TEAM THIRTEEN

Now their site is live, we can reveal who the 3 camera-array shoots were for and also show the final product. It was for the government and their 2010 US Census website. Click on ‘See Their Stories’ (to the right of the picture of the bus) to see the intersections we worked on. From there you can scroll through the intersections and click on different people to hear their stories.  “Main Street’ was shot in Boise, ‘Broadway’ was shot in Chicago and ‘Pine Road’ was shot outside Austin. Welikesmall worked with DraftFCB New York to design and program this part of the site, Uber Content produced the video stories, and Welikesmall hired us to help out with the camera array. And if you see a guy with a striped sweater on ‘Main Street’; that’s me…

We are producing another mini-doc for Big Cartel after the success of the first one. The company featured this time is Zuriick shoes, who creates low-key shoes without any branding. We shot at their headquarters here in Salt Lake yesterday, and tomorrow we will shoot some b-roll of their main designer, Mike, working on his motorcycle. Mike is also going to provide some music from his band for the soundtrack.

2010 marks the 13th year Team Thirteen has been in business. Hot damn. We wish everyone well for this coming year…

It’s kind of unexplainable, but our old, neglected You Tube channel has surpassed 1 Million views. We don’t spend anytime uploading new stuff to it and some the videos on there aren’t really that great. In fact, it’s not even linked from this site because it doesn’t represent our company fully. But now we are inspired by the views and are going to link it and start uploading some better videos…..soon. Weird thing is, our most popular video wasn’t even uploaded by us (it was uploaded by some guy called hairyblue) and it’s a rough cut! Oh well, we’re happy, even though we can only link to it through our ‘favorites’ since we didn’t upload it.

Our first shoot with our new Canon Mark 5D is now online. We went to Seraph Headquarters here in SLC and did a mini-doc about their company for Big Cartel. The video is hosted by Big Cartel right here on their ‘Buzz’ page. It was really easy to get usable shots of their 100 year old letterpress machines because the movements of the old machines are mesmerizing. Looks like there will be another video on a different Big Cartel client in the near future, as the response to this video has been very positive.

We are currently re-vamping last year’s Yellowstone Country ads for the current  2009-2010 winter season. The region is off to a stellar start snow-wise and currently has some of the best ski conditions in the nation. (The tram at Big Sky is already open as well as The Ridge at Bridger Bowl.) We also edited new TV spots for Bridger this year, and I’m animating Bridgers new logo in the next week.

I’ll be in Denver this week working again for Barnhart, who needs a few anamatic TV ads edited as well as a brand video for a big pitch they’re doing next week.

Black Diamond is coming out with a new line of skis and boots next season called ‘Efficient Series’. They asked us to shoot inside their mutant factory yesterday for two videos. We are also editing these videos in the coming weeks for their new microsite they are building to promote this backcountry-specific line. I will be probably replacing my backcountry set-up when this stuff is available next season…

Korey and I just got back from a long trip from SLC->CHICAGO->AUSTIN->SLC, putting about 4500 miles on a rented Ford E350 van. We were transporting the 28 camera array for welikesmall, who blogged about the  Chicago shoot. We also helped set-up and position the cameras as you can see in this time-lapse video. In Chicago we happened to spot the Hi Guy and Downsized Man, and in Austin we visited the Palace of Junk. On our way back to SLC we stopped to check out Carlsbad Caverns, which was pretty amazing, and also visited (and got lost trying to find a road to the bottom of) Shiprock in Northern New Mexico.

The new Barnhart website is now up. I edited four case studies videos for them under the direction of David Yost. They are located in Denver, CO.

Last week we were working in Boise with We Like Small with a 30 camera array they developed. Each camera can shoot stills or video and create a Matrx-style effect for web or video. The Boise shoot was a success, so we are going to California with it this week and the week after that we’ll be in Chicago with it. In November we will be modifying it for outdoor action sports shoots, although we will use it for many different types of projects.

Just shot a quick video today on the Canon 5D that showcases the features of a new iPhone app. We Like Small created the app, who we share an office with. Their client is the American Cancer Society and they designed a Birthday app for them.

Our first video shoot with a Canon 5D was this week for Big Cartel. They wanted to do a short piece on one of their clients, Seraph. Seraph makes letterpressed products, among other things, so we shot a few of their 50-100 year-old letterpresses in action. Seraph is the sister company of The Mandate Press, a great place to go for printing jobs that require a handcrafted look.

We’ve moved with We Like Small to a new office space today. It’s on the first floor of the newly remodeled and historic Redman Building. Here is a picture of what I’m looking at while I’m typing this. Our new address is: 1240 East 2100 South  Suite #150 Salt Lake City, UT 84106. Stop by and visit; we’re on the first floor on the right (west side).

September has been super busy for me so far and I’m trying to keep my head above water. There’s two new commercials for Bridger Bowl, an additional two video (five total) case studies for Barnhart, and 16 foreign language web clips for Black Diamond. For Korey, well, he’s in Chile to shoot a skiing contest for Mountain Sports International. Lucky! More work on the horizon…