Vacationing with the Palins

Vacationing with the Palins

I’ve enjoyed following Sarah Palin’s family vacation road trip this spring. More than that, it prompted a deep pang of nostalgia. Just reading about the Palin family’s adventures takes me back to those great summers as a kid when Dad’s political action committee would rent us a tour bus and...
Final Jeopardy!

Final Jeopardy!

A life-long trivia geek takes his shot at the big leagues.
Supporting Those Who Support Us

Supporting Those Who Support Us

What's the Red Cross all about? You know they hold blood drives, but that's only a small part of their mission.
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Great Falls. Great Town.

Great Falls. Great Town.

Created for the Great Falls Convention and Visitors Bureau, this series of three print ads highlighted the community’s amenities and attractions by highlighting Great Falls’ unique brand of rustic refinement—communicating to visitors that they can enjoy the authentic West without sacrificing good food, great lodgings, and lots of fun.
Guidance, Loyalty, Trust

Guidance, Loyalty, Trust

Produced for Montana-based investment firm DA Davidson, this campaign focused on Davidson’s conservative fiscal stance by using visual metaphors for reliability and trust.
Going, going...

Going, going…

What’s left of the Conrad Bank building began yielding to the wrecking ball this morning. Most recently the home of B&B Loan and Rental, the building was gutted two years ago by a fire that destroyed the interior but allowed the hideous Sixties-era facade to come down, revealing some beautiful architectural flourishes and a brief...
Blogging About the News, About...Blogging

Blogging About the News, About…Blogging

KRTV just did a piece about local bloggers and asked me to say a few words on the process, which is a bit like asking J.D. Salinger why he still insists on flooding the market with his books. But if you’re interested, here’s the piece on my blog, which you’re reading now. How meta can...
D.C. Does It

D.C. Does It

Metro station roof Just returned from a week-long vacation to visit the folks, who live in Virginia just south of Washington, D.C. It’s a great place to visit, especially since the territory is so different from Montana. Your sense of navigation gets messed up—roads go in all directions through endless housing tracts carved out of...
A three-mile ski uphill into the wind? Sign me up.

A three-mile ski uphill into the wind? Sign me up.

I left Saturday morning with friends for our annual winter cabin trip near White Sulphur Springs. For the last five years we’ve done a three-day weekend here, and depending on the amount of snow have had to ski in as far as two miles (except for the dry year we were able to drive all...
Dorks on Film, Redux

Dorks on Film, Redux

KFBB aired its piece on Banik’s role on the Voyagers’ name change Sunday night on the 10 o’clock news. I told them to shoot my best side, so they sort of winced and circled me with the camera a few times before dropping the tripod where it suited them. But they cut together a good...
Dorks on Film

Dorks on Film

KFBB just dropped by the office to interview a few of us about the Voyagers viral campaign. It’s scheduled to air on the Sunday night news at 10. I’ll be the dork on the left side of your screen. We attempted to explain how we came up with the campaign and what it took to...