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My good friends THE EGG BABIES ORCHESTRA are up to their old tricks again with their latest MOVIE SHOW IV on MARCH 17 (St. Paddy’s Day) at The OTTOBAR (more details on the Facebook event page)! Don’t miss as they’ll be performing hit singles from classic & not-so-classic movies that we all know & love. When you hear this music, it is literally going to transport you back to your 1st date at a movie theater–including that awkward attempt to make out with your 1st crush, and bring back that rush of excitement you got from sneaking your 1st R-Rated VHS rental at Erol’s past your parents, then popping it into your VCR player for all your friends at the sleepover, and hearing some serious unadulterated foul language–YEAH!

We’re up to 3 Movie Trailers now that I’ve made with the EGG BABIES… this latest one has some of the most intense action & drama of them all, so hold on to your office chair lumbar support cushions! Special thanks goes to Michael J. Walls who helped shoot & record sound throughout the whole production, and of course: big thanks to the EGG BABIES writing & creative team of Chris Laun, Mike Ward & Chris Myers. AND, check out these other trailers we’ve done in the past too:

Egg Babies Movie Show III Trailer, 2010:

Egg Babies Movie Show II Trailer, 2009:

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Saint Lucy:

• Launched April 2011
• WordPress customized theme

About the project:

Saint Lucy (saint-lucy.com) is an engaging forum for essays and conversations about contemporary art, photography, and the people of Baltimore. Created by author & artist Mark Alice Durant, Saint Lucy is not your traditional art & photo magazine site. For Saint Lucy, I created the logo illustration and for the design we (myself & Joseph Faura) used a portfolio-style layout with a more subdued color palette, which helps the real subject–the images, stand out. Mark also gave me the opportunity to write for Saint Lucy in his One Picture/One Paragraph section – which is a great idea for starting conversations about imaging and how we perceive the world. I hope you enjoy reading the rich content of Saint Lucy as much as I do.

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WHITE LODGE does WAITS again!
Sat. Dec. 10 • doors: 10pm • $8.00 • at The WindUp Space • 12 W. North Ave. (map) • RSVP on Facebook!

FRIENDS! If you missed the last one, this is your chance to make it up to yourself… and if you made the last one, than this is an opportunity to give yourself a much-needed present for being such a good boy or girl this year! The band that I think of as my mega Thanksgiving-size extended family, WHITE LODGE… well we’re bringing back the TOM WAITS tribute night as part of Russell (& WindUp Space’s) annual celebration of Mr. Waits’ birthday! We’ll be churning our some new (to us) WAITS tunes like fresh hand-churned butter; we’ll be indoctrinating new members the way a doctor indoctrinates us during a physical; and we’ll be doing some other new/old stuff like turning lights on & off, telling bad jokes, enthusiastically popping balloons to a beat, guzzling whiskey from a jug, banging on pots & pans, & inhaling large amounts of confetti–all for your listening pleasure. So, STEP RIGHT UP!

In case you weren’t aware, WHITE LODGE is members of Out Of Your Head, Egg Babies, Soul Cannon, Quartet Offensive, Jerseyband, ellen cherry & more! For this show, we’ll be cramming on-stage: Adam Hopkins on bass, George French on guitar & vocals, Brent Madsen on trumpet & vocals, myself on guitar & vocals, ellen cherry on vocals, Eric Trudel on reeds & vocals, John Dierker on reeds, Jon Birkholz on keyboards, Nathan Ellman-Bell on drums, Mike Ross on drums, & maybe some surprise guests too! Hope you can make it.

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Out Of Your Head website

Out Of Your Head:

• Launched Feb 2010
• custom WordPress theme

About the project:

Out Of Your Head (outofyourhead.org) was formed by musicians Adam Hopkins & Matt Frazão (of Quartet Offensive) in 2009 as a performing collective of rotating musicians, all improvising new material with each other on a weekly basis. The regularly scheduled program is free and happens weekly at the Windup Space. Working with one of my favorite artists Matt Bovie on this site was amazing! Adam & I asked Matt to just come up with a cool logo, and he totally delivered. Developing a theme from scratch for WordPress was a lot of fun too, and a bit of a challenge – but that’s where Joseph Faura’s programming expertise really came in handy. Hope you enjoy the site, and definitely make it out to a Tuesday night Out Of Your Head – there’s a reason they got voted “Best Band” in the City Paper!

