Heart in Oregon: Katy + Ryan
The last storyteller was from Luckenbach, Texas, now we’re back to the Northwest.
As soon as I saw Katy + Ryan pull up in their Subaru with a giant Oregon Heart sticker on the back, I knew they’d be a great pair to interview. (=
Heart in Oregon (and Texas!)
When I was in Portland last summer for Portland Ad. Federation‘s COLAB internship-crazy-awesomeness, I started noticing these Oregon-shaped stickers with a green heart within. For the next few months, I took a picture each time I came across one of these stickers and subsequently wrote a post or two about my discoveries.
Fast forward through the details, and I wind up connecting with the founder/brains behind this movement, Chris Bucci – we exchange a few emails as my curiosity and love for this idea grows…Chris sends me a few stickers, which makes my love for this movement even greater. (=
So as I think we all know at this point, I am in Austin. One of the first things I noticed about Texans is hands down their love and pride of being Texan. I was lucky to meet a handful of wonderful Texans with overwhelming Texas pride, and who were willing and excited to include/share that with me (which I thought was incredibly gracious on their end, and made me feel good about settling here)
Anyway, Chris and I connected again – me telling him how much I am impressed with the Texas/Southern hospitality, BUT at the same time, saying how much more pride I have for where I am from now that I am no longer there. So…a few more conversations happen, a handful more stickers come (of Texas AND Oregon now!) and a project between Chris and me evolves!
We’ll see how this project goes, but as you can tell from the Heart in Oregon website, storytelling is HUGE. I love hearing people’s stories and I love that each and every one of us has such a unique and tailored…anthology, really. Also pretty enthused to combine this with a similar project Ashly and I have been brainstorming…
Last night I interviewed my first person – a now friend who I actually (this sounds sketch) met courtesy of Craigslist (NOT missed connections, although I wish! haha) I bought some furniture from him, we became friends, I found his story interesting and voilà!
Not sure the format or how these storytelling pieces will manifest, but regardless, I am extremely excited to see what’s to come! (and equally excited for my new slew of Oregon/Texas heart stickers!)
PDX portfolio review
It’s that time of year – portfolio review! Everyone is invited to our advertising program’s year-end portfolio review – we will be showcasing our best work from strategic planners, writer and art directors at the UO J. school – the Turnbull Center in the White Stag Building in PDX. Everyone is invited, 2 – 5 this Friday – We’d love to see everyone there (=
looking for an ad. internship?
10 interns. 2 teams.
10 agencies. 3 agencies per intern.
6 weeks.
Portland, Oregon.
Paid.
Still interested? If you guys are interested in an ad. related summer internship, I would really suggest checking out COLAB. I spent last summer participating in COLAB and honestly…wow, it was a freaking awesome opportunity.
So, basically COLAB works like this – you will spend 2 weeks with three agencies during the six week period. You will also work with four of the other interns to create an advertising campaign, which will be pitched to the client and PAF members at the conclusion of colab.
Still interested? Apply here!
Last year’s COLAB-ers documented the experience pretty well last year- here is everything that I documented during COLAB 08.
And in the meantime, for your viewing pleasure…
Here’s the final video Bryan compiled of our team, Team Kiwi:
Each Friday the interns got together at an additional agency (part of PAF, but without a COLAB-er) to work on our intern campaign. Here’s a two minute redux of our first meeting at Henry V:
Christine and I made alot of videos during COLAB! Here’s one we made after our third week after a long day working at Pop Art:
Here is the final marketing plan my team developed!
Further questions?? Let me know!
organs, fondue and Greek Festivals all in a days work
The last weekend of summer went well – Friday and Saturday were spent in Portland for the wedding! Everything went well – Meaghan and I played with an organist at the beautiful Old Church in SW Portland – the acoustics were phenomenal and the wedding was beautiful. I love this type of performance opportunity – let’s hope there are more to come soon!
The Old Church
And if this wasn’t enough, yet another reason to love Portland…FONDUE!!
Probably the best Fondue of my life was consumed this past Friday evening on 21st…
Next weekend:
HELL YES!!!!!!!!