notes from home & doe bay

Here's a project I am very proud to be a part of: Notes from Home

Notes from Home in the simplest of terms is a house show series. The shows take place in living rooms in and around Seattle. The audio is multi-tracked live. Photographers are invited to come shoot the show. And a few songs of each set are recorded to video by Tyler Kalberg and Dylan Priest. Now that the site is up and running, you can listen to (and download!) that audio, you can look at the photos, and you can watch the videos. It's pretty incredible.

I was lucky to design both the logo and do the majority of the type work for the site and videos. I'm very, very happy with how it's all come out and I couldn't be more proud of Tyler, Dylan, and Zach for putting this all together.

I also helped organize show #3, with Damien Jurado, John Vanderslice, and Colin Reynolds. I sang with Jurado and Vanderslice, and one of my songs with Vanderslice made it into the video section. You can watch that here (it's the second song of three, but you should watch the whole thing):




I also mentioned a few posts back that I sang with Vanderslice at Doe Bay Fest on Orcas Island this past August. We filmed a Doe Bay Session for Northwest music blog Sound on the Sound (also shot by Tyler Kalberg), and here's the result of that:

case studies - "lies"

While Paper Tiger goings-on are slow, here's a piece of news I forgot to share earlier. Local Seattle photographers Kyle Johnson, Andrew Waits, and Miles Burnett made a music video earlier this year for a local band called Case Studies. The video is shot from the point of view of the singer, Jesse, as he goes on the same date over and over again with different girls. I was fortunate enough to work with these guys as one of the girls in the video, and I share that role with a whole heap of talented ladies from Seattle (including Melodie Knight from Campfire OK, and photographers April Brimer and Aya Sato, to name just a few). And if you look closely, you might just spot a familiar sweater.

dreaming of tokyo

Exciting news today at Paper Tiger HQ! Some of you reading may remember a music video I made last summer with Telekinesis for a song called "Tokyo". Well, I have re-cut the video to the album version of the track, and I am happy to say that today it makes its internet debut!



You can watch it here on Pitchfork, or on my film page. The song is off of Telekinesis!, due April 7th on Merge Records.