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  • photos // First Night Tacoma : 2013

    First Night Tacoma outdid themselves once again—downtown Tacoma was a alive and kicking during last night’s carnivalesque New Year’s Eve celebrations.

    Happy New Year Tacoma!

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  • wedding film // Northwest Vintage Wedding Fair : 2013

    When it comes to our wedding division The Heart Dept., we’re never ones to resist getting tantalizing close-ups of tulle and shortcake. So earlier this spring Sarah delighted in filming a little slice of the glittered, glammy spectacle that is the Northwest Vintage Wedding Fair.

    Sarah reports :

    Let’s just say that there was enough vintage elegance and eye candy and antiquated treasures and sweetly scripted invitations and feathery fascinators and Broaches (with a capital B) to put an F. Scott Fitzgerald garden party to shame. I would tell you there was vintage chocolate, but thank goodness there wasn’t—just freshly made, oh so au (more…)

  • poster // Squeak ‘n’ Squawk : 2013

    This is the poster we designed for the 2013 iteration of the annual Squeak ‘n’ Squawk music festival in Tacoma, Wash.  If there was a squeaking and squawking animal that was the festival’s mascot, this would be one of its feathers.

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  • photos // Lemolo + The Kaleidoscope Dance

    Here is a gallery of photographs from the recent Lemolo and The Kaleidoscope Dance put on by The Warehouse, featuring Lemolo performing their dreamy debut album The Kaleidoscope accompanied by original choreography from Tacoma’s MLKBallet and The BareFoot Collective.  The highly-anticipated event was even more moving and beautiful than expected.  Lemolo, the dancers and The Warehouse are hopefully patting themselves on the back a bit—and the rest of us are looking forward to more shows like this!

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  • film // Lemolo + The Kaleidoscope Dance

    We partnered with our friends at The Warehouse to promote this beautifully idiosyncratic event—Lemolo & The Kaleidoscope Dance.

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  • film // MOVE! #20

    In it’s twentieth installment, MLKBallet continues to present some of the Seattle area’s best contemporary dance to a Tacoma audience. (more…)

  • wedding film // Courtney + Adam

    Under the guise as our alter ego The Heart Dept., we recently had the privilege of being part of an amazing couple’s nuptials—Adam and Courtney.

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  • event // Glitter Haus 2012

    Holiday ornaments by Deeds & Petunia / Sarah Smith. Photo courtsey of Jessica Uhler Photography.

    All that glitters is not gold. A lot of it is glitter, actually. And yummy frosted cupcakes. And sprinkles of fine culinary salts. And crusts of snow on tiny trees. The Art Department was pleased as punch to host Glitter Haus this year, a holiday open house featuring extraordinary artisan gifts, organized by Tacoma crafting mavens Sarah Smith of Deeds & Petunia, Laurie Cinotto of Lalalaurie and Lori Meyer of Parisienne Girl Design. Eight talented vendors decked the halls of the Berkley compound for one afternoon while locals savored cider, noshed on delicious nibbles and shopped their way through all sorts of seasonal treasures.

    We believe the event was a great success, with all of the holiday bustle and none of the hustle. We love supporting local artists, and we hope Glitter Haus continues to flourish every year. You can find out more about the crafters here.

    Tacoma photographer Jessica Uhler, whose work we very much admire, kindly provided us photos of the affair. (We were too busy shopping. And eating. And merrymaking.) (more…)

  • video // Goldfinch : “Beautiful Wine” + “Hood”

    Tacoma band Goldfinch has a new album out—and it’s being officially released at the upcoming CATHEDRALS Tacoma.  We captured them performing one of the songs for the new album—accompanied by an original dance piece—in the historic Immanuel Presbyterian.  Also this video from the same night of their cover of Perfume Genius’ Hood:

    Be sure to grab tickets to see more:

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