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Cabin-Time: E. Sierras

Cabin-Time is a roaming creative residency to remote places. In April of 2017, Cabin-Time took a group of 14 artists to the windy Tuttle Creek Campground in Inyo County, California. This is a short film about the artists involved. 


Cabin-Time: E. Sierras Film

Filmed/Directed: Carson Davis Brown

Edited: Carson Davis Brown & Scott Hanson 

Title Illustrations: Geoff Holstad

Music: 
Jo Jones drum solo recorded by Louis Panassie (samples)
Bedouins of the Middle East - Field Recordings by Deben Bhattacharya (1955, 1960)
Faramarz Payvar — Dastgah e Nava VIV
The Royals - Pick Up The Pieces/ Sound Dimension - Pick Up Version
Jean Kassapian - The Snake

On-Site Field Recordings:
Ryan Greaves
Micah Middaugh
Geoff Holstad
Mary Rothlisberger

Archival Footage: 
Freedom Highway (Part 1) by Fairbanks (Jerry) Productions (Prelinger Archives)

Photography:
Carson Davis Brown

New American Quilts

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New American Quilts (NAQ) is a site-specific installation and photographic project simulating branded edifice and the promise of abundance, inspired by the tradition of American quilting and the performative technique of détournement. 

Adopting the formal conventions of the big box store as constraint, the patchworks are built on-site from found materials and products. These highly geometric arrangements are made without permission and left until disassembled by consumers and staff. Photographs of the patchworks are then “woven” into blankets with the assistance of W@lm@rt's personalized gifts department.

New American Quilts has been awarded a grant from the VSCO Artist Initiative™.

For more information please visit CDB's VSCO Journal. 

Mass

Mass: an installation project about creating visual disruptions in places of mass.

The way we consume images perpetuates the abyssal production-consumption cycle. This has contributed to a flattening of space and culture into “non-places,” as evidenced by the proliferation of the “Big Box” store (supercenter, superstore, or megastore). Mass is a series of installations that capitalizes on and intervenes in an ecosystem of already existing objects within the retail landscape. Components for site-specific installations are culled from products in the store and arranged for their formal relationships--repetition in color, form and type. The products are altered only in their relative position, yet their actual context remains the same. Using the very environment of their economy without permission or purchase temporarily lends them an aesthetic, punk quality, but this disruption has a very short lifespan before being dismantled and restocked by store staff and/or shoppers, dissolving back into the consumer goods lexicon they emerged from. The installations are photographed prior to being disassembled, printed in the store’s photo department, placed in unpurchased frames and staged as unsanctioned exhibitions in the store’s home department. Any given exhibition contains images of dozens of different installations; the longest running show being 30 minutes before the frames were ultimately purchased by attendees--i.e. consumers.

 

Unlike art objects that function similarly in a market of purchasable goods, Mass installations are cannibalizing the environment of these products and isolating them in their native non-space of consumer capitalism. They exist within their intended context and market, and the items ultimately serve their intended use: to generate profit and perform for consumers--something that in the end is unhindered by their fleeting life as art snapshots. Mass highlights, uses, and ruptures this system from the inside, without a net loss or gain and takes advantage of the ready-made showroom floor that is the florescent lights and endless aisles of the consumer landscape.  

Please visit the project website for more information: MassProject.biz

 

Press

Guate International Photo Festival 
Fast Company
Slate
National Public Radio
Gestalten
L.A. Times
Month of Photography LA
Issue Magazine
Mn Artists
Visual Supply Co.
Humble Arts Foundation

Herman Miller - Aeron Remastered

Director/Editor: Carson Davis Brown
Art Direction: Mark Beard
Producer/Stylist: Grace Kelly  
DP: Carson Davis Brown, Brett Carlson, Craig Harmer
Gaffer: Casey McClurken
Color Grading: Chop and Hue
Sound Design: Grant Floering, Cameron Boswell

Chaco Fall 2017 - Nova Scotia

Art Direction: Joshua Weichhand
Photography: Carson Davis Brown
Styling/Producer: Grace Kelly 
Assist: Casey McClurken
Location: Nova Scotia

Laura Kissed Ashley

Very Fine Jewellery

Cabin-Time: Films

Cabin-Time is a roaming creative residency to remote places. Taking artists from around the world to off-grid locations to work in collaborative, intentional isolation. As a Cabin-Time crew member CDB serves as documentarian, filming and photographing each residency. CT films are inspired by the experimental nature of the project and give a unique look into each residency. 

VSCO x Tommy Ton

Director/Editor: Brett Carlson
DP: Carson Davis Brown
Additional footage: Brett Carlson

Oahu, Hawaii

Photography/Producer: Carson Davis Brown
Location: Oahu, Hawaii

Editorial

AIGA

AIGA is the oldest and largest professional membership organization for design. In 2015 West Michigan's AIGA chapter hosted the national leadership conference in Grand Rapids, Mi. CDB was commissioned to direct a film introducing Grand Rapids and it's design community to the conference attendees. The film is inspired by AIGA WM's design portfolio, its studio life and the city's grid. All imagery was achieved in camera. 

