The Owen Reel
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RYAN & MARIO AT IGNITE BOISE
Ryan is thoughtful in just about everything he does. Playing Mario Brothers as a kid is no exception. Turns out there are great and powerful things that Mario can teach us. And, if you’ve ever worked with Ryan, you know that all of this is not just talk. Watch the video below, and all of his slides follow.…
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IRA GLASS ON STORYTELLING
Owen has been a big fan of Mr Glass for quite some time. He's been a fan of story telling and narrative even longer. Please excuse the poor video quality on these – but if you pretend this is Ira on the radio, it won't matter much.…
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002 / OWEN TYPE STUDY: AUTO
This entire collection was shot on a 3GS iPhone. Each image is heavily altered by mix several iPhone photo apps and several filters inside each app. We've been using ShakeItPhoto as the finishing app for final output.…
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OWEN FORBES TRAVELOGUE
As Ronald Reagan’s pompadour stood tall and shiny, Forbes sends advertising executive and cultural compass to see what affect trickle down and bubble up is having across our great land.…
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ARTIST JONATHAN W QUEEN
"Queen's meticulously rendered still life paintings have a heightened sense of realism. He works from direct observation, developing intriguing, enigmatic compositions that are based on personal narratives." Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio…
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GORGE GROWN OWEN 7D TEST
We bought a Canon 7d a few weeks back – and intend to use it for various video projects and B-roll shooting when we’re working with other video production teams. The shots in the video below were all done hand-held on the standard automatic settings. Admittedly we did shoot at the 720p 60fps setting and slow it down to …
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OAK > TO > PDX
This was shot on an iPhone last night (September 17th, 2010) covertly on take-off during an OAK -> PDX return flight. The fog and the light was crazy beautiful. The track is a rough-cut from Driven Snow (Larry & Misty Reynolds) called Kid Gloves. I’m always homesick by this time on my business trips, and the music fit my …
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OWEN ROLLING STONE ESSAY
"Great pop songs are routinely turned into ads—the converse is rarely true, with the notable exception of the Carpenters’ “We’ve Only Just Begun.” Seems ear-candy savant Richard was an insomniac and compulsiveTV-watcher, and late one night his preternaturally sensitive ears perked up during a bank commercial. Unde…
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REVOLUTIONARY ART
In the late summer just before my senior year at Berkeley, Huey Newton was killed in west Oakland in what looked drug deal gone bad. The Bay Area news outlets trotted out old news clips of black men in berets carrying guns as they walked through neighborhoods and played shots of angry speeches in scratchy black & white vide…
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OWEN PLAYBOY INTERVIEW
Phrenologist, fortune-teller, decathlete and divining-rod: Advertising’s underground master of metaphor reminds us that the truth hurts, but you should still pay him to give it to you.…
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THE POWERPOINT CONUNDRUM
Everyone knows that PowerPoint gives people tons of control over presentations. An everyone knows why that is a good thing. Everyone has also seen the best PowerPoint template go south in the hands of people taking that control to new and more repugnant aesthetic lows. Yes it can be spendy to get custom presentations create…