Chris is the only person EVER to have been allowed to shoot up there.  You can read the full interview about the shoot here on Pedestrian. And you can see the behind the scenes video here.

Here is a beautiful campaign by Chris for Insight.  Love the art direction and the crumpled stock effect.  (Or maybe he left it on the floor of his car.)

We put up a mini show of a collaborative project by Chris Searl and Kate Banazi this week.  It looks amazing right adjacent to reception.  Alice (big thanks to you Alice for your patience with my lack of hands-on skills) took a pic with our little placard and I took one to show how nicely the colourways go with the 3DM logo and the furniture!

Our favourite LA collective, THIS, is showing one of Chris’s personal pieces in their inaugural show coming up.  If you’re in LA, the details are on the flyer below.  Other familar names in the show are Seonna Hong, Mike O’Mealy and the Cobrasnake.  Scroll down to see Chris’s piece.

Recently we shot Hipster and Clothing campaigns for Bonds.  We’re now using Six Wolves for all our production and they’ve been amazing – thanks Adam and Kristen! Their blog is great.  Anyone considering a life in production should visit the site for a reality check. Production ain’t that glamorous!

Pania Rose was the female talent for the Clothing campaign.  How can you not love her?  Bonds and the Palace were thrilled with the result.  Chris’s work matched the brief perfectly with the style harking back to projects he had undertaken with Bonds via Monster Children.

This was shot by Chris Searl and styled by Mark Vassallo for Grazia. Out this week. Of course.

Harper’s BAZAAR recently commissioned Chris to shoot a scantily clad girl in the freezing Southern Highlands in a sweet little pastiche of his stills taken on Spike Jonze’s set three years ago.  Mark Vassallo even had a fierce little Max hat commissioned for the shoot and a DIY gold crown.  The incredible Cameron provided production support for which we all say thank you.  The shots are really special.  We hope you like them.

We think Chris saves all his snippets to send to us in one day. So the news blog is looking rather Chris-heavy. Monster Children is out so we think he had some down time and bombarded us because he could. Here is an interview he said we should watch if we were bored. We didn’t have time, but you can watch it if you want to see a screen filled with facial hair.

The interview was related to the Canon EOS comp publicity.

It’s gone up on pedestrian.tv so we guess we can blog it now.  In case you have been living in a cave or ‘through night and day, in and out of weeks and almost over a year to where the wild things’ aren’t (bit of WTWTA humour from someone who has read that book 100+ times to little awed ones) the movie comes out this week.  Chris was one a a few on set photographers when Spike Jonze was out here shooting.  The shots are pretty incredible.  If you’re one of our favourite agencies a couple of them will be gracing your foyer soon.  Here is one of the shots of Spike, and we have also included the Monster Children cover, which we believe is out now.  It’s in the Wolkenstein house so assuming it’s available by now in newsagents also.  Geoff McFetridge did the typography which was a brilliant fit in our humble opinions.

To read the whole interview and see more of the shots, click here.

In a gratuitously creative exercise, Kate Banazi has transformed some of Chris Searl’s back archive.  Kate is a brilliant Jacky Winter artist who assisted the legendary Kate Gibb on her Dries Van Noten work in London.  She’s really infused the shots with a completely different kind of energy.  It’s almost like Chris’s sublime work has been given a Berocca.  We’re really pleased to take credit for hooking these two up.  The trend to combine creative forces like this has been a long time coming in Australia but we are hoping to see more of it and hopefully facilitate it for our guys.