Equilibrium, the Human Mashup. The show’s goal was to ask “How can art and technology and the synergy of the two address humanity’s next evolutionary step?”. Being a staunch singularitarian [...]