tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3247033893702025112024-03-04T23:08:56.533-08:00Cascade ColourCascade Colour is dedicated towards content creation, education, and sharing our love for the artistic process. We welcome questions, as well as commissions. We specialize in art origination, marketing, advertising, etc. Contact us today for a free quote, or if you would like additional information regarding anything you see on our website.Cascade Colourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07817141643220796150noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-324703389370202511.post-16792977137124247802019-08-10T13:55:00.000-07:002020-03-25T13:39:00.281-07:00Overdue UpdateWhat up blog? I am too busy these days to post, which is a good thing.<br />
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I see that there is still traffic here so I am going to update everyone. I am working on a new website. Which is why I don't care to post so much. This website has been good but it's antiquated and my portfolio is kinda low res. I don't want to convert everything but I also don't want to delete it all... So I am working slowly to pull things over. I don't want a portfolio website anymore. I want this site to be something else. I don't need any more business and I have been putting this off for a while.<br />
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Recently, I have been teaching and freelancing like crazy. I still make direct mail, commercials and electronic designs. I don't think there has been anything game changing in these realms. I'll eventually put some of it on social media. I have been working on a lot of packaging and box prototypes. That has been fun and it's all regular/predictable work paying out monthly. I love it.<br />
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I have been teaching at Lane Community College.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>I taught a web design course for small business and it went really well. Everyone had varying experience levels. Everyone got something out of it. I had eight students and I got a ton of positive feedback.<br />
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<span style="color: white;">So, before I get into "Why I Left Facebook," I wanted to announce that I am redeveloping my brand. I will be rebuilding this website and changing all of my branding to something more like what is featured above. You may have already gotten updated invoicing or promotional materials with this logo. This change has been long overdue.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">You've probably noticed that I no longer have a Facebook account. I have turned it off for multiple reasons. Facebook is a time suck, and I don't care for second hand news, weird opinions or memes. I turned it off for now and I may not turn it on again. My wife has an account where my family can see pictures of my life. I have an Instagram account and the people I freelance for know where to find me. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">For the last decade Facebook has been a part of my daily routine and responsibilities. I never once enjoyed the platform. I was tending to other peoples' business, and I did my best to avoid saying anything of actual substance. I've honestly been wanting to get rid of my account for some time. I may need to turn it back on for work, but for now I don't miss the Facebook experience. I am happy that I granted myself permission to take a break.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">In the future I will be teaching and I want to better control what personal information exists in public. If you have a Facebook account, everyone has access to you and it's rude to say no. I have meet so many wonderful people over the years. Those people can still message me using Facebook messenger. At this time, I am going to channel my efforts into more creative pursuits. I like the idea of being IRL more of the time.</span>Cascade Colourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07817141643220796150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-324703389370202511.post-15650877941929040892018-05-31T11:43:00.000-07:002018-12-18T19:22:10.818-08:00Leaving Guaranty<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: white;">I decided to leave Guaranty because, I was no longer getting the experience that I wanted. I also felt unable to enact the kinds of changes and designs that I wanted to see. Things became </span><span style="color: white;">compartmentalized in such a way that I was doing more of the work that I disliked, and less of the work that I feel like I am truly best suited for. I tried to rectify this but to no avail.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">I won't make a habit out of belaboring my employment in posts, but I worked there for so long that I feel like it's worth putting a period on my Guaranty experience.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">I had a plotter, light and padding box. There was a giant paper cutter. I am running out direct mail. I managed the designing of the mailers, purchasing of materials, cutting and delivery of millions of direct mailers throughout my time at Guaranty. This was just one of the hats that I wore. I also managed their direct mail, hand made signage, created digital signs and electronic advertising displays.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">At the top of the post is an example of what I truly loved to do. I love to go out, capture content and create original marketing materials. That is my daughter running in a grass field. The extremely talented Billy Newman took that photo. I was on hand to help direct things and Billy is a great photographer in his own right. Billy no longer works at Guaranty. I am glad he stayed around long enough for me to leave because, he always made me look incredible.</span><br />
