Medicine Agency: Gallery & Shop Opening Friday

“SLEEP IS NOT AN OPTION” – it’s been the mantra of Medicine Agency since 2003 and now they’ve taken it to new extremes since the creative services and consulting agency signed their lease at 1262 Mason Street in San Francisco.

Located in the heart of the city, directly across from the Cable Car Museum is an area locals call the “Mason Street Art District” where many well established artists take advantage of the nearly 10,000 tourists passing by daily – this is where Medicine Agency chose to open their first brick-and-mortar location to the public.

The new Medicine Agency location is a huge upgrade from just “an office with enough space for all the desks and the ping-pong table” as Med’s President, Rama Mayo, will explain “it’s a whole new venture that is going to catapult the results this agency has been producing for our clients.”

Mayo, transformed the upper level into a full scale gallery & retail shop that will host revolving installations and pop-ups by some of today’s most respected contemporary artists and brands including Ron English, Giovanni Reda, Buff Monster, Day 19, Rony Alwin, Black Klown Clothier (2x Superbowl winner Tully Banta-Cain & artist Jerod Alexander), and Rowdy (hit music producer Dallas Austin & Atlanta-based artist Greg Mike) all in the next year.

The lower level has offices buzzing below where the creative work, like websites and videos, gets done. Medicine Agency CEO, John LaCroix sees new ways to help Medicine Agency clients – “Now we have a place where we can bring the people in to interact with these brands and observe. I can’t think of a better way to learn and that helps us do better work.”

Medicine Agency will be celebrating the grand opening of the new gallery & shop featuring “Dream Series” by Jerod Alexander for Black Klown Clothier on Friday July 31st, 2009.

Photo Credit: Sean Desmond

otteny.com launched – high end women’s online apparel store with more

Check out the new otteny.com

We were lucky enough to help them program the front-end and look of the store supporting a staff of in-house developers and designers. They have a lot more than your average online store including style guides, helpful staff picks, plenty of original fashion content and a list of designers to die for. This is what a high-end shopping cart is.

With three locations in New York City and Brooklyn and a store as fully featured as this, OTTE is going to have a great year.

Medicine Agency – Gallery & Shop Opening Soon

Medicine Agency will be opening a gallery & shop later this month.  Yes, real a genuine brick & mortar location.  1262 Mason Street (at Jackson) right in the heart of San Francisco.  Meds will be doing a series of events, openings & much more..  details coming sooner that you think.

Blue Goo – NBA Finals TV Commercial

Have you ever heard of television?  ok good.  What about the NBA?  great.  Well then this will be easy.  Medicine Agency was recently hired to write, produce & direct a TV commercial to run during the NBA finals this year.  Here are some pictures for now, more news to come…

God Forbid trailer graphics

We just helped Director on Meds, Ian McFarland, with graphics for the God Forbid “War of Attrition” trailer. See it now on Blabbermouth

We’ve seen stills of the film, but you’ll have to wait. We’ll have some for you soon enough.

“Goonies Never Die” Release Party

The Instant Messengers and Young Murph rocked the Goonies Never Die Release party hard on Saturday night. With an overwhelming amount of fans in the crowd Slim’s was the spot to be at for the night. Check out these pics by our in-house documentarianette, Sadie Walker. (We love you Sadie!)

The Instant Messengers had the crowd amped with new singles and old favorites.

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Rony’s Photoshow at 111 Minna

Rony’s photoshow at 111 Minna Gallery in SF was a raging (and I mean raging) success. Here’s a couple of pics of the set-up. Juxtapoz and DJ Skeet Skeet put it up on their blogs.

Hold your breath for a video of the whole thing coming soon.

The Instant Messengers on Youth Radio

Next-Thing New Website Launched

Recently Medicine Agency worked together with Oscar & Grammy winning producer Paul Stewart to create a webblog for him to “expose the Next Things in Music, Film and Pop Culture”  Bookmark Next-Thing now.

DURKL featured in XLR8R

A few pieces from the current DURKL collection were recently featured in XLR8R magazine.  We are HUGE fans of XLR8R, thanks to them for their strong support of independent designers like DURKL.

Ian McFarland and Meshuggah – Best of 2008 on MTV2

Ian McFarland is the newest addition to our Director’s roster. Not only does he come to us with recent Emmy nominations and a heap of award winning videos in his reel, his latest video masterpiece with Mike Pecci for MESHUGGAH’s “BLEED” is now in the running to be the top metal video in “Headbangers Ball Best of 2008 Countdown” on MTV2. This video pushes far beyond any music video standards and seriously raises the bar for metal – see it here.

Voting has already started, please place your vote here!

Ian McFarland is an Emmy nominated and award winning director/producer from Boston, MA. In 2004 he started his production company Killswitch Productions and since then he has directed, produced and edited over 20 music videos, served as director of photography on two seasons of the Peabody Award wining PBS TV show, Design Squad, as well as co-produced and directed the Emmy nominated and award winning film, “Rooters”. Ian has deep roots in the underground music and film scene, due in large part to his role as a member of the influential Boston Hardcore/Punk Rock band Blood For Blood. From 1994-2004 Blood For Blood released records on Victory Records and gathered a devoted worldwide following that cemented their place in the underground music history.

Ian has directed music videos for: Meshuggah, Agnostic Front, Diecast, Roger Miret & The Disasters, The Unseen, Street Dogs, and Sick Of it All.

He recently finished up working as a director/ producer/ editor on a series of short documentaries for PBS. He is putting the final touches on his second feature length documentary film entitled, “Chip on My Shoulder”.

Ian joined Medicine Agency officially in October.

Check out Ian and Mike’s websites to see the more videos:
ianmcfarlandfilms.com
mikepecci.com

The Instant Messengers – Finalists in 98.7FM’s RockStar III contest

The Instant Messengers and their video, iHuman, are one of the top 4 judge’s picks in the 98.7FM RockStar III contest. They have a chance of winning $25,000.

The final showcase is at The Whiskey A Go-Go in Los Angeles this Saturday, September 27th. Doors open at 8pm (be there early!) Drop the password “local” at the door for a discount on ticket price.

For more info visit 98.7fm’s website

UPDATE!

The Im’s did extremely well and thank all Goonies for showing up and showing support. The group congradulates, Paperback Hero for winning the contest. Congrats!

The Instant Messengers in the SF Chronicle wearing Free Gold Watch

There they are, top-left above Barack Obama, The Instant Messengers were featured decked out in Free Gold Watch apparel on the cover of the San Francisco Chronicle, while they also consumed the cover of the Chronicle’s “96 Hours” 4-Day Weekend Entertainment Guide inside.

Later that evening, they took the stage at The Rickshaw Stop to a sold-out crowd. The Instant Messenger’s music video for iHuman is soon to be released.

Blogging on Meds featured on Gawker, Nymag.com

This week our brother blog, Blogging on Meds, got some attention by Gawker, New York Magazine and wearethemarket.com for Ray Lemoine’s series of posts about the VIP soft-opening of Paul Sevigny’s (Chloë’s brother, member of A.R.E. Weapons and owner of the Beatrice Inn) new Chelsea Hotel in Atlantic City.

Apparently, Ray was the only journalist brought along for the ride.