http://www.andrewdickson.com Andrew Dickson Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:12:58 +0000 http://www.andrewdickson.com en http://andrewdickson.com/Coming-up http://andrewdickson.com/following/andrewdickson.com/Coming-up Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:12:58 +0000 Andrew Dickson 1059949 I'll be that auctioneer at the Portland Village School annual fundraiser on April 20th. 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 doing a Creative Morning talk September 7th. And I'm hoping to get a canoe this spring so I can take it out this summer. http://andrewdickson.com/Acting http://andrewdickson.com/following/andrewdickson.com/Acting Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:56:11 +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. 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. http://andrewdickson.com/Portland http://andrewdickson.com/following/andrewdickson.com/Portland Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:42:00 +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. http://andrewdickson.com/Screenplays http://andrewdickson.com/following/andrewdickson.com/Screenplays Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:47:00 +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. http://andrewdickson.com/Eastern-Oregon http://andrewdickson.com/following/andrewdickson.com/Eastern-Oregon Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:00:35 +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. 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" border="0" 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" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/57680/2203025/Screen shot 2011-10-25 at 10.51.00 AM.png" border="0" 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" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/57680/2203025/Screen shot 2011-10-25 at 10.50.47 AM.png" border="0" 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" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/57680/2203025/Screen shot 2011-10-25 at 10.50.32 AM.png" border="0" 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" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/57680/2203025/Screen shot 2011-10-25 at 10.50.15 AM.png" border="0" 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" align="left" /> http://andrewdickson.com/Oregon http://andrewdickson.com/following/andrewdickson.com/Oregon Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:33:09 +0000 Andrew Dickson 1003891 I moved to Portland in 1995 right after college. My wife and I left once, for two years, fully planning on returning but needing to be reminded why we loved it here so much. Two years living in Los Angeles did the trick. I love Oregon. So working on the state tourism account is a dream job. We work with Travel Oregon to plan events, create online ads, make videos and are overhauling the website. We also produce a few TV commercials every six months. Here are a few of my favorites. http://andrewdickson.com/Caldera http://andrewdickson.com/following/andrewdickson.com/Caldera Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:17:19 +0000 Andrew Dickson 1008031 In the winter of 2003 I was accepted for an artist residence at Caldera. I spent a few weeks there working on an early draft of my eBay performance. While I discovered I'm not a residency person (too much alone time), I fell in love with the place. It was my first visit to Central Oregon and I've been back many times. I also learned Caldera is much more than just an artist's residency. It started as a summer art camp bringing kids from the city together with kids from the country. Today it also offers year-round arts mentoring and learning to kids throughout the state. I was thrilled to help write the relaunched website. We choose a voice that speaks to the kids, parents, artists, donors, volunteers, and staff that make up the amazing Caldera community. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/57680/1008031/Screen shot 2011-03-30 at 3.13.38 PM.png" border="0" width="670" height="403" width_o="1140" height_o="686" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/57680/1008031/Screen shot 2011-03-30 at 3.13.38 PM_o.png" align="left" /> http://andrewdickson.com/Careerbuilder http://andrewdickson.com/following/andrewdickson.com/Careerbuilder Wed, 09 Feb 2011 05:21:24 +0000 Andrew Dickson 992361 My excitement upon hearing the news that we won the Careerbuilder.com account was quickly dampened by the rejoinder, "they want to do everything we pitched but the TV." The TV being the Super Bowl spots I wrote and would have acted in. Turns out a cautionary tale about a paperboy who doesn't use the Internet isn't a good fit for a company owned by a newspaper conglomerate. Still, I got to make some print and online videos. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/57680/992361/Screen shot 2011-01-31 at 8.49.29 AM.png" border="0" width="330" height="550" width_o="330" height_o="550" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/57680/992361/Screen shot 2011-01-31 at 8.49.29 AM_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/57680/992361/Screen shot 2011-01-31 at 8.49.49 AM.png" border="0" width="329" height="552" width_o="329" height_o="552" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/57680/992361/Screen shot 2011-01-31 at 8.49.49 AM_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/57680/992361/Screen shot 2011-01-31 at 10.05.38 PM.png" border="0" width="331" height="552" width_o="331" height_o="552" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/57680/992361/Screen shot 2011-01-31 at 10.05.38 PM_o.png" align="left" /> Creative partner: Brad Trost http://andrewdickson.com/Good-Grief http://andrewdickson.com/following/andrewdickson.com/Good-Grief Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:50:07 +0000 Andrew Dickson 680943 I went to film school in the early nineties. So naturally I made a no budget 16mm indie art film about high school students into role-playing games who go on a road trip and lose touch with reality as soon as I graduated. I toured it for a few months to film festivals, theaters, and punk house living rooms. So no, I didn’t win Sundance and get a three-picture deal. But it was a lot of fun nonetheless. It's a fun little film. I made a million mistakes, but I'm proud it has a decent score on IMDB. Believe it or not, I only have it on mini-DV and VHS. So if you really want to see it on say, DVD, get in touch and maybe I'll be spurred into action. Good Grief. 72 minutes. 2000 Cast and crew here. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/57680/680943/ gg grop shot.jpg" border="0" width="607" height="397" width_o="607" height_o="397" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/57680/680943/ gg grop shot_o.jpg" align="left" /> http://andrewdickson.com/WK12 http://andrewdickson.com/following/andrewdickson.com/WK12 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 06:24:28 +0000 Andrew Dickson 680694 WK12 is an experimental advertising school housed inside Wieden+Kennedy's Portland office. The school accepts 13 students who spend 12 months creating advertising campaigns for local non-profits, making art, and learning how to collaborate with 12 other people. I was lucky enough to join Byron Oshiro and Jim Riswold as one of the directors of the school partway through it's 6th year. The 7th class just graduated. We're gearing up for the 8th. Rather than talk about what I've done as part of the school, I'd much rather share the list of our most recent graduates. Click on any of their names to see the wonderful work they created over the last year. I'm proud to have gotten to the chance to know and work with every single one of them. Alex Barrett Anastasia Aizman Benji Brucker Drew Downie Edwin Negado Emily Hemson Jed Heuer Jin Ryu Matt McCarron Paul Wig Sara Phillips Shaine Edwards Yi-Fan Lu