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<a name='more'></a><span style="color: white;">So the final product was incredible. The blue was electric. I hope she loves it <3!!!</span>Cascade Colourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07817141643220796150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-324703389370202511.post-82519165863918900552018-01-14T20:00:00.000-08:002018-01-17T11:34:59.793-08:00Lending a Hand with Prosthetics<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: white;">I started painting prosthetics and orthotics. The Wonder Woman one to the left was my first attempt. I learned a lot about the materials, and this was just a proof to show the woman how this might look when finished. I am told she loves it, and she will have me do the final.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">It is a lot of fun to do this kind of work. It is a similar process to the paintings I have done in the past, but someone is actually going to wear these. I think it's pretty cool, and I hope to do a bunch more. So far I have done four prosthetic similar to this. I have done two types of leg prosthetics and two kids corrective helmets.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Here is another prosthetic that I did. It sits a little further down on the leg. I think the Wonder Woman one sits higher up on the hip. I'm not a doctor but I am learning. I love Pabst, or should I say that a younger Jamie loved Pabst. It was suggested that I do a Pabst one, and I loved the idea. I might stay away from using so much white in the future, but this was fun. It couldn't have gone smoother. I look forward to doing more of this. I like thinking about how the designs will wrap, and the order in which I paint things factors into the timing of everything. This is just a super fun puzzle for a designer, and I hope I brought a little color to some people's lives.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;">To the left is my first attempt at a kids helmet. I tried using some glitter spray which I liked, but the spray I bought is very unforgiving. I will look around for a better metallic spray to use in the future because metallic looks great on all these prosthetics.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;">So I ended the year by creating a company calendar. The "Pet of Guaranty 2018" calendar. I collected about 90 photos of various employee pets, and assembled them into this cute little handout. I used clear protectors on front and back, and coil bound the whole thing. I physically produced about 300 of these babies. Everyone was happy and I got a new coil binding machine! :)</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;">Now I play Santa every year, but this year someone else wanted a crack at it...</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;">Of course, Jamie (me) got to play Santa! I took a ton of warm hats and socks to the needy. It was wonderful, and I had a wonderful suit that fit nicely. I didn't get to do Supper with Santa, but that's okay. I still got to finish off the year doing something great for the kids and families of Lane County.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;">So this is something important to me, but I held off on saying anything. This blog isn't a political place, and I am not trying to politicize myself through a tragedy. I grew up in Las Vegas, and I got my start in advertising there. I did work for Live Nation, and the Mandalay Bay was one of my favorite haunts. I proposed to my wife on top of the Mandalay Bay at the Foundation Room. Anyways, I worked on some promotional items that are flying off the shelves to help the victims of this senseless tragedy. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ciframe%20width=%22560%22%20height=%22315%22%20src=%22https://www.youtube.com/embed/0v80-8qC6YM%22%20frameborder=%220%22%20gesture=%22media%22%20allowfullscreen%3E%3C/iframe%3E" target="_blank">Click here for a link to that site.</a></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;">I went as Grunkle Stan from Gravity Falls for Halloween. I wanted to go as Dipper, but my daughter called dibs. She even went to the Oregon Vortex and House of Mystery dress as Dipper, so I had to give it to her. I used the plotter to make the marks on my fez and our journals. It was a lot of fun. </span></span></span></span></span></span>Cascade Colourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07817141643220796150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-324703389370202511.post-91204697767171751532017-09-12T20:00:00.000-07:002017-09-13T11:21:34.941-07:00It's Photo Booth Season!!! (Plus Country Music Wrap-up)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span><span style="color: white;">I will be with Eggie in the Moshofsky Center before every home game this year. Come by, give Eggie a high five, and make sure you get your picture taken with that day's game jersey. We will print you a copy on the spot. Go Ducks!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg254ebK6k3HqQGhk7AW-Qtbk8lepUWQliDksDIuXqAHrmBIIfPsNsOrMGwbskFBEI1on4qFa2B01tEqAzYpuZTAyq0MIPkBBm6jI1DpaX1vo1UfVkso0xBwL8cwBLkNCh9f9TZBUNjDcE/s1600/high5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="198" data-original-width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg254ebK6k3HqQGhk7AW-Qtbk8lepUWQliDksDIuXqAHrmBIIfPsNsOrMGwbskFBEI1on4qFa2B01tEqAzYpuZTAyq0MIPkBBm6jI1DpaX1vo1UfVkso0xBwL8cwBLkNCh9f9TZBUNjDcE/s1600/high5.jpg" /></a></span><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;">There's not much to say about Willamette Country Music Festival that hasn't already been said. I went and worked the photo booth, did my Eggie thing, installed signage and had a great time. I had an epic sick day. I think it was bad fish, a gas leak or something. It was awful.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;">So Craig is very talented. He took the Eggie photo above. I am high fiving some guy that I see every year at </span></span><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;">Willamette Country Music Festival.</span></span></span> This guy is a huge Eggie fan, but who isn't? I got a ton of hugs and high fives out there. Craig took the concert photo below at a higher resolution, but I am just posting a thumbnail. You can tell there are a ton of people. This event is always well attended. Next year will be the last time this event takes place outside of Brownsville. I guess it will be heading north, closer to Portland. Anyways, have a wonderful September!