http://andrewdickson.com Andrew Dickson Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:14:36 +0000 http://andrewdickson.com en http://andrewdickson.com/Travel-Portland http://andrewdickson.com/following/andrewdickson.com/Travel-Portland Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:14:36 +0000 Andrew Dickson 5397114 This past winter Travel Portland approached us with a very specific request. Help put heads in hotel beds during January, February and March. Now if those aren't the first three months you'd choose to visit Portland you get why that was the ask. We created a fun campaign that included two broadcast spots that aired in Seattle and Vancouver and we enlisted my good friend and This is Portland author Alexander Barrett to make over two dozen online videos, each extolling a different virtue of the city of Roses. Our online videos became the thrust of a social media full court press, timed to with the release of the Travel Portland mobile app as well as a great promotion where folks who booked through TravelPortland.com got a passport good for a Voodoo Doughnut, a Salt & Straw ice cream and more. Not only did we have a blast making all this stuff, hotel visits went way, way up! Here are a few favorites. More here. This past winter Travel Portland approached us with a very specific request. Help put heads in hotel beds during January, February and March. Now if those aren't... http://andrewdickson.com/My-Story http://andrewdickson.com/following/andrewdickson.com/My-Story Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:22:15 +0000 Andrew Dickson 4261776 You know those Family Circle cartoons where the kids run all over the neighborhood instead of just going across the street? My journey has been a little bit like that. I was asked by Creative Mornings here in Portland to speak, and I cover that journey pretty well. I also talk a little bit about Wieden+Kenendy and WK12, and then end by posing a problem to the smart folks who come to events like Creative Mornings. It goes something like this. Being an artist has always been hard. The internet has made it harder. People now regularly steal slash share the music, movies and books we once bought. I posed this problem to the audience, then offered my own solution. A contract to support Portland arts and artists that I asked audience members to sign. Anyone who wanted to ask a question had to sign it. Video below, contract below it, designed by the talented Bethany Ng. And if you're short on time here's a 6 minute Pecha Kucha version of the talk I gave more recently at Oregon Arts Summit. Portland/CreativeMornings - Andrew Dickson from CreativeMornings/Portland on Vimeo. <img src="http://payload98.cargocollective.com/1/1/57680/4261776/Screen shot 2012-12-04 at 4.02.16 PM.png" width="454" height="692" width_o="454" height_o="692" src_o="http://payload98.cargocollective.com/1/1/57680/4261776/Screen shot 2012-12-04 at 4.02.16 PM_o.png" data-mid="24206382" border="0" align="left"/> You know those Family Circle cartoons where the kids run all over the neighborhood instead of just going across the street? My journey has been a little bit like... http://andrewdickson.com/38-Things http://andrewdickson.com/following/andrewdickson.com/38-Things Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:52:15 +0000 Andrew Dickson 3647293 There are a lot of lecturers that ask their audience questions like "What's the Big Idea?" Those kind of lectures are well and good but this isn't that kind of lecture. This is the kind of lecture that supposes you might just be hungry for lunch, to which I'd argue you'll spend less and enjoy your meal that much more if you use a coupon. 38 Things I've Learned in 38 Years is a fairly self-explanatory lecture I've given to my students in WK12 and the Portland State Friends of Graphic Design group. Urban Honking Television recently took me into Portland Community Media and did it up so I could share my insights online and on TV. Enjoy. 38 Things from Team Video on Vimeo. There are a lot of lecturers that ask their audience questions like "What's the Big Idea?" Those kind of lectures are well and good but this isn't that kind of... http://andrewdickson.com/Life-Coach http://andrewdickson.com/following/andrewdickson.com/Life-Coach Sun, 27 May 2012 00:36:09 +0000 Andrew Dickson 3478319 This fall I premiered a new performance at the PICA TBA festival. Over the two weekends of the festivals, I offered 8 public coaching sessions. After a 15 minute monologue where I explained the philosophy of coaching, and asked audience members to consider and share why there were there, I brought a preselected member of the audience on stage for a coaching session. Ultimately, I felt the performances or sessions, or whatever the hell they were, worked. Here's a review from the Portland Mercury that describes one of the shows. I'm hoping to stage