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MORE OWEN LOVES ADOBE ACTION
Ryan Donahue, our Boise Office Creative Czar put this video together with Mr. Gregory Bayne on the camera. Besides being an ode to Adobe and some of the fun motion design, video, and other work we combined some cool C4D 3d into After Effects. Those bowling pins exist only in Ryan's head and on a hard drive. It's a fun demo …
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THE MANY FACES OF OWEN
A few interesting things about this post: From a brand standpoint, we are visually demonstrating our diversity. And, all of the images were created using a camera rig in After Effects.…
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CIRCLE ART. PROGRAMMED.
Circle Art is a web based image processing application that treats images as though they're made of circles instead of pixels.…
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PRINTING WITH AN EGG-BOT
I recently came across Evil Mad Science’s Egg-bot. It’s like a printer, in that it prints on things, except instead printing on paper it prints on spherical things, like eggs or ping-pong balls, and instead of using inkjets or lasers, you insert a sharpie. The final big difference is you have to assemble it. Don’t swe…
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THE KERNIMATOR: BUILT BY RYAN
The Kernimator allows you to kern up to 26 characters on a single line of type. You can spec the font, size, z-depth, and basic rounded fillet cap options for your text, just like you can using the regular MoGraph Text Object. The Kernimator is only intended for short, single-line kerning needs. It is not for kerning a full…
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2011 : THE YEAR TO TURN IT UP
Ryan ended the old year, and rang in the new with an art project. Two, actually. Check out his mural and chalk skills, combined with is time-lapse movie-making skills. Shot with a Nikon D40, using a wireless remote that he hand-fired for 1,000+ frames.…
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OWEN ON TESTING BRAND CONCEPTS
It's your organization, and ultimately, your risk – how you make brand choices is always up to you. But when it comes to testing brand concepts, Owen offers the following perspective:…
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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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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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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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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.…