Greetings Earthlings
We’re busy transitioning between projects, here’s a visual from earlier this summer. No need to explain, the video speaks for itself. Enjoy behind the Scenes of Gage’s shoot with our good friends, Easton.
More info at Gage’s site:
http://blog.gageyoung.com/?p=210
-J
The Undesigned presents Embrace the Culture
Collaboration is a recursive process where two or more people or organizations work together in an intersection of common goals — for example, an intellectual endeavor that is creative in nature—by sharing knowledge, learning and building consensus.
Our knowledge? We are infinite beings capable of far more than our current worldview offers and we have every ability to change the world around us for the better, starting with intention. Nothing in this world happens without it, nor will it ever. Not only is intention effortless, but when matched with positive energy, nothing is impossible.
Our consencus? Inspire to no end. Live infinitely, love infinitely, and seek to inspire those around you into doing the same thing.
Peace is possible.
Since the birth of The Undesigned at the turn of new year, we have been effortlessly attempting to put forth new business practices, stressing that it is in fact collaboration, not competition, that drives the world of successful business and positive relations.
It is this act of creatively collaborating that brings us to our current release. Over the past several months, we’ve had the opportunity to become friends and grow closer to the infamous Rosco Flevo and his illustrious fashion apparel company, Embrace the Culture. Rosco brought to us a lot of incite concerning the spread of positive energy and culture through art and fashion, implementing strong messages or ‘Statements’ that he chose to make his own set of universal ‘Truths’ in his work. His trust in us as a creative duo created a strong sense of companionship between the two endeavors and plans to collaborate were set in motion.
On behalf of myself The Undesigned and Embrace the Culture, we are proud to present to you a completely rebranded image for an eager company looking to incite much inspiration across the globe.
Take the time to look around, there’s much to become aware of.
Peace & Positive Energy [Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.]
Enjoy
www.etcfashionhouse.com
-James &Gage
Embrace the Culture [Extended] Commercial from The Undesigned on Vimeo.
The Undesigned presents a commercial directed by Alex Purifoy for Embrace the Culture.
Starring Brennan Taulbee of Oceana and the lovely Kayte Abell.
Edited by Marcus ‘MKutta’ Small
Music provided by Maxwell Stevens of Nidus Expire
theundesigned.com
etcfashionhouse.com
Earlier this summer we released a 30 second version of this commercial. Here’s the extended one minute theatrical version for your visual pleasure.
If you missed out on this production, check out the behind the scenes post from earlier this year:
http://www.theundesigned.com/?p=290
Mock magazine [Frieden means 'Joy' or 'Happiness' in German]
Megan Henderson ‘breaking the lines’
Veronica Dame
Rosco Flevo dreams of a world less divided
Jacamo Love
Clarell Stephen
Mandy Murphy and Sean Kerber practice ‘Eunoia’ (Beautiful thinking)
Lucas Oliveira
Muliebrity; the state of being a women.
Product of Mandy Murphy
Blue Sky Noise
Embracing all that is infinite
Nothing real can be threatened; nothing unreal exists
Is your love obtuse enough?
The photographs appear as a lookbook intro to the newly launched ETCFASHIONHOUSE.com
Watch behind the scenes as Gage captures the shop and lookbook photographs for Embrace the Culture.
Produced & Directed by James Lano
Music sample by Foals ['Olympic Airways']
Models
Megan Henderson // Click Models
Veronica Dame // Ford Models
Mandy Murphy
MUA // Kayleigh Hayes
Stylist // Yen Ryder
Special thanks to Nick Zepf aka Terry Troph, Rosco Flevo, David Rose, Lucas Oliveira, Clarell Stephen, Jacamo Love, Alex Shelnutt & Sean Kerber.
ETCFashionhouse.com main page
Newly arranged blog
Gallery to display Artists, bands and multimedia.
Available exclusively through Embrace the Culture, The Undesigned presents a *LIMITED EDITION* collaboration tee.
“The essence of this resounds through this particular tee. A dear friend of mine said it best “ Embrace TheCulture is creating an environment of sharing and collaboration with the idea that if people work together harmoniously, the end result is often far more fruitful than otherwise.”- Philip Soriano (Hugh & Crye). The proof is in the pudding. The idea of the shirt is simple “ to be infinitely and ever changing”. We hope you enjoy the tee, expect tons of great things to come from these boys”. – Rosco Flevo
Printed on the inside of the neck, you will find printed ‘Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists’
The second collaboration features a photograph of model Ali Benetti that Gage captured earlier this season in preparation for this release.
Both ‘Love is Blind’ and The Undesigned collab tee are available for purchase here:
http://embracetheculture.bigcartel.com
A teaser cut for to hype today’s release using some footage we had laying around from an earlier ETC shoot with the lovely Ali Benetti.
Enjoy.
Amor Caecus Est [Love is blind]
Teaser for the upcoming release of The Undesigned’s creative collaboration with fashion apparel company, Embrace the Culture.
Edited by James Lano
Model // Ali Benetti
Coming soon,
-J
Just for fun, reminding you to stop taking life so seriously. Laugh a little and enjoy the little things around you.
Thanks Brittany 
Embrace the Culture from The Undesigned on Vimeo.
The Undesigned presents a commercial directed by Alex Purifoy for Embrace the Culture.
Starring Brennan Taulbee of Oceana and the lovely Kayte Abell.
Edited by Marcus ‘MKutta’ Small
Music provided by Maxwell Stevens of Nidus Expire
Greetings world!
