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We are a video production company.
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We collaborate with marketing & ad agencies, set & production designers, and lighting & A/V companies.
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Principaljoel at spitball media dot com Back StoryLearned production and fundraising trades on the job at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans back in the 90's: rungs on the ladder included Event Production Director & Performing Arts Presenter. Moved to Portland in 2001, founding the Miles Ahead Agency, an event marketing firm contracted by Willamette Week, Monqui Presents & Bonnaroo Music Festival; all the while continuing to produce large-scale media installations with Andrew Smith, for corporate events & parties in New Orleans. Post-Katrina, Smith and the NOLA studio re-located to Portland, Joe Lesher came over from Willamette Week, and Spitball Media was born. Extraneous QualitiesYoung soul + late bloomer; lucid dreams; values passion. PrincipalWork HistoryWashington Post Advertising until fleeing the Beltway -- Willamette Week Newspaper for Advertising, Marketing and, finally, Festival Executive Director (MusicfestNW and Longbaugh Film Festival) -- In 2006, teamed up with smart, creative friends to launch Spitball Media. Defining characteristicsAbove average vision, freckles, averse to shoes in summertime Superhero-esque qualitiesImpervious to caffeine, never loses keys, ability to live just fine with clutter Crippling weaknessesCannot sleep on airplanes, unattended plates of chocolate chip cookies, highly susceptible to bad ideas when drinking PrincipalVideo art-tech/musician gone marketing-bot andrew at spitball media dot com Turn OnsWhen I like something and can't figure out why, salmon jerky, free art supplies. Current Thesis"Overcoming the Mono-Posture of Computer Assisted Media Production". Through our array of ultra- powerful creative tools, there are limitless ways to engage our brains in the development of audio-visual experience. Meanwhile, we are fixed in this familiar pose: ass in seat, hands on mouse and keyboard, eyes on screen... Video Nerdjesse at spitball media dot com Jesse grew up on the theater floor watching his Mom sew costumes. Between painting sets and memorizing lines he realized that he wanted to work in the entertainment biz. For the next 10 years he trained as a dancer until an injury forced him into early retirement. While in the hospital he picked up a computer and starting making videos. Jesse's favorite dancers are Anna Pavlova, Patrick Swayze and Rudolf Nueryev. |