Apartment Therapy Feature!

The good folks at Apartment Therapy came by our new space and did a very nice story on Curiosity Shoppe and the collective of friends that share the space with us.

Check it out.  http://goo.gl/dy9uL

Shoppe’s SXSW Mix 2012

It’s that time of the year again. Our third annual SXSW Mix is ready for you.

Download and get track listing here.

New Work!

We’ve been so busy lately that haven’t been timely in updating our work so here’s a mega-post of some of the stuff we’ve recently created at the Shoppe.

HARLEY-DAVIDSON

First up, we’re extremely proud of our new work for Harley-Davidson. We worked closely with Boulder agency Victors & Spoils and found real riders with real stories to show that there’s no such thing as a stereotypical Harley rider. We shot the spot with two RED Epics in three days at 20 locations.

Directors :80 Cut

:60 Version

Agency: Victors & Spoils, CD: Evan Fry  Producer: Amy Hurt, Account Director: Sarah Holbrook.

Shoppe: Directed by Dan Brown,  Creative Director/Production Design/Title Animation: Craig Denham, Producer: Stuart Mydlow, DP: Shane F. Kelly, B-Cam: Tod Campbell

Post: Beast Austin, Editor, Sam Selis, Producer: Mary Ellen Farrar.

LONE STAR BEER

Last fall, we teamed up with Vendor, Inc. to answer the question, “What would Texas have been like without Lone Star Beer?”. We re-created NASA 1970 inside Tequila Mockingbird’s studio for this one and did all the color and compositing in-house.

Mission Control

Agency: Vendor Inc., CD: Joe Shands, Producer: Amanda Fox, Art Director: Clark Evans, Writer: Daniel Russ.

Shoppe: Director, Dan Brown Creative Director/Production Design: Craig Denham, Producer: Stuart Mydlow, DP: Shane F. Kelly.

TREEHOUSE LABS

We worked directly with the client to illustrate their impressive tracking network and shot, edited and animated everything turnkey. We also shot and animated two other projects for their new tracking product BiKN.

Client: Treehouse Labs, Marketing Director: Nancy Crume, Art Director: Matt Manroe.

Shoppe: Director: Dan Brown, Creative Director/Production Design/Graphic Design: Craig Denham, DP: Tod Campbell, Additional Animation: Dustin Scott.

BiKN Tutorial

Shoppe: CD/Deisgner: Craig Denham, Editor: Dan Brown, Additional Animation: Dustin Scott.

BiKN Teaser

Shoppe: Director, Dan Brown, CD/Production Design/Design/Animation: Craig Denham, Producer: Stuart Mydlow, DP: Charles Seligman

ARAMCO

The great folks at FKM travelled from Houston to shoot this spot at our in-house studio. Simple idea and execution but we’re happy how this one turned out.

Houston Half Marathon

Agency: FKM, CD: Veronica Pullicino, Art Director: Jessica Danford, Producer: Katy Bomar.

Shoppe: Director: Dan Brown, CD/Production Design: Craig Denham, Producer: Stuart Mydlow, DP: Shane F. Kelly.

Post: Beast Austin. Editor: Sam Selis.

We also created exciting new work for the University of Texas, Nickelodeon, Samsung as well as opening titles that we animated for an upcoming Ernest Borgnine film. We’ll share as soon as we get the thumbs up.

Muppets!

If you’ve seen our work, it’s no secret that we’re fans of the Muppets. So, we were not only happy to hear that the beloved franchise was given a reboot but completely thrilled to be a small part of it.

Craig re-created the famous backgrounds that were a huge part of the show but were damaged or lost in the years since the show was on.

Here’s Fozzy’s backdrop that Craig re-created.

And a frame-grab from the trailer.

Here’s a brick wall gag from the trailer

And the original file that Craig created.

And finally the iconic Muppet Show sign tweaked for a Telethon in the film.

Go see the film.  It perfectly captures the spirit of the Muppets, with catchy songs, funny gags and lovable characters. We have no problem saying that it’s a great and enjoyable film for audiences of all ages.

Curiosity

We here at the Shoppe are big fans of the space program. So yesterday, when NASA launched a rocket to search for life on Mars and named it Curiosity, we were pretty stoked. We’ll be paying close attention over the coming months and hope there’s a lot of knowledge gained from a little curiosity.

The drafthouse rules.

With a recent string of incidents at other theaters where texting and talking is the norm, I’m seriously grateful for the Alamo Drafthouse’s no talking/texting rule. This policy is the only one of its kind (that I know of) and these days and I count myself lucky that they’re in my city.

By disregarding “the customer is always right” philosophy and instead focusing on a smarter and more loyal class of patron, the Alamo Drafthouse provides the best possible viewing experience not only in Austin but anywhere in US.

But enough of my preaching, check out this hilarious new PSA they made featuring an angry texter.

http://cf.drafthouse.com/she_texted_we_kicked_her_out2.html

Fader Fort by Fiat

Fiat USA brought in talented designers, artists and musicians for their Fader Fort during SXSW 2011. We were there with a 5D MKII and a 7D to document it.

In case you haven’t seen the videos we produced, check them out:

Music

Art

Overview

Directed by Curiosity Shoppe

Produced by Stuart Mydlow

Photographed by Andrew Barrera & Dan Brown

Edited by Brad Hughes