Earlier this year Gage and I came together with apparel company Embrace the Culture and director Alex Purifoy in hopes of capturing a moment of light to relate our combined vision of inspiration. The ETC trio summoned our creative direction and through a series of meetings and getting to know each other both personally and on a business level, a step was taken in the direction of filming a high definition commercial in order to hype the release of the brand’s new summer line of apparel, upon many other exciting things for the company.
Captured on a Red One camera, the commercial seeks to capture an enlightening meeting of two characters amongst a world of chinese lanterns representative of the energy that surrounds us as light. As each approaches from opposite sides or realities, each touches the lanterns, seeking through intuition the other in the room. As the two meet, their energy is transferred causing a supernova of sorts. We then see a revealed group of individuals who once took form as the lanterns, but now stand firmly in their own right, representing the apparel of Embrace the Culture.
The piece features Brennan Taulbee, our close friend and vocalist of Oceana, as well as the ever so lovely Kayte Abell. The music was written and recorded by Maxwell Stevens of Nidus Expire at Clark Street Studios. You will have the opportunity to check out a more complete version of this song later this year on the second coming EP, ‘Many Hands’.
Upon completion of the shoot, all the footage was rendered and brought to Domino Effect studios were Marcus ‘MKutta’ Small arranged the shots into three separate cuts, one being the 38 second release you see here, another being a shorter 15 second cut, and a third 1 minute extended version which will be released soon. A huge shoutout and thanks to Marcus and everyone at Domino Effect!
We will be posting further updates on our collaboration with Embrace the Culture as the month continues, including an entire catalog of product and lifestyle photographs, a new website, and a special collaboration we have yet to announce. Stay tuned.
A huge thank you to all who helped in making this possible. A lot of hard work was put into this project and it was all greatly appreciated, we hope you can enjoy it.
Peace & Positive Energy to all
TheUndesigned
Behind the Scenes:
http://www.theundesigned.com/?p=290
Watch & Subscribe to our YouTube channel!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2_RhlbhCMQ
Embrace the Culture:
http://www.etcfashionhouse.com
Greetings intelligent beings!
On behalf of his day of birth, Sir Maxwell Stevens of Nidus Expire has released a brand new track entitled ‘Mr Grey’ that you can stream, as well as purchase on iTunes as of today, July 6th 2010. The track comes off of the second coming EP ‘Many Hands’ that will be released later this year
We’re always very grateful to work with Max and in collaboration, Gage and I have come up with the artwork for the new single. Max is an extremely talented musician and composer, having written and tracked both guitar parts, bass, and synth; as well as the lyrics. In collaboration with two other extremely talented musicians who’s names will be left unsaid, we’re very proud to present to you, Mr Grey.
Stream the MP3 right now!
www.nidusexpire.com
Purchase on iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/mr-grey/id380884824
Stay tuned for more from The Undesigned and Nidus Expire!
Much love,
James & Gage
Greetings.
If you haven’t had the chance to check out Relevant magazine, I suggest taking a second to point some positive energy in their direction.
You can check out several photographs taken by Gage Young in this month’s issue which is available to view online. The photos were featured in the articles ‘Tips for Hosting Your Best Ever Barbecue’ and ‘Community Doesn’t Take The Summer Off’.
Relevant Magazine Digital Issue 46
http://www.relevantmagazine.com/digital-issue-46
Busy week, new things coming this Tuesday!
Peace & Positive energy.
James & Gage // The Undesigned
New Adobe Lightroom presets available now at GageYoung.com
The presets for sale consist of various adjustments I make in Adobe Lightroom 2. I have chosen eight different Lightroom Develop Presets to make available to other photographers who use Adobe Lightroom 2. During the first 30 days of sales, you can purchase the presets separately for $10.00 or as a bundle of eight presets for $40.
*With the purchase of each preset or bundle, you will receive a text file explaining how to install your purchased preset and screenshots of before and after images in Adobe Lightroom 2.
Presets Include:
Black and White Conversion
Adjustments in making a full color photograph into black & white
Aged & Desaturated
Adjustments in making a full color photograph into an aged & de-saturated photograph
Strong Contrast
Adjustments in making a full color photograph strongly contrasted
Light Contrast
Adjustments in making a full color photograph lightly contrasted
Cold Shift
Adjustments in making a warm photograph cold
Warm Shift
Adjustments in making a cold photograph warm
Over-Exposed Recovery
Adjustments in an over-exposed photograph even and exposed
Under-exposed Recovery
Adjustments in an under-exposed photograph even and exposed
Preview:
Available for purchase bundled or individually:
http://blog.gageyoung.com/?page_id=149
Bring light,
The Undesigned
Hello world!
We are proud to finally announce the release of our first video production for It’s Alive’s debut single ‘Pieces’ off of their Wind Up Records debut full length ‘Human Resources’.
Photo by Gage Young
The video is now available for viewing in 1080p HD on Vevo and will continue to appear on several other video sites as the week continues. [Vimeo, YouTube, etc]
It’s Alive ‘Pieces’ [Extended Version] HD from The Undesigned on Vimeo
Produced by The Undesigned and directed by Alex Purifoy, the video captures the band’s raw energy through performance and accentuates the group’s edgy rock and roll flair.
The video was captured on Canon 5D Mark II and Canon 7D DSLR cameras.
We’d like to personally thank It’s Alive [Zach, Eddie, Juice & Clay], Jess Redmon, Everyone at Wind-Up Records, all hands that took part in the video production [We appreciate you so much!] & MKutta for a great edit!
Stay tuned for more production from The Undesigned.
Reminding you that anything is possible with positive energy,
The Undesigned
Behind the Scenes:
http://www.theundesigned.com/?p=397
Official Links
www.itsaliverock.com
www.winduprecords.com
