Our director shot an editorial photo for Monster Children issue #38 — get a copy we love these guys!!
26 miles later at 5:30am on St. Pattys day in Santa Monica CA. Arizona takes dog tags, LA holds onto first overall
Location Scouting for Cartel’s new brew guide at the base of the Superstition Mountains. Photo courtesy of Jeff Olsen, cartel barista-photographer
We read in a Bill Bryson book that, if released all at once, the energy in a single human body would be as powerful as 30 atomic bombs.
Aeropress brewing guide from Tim Wendelboe on Vimeo.
If you’re still not into coffee, here’s something that might wet your appetite…especially 2 minutes in.
Greg Tidrow is an all-star. He impresses us with drawing, stand-up comedy, acting, and through his general approach to the world. By popular demand, we’ve strung all the takes of Greg sipping espresso from our Cartel short together. No sound here for emphasis on the visuals.
Drawing by Greg Tidrow
Earlier this year in wide-eyed conversations with our friends at Cartel, we drooled over the idea of coming up with concepts for a short film that would exemplify Cartel’s unwavering passion for coffee and the ecosystem they have built around it. Being that they are the very source of our own inspiration at least once a day, you can understand how excited we were. In the creative field, it really doesn’t get better than this for us. So after a few conversations with the owners, management, and baristas, we came up with three elements that we felt compelled to convey:
Region, Character, and Process.
Dear Coffee I Love You nailed all three of them in the best review of our short that we’ve encountered so far, alongisde other coffee greats like Intelligentsia and Stumptown. And that’s without ever having physically been to a Cartel location. Thanks DCILY
Read the review here.
We love on-location work, especially when shooting with STATE. Thanks to photographer Jeff Olsen for catching a rarely seen shot of us in behind the scenes. We love seeing the process. Also, Thanks to Steven Jensen for throwing down with us.
