The Black Harbor The Black Harbor is an online account of the work, ideas, and inspiration of a tight-nit collective of creatives. Over the years we have created things together, attended school together, fought together, and partied together. We have grown beyond the simplicity of friendship. We are now a family. Our purpose is to celebrates the work of the collective and explore creative work in the world that truly inspires us driving us to be better at what we do. Our hope is that as we document our work, process, lives, and inspiration that you will also be inspired and share your work with us.
I’ve always been in love with portraiture. Every face is different, but almost more interestingly, every face moves differently. Every face has its own language, tendencies, ticks, nuance, shine, and blas ... Continue reading →
We are happy to share with you the latest animation from I Shot Him. We collaborated with Participant Media and Take Part to create a website and animation for a social action campaign about the power of storytelling f ... Continue reading →
My pal Kalvin Lazarte, from Play Nice, got a gig doing the video for the Marc Jacobs Spring/Summer 2011 line. I assume he was really scared and felt like he was in over his head. I assume this is why he called up the person ... Continue reading →
Olympia, Washington is an odd, beautiful town. With a population just under 50,000, its the home of The Evergreen State College, an “experimental” liberal arts college that functions without the us ... Continue reading →
“Old Plank Road”
The Portland band Hillstomp swung by our office to play a few songs. After a quick dumpster dive for instruments they set up and let loose. Yee Haw!
“Banjo Song # 1″
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We are working on the SFpark project over at I Shot Him and have just finished the video explaining the whole pilot project. Normally I’d expect you to run for your lives to keep yourself from being bored because ... Continue reading →
Wayne White was the set designer for Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. This documentary is about him. It’s premiering at SXSW 2012. I don’t think anything else I write is going to influence you to see the film ... Continue reading →
I’ve been waiting for some time for part 4 of Everything Is a Remix. And it did not fail to deliver. If your not familiar with this series its an exploration of what it means to copy or steal ideas. Its backed with br ... Continue reading →
Who knew you could make a whole bunch of triangles look so pretty? This song is off the soundtrack Jonsi (of Sigur Ros) wrote with director Cameron Crowe for the upcoming film, ‘ We bought a Zoo’, staring M ... Continue reading →
Thijs De Cloedt and Wouter Sel are animators/illustrators that together form the Belgian powerhouse that is Volstok. They consistently churn out some of the funniest animations I have ever seen. I mentioned thei ... Continue reading →
Check out this killer, beautifully simple video of Hubble (Ben Greenberg) shredding on a Brooklyn rooftop in loving sunlight. Hubble is the solo guitar project of Ben Greenberg (Zs, Pygmy Shrews). In this video by T ... Continue reading →
A couple weeks ago I posted a brutal and brilliant animated tribute to the film Drive by Tom Haugomat & Bruno Mangyoku. On Tuesday Tom and Bruno, of Cube Creative, uploaded a teaser to their newest project LE MEUR ... Continue reading →