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!
We’re thrilled to have partnered with The Chicagoan – our city’s newest (only?) long-form literary editorial. When JC Gabel, the editor-in-chief, first explained the concept of the magazine, it shocked us how deeply we needed this to exist in Chicago. The publication is a reaction to the very same midwest void we touched before we opened our Public Works gallery. We just launched a preview site for the magazine that explains the effort and lets you buy copies of the first issue online, but it’s an extremely limited run, so get it while you can!
We recently just finished up album designs, a rad zine and a short promo video for Personal Space, a compilation album of early electric soul music put out by Chocolate Industries. The album comes out this April jam packed with stellar images of the earth shot by a real NASA astronaut from outer space! Read about it on Pitchfork.
The last time we designed the Empty Bottle website was in 2002! That’s 10 years ago! That’s like one hundred years in internet time. Since then the EB website has worked hard for you and me, consistently supporting Chicago’s great music community. With a bittersweet goodbye to the past, we’re proud to unveil Chicago’s new home for all your concert-going needs! www.emptybottle.com
We recently took a trip out to San Diego to produce and direct a video shoot for Merrell Shoes. Running up and down mountains, walking on the edges of epic cliffs looking out into the ocean and getting ourselves nice and soaked definitely sums up a typical shoot for Merrell. If you’re ever in the area, check out Tiger! Tiger! for some rad oysters.
We recently just finished a video for the Merrell Origins line of shoes featuring two lovebirds getting lost in the woods who stumble upon a magical pond that they may or may not go skinny dipping in… Interested? Watch it below!
Chris will be creative directing the rebranding of the Cabrini Green Tutoring Program, a non-profit tutoring program that sprouted 45 years ago in Cabrini Green. He will be collaborating with other strategists, designers and photographers drafted by EPIC, an organization of creatives to make social change. This project will ultimately help sustain the goals of the program that will foster education resources for many of Chicago’s disadvantaged children.
We just finished building a brand new website for Sonnenzimmer, two of the best huggers (also, amazing artists, designers and printers) out there. Check out their new site for a plethora of delicious eye candy or buy one of their rad prints.
We put this lookbook together based on our recent photoshoot in Telluride, Colorado for Merrell’s new Origins line of shoes & boots. All photography and styling by Someoddpilot. That was a good party.
The crew is on it’s way to Italy this weekend for a one week fashion shoot in the rolling browns and greens and scraggly rocks and the beautiful lakes of the Bolzano region. Zachary Mastoon, aka Caural, will be a featured model. I know. We are so psyched.
