Monday, May 3, 2010

POSING WITH A PASSION FOR FASHION


Welcoming our first fashion client, Camilla and Marc. Shot from their Sydney Fashion Week show by S&L. Coming soon to this page.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

ALWAYS FOR PRINT NEVER FOR WEB


Print Typographer, Jessica Hische profiled for Semi-Permanent. Made by S&L, music courtesy of Modular Records and Jono Boulet.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

KOHOLO ANDINO, THE HARDEST NEW NAME IN SURFING


Surfing Mag's June Trailer made by S&L, featuring whizz-kid Koholo Andino.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

SEMI-PERMANENT SYDNEY VIDEO



Made by S&L for the good people at Design Is Kinky. Check here for Travis Millard's wrap up on Fecal Face Dot Com. Many thanks Jono Boulet and Modular for the track.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

THIRD DROP FROM THE INNER SPEAKER



Jam from Tame Impala at their retreat near Yallingup in Western Australia. Produced by S&L for Modular.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

S&L COVER SEMI-PERMANENT SYDNEY (NOT EXPECTING ROBERT CAPA MEDAL)


Iraq war photojournalist, S&L hero and Robert Capa Gold Medal Winner Ashley Gilbertson presents his work on dead soldier's bedrooms, simultaneously as the article was releasing in the New York Times.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

JAMIE OLIVER UNVEILS NEW LOOK TO S&L IN TRICKY LIGHTING CONDITIONS


"Jamie Oliver", S&L's biggest name-drop to date, shot here at the Tim Olsen Gallery. John Olsen Culinaria exhibition. Documentary coming soon.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

FROM THE INNER SPEAKER



Tame Impala Ep1 for Modular, made by S&L with a colab of footage from the band in their WA recordings and the Sydney BDO.

THE WAR IS....N'T OVER


After the '05 tsunami and decades of civil war, Sri Lanka claims peace for tourism in a place that by western standards, don't seem peaceful. Coming soon, shot by S&L.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

WOLFMOTHER WHITE FEATHER



White Feather Music Video made by Snakes and Ladders for Wolfmother's latest album, Cosmic Egg. We heard it was picked up by MTV Uk which is a good thing worth mentioning on our blog.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

TAME IMPALA JAM THE PEEPERS AT HOTTEST BIG DAY OUT EVER*


S&L is working with Tame Impala and Modular for their 2010 album release. This shot from their performance at the Sydney Big Day Out. *Subjective.

POV INTRO FOR MARCH SURFING MAG


Produced by S&L for our good friends at Surfing Magazine.

THE COSMIC EGG TRANSMISSION'S EPK


A final look at Wolfmother's Cosmic Egg series produced by Snakes and Ladders. This is the longer format piece, aired on MTV Germany amongst other channels.

I WANNA GO SURFING IN FEB SURFING


Produced by S&L for Surfing Magazine.

WOLFMOTHER LIVE AT THE GREAT NORTHERN BRYON BAY


Snakes and Ladders recently covered two Wolfmother shows in Byron Bay (The Acoustic Jamboree at the Buddha Bar & The Rock 'n' Rolla Electric Show at The Northern) with multiple angles and live recordings from Sonic Artistry. More to come, set-list shot S&L.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Monday, December 14, 2009

WHAT'S REALLY GOING WRONG WITH SURFING JAN 2010



Celebrations all around for S&L's twelfth Surfing Magazine trailer. Mucho thanks to Chato Aganza, Pete Taras and Tony Perez in LA for a rad partnership with Source Interlink.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

INSPIRING PEOPLE TALKING AT SEMI-PERMANENT MELBOURNE


Produced by S&L for DiK and their Semi-Permanent Creative Conferences. Thanks to Tame Impala and Modular for the track.

BLACK AND WHITE VINES


Craig Nicholls screaming from a Vines documentary S&L is collaborating on. This was The Vines first return gig under the pseudonym The Crimes at the Annandale in Sydney.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Monday, October 12, 2009

TRANSMISSIONS FROM THE COSMIC EGG, EPISODE SIX


Come backstage to two Sydney gigs with Wolfmother. This is the extended cut of this episode.

Sunday, October 11, 2009

MELBOURNE SEMI-PERMANENT COVERED



Watch this space for S&L's upcoming piece on Melbourne Semi-Permanent featuring among others, Collider (pictured).

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

TRANSMISSIONS FROM THE COSMIC EGG, EPISODE FOUR



Andrew Stockdale introduces the new players, once described as travelling minstrels at their recordings in Byron. Produced by S&L for Modular's Wolfmother sites.

GUY MAESTRI PROFILED FOR THE ABC'S SUNDAY ARTS



Archibald victor Guy Maestri profiled by S&L for Sunday Arts segment to be aired on ABC1 on the 18th of October.

WHO THE EFF MITCH COLBORN IS IN NOVEMBER SURFING



Produced by S&L for Surfing Mag.

Monday, August 17, 2009

BANKING ON GREEN IN OCTOBER SURFING



Magazine trailer for the October issue of Surfing Magazine - surfingmagazine.com - made by S&L.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

ON THE SAUCER EDGE OF THE CITY







Some shots from Paul Davies' China Heights studio. Photo Pete S&L.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

HYPEBEAST GUY GIVES SURFING MAG AND S&L PROPS



Our friend Nick Barber found this comment on the latest trailer we did for Surfing Mag. From what we know this formula for promoting surf mags, started with a Movement Mag 13 trailer S&L produced in June '06. Rad to see people out there like the motion/still/graphic morph.