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">I spent August 25 - 30th in Medford at the Country Crossings Music Festival (CXFest). It was super fun, really hot and a lot of hard work. I was doing so much dancing and walking that my shoes melted.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Guaranty arrived on the 25th to set out all of our signage. We setup our marketing materials and fine tuned the displays. I wasn't staying onsite at this festival. I was staying at a local hotel. I go to spend the bulk of my time off (what little there was) at a pool.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">I spent the festival manning a photo booth and driving traffic to our display. Here is a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/guaranty/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1597965260248141" target="_blank">link</a> to some of the photos that were taken in our photo booth, and here is a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/guaranty/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1595316320513035" target="_blank">link</a> to some general photos from CXFest. To the left is a picture of me with some of my fans. I wear Eggie around to attract the attention of people passing our display. My goal is to get them in to our display, so we can sow the seeds of future RV adventures. We gave away tons of promotional items. Things like LED bracelets, customized cowboy hats and all sorts of other things.</span><br />
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Cascade Colourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07817141643220796150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-324703389370202511.post-43801587918884840792017-06-04T15:11:00.002-07:002017-06-04T15:21:55.281-07:00Lego Project for the Sake of Learning<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: white;">My wife is an art teacher at the high school and middle school level. As a benefit the school was auctioning off various things and this was one of those things. A kid and two friends of their choice were given paint pens and walked through the process of properly masking things to produce this sort of art work. To the left was the basic template that was provided. The full process was explained from start to finish. We just couldn't have kids spray painting.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">I always thought that masking was hard, but over the years I learned how easy you can create things with stencils and through various masking techniques. It was nice to be able to share this with the kids. All the lego people were spray painted with flecks through out, and I can't believe how well the kids did (featured below). I thought maybe my wife did all three... You're basically set up for success with these templates. I have done a bunch go lego people personally and it's always a lot of fun.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Here is a commercial we put together at a local tavern in Springfield, OR. It's based on footage we acquired during the Guy Reporting business. I think it turned out well. It's garnered over 2k views on Facebook. There was lot of organic traffic through shares. 2k is a good bit of traffic in my experience. There were also a ton of shares.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">I hope to keep improving our video capabilities in the months to come. Mohawk Tavern is a great place.</span><br />
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Cascade Colourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07817141643220796150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-324703389370202511.post-19299633693289298772017-04-09T09:23:00.000-07:002017-04-21T09:26:27.865-07:00Pear Blossom<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;">Every year I head down to the Pear Blossom festival in Medford, Ore. This year was no different, but it was easily our best showing. I went down Friday afternoon and installed some incredible decals along a Roadtrek Versatile. This Roadtrek pulled Eggie dancing in a SylvanSport Go. I followed Mr. Peanut in his peanut mobile, and as such everyone already had their cameras out... ready!!!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Cascade Colourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07817141643220796150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-324703389370202511.post-24876395707878122402017-03-26T15:13:00.000-07:002017-04-20T15:23:52.570-07:00Guy Reporting<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;">During the month of March 1 was doing a mock news report at Mohawk Tavern in Springfield, Ore. I was Guy Reporting and the whole thing was a lot of fun. I was going to post this sooner but as usual I am slammed. I am editing a final rendition of Mohawk's video now that will be a generic commercial for electronic promotion. It should be out sometime April or May. It was fun shooting these. Just a world wind style of shooting in an attempt to gather assets for this future commercial. I am hopeful to have a video for Cascade Colour in the near future. </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">So in the near future you can expect more videos to be posted. I am also going to change up things like my logo, and possibly the manner in which I post. Less wordy blogs, more video and a fresh look is what I am hoping for. Hopefully sooner rather than later depending on my schedule!</span></div>
Cascade Colourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07817141643220796150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-324703389370202511.post-55885131568586989892017-02-12T12:48:00.000-08:002017-02-13T14:25:38.196-08:00Beergarden<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="color: white;">Below is the full window with decals installed. This was a really fun project that I got to work on with Casey (featured above and to the right). <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjcVNriaEX3A-ouw2GK3jHf_hqBj-P80ttqcvFr2z9hmFDwae21F9PUhVayKPbhF-D1zdiX6ZxLl3gU8xh-oI4oIvfRBK_i3YXgdXtkyVfmHTKyq9lVtEbEFCsW9Ameh7ZWwrYWkNkNKg/s1600/window.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjcVNriaEX3A-ouw2GK3jHf_hqBj-P80ttqcvFr2z9hmFDwae21F9PUhVayKPbhF-D1zdiX6ZxLl3gU8xh-oI4oIvfRBK_i3YXgdXtkyVfmHTKyq9lVtEbEFCsW9Ameh7ZWwrYWkNkNKg/s320/window.jpg" width="320" /></a>There were some odd people who stopped by during the installation. Whenever I install decals it seems to attract lookie loos. There was a man looking for a job. He stopped by at a very awkward moment, and it was hard to give him the attention that I know he wanted. Then there was some crazy crackhead who was running around like a super hero.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">I love Beergarden. They have great food and a fantastic, friendly staff. There are a ton of options at their food carts, and their pricing is extremely affordable. I would recommend Beergarden for the great food, music and to anyone looking to try a wide variety of craft beers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">In the future I am planning on releasing a business video that will highlight all the services that I offer. You will be able to see me in action and hear my voice. It's taken me awhile to get the equipment needed to do this, but I now have the technology. I also took January off of this blog to help pilot a personal side project. I can't talk about it at this time, but it's going really well. Thanks for reading this post and have a fantastic February.</span><b><br /></b></div>
Cascade Colourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07817141643220796150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-324703389370202511.post-49633779113935138682016-12-14T18:30:00.000-08:002016-12-15T09:39:28.663-08:00Supper with Santa 2016<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;">by Jamie Bennett</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: white;">So this year I only got to play Santa once, and to mix it up, we decided to make it a dinner party. It was great! It lasted a little more than an hour. All the kids showed up in that time, got something to eat and were well behaved. To the left is a picture of my family with Santa (me). Everyone who participated received good food, special treats and a printed photo. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;">I would have liked have liked to play Santa at least one more time this year, but my production schedule is going to make that impossible. Guaranty purchased a new Santa suit, and it's incredibly nice. The boots are especially nice. They even got me a fake tummy. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;">Well, merry Christmas, happy holidays and have yourself a fantastic New Year. I am headed to Disneyland next week.</span></span></span><br />
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Cascade Colourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07817141643220796150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-324703389370202511.post-28270706562725249982016-11-01T17:30:00.000-07:002016-11-30T14:54:22.119-08:00Three Time Contest Winner!<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;">by Jamie Bennett</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: white;">I actually only won one costume contest this year, and that would be the Guaranty costume contest. I won a prize pack, complete with Ryan Reynolds DVD, Halloween stuff and more... But I feel like I won three times. Winning for Guaranty was great. I have been stymied in previous years. I thought Bad Sam was an obvious winner in 2015, but I won this year. I also got a $25 gift card for the Guaranty Travel Center. We sell food there and have something like 18+ beers on tap. I spent at least $18 of my gift card on Ninkasi. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;">Ninkasi is my favorite beer. When I first moved to Eugene I was drinking swill, but I went to a Rotarian benefit where they served free Ninkasi. I was hooked from that moment, and most other beers have been undesirable ever since. I participated in the Dawn of the Red costume contest this year. I didn't win, but they did send me this sweet shirt and growler.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">So I won three times. I won at Guaranty, bought Ninkasi and then Ninkasi hooked my shit up with this sweet gear. If you're into beer, then you gotta buy Ninkasi. I like their Total Domination and just about everything else like #dawnofthered. <a href="http://www.ninkasibrewing.com/delicious/beers/" target="_blank">Check out all of their great beers here.</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">I had a great anniversary with my wife and our daughter. It was our seven year anniversary. To the immediate right you can see a photo of me as I appear everyday at work.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">:P</span>Cascade Colourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07817141643220796150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-324703389370202511.post-77240740093051367682016-10-27T20:00:00.000-07:002016-10-28T11:50:44.553-07:00It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!!!<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;">by Jamie Bennett</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: white;">Halloween is my favorite time of year. I love fall, skeletons, ghouls, costumes, and everything else that is this holiday. To the left is a photo of the family in Saint Helens, OR.</span></span><span style="color: white;"> We visited this year for the spirit of Halloweentown.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Halloweentown is a made-for-TV movie that premiered on the Disney Channel back when I was just a kid. </span><span style="color: white;"><span class="st">Kimberly Jean Brown plays Marnie, a teenage girl who is unknowingly a witch. </span> Marnie and her family go to Halloweentown and save the day. Halloweentown is in fact Saint Helens, and every year they celebrate. Click to learn more about the <span style="color: yellow;"><u><span style="color: yellow;"><a href="https://gma.yahoo.com/marnie-lights-real-life-halloweentown-pumpkin-st-helens-163232457--abc-news-Halloween.html#" target="_blank">Spirit of Halloweentown</a><span style="color: white;">.</span></span></u></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">We had a great time. Marnie read to us from her new children's book, and we received a signed copy. We also got pictures with her in a cab (movie prop). I hope she comes back next year, because we had an amazing time. I even had a chili dog name Kalabar's Revenge. Kalabar is the villain. <span style="color: yellow;"><span style="color: yellow;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/jamiepbennettjr/videos/10101490279789547/?pnref=story" target="_blank"><u>We counted down the pumpkin lighting,</u></a></span> </span>and it was just a wonderful experience all around. It was around this time my daughter received a kitten and named it Marnie.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">In addition to Halloweentown we have ventured through the Lone Pine corn maze, decorated, carved pumpkins, attended a Halloween dance, a Halloween fair, I will be competing in two costume contests, and the list goes on and on. I love this time of year, and I love my family. My wife and I will be celebrating seven years of marriage on October 31, 2016.</span>Cascade Colourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07817141643220796150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-324703389370202511.post-32153093166600817852016-09-15T19:56:00.001-07:002016-09-17T11:12:01.343-07:00Kickoff to Bad Sport Puns<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;">by Jamie Bennett</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: white;">Photo both season is underway. This means I get to spend a bunch of time photographing manikins. This year we are adding the University of Oregon to our regiment. We are still doing Oregon State University, and this year our pictures will appear on the Jumbotron at both stadiums. We get mobbed at Autzen Stadium. The traffic of people is heavy the entire time. I live close to Autzen, so I can skateboard in and out during game days, and this makes the whole thing so much easier on weekends.</span><span style="color: white;">.</span></span><b><span style="color: yellow;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/guaranty/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1237559332955404" target="_blank">Here is a link to the photos we took at the first game.</a> </span></b><span style="color: white;">People come and take photos with the manikins, we post the picture and we print them a copy. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">So I got out and did some Eggie stuff while I was there. People took photos with me, and you'll never believe who I ran into?!? (cliffhanger)</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">I was spotted by my cousins. I guess I am hard to miss. That was pretty cool, and I had a great time, even though things got a little weird at the end. Typically, when alcohol is involved at an event you should be prepared for the crowd to turn foul at any moment. Nothing bad happened, but perhaps I won't do a second round after halftime at future games. I kept expecting a depantsing. The crowd was certainly more animated after several drinks. Well that's all I got. Go BEAVES and go DUCKS! At Guaranty you're on friendly turf.</span>Cascade Colourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07817141643220796150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-324703389370202511.post-1409649352555685792016-08-15T19:34:00.000-07:002016-08-15T19:34:17.538-07:00Country Music Video Extravaganza<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;">by Jamie Bennett</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span>I am tired, so this will be short. I included my favorite videos from this weekend for filler. To the right is a number of sandwich boards I brought to the festival. The neon decal ones were in the Rising Star area, and the four color signs were at the display. I spent today cleaning our marketing trailer, and sorting the collateral materials. It was a great weekend. It was especially awesome to see people enjoying the hats, other promotional items, and it was great to get to know my colleagues better. I am exhausted, so there you have it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;">I broke my arm before the big show. After months of preparation, I fell and received a hairline fracture on the radial horn in my left arm, but I still went to the Cape Blanco Country Music Festival. We were a hit as usual, didn't miss a beat. </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/capeblancomusic/photos/a.167635770111430.1073741829.163226987218975/561011614107175/?type=3&theater" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: yellow;">Here is a photo of me wearing my heavy egg suit, featured on the festival's Facebook page.</span></b></a><span style="color: white;"> It was great. Eggie had more name recognition then ever. I didn't have a cast. I didn't need one, which stinks because I broke my arm. I deserved a sweet cast to paint on! I have never broken anything in my life to warrant a cast, and I feel a little sad that I missed out this time.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">I went out on the 27th of July and stayed till the 31st. I won $81 at the Mill Casino playing the penny slots the first night. I also think the current political climate was palpable at the festival. I endured mild racism and jingoism throughout the weekend. I am a professional, so I let things just rolloff my back. I was mostly focused on making sure people saw our brand, and I wanted those people to have positive interactions with our team. Everyone had a great time, and my arm held up fine. Everyone loved our promotional items, and my cowboy hats <a href="http://www.cascadecolour.com/index.php?id=1894816580479133857" target="_blank">(see earlier posts)</a> were a huge success. To the right is a photo of me. You can see I have no cast, but I am holding my arm a little funny. It's still a little stiff, but there I am with Jason Aldeen under the signs I painted last year. We are in Guaranty's photo booth. Set up and tear down was super easy with my super awesome Guaranty friends.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">I leave for another country music festival next week, and until then I will be resting up. TTFN (ta ta for now)!</span></div>
