Video + Motion
Video/Motion + Branded Content + Short-Form Storytelling
Project Type
Role
Creative Director + Art Director + Video Producer/Editor
I’ve always been drawn to the places where design, music, storytelling, and motion overlap. My video work ranges from music videos and scripted comedy to branded social, artist interviews, event promotion, and advocacy pieces: sometimes highly produced, sometimes gloriously scrappy, but always built around a strong idea.
Depending on the project, I may be writing and storyboarding, directing talent, sourcing footage and music, art directing collaborators, compositing, animating, editing... or figuring out how to make something great from two lousy photos and whatever happens to be in the prop box. I especially love finding the visual rhythm of a piece and making every element feel like it belongs in the same world.
ReadyPaw
All Up In There
I co-wrote “All Up in There” for ReadyPaw, then built its visual world from archival early computer animation. I searched for imagery that matched the song’s strange, playful energy, then edited and sequenced it around the music, using rhythm, repetition, and visual callbacks to turn disparate footage into a cohesive music video.
Goodwin Music Videos
For Goodwin, I paired our original songs with found and Creative Commons footage that captured the feeling of the music without illustrating the lyrics literally. I searched for imagery with the right mood, movement, and narrative arc, then edited each piece around the rhythm of the song, letting unexpected visual connections do the storytelling.
This War Music Video
Hate it Here Music Video
Seattle Dyke March
Goodwin
When Seattle Dyke March moved online in 2020, Goodwin still wanted to show up as a band. I had each member film their performance separately at home, then synchronized and edited the footage into our own “Sort of Live” set, turning pandemic limitations into a scrappy virtual performance.
Queen Jane Music Studios
As Marketing & Creative Director for Queen Jane Music Studios, I create the visual world around its events, community, and wonderfully offbeat personality. Social video is a big part of that: animated promos, interactive Stories, event recaps, character-driven bits, and whatever else the moment calls for. The work moves fast, stays playful, and is designed to make each event feel like its own little world rather than just another thing on the calendar.
Pride, But Like,
Make it 80s
For Queen Jane’s 80s-themed Pride drag show, I created a bright, deliberately over-the-top visual world inspired by the decade’s fashion, graphics, and pop culture. Animated Instagram Stories introduced the performers and event, while an interactive “What’s Your 80s Alter Ego?” series used polls and ridiculous either/or choices to turn the promotion into a game, with the event reveal as the payoff.
Royally Creative Club
There was a LOT of information to wrangle here so the trick was making it all feel exciting instead of overwhelming. I pulled from the Saul Bass-inspired visual language behind Queen Jane’s branding and used bold type, playful motion, and quick pacing to turn a pile of logistics into something people might actually want to watch.
80s Karaoke Night
Karaoke Roulette
Vinyl Nite
Duets Drag Show
Cozy Night Out
Cozy Vibes
Kiddieoke
Shep says yup
The Lava Lounge
Mug Shot
of the Week
Mug Shot of the Week was a recurring social series created for Queen Jane’s Lava Lounge to spotlight a different tiki mug and cocktail each week while helping grow our YouTube presence through Shorts. What started as a simple bar feature quickly became an excuse to build tiny themed videos around each drink, using music, motion, props, effects, and increasingly ridiculous visual bits. The format gave the Lava Lounge a recurring personality of its own while turning a weekly drink feature into entertaining short-form content designed to travel beyond our existing audience.
TomboyX
Business on Top
In spring 2020, with traditional studio production suddenly off the table, I wrote and storyboarded a faux Zoom meeting for TomboyX’s WFH Collection. I directed coworkers performing from home, then edited the footage into a deadpan corporate meeting packed with increasingly ridiculous business jargon, building to the product reveal and #BUSINESSUPTOP payoff.
Go Gallery
During my time with Go Gallery, I served as designer and marketing lead, creating promotional video and social content for exhibitions, artist workshops, and gallery programming. I often worked with limited existing assets and quick turnarounds, turning still photography, archival clips, workshop recordings, and whatever usable footage was available into polished pieces that captured the character of the artists’ work and gave people a reason to show up.
Work shown here was created during my tenure with Go Gallery.
David Nez: From OHO to Portland
A Chat with David Nez in His Studio
For Go Gallery’s first off-site artist profile, I filmed David Nez in his North Portland home studio, capturing both the interview and his current artwork. In editing, I researched the artists, works, and events he referenced, including his OHO Cosmology performance, and sourced archival material to connect his present-day practice with his earlier work as a member of the influential OHO movement.
OHO exhibited at MoMA in 1970 and is the subject of Damjan Kozole’s 2025 documentary OHO Film.
GO Gallery Artist Talks
An Ongoing Video Series
For GO Gallery’s artist talk series, I created a repeatable visual system that gave each conversation its own identity while keeping the collection cohesive. I designed the title treatment and edited the long-form talks into polished presentations, creating a flexible format that could carry across different artists, media, and exhibitions.
Artist Workshop Promos for Social
Wayne Jiang Painting Workshop
With primarily still images and low-quality workshop footage to work with, I used close crops, process details, finished artwork, typography, and pacing to create a warm, active short-form promo for Wayne Jiang’s Spring Floral painting workshop.
The result: the workshop sold out.
National Police
Accountability Project
For the National Police Accountability Project, I transformed primarily static source material into a fully paced advocacy video through image sourcing, compositing, motion, typography, music, captions, and editing. I also recommended a former Nike colleague who provides voiceover for their in-house productions, then coordinated between him and the client to refine tone, pacing, and timing. Working with supplied messaging, I built the visual narrative around a dense and urgent subject, keeping the information clear, engaging, and focused on the message. The collaboration was successful enough that NPAP plans to return to us for future video work.
Original Short-Form
Recurring characters, improvised formats, visual experiments, and tiny self-contained worlds created almost entirely on the fly with my friend and fellow designer, Susan A. No scripts, no rehearsals, very little planning: just a strong premise, whatever props or costumes were around, and total commitment to the bit. I art-directed and edited the pieces, shaping spontaneous performances into finished shorts with their own internal logic.