Hi everyone, hope you’re well! So much of my work as a filmmaker has been an attempt to see through the eyes of the designers and creatives who inspire me. I’ve always been driven by a desire to better understand the way these people think and work, and I’ve found that conversations about their processes and techniques have always brought me fresh inspiration to apply to my own work.

I’m happy to announce that we’ll now be sharing that inspiration with you every week! We’ll be publishing new conversations, feature interviews, and profiles on creatives from all disciplines. Chance Ops will still be an archive to view my past films, as well as unreleased footage and interviews from those films.

So what’s changing? The spirit of community and independence that I had in mind when I first started Chance Operations is taking on a greater role and this relaunch will see Chance Ops evolve from into an independent research and development team focused on creativity. We’re making a space to explore design, art, music, and technology by engaging in conversations about the creative process, and sharing new objects and experiences born from exclusive collaborations.

Our mission is to provide a conduit for inspiration where creativity can be examined, interpreted, and celebrated. The conversations we have, the objects we create, and the community we foster are acts of resistance against the world of corporate conformity where artistic expression has been systematically devalued and the human element of creativity is under threat.

We’ve just released our first art and apparel collection on our new website, have a look! Paid subscribers will get discounts (I’ll email you that info directly later today) and access to exclusive drops going forward.

I’m really excited about what’s to come, thanks so much for your support!

Cheers!
-Gary

Everett Katigbak

Multi-hyphenate artist and designer Everett Katigbak, most recently Creative Director at Anthropic, is stepping out of the swirl of AI and pursuing the next phase of what he calls “Analog Intelligence.”

Artist and designer Everett Katigbak has worn all the hats. In 2007, Katigbak left his “dream job” as an exhibition designer at the Getty Museum to join Facebook in its Wild West days, where he and colleague Ben Barry quickly started a skunkworks art studio and print shop inside the budding social media giant. Dubbed the Analog Research Laboratory, the initiative helped define company