justin j lowe director

Best of 2011 Movies

jlowe — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 06:26:58 +0000

Although I did not see every movie that came out in 2011 and still have quite a few to see (Drive, The Artist, Dangerous Method, Girl with Dragon Tattoo, Tinker Tailor… the Wim Wenders 3D project etc.) here’s a list for fun.

My favorite movie of 2011:

Beginners

Runners up:

Cave of Forgotten Dreams 3D

Win Win

Melancholia

Extremely well crafted:

Tree of Life

Hugo

Purely enjoyable, popcorn movies that are worth watching:

Hannah

X-Men: First Class

Super 8

Bridesmaids

Rango

The Muppets

A disappointment:

Cars 2 – it will sell lots of toys and that was the point but they could have at least tried to make the movie interesting. Pixar is better then Larry the Cable guy making wasabi jokes in Japan, or a half assed message about the importance of friendship. This was a straight-to-video movie played out on a big screen. Luckily Brave should be great.

2012 movies I look forward to: Dark Knight Rises, Brave, Alien prequel, Snow White and the Huntsmen etc.

2011 WAS A GOOD YEAR

jlowe — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:20:05 +0000

As 2011 comes to a close, I look back on the year’s accomplishments with pride.

A video for Duran Duran that played at their gig at the Fillmore

A vacation interrupted with a message from a friend in New York, “Dude your Milo and Otis video is everywhere.”

Drawings completed for an Octicorn children’s book written by Kevin Diller.

A live DVD created as a personal gift to The Dandy Warhols who took me in their luggage to Australia last decade.

There was also a performance at Wieden+Kennedy’s talent show resulting in the loss of my hat.

Have a great Christmas. See you next year with new work.

-J.Lowe

I can’t stop

jlowe — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:46:52 +0000

Last night

jlowe — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:59:25 +0000

I showed a film I directed for Auditory Sculpture at the Hollywood Theatre in Portland, OR as part of Project Lagom.

Keith – the musician behind Auditory Sculpture, asked 11 directors to each make a film for his new ambient record.

It was nice to see my work on the big screen. Keith is putting out a DVD of the films.

Otis goes viral

jlowe — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:00:14 +0000

Last Thursday night (really Friday morning), the only place you could see my alternative version of Kanye and Jay Z’s Otis video, was on my Vimeo page. Now a few days later it’s been posted to dozens of blogs and websites including Huffington Post, New York Mag’s Vulture Culture (check it), Sundance Channel blog, all over Tumblr etc. Just google “Milo and Otis Kanye” and see all the links that kick back (this UPROXX post is a personal favorite).

This is truly exciting.

OTIS aka The Adventures of Kanye and Jay Z

jlowe — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 19:18:03 +0000

The other night Spike Jonze’s video for OTIS off the Watch the Throne album premiered, so for fun after work I made my own. Having already secured Milo and Otis from Netflix and having digitized it that day, I knew I had to strike quick. In less then 3 hours I cut my own video to OTIS and uploaded to YouTube – who of course immediately blocked it.
Check it out on Vimeo here instead

find simple things to be excited about

jlowe — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:14:05 +0000

jlowe — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 23:48:29 +0000

MAKE STUFF.

jlowe — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 01:24:56 +0000

new music videos on the way

jlowe — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:16:44 +0000

UPDATE: Both of these projects have been delayed. Keith’s video will now complete on August 12 and will premiere at The Hollywood Theatre in Portland, Oregon in September and the Electric Six video will be shot in November for premiere by year’s end.

*I have been commissioned by Keith Schreiner (Dahlia, Auditory Sculpture, composer of Vance Malone films etc.) to create a video for his new ambient album LAGOM. This is shooting soon and will be complete by July 15, 2011.

*I have also signed on to direct a new music video for Electric Six.
This one I will be directing solo, with Jason Roark operating camera as my DP.
Concept has been approved and shooting will happen late summer or early fall.

Justin J. Lowe

jlowe — Wed, 04 May 2011 23:00:08 +0000

I am a director/editor working in Portland, Oregon.

My work has been seen on television, at the Ace Hotel in New York, on Vice and RES Magazine DVDs, at the SXSW Film Festival, and on tour with Duran Duran.

I also created The Octicorn:

SELECTED CREDITS

Duran Duran – Runway Runaway (director)

The Blow – Knowing the Things That I know (director)

The Dandy Warhols – Plan A (co-director)

Electric Six – Let’s Go Out Tonight (co-director)

The Ride (co-director)

HBO First Look – Coraline (editor)

Nike – Chalkbot (editor)

Nike – Only One (editor)

Video Art 2010 piece 1

Video Art 2010 piece 2

Music videos as film. Film as music video.

jlowe — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 21:01:00 +0000

Now here’s how you shoot a video:

Angus and Julia Stone – Hold On music video directed by Kiku Ohe

From this album

jlowe — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 07:55:38 +0000

Octicorn

jlowe — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 04:52:53 +0000

THE COMEBACK BEGINS.

Stickers are en route to several cities in the US, and drawings are being created for a special project (I’m collaborating with producer/writer Kevin Diller). Stay tuned.

You can follow octicorn on twitter here.

Adventures in Advertising

jlowe — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:31:41 +0000

Kellie Pederson in the Wieden+Kennedy New York office asked me to shoot a little video of W+K mavericks (I’m taking that word back) Dan and Dave. The New York office has been in action for 16 years now so David decided to run with the idea and make it a birthday video.

Leave it to David Kennedy to make a cake of lower Manhattan.

Here’s Karen frosting the cake, a replica of this map: