The Portable Artist

I am now installing the window displays at Tiffany&Co. here in the Northwest. They do beautiful work, and it's great to be involv...

I recently was given the task of making a giant flower from a (giant) cardboard box, for a magazine photo illustration. The gag was a...

Worked on an infomercial with Kaleo Quenzer recently. Part of the gig was to 'colorize' a large printed map. By 'large', ...

Carrie and I collaborated on this button-covered antelope head. I carved the head out of foam and added the 'antlers'. Carrie d...

Carrie and I worked together on this spaceship set for TMobile. The whole thing is made of 1/4" foam core. The details show that ...

Lynn Shelton's film, 'Your Sister's Sister', for which I was Production Designer, will premier at this year's Toront...

There's a new bus and billboard ad for the Washington Lottery, on the theme of 'what would you do if you won?'. This lucky winne...

Microsoft makes a thing called the Surface, which is like a table-sized tablet computer. The touch screen display can be either flat or hang...

Here are some sets I made for Kathryn Barnard, for a BabyLegs shoot. They were all in-studio freestanding sets, usually just as wide as the ...

Recently, I made a video set at Microsoft Studios. It was a discussion in an executive office, about 'the Cloud'. Kaleo helped me p...

I had the chance, not long ago, to make a couple of sets at Armstrong Studios for a Starbucks project. Scott Pitts was the shooter, and he s...

The Wall Street Journal got photographer Gregg Segal (he's a big deal - look him up) to shoot a portrait of Blaise Aguera y Arcas (ditto...

More pictures from the Tejon Ranch shoot. Including a Gilligan's Island raft that I got to make. (I've always wanted to make one of ...

Here are a few more pictures of the finished Hut from the Eddie Bauer shoot at Tejon Ranch. Lauren Shields was the (amazing) Prop Stylist.

This summer, I had the chance to go on a great shoot for Eddie Bauer. I got to spend a couple of weeks with a terrific crew in Tejon, Califo...

This shows how the set I described below is used in a catalog photograph. A deck, a little fake snow... you're there.

Did a funny job for Brad Lenz, on a video that went along with the rebranding of Seattle's Best Coffee. The SBC folks were 'taking o...

Here's where it ended up. It was a fake stone and (real) barnwood wall that I was trying to match from a location shoot.

Here are a few pictures of a fake rock wall that I recently made for a photo client. It all starts with pink foam.

I have neglected to keep up on the blog. So, here, after long delay, are some photos of jobs that I've worked on in the past six months....

Recently helped on another Taco Time commercial. This one had GOATS! I'll have to add 'assistant goat wrangler' to my resume. He...

Shefskie Paba recently posted some pictures on Facebook, from a job we both worked on last year. We worked for NRG! Exhibits, putting togeth...

For the past few months I've been installing the display windows at Louis Vuitton stores in the Northwest. I am the guy in charge of Sea...

I recently worked with Laura Foy and the Microsoft crowd again, on a funny short film with a Valentine's Day theme. Kaleo Quenzer helped...

We just remodeled the Kids' Play Room at the Seattle Center. Carrie and I had done the original Play Room in 2002, and in the intervenin...

I recently Art Directed another ad for Taco Time. This one has our hero (Pat Cashman) in his manor house, reflecting on the nature of "...

I just hung my small collages at Anthropologie, in Seattle. They'll be up through November. So get down there and snap 'em up!