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In April, one hundred St Louisians stepped up to the line and threw their dart at the giant map of St Louis City. They then had a month to visit the block where their dart landed and make a photograph. Now the results are in. View the Gallery
Thanks to everyone who participated, we hope you had fun (we certainly did).
Steve Wienke - Hadley St. & Warren St.
By popular request, Jay Baker created an iMix of the music from the Big Slide Show night. Get it from iTunes.
And be sure to check out the gallery of all the dArt photos.
Jay Baker recently photographed St. Louis Cardinal ace pitcher Chris Carpenter for the June cover of Alive Magazine. The shoot took place at the Four Seasons Hotel. Thanks to Reshma Chamberlin and the gang at Alive. You can check out the feature at http://www.alivemag.com/
FK was honored to host AIGA St. Louis’ Annual Meeting & 20th Anniversary Celebration. Hats off to 2009 Fellow Award recipient Cherie Fister and “Local Legends” Buck Smith, Sarah Birdsall and John Heaney. And the icing on the cake…….? Each of the more than 200 attendees walked away with a piece of original art donated by one of 20 local artists!
Traci Moore Clay, AIGA President with Mark Katzman
AIGA Program Chair Karin Soukup, smiling for the camera
Mingling creatives
Katie Fischer’s Box of Curiosities
View more photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aigastl/
Last week's inaugural dART St Louis event was a real hit with larger than expected crowds. If you couldn't make it to the party, its not too late to participate. Pull up a map of the City of St Louis and pick a spot at random - then go there and take a photo or make some sort of artwork!
FK is excited to host dArt St Louis: How do you see your city? Here is how it works:
1. Come to the studio on Thursday, April 30th for a happy-hour Schlafly beer sampling.
2. Throw a dart at our big map of St Louis city. Write down which block you hit.
3. Over the course of the next month, visit your block and make a photograph, a series of photographs, a video piece, a painting, a drawing or any other kind of artwork.
4. Send us a digital file of your work.
5. Come back to FK on Thursday, May 28th for the results slide show and party.
Join us! You don't have to play to party!
Recently we hosted the first of many events in FK's new venue, The Darkroom. The Dark Side of Oz has a cultish following - we wanted to see what all the fuss was about. Our conclusion, while it could all be coincidence, it is still very cool. Check out this clip to see for yourself. (it may be best to let it pre-load a little bit before playing).
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Read more about the night on Accidental Mysteries
Thanks to Dan Brindley for the idea and for designing the invite.
If you would like to be included in future Darkroom events, shoot us an email and we'll add you to the list
Scott Ferguson's poster campaign for SIFE struck gold at last week's ADDYs. Credits: Advertising Savants, Agency; Steve Swartz, ACD; Scott Ferguson, Photographer.
SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise) is a non-profit organization operating in 44 countries at over 1400 universities with more than 34,000 student team members. Their mission: to bring students together with academic and business leaders to engage in projects that use the positive power of business to improve lives worldwide.
Last night FK was pleased to host a discussion about the creative process with ReBUS, part of Ad Club St Louis. Photographer Mark Katzman and retoucher Curt von Diest presented case studies showing recent projects. The process from the initial concept all the way through to the final art work was discussed. We also looked at the role of stock photography and the pros and cons of using stock in comp layouts. A dynamic discussion followed. We all had a great time hosting this event and really enjoyed meeting everyone that came. ReBUS is welcome back at FK any time.
See more images from the event after the jump.
FK is pleased that the latest reincarnation of our website is live! You will notice that we've made the image sizes much larger (tip: resize your browser window to make the portfolio images bigger!) and we have added multiple portfolios for each photographer. Be sure to check us out often.
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