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Hometown Tourist website

The Hometown Tourist:

• Launched in 2008
• Flash site

About the project:

When Susan Allenback (aka the Hometown Tourist) and I first met about creating her website, we had a lot of big ideas – and working with her throughout the entire process was incredible, we kept fostering the big ideas and went for a total concept site using Flash (you can see it at thehometowntourist.net). The initial inspiration was to fashion the site like you’re flipping through the pages of a travel journal, where you can discover a new place that she had visited and is writing about, then all the info you need to go visit it yourself is right there. I spent months photographing and scanning journals, scraps of paper, stamps, and piecing it all together in Photoshop, then building it out with animations and transitions in Flash. The biggest challenge was balancing the look and feel of the site with usability – we wanted it to be fun and colorful and at the same time clear and simple to use. You can catch Susan on MidDay with Dan Rodricks on WYPR (88.1 FM in Baltimore) where she does her Hometown Tourist radio spot each week, and hopefully you’ll find some inspiration to go Hometown Touring yourself!

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Just back in July, Soul Cannon had their official CD release show for their latest most-awesomest album: The Mixed Ape. Having created the artwork for this album, I was especially excited to design a couple t-shirts for the band as well. One of the shirts I did is featured in the photos below: it’s a 1-color design featuring the skull-man illustration from the album cover, limited edition & hand-printed on white American Apparel shirts, with an exclusive low-low price of just $10! And the kicker is: it’s designed for you, the wearer, to color-it-in yourself – just some fabric markers, a little low-heat ironing & you’re all set!

Overall, the show was a blast: the band rocked out some sweet new tunes (& some classics too) AND the fans had a great time coloring in their own t-shirts! Here’s some photo highlights (see the full set here on my Flickr site). I still have a few sizes left of the exclusive 1-color shirts in S, M & L – contact me if you want to buy one & I’ll get you outfitted just right. It’s truly the most fun you will ever have coloring on your clothes!

Or, if you like your shirts pre-colored, consider buying one of the fun 3-color shirts I designed featuring a variation on the skull-lady illustration from the album (pictured above, modeled by super-fan Lauren) – expertly printed by Chris Fredericks of Fall Press, you can buy these directly from the band – just email them: info@soulcannon.com, or catch them at one of their upcoming shows… check out their website, facebook or twitter for their schedule.

Oh yeah & if you did a shirt – send me a pic of you rockin’ your own sweet original colors & I’ll add it to the set!

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Friends, you’re not going to want to miss this one!  WHITE LODGE (members of Out of Your Head, Quartet Offensive & featuring the lovely & talented ellen cherry & a whole bunch of SPECIAL guests) takes on the one & only Tom Waits!  That’s right, we’ve selected an evening’s worth of tunes, some of your favorites we hope, & we’ll be channeling the gruffest, deepest voices we can muster to pay tribute to everyone’s favorite singer, song writer, actor & hero, Tom Waits.  Details below, hope to see you there!

WHITE LODGE does WAITS
Tom Waits Tribute Show & Happy 30th Birthday Adam Hopkins!
Sunday July 10, Doors 7:30pm, Show @ 8pm
at WINDUP SPACE 12 W. North Ave. Baltimore (map)
Just $5.00! ONE NIGHT ONLY!

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I’ve had the pleasure of selecting some amazing original films by some of my favorite indie filmmakers of all time: Tanner Almon, Kristen Anchor & Justin Plakas. I will also be screening one of my short films – not telling which one, you’ll just have to show up to find out.  It’s a FREE screening that starts at 9pm on the outdoor patio. Mr. Rain’s is famous for their crazy delicious appetizers, entrees & one-of-a-kind cocktails – so come devour some delicious food, drinks & films!

Details:
Fun House Movie Night
Thursday June 9  |  9pm  |  FREE
at Mr. Rain’s Fun House @ the AVAM (800 Key Hwy Baltimore)
mrrainsfunhouse.com |  avam.org

Oh yeah & go visit these websites:
Tanner Almon: tanneralmon.com
Kristen Anchor: kristenanchor.com
Justin Plakas: justinplakas.com

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