Director/DP/Editor: Carson Davis Brown
Producer: Zach Runge
Gaffer: Casey McClurken
AC: Tyler Holman
Grip & Electric: Tyler Grimm
Drone Operator: Seth Carver
Choreographer: Marlee Grace
Projection Talent: Sam Gibbs, Michael Newsted

Music: Waldo - "N" (prod. by Sango), AGO Music

BIG Thank you to:
Conduit Studio, Gorilla, Michael Smith, Nick Stockton, and Ryan Greaves 

Chaco Spring 2016 - Puerto Rico

Art Direction: Joshua Weichhand
Photography/DP/Edit: Carson Davis Brown
Styling: Grace Kelly
Assist: Casey McClurken
Video Music: Howard - Money Can't Buy
Location: Puerto Rico

Ocean Michigan

Cabin-Time: Photography

Cabin-Time is a roaming creative residency to remote places. Taking artists from around the world to off-grid locations to work in collaborative, intentional isolation. As a Cabin-Time crew member CDB serves as documentarian, filming and photographing each residency. These are a selection of images from the past four CT residencies (Sheep Island, ME. - Green River, UT. - Santa, ID. - Wilderness, MI.)

Chaco Fall 2016 - Oregon

Art Direction: Joshua Weichhand
Photography/DP/Edit: Carson Davis Brown
Styling/Producer: Grace Kelly 
Drone Operator: 
Seth Carver
Assist: Casey McClurken
Production Assist: Zach Runge
Location: Oregon

Grain Elevator

Harvest season in Palouse, WA lasts about 2 months. In this time much of the town is covered by a blanket of dust. The dust gets thicker as you approach the grain elevator, where you'll find Rick and David. For the 2 months of harvest season, 14 hour days 7 days a week, Rick and David's lives are the grain elevator. Directing, unloading, loading, shoveling, sweeping, distributing, repairing, working. These photographs were taken at the Palouse grain elevator with a Polaroid Land Camera 250, late summer 2013.

High Desert Test Sites

High Desert Test Sites is a non-profit organization that supports intimate and immersive experiences and exchanges between artists, critical thinkers, and general audiences – challenging all to expand their definition of art to take on new areas of relevancy. 
HDTS requested CDB to document various events throughout HDTS: Epicenter. This is a selection of imagery from a "screens free" (including digital cameras) sleep out project hosted in Wild Horse Canyon.

ReBoot Buggy

Director/Executive Producer:  Mark Baas
Director of Photography:  Carson Davis Brown
Editor:  Aaron Carriere
Second Camera Operators:  
      Jay Irwin
      Cassidy Bisher
      Mark Baas
Drone Camera: 
      Tommy Knight
      Eric Snyder
Colorists:  
      Chad Terpstra
      Andrew Tingley
Sound:  Stuart Poltrock
Line Producer:  Mary Powers
Administrator:  Carolyn Baas
Grips:  
      Alan Carter
      Jeff Douglas
      Brian Boniface
      Jeff Long
Musicians:  
      The Other Side - Glass Drops
      Safe/ /Sorry - Prism
      Lee Brooks - The Golden Age of Equality
      Sapient - Out From Under
      Gangplans - Like We Never Have
Driver:  Ryan Lenger

VSCO x Marcus Stabenow

Director: Brett Carlson
DP: CDB
Edit: CDB/Brett Carlson
Additional footage: Brett Carlson

Cabin-Time 7: Archipelago

Cabin-Time 7 took thirteen resident artists to the Deer Isle Archipelago off Stonington Maine. We stayed on Sheep Island from August 28–September 4, 2015, and explored the islands tidal zones and interior. These are a few photos of island times.

Portrait

You Are: Music Video

You Are: Director's Cut

Music: The Soil & The Sun
Title: You Are

Director, Dp, Editor - Carson Davis Brown
1st ac, gaffer - Casey McClurken
Painted man - Jacob Bullard
Super 8 footage - Tim Newstead
Producer - Alex McGrath
Producer - Michael Newstead
Grip - Kellen Kerwin

Work In Progress

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Cabin-Time: E. Sierras

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New American Quilts

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Mass

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Herman Miller - Aeron Remastered

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Chaco Fall 2017 - Nova Scotia

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Laura Kissed Ashley

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Cabin-Time: Films

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VSCO x Tommy Ton

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Oahu, Hawaii

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Editorial

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AIGA

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Chaco Spring 2016 - Puerto Rico

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Ocean Michigan

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Chaco Fall 2016 - Oregon

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Grain Elevator

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High Desert Test Sites

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ReBoot Buggy

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VSCO x Marcus Stabenow

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Cabin-Time 7: Archipelago

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Portrait

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You Are: Music Video

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