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  • CAPPIE Award

    Our Public Service Announcement for AT Network won a CAPPIE Award!

  • Sushi + Enchiladas?

    Say, wouldn’t it be cool if you could get a side of sushi with your enchilada combo meal? Well, that’s what my friend Jim is betting on for the restaurant he’s starting in Eaton, Indiana. It’s called El Loco Polaco, and given his business concept, the building he’s renovating alone, and the fact that he…

  • Ebay Strikes Back

    Another kooky eBay auction. This guy’s selling ad space on his forehead. On a related note…

  • Happy

    Happy New Year!

  • Newsletter!

    In case you missed our latest newsletter/spam, it’s online here.

  • Wacky

    Sometimes the stuff you find on the internet is pretty cool.

  • Funny Awesome Quotes

    Coolest quotes ever: “The information superhighway is a dirt road that won’t be paved over until 2025.” Sumner Redstone, CEO of Viacom/Blockbuster “Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?” H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927“ “This telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of…

  • New Images

    Some new footage back from the lab, for City Councilman Oscar Villegas. I especially like the shot of the motel signage in Reno – Biggest Little City in the World.  

  • Malls, Grocery Stores, and Soft Drinks

    Recent cool finds on the web: deadmalls.com – a website about failed shopping centers & malls around the US, groceteria.net, a site about classic US grocery stores (with a nice emphasis on their architecture.) Interestingly, the guy who runs the dead mall site also has a link to sodafinder.com, a site that can help locate…

  • Noisefest!

    Over the weekend, the Northern California Experimental Music Festival happened. I shot three photos. I wish I shot more.

  • Chinese Press

    Our television PSA for California Bicycle Coalition was covered in an article by Vicki Beaton for the World Journal, the largest Chinese daily newspaper in North America. Cool!

  • Funny Stuff

    Got some funny new footage back from the lab. This was a really hot day!

  • Dord

    In their most recent newsletter, the California Bicycle Coalition wrote a neat article public service announcement we made for them.

  • From Spammers with Love

    I received some really cool Russian spam in my email box today. Check it out.

  • More Shooting

    We shot another 35mm public service announcement for the AT Network in Strobe Studios at Photosource, a high-end photo lab in Sacramento. These photos were shot by Vince Donoho, one of the grips on the shoot.

  • The Art of Atmosphere!

    EMRL is proud to announce its first Second Saturday show. The event will be a celebration of two years of print and television advertising for Atmosphere Home, a mid-town Sacramento design and furniture store. Please join us Saturday, May 8 from 7-9 at Atmosphere, 2122 J Street for a fun retrospective!

  • New Footage

    Latest bunch of footage back from the lab, shot on Super 35 and framed up for 2.35 scope. This is a public service announcement for the California Bicycle Coalition.

  • New Designers

    EMRL would like to welcome Aster Tseng and Jonathan Mello, our new design interns! Welcome aboard!

  • Anamorphic 35

    Lovely new images from an anamorphic format commercial we’re shooting for West Sacramento ballot Measure R. It was either this script featuring blue food for breakfast, or the “Measure ARRRRRRRR” script with pirates. Politicians are scared of pirates, so…

  • Ebay

    Note that shipping is an extra charge. What the hell.

  • A New Year

    Happy new year! We had a small new year’s eve party here, and I took more Polaroids!

  • Polaroids are the Best

    I got a neat Kiev 88 medium format camera, with a Polaroid back, so I’ve been forcing all my friends to let me take black and white Polaroids of them.

  • Chopsticks

    The tofu joint around the corner just got new chopsticks, with really swell packaging.

  • New Film From the Lab!

    Freshly processed images from our upcoming public service announcement for AT Network.  

  • On the Set

    Pictures from the set of AT Network’s public service announcement shoot.

  • Pretty Pictures

    Some pictures from a shoot last weekend.

  • Smoking is Joyous

    Somehow I thought it might be difficult to slip this one by 🙁 Our Smoking Girl Gets Censored; from an email received by SuperArtMedia: I have some bad news about your commercial. Our Traffic Manager viewed the spot and told me that we cannot air it because it features someone smoking. There wouldn’t be an issue if…

  • Happy Birthday

    Last week I was jumped on K Street mall by five guys, for no reason other than the sport of it. Oh yeah, today is my birthday.