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Our Projects

Take a look at our collection of work. You'll see documentaries, commercial, and social media projects here.

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"Up, Up, & Aware" Ep.3 - Katarina Poljak
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"Up, Up, & Aware" Ep.3 - Katarina Poljak

The Up, up, and Aware podcast is an in depth look into navigating success as an entrepreneur or creative with a focus on self awareness. How do you define your own success? How much of being an artist is being an entrepreneur? What does it mean to live off what you create without selling out? What kind of impact would you like to leave with your work? Kenny Wooten, CEO and founder of STBY Studio, talks to business owners and creatives from a range of backgrounds and disciplines about their process, lifestyle and achievement within their fields. This week on Up, up, and Aware Kenny talks with Interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker Katarina Poljak about her work, inspirations, challenges, and what success looks like. You can check out Kat on Instagram @rageboxx and her website at https://www.rageboxx.net https://www.buymeacoffee.com/stbystudio 00:00 Intro 2:16 Buy me a coffee 3:06 Kenny’s 1st impression of Kat 4:11 1st film course 6:51 Thesis 9:52 Advertising your work as an artist 10:34 Kat growing up 14:35 Dark mind 19:34 Unhelpful comparisons 22:20 Explaining Incredible Machine Glass Body 26:27 How does it come together? 29:04 Kat’s 1st impression of Kenny 31:16 New film: Source Architecture 33:56 From concept to reality 35:39 Why create your work? 39:08 How do you break through the obstacles? 41:31 We all are not immortal 43:36 Ambition 46:56 Did you ever give up? 52:30 “Even when I was giving up I was writing” 54:28 Freelancing is hard 56:05 Deserving to be there 1:03 Outro
"Up, Up, & Aware" Ep.2 - Cameron Rogers
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"Up, Up, & Aware" Podcast Ep.1 - Taizu
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"Up, Up, & Aware" Podcast Ep.1 - Taizu

Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/stbystudio The Up, up, and Aware podcast is an in depth look into navigating success as an entrepreneur or creative with a focus on self awareness. How do you define your own success? How much of being an artist is being an entrepreneur? What does it mean to live off what you create without selling out? What kind of impact would you like to leave with your work? Kenny Wooten, CEO and founder of STBY Studio, talks to business owners and creatives from a range of backgrounds and disciplines about their process, lifestyle and achievement within their fields. Tune in on the first Sunday of every month to hear about unconventional lifestyles, new pathways artists are taking, and how modern creatives define both their success and themselves. This week on Up, up, and Aware Kenny talks with music artist and entrepreneur Taizu about the ins and outs of working as an artist who wants to remain authentic and move with compassion within his industry. You can check out Taizu on Instagram @TaizuHowYou or on Spotify @Taizu. 00:00 Intro 00:50 Gist of the show 02:23 Introducing Taizu 04:43 How we met 09:11 Working together 11:02 Keep Moving Music Video 12:40 Taizu’s first Impression/ The business of the music 15:31 LFG energy without selling out 20:34 Kenny’s first impression 22:45 Genuine intentions/ Character 27:16 Break 27:33 Making mistakes 30:35 You are uniquely YOU 33:26 The “why” 37:37 What we do vs. what we’re passionate about 39:22 You can’t buy happiness 41:30 Success looks different for everybody/ what does it mean to have power? 42:35 Why did you choose music? 48:52 What about music ”felt good”? 50:48 One time you almost gave up 53:06 When do starving artists eat? 54:40 Discipline 56:16 Advice for music artists 56:51 Technical tips and tricks 57:47 Taking risks 1:00:18 Exclusive Content on “Buy me a coffee.com” 1:00:53 Wrap up
Philly Fashion Spotlight Ep.3 - German Vazquez
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Philly Fashion Spotlight Ep.3 - German Vazquez

Welcome to episode 3 of our series called Philly Fashion Spotlight! In this series we connect with artists, designers, and fashion brands in the Philadelphia area to provide an insight into who they are and what they do. This episode features German Vazquez! Read a short description below. German Ayala Vazquez is a Photographer / Visual Artist. Born in Bayamón Puerto Rico, raised in New York and is currently living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is a 2020 Graduate with a Bachelor of Fine Art in Photography at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Over the years German has won multiple awards for outstanding studio work from Profoto, and the 2020 TheNikon/Ben Rose Prize. He has been featured in multiple publications including Vogue Italia, Fluid Culture, and Hunger Magazine. His main focus is to be working in the Fashion Photography Industry, as an outlet to focus on conceptual and specific bodies of work to represent for the LGBTQTT+ , and BIPOC community by using his personal experiences, and ideas that relate to religion and sexuality as a way to comment on how it affects the LGBTQ+ community mentally and physically particularly in colonized regions. Make sure to connect with him on online! https://germanvazquez.com/ https://www.instagram.com/g.vazquezphoto/?hl=en Please like the video and subscribe to our youtube channel and connect with us on our other social media platforms! We have a lot more great content coming so please consider subscribing if you like this kind of content. It means the world to us :) In case you are new to STBY Studio, we will give you a short bio of what we do: STBY Studio is a full service film production company that specializes in creating documentaries. Our goal is to produce cinematic films that has a meaningful and compelling story to share with our audience. Thank you for watching! Connect with us here: https://www.stbystudio.com/ https://www.instagram.com/stbystudio/
Philly Fashion Spotlight  Ep.2 - Jovan O'Connor
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Philly Fashion Spotlight Ep.2 - Jovan O'Connor

Welcome to episode 2 of our series called Philly Fashion Spotlight! In this series we connect with artists, designers, and fashion brands in the Philadelphia area to provide an insight into who they are and what they do. This episode features Jovan O'Connor! Read a short description below. Jovan O’Connor is a collection of clothing designed for the young professional woman with a full social calendar. The collection offers the casual, the trendy, the fashion forward, the classy and the formal styles that a social butterfly may seek to compliment her day-to-day activities. Chic but playful, this collection allows for a young woman to be sexy, while classy, asserting herself as a viable asset to the world. Combining bold colors, prints and textures with intriguing style lines and silhouettes, the line best suits the woman who is not afraid to make a statement. These statement pieces will easily become classics in a young woman’s first investment, her wardrobe. Make sure to connect with them on online! They are great people with a great mission. https://jovanoconnor.com/ https://www.instagram.com/jovanoconnorstudio/ Please like the video and subscribe to our youtube channel and connect with us on our other social media platforms! We have a lot more great content coming so please consider subscribing if you like this kind of content. It means the world to us :) In case you are new to STBY Studio, we will give you a short bio of what we do: STBY Studio is a full service film production company that specializes in creating content for fashion brands. Our goal is to produce short, cinematic campaigns that boost engagement and brand awareness. Here at STBY Studio, we strive to tell stories that deliver a personal connection to our audience through branded and original content. Our missions is to provide fashion designers and fashion brands with streamlined video services across the country. Thank you for watching! Connect with us here: https://www.stbystudio.com/ https://www.instagram.com/stbystudio/
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