Time to catch up on all the recent activity going on at Pictures in a Row!

We said good-bye to our summer intern, Jamie, and wish him the best as he heads back to classes this fall!

We celebrated Joel’s birthday, although he didn’t seem too pleased with the Minnie Mouse napkins we picked out.

Charles headed back to Ohio to shoot a commercial for Mercy hospitals.

And our friend, Jon Barton, showed up in the LA Times photographed in the Picrow warehouse!

What a fun and busy August!  Looking forward to an equally exciting September!

Another summer has come and gone, and we were lucky to have Morgan join us at Pictures in a Row for the past few months.  I think our cake message managed to sum up our feelings completely —

While we love having Morgan here to keep things running smoothly, we wish her the best while she’s at the University of Utah getting her PhD in Mathematics!  Good luck, Morgan!

Last week we celebrated Cesar’s birthday with cake, friends, and a mariachi band!  Adam said “it was utter chaos” and Joel called it “festive and enchanting.”   Partygoer, Jerry Pyle, said “I loved it, I thought it was awesome.”  Cheers to Cesar!

If you stopped by Pictures in a Row last week, you might have seen something like this going on in the parking lot.

And if you walked into the kitchen, some of these people might have been hanging around . . .

And if you stepped into the warehouse, you might find it looking a little bit different.

No, it’s not a new production office, although Moira may have used it to make a few phone calls.

This naval command center was built as part of the USAA Autocircle commercial Peter Lang was shooting last week and it sure made a cool addition to the building!  Definitely one of our favorite sets built here at Picrow!

Recently Picrowers traveled to Ohio (a place many of us hail from!) to meet some amazing people doing fantastic work at Mercy hospitals.  Over the course of the week, we shot some incredibly brave patients and remarkably caring doctors, nurses, and service people from many different areas of the hospital.  It was a blast!

What could be more fun than spending a couple days in the sun by the pool?  Picrowers took a trip out to Carlsbad to shoot for Legoland’s new water park.  The thought of combining cameras with water may make one wonder how such a thing could be done.  Well, we had some pretty interesting camera housing.

And we also found ways to shoot with the camera well out of the water.

Overall, we had a blast!

Legs ever get stiff from sitting in your editing bay for too long?   Need help getting back on your feet?  Look no further, we’ve found the perfect chair for you!

Even if Picrow is busy and bustling, Percival Pyewacket Lang and Cecil Dorian Lang nobly try to keep us grounded.

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.