Give Heart Cells A Beat Exhibit
We spend a lot of time in research labs, which is great fun, but we often don’t see the results of that work in the real world. When our friends at Gladstone Institutes called about producing a video for the Give Heart Cells A Beat exhibit at the Exploratorium, a San Francisco landmark, that changed. […]
Atlanta Ballet’s “Coco Chanel – The Life of a Fashion Icon”
When the Atlanta Ballet got in touch and asked us to partner with them and produce promo videos for the North American Premiere of “Coco Chanel: The Life of a Fashion Icon” we jumped at the opportunity. Ideas started flowing as soon as we read “One dancer weaving through mannequins, using light and shadow to […]
Mapping Creativity Pt. 2
After Jim attended the Mapping Creativity #fieldtrip hosted by Creative Mornings, we had more than a few conversations and email exchanges about it. Talking about different ways of simply getting ideas out of your head started a whole new discussion. After including our good friend, colleague, and lead video editor, David Robinson, he shared this […]
Mapping Creativity
I’ve always loved maps. Anytime a book has a map I spend hours pouring over it, imagining the world that is represented from that idealized bird’s eye view, seeing relationships between places that enhance and deepen my understanding of the story being told. When I travel I always study maps of the place I’m visiting […]
A Better Way Diagram
As a visual content production company, we produce a lot of great work, but we don’t talk about it enough. Much of our work is created in a vacuum and after a project is done and delivered, I hate to admit this, but it’s often out of sight, out of mind. That’s going to change. […]
Kaki King at the Ferst Center for the Arts
We are never short on ideas for “cool” projects to work on. Whether those ideas can actually pay the bills is another matter though. We were fortunate recently to work on a “real” project that is reminiscent of something we’d dream up. Kaki King, a Brooklyn, NY based composer and musician, who is known for […]
Masterack Photo Library Shoot
The day started with a massive car crash on I-20 heading east from Atlanta to Social Circle, GA. Luckily we were not part of the crash, but when something like this happens, it’s easy to feel like it’s a bad omen for the day. Once we arrived at the Masterack manufacturing plant, all worries were […]
The Case of the Russian Book Trailer
When I first started at Mixed Bag Media I had just spent over 15 years in the world of animation and motion graphics (“Broadcast Design,” as it was known in the 90s and early 2000s). The world of documentary-style promo production was new to me, and while it was exciting to learn about a new […]
Earth Day at 50: Everything’s Different – Nothing’s Changed
In honor of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day I put together this short video, and it got me to thinking about the many differences between 1970 and today. In many ways things are better now – the tolerance for trash and other environmental degradation is so much lower than it was (I remember a […]
The Emory Medal, The Highest Alumni Honor
We recently had the pleasure of working with our friends in the Emory University Alumni Association to produce videos celebrating the achievements of two alums: Honorees, Ambassador David Adelman, consultant to many on trans-Pacific trade and Richard Hubert, a long-time international health advocate, were both outstanding personalities to meet and be inspired by. While it’s […]
The DR is in the House
Life in the Digital Revolution It is the medium that shapes and controls the scale and form of human association and action. The “message” of any medium or technology is the change of scale or pace or pattern that it introduces into human affairs. – Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media (1964) In my lifetime there […]
Project Interconnections, Inc. Silent Auction
Last night’s Project Interconnections silent auction was a great evening for a great cause. Jon, Stacie and Jim from the MBM team were at the event, and we were pleased and honored to see the video we made for PII being broadcast all around the auction hall. Project Interconnections Inc. provides housing in Atlanta for […]