Click here for the Hypebeast page.

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

DISRUPTIVE BY DESIGN - WIRED MAG NYC CONFERENCE OPENER

Disruptive By Design - Wired Mag NYC Conference Opener from Snakes&Ladders on Vimeo.



This job was briefed by Scott Dadich the Creative Director of Wired Mag based in San Francisco. We were asked to shoot static objects which become disrupted and ended up getting five shots in the final. We were part of a collaboration of directors from the US and France to be involved. The final was screened at the start of the Wired Conference in New York which featured speakers such as the Amazon.com founder and other people richer and more famous than us. It was cut by the Pic Agency based in LA.

Monday, June 1, 2009

WOLFMOTHER CUT

Wolfmother behind the scenes from Snakes&Ladders on Vimeo.



Behind the scenes cut of Wolfmother going through the music writing process for their new album. Thanks Glen and co at Modular.

JUNE AND JULY AT SURFINGMAG.COM

Our first job with dance music, the July Trailer.

Surfing July Trailer from Snakes&Ladders on Vimeo.



A great Pavement track and some cool Tahiti footage for June.

Surfing Magazine June 2009 Trailer from Snakes&Ladders on Vimeo.

WQS WEBCAST ADVERT FOR NIKE 6.0 LOWERS PRO

Nike Lowers WQS Webcast Surfing Ad from Snakes&Ladders on Vimeo.



For our good friends at Surfing.

Monday, May 11, 2009

THE TIM OLSEN GALLERY'S MICHAEL JOHNSON

Artist Encounters with Michael Johnson. from Snakes&Ladders on Vimeo.


Tim Olsen interviews the great Michael Johnson in his home and studio in Sydney, S&L was there to capture it.

Saturday, April 25, 2009

SEMI-PERMANENT SYDNEY 09


S&L Semi-Permanent Sydney 09 from Snakes&Ladders on Vimeo.

The guys from DiK/ Semi-Permanent asked us to document their Sydney event and here is the result. Thanks to Modular for the music and Murray and Andy for the work.

MAY 09 TRAILER SURFING MAG


Surfing May 09 Trailer from Snakes&Ladders on Vimeo.

Monthly trailer for the guys at www.surfingmagazine.com in Cali.

BMF PROJECT


We did a job for BMF advertising company (www.bmf.com.au) which we are unable to publish. Thanks to Greg Fyson and Benny Glasson for the work.

APRIL 09 SURFING MAGAZINE TRAILER


Surfing Magazine April O9 Trailer from Snakes&Ladders on Vimeo.

The guys from Surfing Mag wanted to try something fun for the predominately Hawaii and swimsuit issue. It breaks out from the usual issue trailer format and was good to mix it up.

Friday, April 24, 2009

Monday, February 2, 2009

INSTANT BEST MATE



This blog writer could be a masked website promoter, but we'd prefer to think of him as S&L's new bro.

Click here for the live link.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

FEBRUARY 09 TRAILER SURFING MAG USA


Surfing Feb 09 Trailer from Snakes&Ladders on Vimeo.

Above is the first piece of work we did for our new client Surfing Mag who were interested in creating a similar look to the Movement Mag trailers.. They're really good dudes from California, have a tidy vision of the future and are very cool to give some Aussies they've never met, some work. Chato Aganza should be credited for his sweet art direction on the mag that gives us all the elements to build these things.




You can see the clip on their site here.


Wednesday, November 12, 2008

S&L MOVEMENT 26 TRAILER AWARDED TINY GOLD YOUTUBE MEDAL



S&L Movement Mag 26 Trailer from Snakes&Ladders on Vimeo.

We did this trailer for Movement Mag and their podcasting media channel Movement TV. We checked it on youtube one day and we'd come in at '16th Most Viewed Director'. Which seemed like an achievement of some kind as it had a little image of a gold medal on our page.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

TIM OLSEN'S ARTIST ENCOUNTERS SERIES

PAUL DAVIES WITH TIM OLSEN BY SNAKES AND LADDERS


ARTIST ENCOUNTERS // PAUL DAVIES from Snakes&Ladders on Vimeo.




TIM SUMMERTON OPENING AT TIM OLSEN GALLERY BY SNAKES AND LADDERS


Untitled from Snakes&Ladders on Vimeo.



These were directed and produced by Snakes and Ladders for www.timolsengallery.com

Monday, September 1, 2008

MOVEMENT MAG TEASER ISSUE 25




MOVEMENT MAG TWENTY FIVE TEASER from Snakes&Ladders on Vimeo.

S&L took a trip up north to work with Chad Waldron, who filmed and edited this flick with us for Movement Mag's twenty-fifth issue.

This podcast can be streamed through the Movement site at www.movementmag.com or through an iTunes Movement TV subscription.

INTRO SPLAT


Artist Encounters Intro from Snakes&Ladders on Vimeo.

We enlisted Muzz and Arty on the simple splat intro for Artist Encounters.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

THE LADDER



ladder |ˌladə|
noun
a structure consisting of a series of bars or steps between two upright lengths of wood, metal, or rope, used for climbing up or down something.

figurative a series of ascending stages by which someone or something may advance or progress : our friends ascend the ladder of prosperity.