RECENT WORK: IMPRINT VENTURE LAB

We put this video together recently for our friends over at Imprint.

This was a few months in the making - we did a lot of interviews to put this all together, jeffstaple, Julia from interTrend, Levi Maestro in Manhattan Beach, John Jay up at the Wieden+Kennedy office in Portland and Adam from Knockaround Sunglasses down in San Diego.

Adam has an awesome story - dude went from selling $8 sunglasses one pair at a time from a little online store, to pushing like $7M of shades a year. Anyway, he was super nice, gave a very humble and revealing interview and really helped the story of the video come together. He had 2 ping pong tables at Knockaround HQ and gave me and the guys free glasses so obviously now we're fans for life.

Anyway, Imprint is out there handing out money to entrepreneurs and making dreams come true - if you have an idea, click here to pitch 'em.

Thanks to John Hall at Imprint for helping to make it all happen. And for the black becomb Infinity Pieces :)

RECENT WORK: JAY LENO FOR MCLAREN AUTOMOTIVE

Last month we filmed Jay Leno picking up a new whip for his collection.

Jay bought a new P1 - he actually got the very first one to be delivered to the US - and he swung by the Auto Gallery Beverly Hills to pick it up. His crew from the NBC YouTube station 'Jay Leno's Garage' was with him filming, plus a still photographer, plus a guy filming for the dealership, plus Matt and I, so it was kind of nuts.

Jay, however, was super chill. Really friendly and down to earth. They closed the dealership to the public for a few hours while he was there. At one point, 2 random kids and their dad were standing out on Wilshire looking in the windows at Jay and the cameras and cars etc. He stopped the shoot and unlocked the doors and invited the kids in for pictures and let them sit the car, the whole nine yards.

McLaren actually flew this tech in from England to walk Jay through the car's console and features.

The car itself is insane - not even sure the final cost of this one, but the base price was around $1.2M but after customization I think the average cost was like $1.6M. We just tried to not scratch, dent, breathe or drop anything on or near it.

This is definitely one of those gigs where it's hard to believe that we actually get paid to do this. Very grateful. Shout out to The ID Agency and everyone at McLaren and the Auto Gallery and the JLG crew.

Obviously Jay and I are BFF's now. Enjoy the vid.

2014 NBA BRACKET CHALLENGE

This year's bracket is now live.

We ruined like $75 worth of perfectly good In-N-Out filming this promo spot last week. Our office still smells like old fries and soggy tomatoes. We brought in a shop vac to get the Animal Style sauce out of the carpet.

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Anyway, the deadline for the brackets is Tuesday at midnight so don't sleep on it. Clippers over Heat in 7 right? :)

RECENT WORK: FLEXFIT: BENJIE FOR BASECAMP

Here's our vid featuring Benjie Escobar for Flexfit at Agenda Long Beach.

In January we put this video together for BASECAMP, which is a division of hatmaker Flexfit. Matt and I went to Benjie's place in LA and chatted with him at his in-home studio and then filmed him for a couple days as he painted at Agenda. Benjie was the lead graphic designer for The Hundreds for about 7 years but now he's out doing his own thing, plus running Slow Culture Gallery and his line Stay Weird Forever. Anyway, super nice guy - very chill to work with. The soundtrack for the piece was composed by Andy from Flexfit.

2013

13 images from our 2K13.

Chillin at Magnus Walker's garage with his vintage Porsche collection. We filmed a little Barton Perreira campaign video here with Giovanni Ribisi.

Getting the shot by any means necessary. Matt filming for the Ducati HYPE series.

Talking about art and Blackjack strategies with David Choe.

Wiz Khalifa and I at Agenda Long Beach last January.

Filming Levi Maestro and jeffstaple discussing the secrets of the universe in Long Beach.

In March we flew down to Austin to film the Ducati 1199 Panigale R launch. Amazingly enough we arrived just in time to catch the last day of SXSW including Kendrick Lamar headlining Viceland.

Filming with McLaren at Concours d'Elegance up in Monterey.

Shooting behind the scenes stuff for our boy Tim Cadiente down on the beach in San Clemente.

The Shriners PGA Tournament in Vegas. Justin Timberlake wasn't there this year but we were. Nick Watney teeing off here on Hole 9.

Filming at the Standard Functions garage for the Honda x Cycle World x Staple project we're producing.

Ryan filming for a promo spot for the Montage Laguna Beach.

In September we flew down to New Orleans and hung out with the whole Ducati crew as they prepped for their annual dealer conference.

Another epic year. Life is short. Quit your job. Team up with your friends. Work your asses off. Travel the world.

Thanks to everyone who help make it all possible.

Filming for Magellan GPS in Long Beach a couple weeks ago.