Friday, July 2, 2010

How to Tie a Bowtie // A Collaboration of Greatness

About a month ago, we made the decision to add a wonderful addition to the office space by bringing in two amazing photographer friends by the names of Gabriel Ryan and Carlie Renee. It's always great to bounce ideas off other professionals in the industry, get feedback from a different perspective (photo vs. cinema), and have a great time working with others on a daily basis. What better way then to move them in???

We knew going into this that inevitably we would work on various future projects together down the road, but we never thought we would have such a great opportunity just a few weeks in!

So, two weeks ago was our first collaboration. . . . .


The chic ladies from Utterly Engaged (also the creators of a wonderful little gem of a find in Tustin called The Wedding Pantry) asked us to create a tutorial on how to tie a bowtie, which they wanted to feature in Issue 011 of their wonderful, unique, and first of its kind Wedding E-Magazine. Instantly we knew two things: 1.) It had to be funny and 2.) Bailey (the boxer) had to be in the tutorial. So after an hour of filming, 45 minutes of editing, and 9 bags of dog treats later, we came up with this, and we are pretty happy with the result, if we don't say so ourselves. Maybe we are jaded because of the cute little dog in the bowtie. . . . . you be the judge.

7 comments:

gabriel.ryan. said...

BING.

Melissa Sykes said...

i love this. hilarious! and educational of course :)

Rowell said...

This video actually makes me want to go out and buy a bowtie!

Tim May said...

This is the best tutorial on how to tie a bow tie that i have EVER come across. Loving the humour too. I wish i could link to this in my blog though. How do it do it?

Steve Luxenberg said...

Tim, all you have to do is use the embed code in the player. Click on the little icon that looks like a sideways carrot in the bottom right hand corner and that will give you several options including "embed". Let me know if you have any problems!

Tracie said...

Love it! If you ever need to borrow a 25 pound cat for a tutorial, ours could give Bailey a run for his money ; )

Kristin Kidd said...

yay...i've been waiting for bailey to star in your films :)

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