SourceEcreative just posted an announcement of our favorite new Pictures in a Row director, Andrew French.  They quote French as saying, “On my first visit to Pictures in a Row I noticed that all the walls, offices and conference rooms were lined with beautiful floor-to-ceiling shelves. On these shelves, in row after row, were thousands of things I had never seen in a production company before—books.”  French is funny, and also this is true and one of our favorite parts about the office!  Thanks to Peter’s professor father, we have TONS of amazing books. Sometimes it is a little distracting for those of us who are a little too attracted to those page-y bodies, but it makes for a pretty gorgeous environment to work in, I must say.  We love books almost as much as artist Paulus Octavious, whose work as you can see below, uses the pages a little differently.  Maybe next time we need a little inspiration on one of our projects, we can take a hint from Octavious and put these books to different and unexpected usage.

A film edited by our very own Nicole Vaskell is premiering at SXSW nest week. Kelp, directed by Ben Dohrmann and Seth Cuddeback, is a story of a man’s rather, shall we say, unorthodox relationship to the sea.

The thing is, even though we may feel overly cheesy, like snooty intellectuals when every other sentence that comes out of our mouths is “Did you read that article in the New York Times this week?” or “Did you read that New Yorker piece”— especially since we are Angelenos at heart—the honest-to-god truth is that these publications are unique in an era of the decline of trustworthy news sources.  Plus, don’t get us started on the fabulous talent coming out of there, ahem, ARIEL LEVY, ahem. And next week we will promise to quote NPR/KCRW which is always in our heads and our offices, but this week we just had to share this fabulous interactive piece on the web about NY coffee. yummmm! Stumptown (ok, portland coffee) and gimme coffee (i think that one is real nyc coffee), but let’s face it, we need an city of angels coffee snobbery map for Groundworks and Lamill and Intelligentsia. sigh. swoon. gulp. Coffee helps us get our work done, but good coffee helps us make it that much better.

Pictures in a Row director Andrew French was recently in NYC to shoot Ryco Disk’s recording artist, Tara Angel, Memphis legendary band Big Star, and Matador Records Kurt Vile and the Violators, at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple.

All of New York’s rock elite showed up for what was a stellar night of music.

Andrew has shot bands in New York for the last ten years, although shooting commercials has taken up most of his time and now lives in LA, he told us “it was great to get back into the pit and loose one’s hearing for a few days”.
Expect to see more photos this year as he has been asked to shoot more shows in February and March for AP News.

You pick who’s who

Kate Montgomery’s secret government clone has finally been unveiled in a really strange – but actually kind of perfect – place.

Practicing for the Trip-Nighter

What to do when one of your buddies-on-the-halfshell claims the sunning rock as his own? You take it up top, or - as we like to say around the building - you “ride it while it’s like that”. As Charles B. pointed out, they may have been doing nothing more than recreating their favorite Dr. Seuss book.

Gonna take these turtles to the moon somehow...

We all know that filmmakers tend to have some strange habits.  It’s hard to know what’s going on in those creative minds, but lately Jason’s behavior has become even more eccentric.

Maybe he just comes up with his best ideas on the toilet…

Just kidding, Jason!  Can’t wait til you get back!

If you’re stopping by Pictures in a Row anytime soon, be sure to say hello to the new turtles in the koi fish pond.  They are a little shy, but will occasionally peek their heads out from under the water to say hi!

In other news, the basketball net has finally been replaced!  The old net was well worn from all the alley-ooping and slam-dunks that go on out on the Picrow court.  Thank goodness, the fun can continue!