http://colenielsen.com/blog colenielsen.com/blog Mon, 17 May 2010 17:30:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This past weekend I received the latest House Industries catalog in the mail and I’ve hardly been able to stop looking at or thinking about it since. We had friends over on Friday night to watch The Cove and I even had to bring it out to show and wow ... http://colenielsen.com/blog/2010/05/eames/ My friend Travis Pitcher (I think I’ve talked about him before) works for this great organization called the Tipping Bucket. If you haven’t heard of it, please, please go check it out. It’s a great company created by some BYU students that has gathered a TON of national and international ... http://colenielsen.com/blog/2010/05/tipping-bucket/ Recently we’ve been asked to help with branding/advertising/etc for an upcoming summer concert series here in Provo. I think this will be a really fun, challenging, and hopefully rewarding project. I’m really excited and will keep things posted on here. One member of the committee is in a band called Fictionist, ... http://colenielsen.com/blog/2010/05/blue-eyed-universe/ This is a piece I worked on years ago back in school. There were a lot of frustrations and concessions made and at the time that we finished it I was fairly disappointed with the results. Now, however, a thousand+ days removed, I can look at this and appreciate some ... http://colenielsen.com/blog/2010/05/378/ The past few weeks I’ve been logging long hours in hopes of getting my portfolio up to date. I’m not going to say that I’m 100% there, BUT… I do have a new site up with some new work, some old work that I never published, and some new takes ... http://colenielsen.com/blog/2010/05/new-site-some-new-work/ it’s our baby’s first birthday tomorrow and this is the invitation designed for the celebration. http://colenielsen.com/blog/2010/04/baby-birthday/ Since making it big with “A Million Things”, OK GO has had the daunting, but somewhat-enviable task of not just writing new pop hits, but coming up with new choreographed dance routines and artistic continuous-shot music videos. Their latest, “WTF” is another hit. The almost Pollock-like use of the frame traces ... http://colenielsen.com/blog/2010/04/wtf/ I’m currently working on the brand and other promotion material for Tough Guy, USA—the U.S. franchise of the infamous race of death over in the United Kingdom. Check out the video above to have your mind absolutely blown away. … I’m still reeling. This should be a fun project. http://colenielsen.com/blog/2010/04/tough-guy/ I'm Here is Spike Jones’ most recent venture. It’s a short (?30 minutes) film about Love… and Robots. While there really is nothing shockingly new about the premise (I mean, it’s just a story about love between two robots), but there is something shockingly real and heartfelt in the delivery—it ... http://colenielsen.com/blog/2010/04/im-here/ http://colenielsen.com/blog/2010/03/jay-z-absolut/