J Λ M Ξ S R I C Ξ °

B A C K L A N D S

GenX cyberpunk in Portland, Oregon

Cut me. I bleed digital.

About
What Makes Me

Cares:
Small business, generative AI, democracy, mountains, water, and family
Occupation:
Digital Creative
Background:
Raised in the mile high tundra of southern Idaho, I was introduced to branding,
loud engines on fast metal, working the earth and respecting predatory wolves
- all before escaping my cloth diapers. Without a television antenna,
my only access to media was through business reply cards in magazines,
resulting in my formative years being defined by a weekly stuffed mailbox of direct mail,
Sharper Image and LL Bean catalogs. My parents were perplexed, but I was immersing
myself in marketing and brand, moving from the "hot iron on flesh" approach to the
"damn, this is cool" method. Then they bought me an Apple ]I[ computer. I became a
GenXer living on a farm playing Zork and milking cows. I did indeed buck bales of hay,
but only with hydraulic powered heavy equipment. So I wasn't a strapping lad, but went
off to college with a nerd scholarship, made money by building computers and upgrading
video cards to display 64 colors at a time for my peers - yet wasn't ingenious enough to
turn that effort into Dell. I went to graduate school for critical theory and that
summer a web browser called CeIlo appeared. I was hooked, so I started a business to
make HoTMetaL pages because there wasn't anywhere that did that. It was awesome. And then
Netscape appeared and HOLY SHIT LIFE CHANGED. I never finished my graduate thesis. I
didn't sleep much, as everything I wanted to build had to be created. Somewhere along
the way I transitioned from maker to leader. Looking back, years later, I've been an
entrepreneur that builds digital creative firms to fulfill my love of brand and technology,
and that gives clients the best digital transformation results. I've been fortunate to know
both inspiring creative folks and the vapid narcissistic ones throughout my career. Those
interactions gave rise to my design of business to make sure it works for those who work for it.

Workshop
Unlock Hyper Imagination

Topic:
Prepare to Embrace an AI Mindset
Link:
View Adobe PDF
Date:
June 2023
Location:
Mexico City, DMX

Workshop
Build a 10X Future Brand

Topic:
Building brand in the web3 omniverse
Link:
View Google Presentation
Date:
April 2022
Location:
Dubai, UAE

Workshop
Imagination for a Post-Creative World

Topic:
How AI Changes Creative Workflows
Link:
View Adobe PDF
Date:
May 2023
Location:
Copenhagen, DK

Handmade
Leathercraft Templates

Link:
Cricut Design Space with Airpod Pro and other templates
Link:
Rodeo Wallet SVG Template
Location:
Portland, Oregon

web3
Opensea

Topic:
Garbage in, garbage out
Link:
View NFT Gallery
Date:
From January 2020
Location:
Metaverse

Announcement
Tribe Global

Topic:
Global Creative Network Announces Chairman
Link:
View
Date:
February 2022
Location:
Earth

Case Study
Internet Security

Comcast
October 2022

Gallery
MidJourney

Generative Experiments

Date:
2021-

Gallery
Facer Watch Designs

Date:
2016

Companies
What I'm Working On

Fiction Tribe
Lagoon
Tribe Global
Lumi Labs
Ideba

Generative Experiment
MidJourney
Prompt
shot from above, a party costume woman in water with her face and open eyes covered by
melted red ice, high fashion photo shoot, rotated angle, experimental filmmaking, aerial
abstractions, blink-and-you-miss-it detail, realistic, opulent, sustainable, chic, tranquil,
mirrorless camera, 50mm standard lens, twilight, high-end editorial photography, RAW file,
aperture f/4, shutter speed 1/60, ISO 400, split toning, vignetting

Generative Experiment
MidJourney
Prompt
cinematic photography, a luxury fashion campaign with leather outfits and clothes, a group of 3 people diverse fashion models destroying a typical british red phone booth, shattered glass, facial expressions full of emotions, rage, aggressive, luxury fashion campaign, natural skin, skin pores, human face, natural face, detailed face, anatomically and proportionally correct features, detailed hair, detailed texture on clothing, minimal, fashion photography, fashion magazine, luxury, cinematic shots, Sony Alpha 7RIII, 35 mm, film, f1/8, image grain, film grain, RAW, lighting type: natural

Generative Experiment
MidJourney
Prompt
Candid shot, paparazzi style, desert trophy truck show, race-vehicles in the background,
Shot on a Hasselblad medium format camera.

Generative Experiment
MidJourney
Prompt
Vintage polaroid image of slinky hot cyborg, big antennas, upper body, plunging neckline, candid editorial capture, 2015

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Bio

Raised on an Idaho farm. My first startup in 1995 was Mediaphex, one of the first and finest web agencies in the world. Now living in Portland, Oregon. Co-Founder and CEO of Fiction Tribe, a multidisciplinary creative studio. My next startup, Lagoon, officially launched in 2023. I currently serve as Chairman of Tribe Global, an international creative network.

I love to make and explore the outdoors.

Recent Workshops

Unlock Hyper Imagination
Build a 10X Future Brand
Imagination for a Post-Creative World

Companies

fiction tribe lagoon
Tribe Global Ideba
lumi labs

Contact

350 SE Mill St. #8
Portland, Oregon 97214
+1 503-734-6474
james@fictiontribe.com