About Glaze Studio, Doug LaRue in Austin Texas

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HIGHLIGHTS:
2008 Doug completes the 3rd feature length documentary in the MusicTexas Series

Oct 30, 2007
Art Opening
Art De Eletoka PARTY
@ Fringe
701 Rio Grande St. atx

Sept 29, 2007
ART OPENING PARTY
@ Cafe Caffeine
909 West Mary Street

2007 Doug's footage from the Winter Solstice Celebration at Tiwanaku, Bolivia is used on Digging for the Truth, a History Channel TV series

2006 Glaze Studio spends June and July in Bolivia as Director of Photography for an Archeology Documentary (unnamed).

2005 Doug's feature film Debut in a film called Idiocracy, directed by Mike Judge. Watch the clip

2005 Doug and Laura Produce The Austin Groove Festival featuring 7 bands over 2 days at Northcross Mall, Austin, TX

2004 Ultrasonic Video
Nominated for Video of the Year. Producer / Director / Shooter / Editor

2003 Producer / Director. Doug's First feature length film is released
Austin Groove...30 Years Inside Austin's Music

2001 Featured in The Directory of Illustration Vol. 20, pg. 486

2000 Featured in The Directory of Illustration Vol. 19, pg. 651

1995 2nd Place Award winning illustration by Doug La Rue featured in a art gallery show at the Texas State Capitol Building.

1995 1st Place in Multi-Media Illustration, Greater Austin Multimedia Shootout

1994 La Rue Designs a 17,000 s.f. building used for retail at Ridgemar Mall, Ft. Worth, TX

1994 La Rue Designs a 8,000 s.f. Office and Meeting Facility for a Housing and Urban Development Grant, Conroe, TX.

Doug LaRue designed his first book cover in high school as a sophomore in 1981. It was the yearbook— normally not worth mentioning except the book won a national publication design award and the publisher decided to make a film featuring the student staff. Soon after, Doug was inducted into the the National Honor Society and the National Quill and Scroll Honor Society for Journalism and won the Thomas Jefferson Scholarship.

This led to an invitation to photograph the President of the United States as a member of the national press corp before graduating from high school. LaRue was a staff photographer for Texas A&M University annual and news publications during his college years.

La Rue began his career as a photojournalist as a stringer for United Press International and Associated Press. Before moving to Austin in 1988.

In 1994 LaRue worked for an investment company as an Art Director and had the opportunity to work with Cinestar Films on the feature film project Rigged starring Academy Award winner George Kennedy. LaRue also had a unique opportunity to tap into his college training in Architecture to design two buildings: a 8000 s.f. office/meeting facility and a 18,000 s.f. commercial retail center.

After the successful completion of those projects LaRue founded Glaze Studio, a creative visual media design and production company focused on bringing synergy to Print, Web and Motion Media. The studio's first design contract was with the Texas Department of Transportation producing a statewide identity campaign for motorcycle safety in Texas. The project included promotional branding, collateral advertising and television commercials starring Jimmie Vaughan with a pair of magic sunglasses, 50 motorcycles and a 56 T-Bird.

Glaze Studio created their first viral marketing campaign in 1996. MusicTexas.Com is an online music community and groove archive that features independent music through photography, video and reviews. The site includes online stores with digital download capability, DVD documentary film sales and promotional specialty products, affiliate advertising for major market companies like Apple iTunes, AT&T Wireless, Netflix, Movielink and more. MusicTexas.Com also has MySpace and Youtube Channels.

In 2005 La Rue produced, photographed and edited the music video “Break” by Ultrasonic and was nominated for “Music Video of the Year” by The Austin Music Network.

More recently La Rue was Director of photography for Spectrum Films shooting 2 Archeology / Anthropology films in Bolivia featuring the Native Bolivian Imarra tribe’s ancient boat building masters— shot on location on the island of Sireque, Lake Titicaca in the shadow of the Andes Mountain range. The second film was focused on research related to solstice alignments and sacrifices at the temples of Tiwanaku. Footage from these films recently aired on The History Channel’s “Digging for the Truth”.

Board of Directors / Contributors

Laura Rojo-La Rue
is a talented Austin Addy Award Winning Photographer who produces international stock footage for the studio to use in it’s projects when she is not hard at work at her primary job with Apple Inc. where she is in project management. This position has taken Laura all over the world. Laura has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in International Business from The University of Texas, Associate of Science in Business Administration and a Associate of Applied Science in Photographic Technology from Austin Community College. Laura is currently working on her Masters degree in Project Management in her spare time. She is a huge music fan (specifically the Beatles) and has been shooting live music events for 25 years.

Robert Shaver
A retired Senior Software Engineer for Motorola who is currently completing an engineering contract with AMD. Robert is not only a very accomplished engineer, he is also a passionate filmmaker and a technical wizard/guru with a thirst for knowing all there is to know about film and video and web technologies.

The studio has produced creative media for a wide range of clients and is focused on bring cost effective solutions to projects of all sizes.

Ken Roberson
Founder and CEO of Roberson Investments, Inc., Spectrum Films, Inc.,
The Littlest Book Company.