the show in a few other cities in 2013. If you're a curator, I'd love to talk. If you need help, I am doing the occasional private session. You can also can reach out to me for advice (which is very different from life coaching) on subjects like career, artistic pursuits, personal projects and big life decisions through Urban Honking's new advice column. <img src="http://payload58.cargocollective.com/1/1/57680/3478319/The Sweater crop.jpg" width="670" height="837" width_o="2048" height_o="2560" src_o="http://payload58.cargocollective.com/1/1/57680/3478319/The Sweater crop_o.jpg" data-mid="17938217" border="0" align="left"/> This fall I premiered a new performance at the PICA TBA festival. Over the two weekends of the festivals, I offered 8 public coaching sessions. After a 15 minute... http://andrewdickson.com/The-Shandy-Man http://andrewdickson.com/following/andrewdickson.com/The-Shandy-Man Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:05:10 +0000 Andrew Dickson 1003916 What happens when a forty year old man sets up a lemonade stand in front of my house? Let's find out. This trilogy of internet sized videos add up to a 15 minute piece I made a few years back with the help of some really good friends. More thoughts about these on my blog. The Shandy Man, part 1 from Andrew Dickson on Vimeo. The Shandy Man, part 2 from Andrew Dickson on Vimeo. The Shandy Man, part 3 from Andrew Dickson on Vimeo. What happens when a forty year old man sets up a lemonade stand in front of my house? Let's find out. This trilogy of internet sized videos add up to a 15 minute... http://andrewdickson.com/Coming-up http://andrewdickson.com/following/andrewdickson.com/Coming-up Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:12:58 +0000 Andrew Dickson 1059949 I'll be the MC at the Northwest Film Center's Lights, Camera, Auction fundraiser May 12th at the Portland Art Museum. I'll be hosting the ground breaking for Harper's Playground Friday June 8th at Arbor Lodge park. I'll be doing a Creative Morning talk September 7th. I will be co-hosting the IPRC fundraiser at Disjecta with the wonderful B. Frayn Masters on October 6th. And I'm hoping to get a canoe pretty soon so I can get my kids out on some lakes. I'll be the MC at the Northwest Film Center's Lights, Camera, Auction fundraiser May 12th at the Portland Art Museum. I'll be hosting the ground breaking for... http://andrewdickson.com/Acting http://andrewdickson.com/following/andrewdickson.com/Acting Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:56:11 +0000 Andrew Dickson 1242868 I started acting by accident. I saw myself as a behind the camera talent, until while working my way up from coffee gopher to set furniture mover someone asked me to be in front of it. My first gig was dressing up in a grape suit and walking around downtown Portland with two cameras in tow asking people if they would buy Fruit of the Loom underwear on the Internet. It paid better, was easier and more fun then moving set furniture. So I kept doing it. Since then I've had a few acting gigs a year. I've appeared in my own films, my friends films and the occasional music video, commercial and informercial. I've also started to do quite a bit of voice-over work. Most recently, I've appeared in a handful of Portland indie features––Matt McCormick's Some Days are Better than Others, Chel White's Bucksville, and Neal Corl's Dangerous Writing. I am represented for voice-over by Ryan Artists and am a member in good standing with the Screen Actor's Guild. MusicfestNW 2011 Commercial from MusicfestNW on Vimeo. I started acting by accident. I saw myself as a behind the camera talent, until while working my way up from coffee gopher to set furniture mover someone asked me... http://andrewdickson.com/Portland http://andrewdickson.com/following/andrewdickson.com/Portland Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:42:00 +0000 Andrew Dickson 2413400 I love Portland. I've lived here since 1995, when it felt a more like a small sleepy town. But I'd argue it's evolved more than changed. It's still a great place to live and be creative, there are just a few hundred better places to eat now. And though it's gotten more expensive, it's still the cheapest city on the West Coast. One of the things I hope Portland never loses is it's love for old stuff. Portland embraces it's history and tends to recycle things, buildings and even ideas versus beginning anew. So it's not surprising that slowly but surely Portland has become one of the global leaders in sustainability. And yet Portland still isn't very good about tooting it's own horn. There's an ah shucks vibe here that though charming, often prevents us from getting the attention and credit our city deserves. So I was particularly pleased when I was asked to write and voice this video to help brand Portland as the place others cities should