Cascade Colourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07817141643220796150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-324703389370202511.post-25345639985085322332016-07-16T16:33:00.002-07:002016-08-15T19:20:56.690-07:00Updating Our Monuments!!!<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span><span style="color: white;">So I spoke too soon with my last post title. I can't remember whether or not I thought I was being funny, but the worst was not over. I will talk more about that in the full post, but for now let's look at these beautiful LED signs below.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">I'm hopefully going to be able to tap into these from my office. We will have three sets of these facing north and south along Highway 99. We are even going to project public notices for the city from time to time. It should be awesome.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;">So the worst is not over, not by a long shot. I have painted 98 cowboy hats and still have 105 left to paint. It's not the end of the world, but couple that with the upcoming country music festivals, new monument signage, a relaunch of guaranty.com and guarantycars.com is getting overhauled too. I will be in a new CRM for the Chevy side of the business. So the worst is not behind us, it's right now... LOL... Tonight I plan to update some of my portfolio pages with SWAG I got in, so check that out.</span></span><span style="color: white;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span>Below is a short video of the channel letters that we'll be updating our monuments with. Guaranty is sprawling along Highway 99 in Junction City, OR. Signage does little when you consider how spread out everything is. We have three outdated monuments that are old and barely noticeable. My hope is that by installing these LEDs, and channel lettering we will be more noticeable. Also that in doing so our hanging banners and in store signage will be more powerful. We are almost all of Junction City, so you can't miss us, but still. The white letters in the video below are black during the day time. It's going to be pretty epic. I will post pictures on social media when they are done.</span><br />
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this is just a quick update about how our show season has been, and a run down of what is coming in the next couple months. The title of this blog post is in reference to nothing... lol... In advertising, the worst is never over, it's just lying dormant. It just felt good to say that the worst is over because, I have been working really hard the last several months.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">To begin with, on the left you will see the artwork for this year's festival shirts.<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"> It will be printed on neon shirts, using bright neon inks. I can't wait to get my hands on one of these bad boys.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;">Second, the paper cutter is holding it's own and so if my new printer. Over the last month I have printed, cut and shipped over 80k direct mailers to promote our various shows around Oregon. This has arguably been our most successful show season to date.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;">Third, I will be hand making a couple hundred cowboy hats for this year's country music festivals</span>. To the right you can see the basic layout of these. There will be two different styles. Every year I have tried to find a good source for these hats. Your typical promotional company doesn't have very many options for these hats. It is so easy to make a cowboy hat look nerdy, and people are so finicky about what they wear on their heads. Embroidery shops ether can't do what I need them to, or they suggest cheesy hats. It sometimes feels like all our options are simultaneously too expensive and too cheap. I am going to take a stab at making these myself because I have exhausted all other options.</span></span><span style="color: white;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;">I am breaking out the spray paint and polyurethane. At least, that's how things are looking as of right now. The plan is to put Guaranty's logo on the side, and a department specific icon on the back of the brim. I am excited to see people's reactions. </span><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;">I have all sorts of SWAG coming in for these festivals, and I am starting to get very excited.</span></span></span>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span><span style="color: white;">So I have been running various collateral materials out of Guaranty's marketing for well over a year, but I have only recently taken on producing all of our direct mail in-house. I have embedded a video showing my setup, and you can see the oversized postcards that I am producing for our various shows. So far the paper cutter has paid for itself. We are paying 70% of what we once spent on production, and we have doubled our direct mail footprint in the local markets.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;">I love having the tools to produce these materials in house. It gives us a great deal of flexibility, and allows for a shorter turnaround on these materials. It seems as though the time I use to spend ordering certain materials, and arranging for delivery has been </span><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;">neatly </span>folded into this production time. The reward for all my efforts, is having marketing materials in house within hours, as opposed to days.</span></span><br />
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