Chris is debuting two pieces of new work (including “Charting01″, pictured above) in a show opening tomorrow, Thursday, May 17th at the See Line Gallery in LA. The show is called “Museum of Temporary Art”, in homage to the pioneering alternative art venue of the same name that curated shows from 1974 to 1982 in Washington, DC . The show focuses on the interplay of time and space, and the concept of the “temporary”. Chris is joined by a couple of longtime Someoddpilot friends, Cody Hudson, Matthew Hoffman, Chad Kouri and Michael Coleman.
If you’re in LA, check it out!
It took four large men to move this phonebooth around for our Chocolate Industries photoshoot this morning. Protip: if you need manual labor at any time of day, to do pretty much anything, try Craigslist. 40 responses to carry this phonebooth around at 5am – a truly unexpected reminder of Chicago’s rampant unemployment. Also a great reminder to hit the gym.
Tags: chocolate industries, photoshoot
We recently launched a big new e-commerce site for Chaco Footwear, makers of the toughest sandals this side of the Forum Romanum. The goal? Socialize the shopping process. The result? The brand saw a 70% increase in site traffic and 90% increase in site revenue.
Chaco fans, or, Chaconians, as slang would have it, are both heart and soul of the brand, and it’s important that they’re as free to run the site as they are to run rapids. Enter: the Chaco-Sphere.
The Chaco-Sphere is a game-changing concept in the retail market because it encourages Chaconian ownership of major site real estate traditionally occupied by marketing messages or semi-contrived brand ambassador pieces. At its simplest, the Chaco-Sphere is a fun way for the community to gather and talk about their adventures. At its most complex, it’s cooperative retail.
In the Chaco-Sphere you can:
• Upload and tag photos, videos and stories to Chaco-Sphere galleries.
• Create a profile with screenname, profile picture, bio, and a list of all uploads to date.
• Enter and view contests.
• Upload product-specific photos and videos to product pages. See the sandals and shoes in action!
It’s a blast, we highly recommend it, unless you have a bad case of podophobia.
Chris shares the stage with Someoddpilot favorite Killing Joke and bangs out new artwork for the show and upcoming Beak debut. More later.
Guys, there’s so much love at Someoddpilot right now. Chris and Alicia just had a beauuuuutiful baby boy, as you can see in the above Hipstamatic baby photo.
We’re so excited. We’re planning an Anne Geddes style photo shoot for when the baby is let out to roam Chicago. I’m building an enormous peapod out of old green sweaters and beach balls, which I plan on converting into a sort of baby-hammock for the office.
My main concern: at what month do babies typically learn how to make coffee?
Our old buddy Zak Mastoon started a new band, Boy King Islands, and put Someoddpilot in charge of tape designs for their release on niche, cassette-only label Plustapes. One of our favorite album design projects to date was for Zak’s solo electronic act Caural, so we began immediate excavation of our tape collection, which was found fossilized under a couple of Jurassic Park and Die Hard Laserdisks and a Gremlins VHS.
The case design involves a hand-drawn font laid over an shot of Zak that Chris took while balanced precariously on the edge of a bathtub. I like to figure Zak in this photo as a sacrifice of Boy King Island, an innocent Piggy Stardust punished for blowing the proverbial conch shell on the barbaric artist/label/consumer relationship in classic digital music story, The Lord of The Files.
Look for the decidedly civilized release of Fall in the coming months!
As Chicagoans, we might not be feeling the painful effects of the oil spill as much as our buddies to the south, but this doesn’t mean we should be any less concerned about the greatest ecological disaster in our nation’s history.
Come out to Danny’s on Monday, July 12th to support Peace Party’s Crude Measures benefit for the gulf coast. There’ll be drinking, prizes and dancing – especially with Jocelyn on the decks.
We designed the posters for the event, so if you feel especially moved by cute animals in perilous situations, please donate! Only then will we let go your heartstrings / release the animals.
Chris took a bunch of not-very-evil evil portraits during Wednesday night’s studio walk. Check them out on our Facebook page.
Work those snakes meduse.
So, the AIGA came up with a really great way to trick you into hanging out with us: studio walk.
“Perfect!” we thought, “Maybe we can make them drink beer, talk about design and take pictures of them in these hi-larious masks!”
See you Wednesday.