visit, study and hire firms from to become green. The video, funded by the Portland Office of Sustainability, is being used by the Mayor on trips abroad and recently screened at the UN Convention on Climate Change in Durban. Portland: We Build Green Cities from We Build Green Cities on Vimeo. I love Portland. I've lived here since 1995, when it felt a more like a small sleepy town. But I'd argue it's evolved more than changed. It's still a great place to... http://andrewdickson.com/Screenplays http://andrewdickson.com/following/andrewdickson.com/Screenplays Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:47:00 +0000 Andrew Dickson 988648 My good friend Bill Bailey and I have written several screenplays together. Enough to earn us an agent, manager and lawyer and work writing for TV. Alas, these scripts remain scripts. Feel free to make us an offer in the high five to low six figure ballpark sight unseen or email me if you'd like to read them. Autographs tells the story of a pair of sports memorabilia dealers who get run out of Portland and end up on the hunt to catch the single season home run record-breaking baseball. Bill and I always imagined ourselves in the starring role as it's based on a short film short we made together. But we'd be happy to cede our roles to the Farrel's or the Wilson's or the Rogan's of the world. Lay is Out is about the competitive world of college intramural Ultimate Frisbee. It's kind of a Bad News Bears meets Squid and the Whale kind of story. Everything I know about women I learned from Chip Bowman was originally titled Wingman which we probably should have stuck with because you kind of get the entire movie from the title which seems to be the Modus Operandi for Hollywood comedies these days but then we heard another film with the same name was going to get made with Christopher Walken no less, so we changed the name but then that other movie never actually got made. So clearly there is a hole in the universe which this script could fill. My good friend Bill Bailey and I have written several screenplays together. Enough to earn us an agent, manager and lawyer and work writing for TV. Alas, these... http://andrewdickson.com/Eastern-Oregon http://andrewdickson.com/following/andrewdickson.com/Eastern-Oregon Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:00:35 +0000 Andrew Dickson 2203025 For tourism purposes, Oregon is divided into 7 regions. Eastern Oregon is by far the biggest and arguably the one most different from the other 6. It's so big, it's hard to characterize. It features everything from desert to raging rapids to Alpine mountain tops, and though it can feel like the Old West, it also has tons of craft breweries, art galleries and great restaurants. The truth we got excited about is that what makes Eastern Oregon great would be destroyed if it were completely overrun with tourism. We want people to come to visit. Just not all at once. Hence the tagline, "Please don't tell everyone about Eastern Oregon. Thank you." These print ads will run for the next few years in addition to banner ads that drive to their revamped website. When you're ready to visit, I'd be more than happy to recommend places to go and things to do. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/57680/2203025/Screen shot 2011-10-25 at 10.51.24 AM.png" width="670" height="448" width_o="996" height_o="666" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/57680/2203025/Screen shot 2011-10-25 at 10.51.24 AM_o.png" data-mid="11012267" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/57680/2203025/Screen shot 2011-10-25 at 10.51.00 AM.png" width="670" height="441" width_o="999" height_o="659" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/57680/2203025/Screen shot 2011-10-25 at 10.51.00 AM_o.png" data-mid="11012269" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/57680/2203025/Screen shot 2011-10-25 at 10.50.47 AM.png" width="670" height="443" width_o="1002" height_o="663" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/57680/2203025/Screen shot 2011-10-25 at 10.50.47 AM_o.png" data-mid="11012271" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/57680/2203025/Screen shot 2011-10-25 at 10.50.32 AM.png" width="670" height="446" width_o="1000" height_o="666" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/57680/2203025/Screen shot 2011-10-25 at 10.50.32 AM_o.png" data-mid="11012272" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/57680/2203025/Screen shot 2011-10-25 at 10.50.15 AM.png" width="670" height="443" width_o="1004" height_o="665" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/57680/2203025/Screen shot 2011-10-25 at 10.50.15 AM_o.png" data-mid="11012275" border="0" align="left"/> For tourism purposes, Oregon is divided into 7 regions. Eastern Oregon is by far the biggest and arguably the one most different from the other 6. It's so big,...