Future TrashCan event photography

Creative & experiential practice · San Francisco / Los Angeles

Future
TrashCan

We build the rooms where founders, artists, technologists and operators converge.

Work with us

A blend of strategist, creative, producer and hostess.

Future TrashCan is a creative and experiential practice at the edge of culture, media and technology. We build the initiatives, and the rooms, for founders, artists, technologists and operators to converge in real life, through media, and by putting brands in the zeitgeist.

A mariachi band plays for a black-tie crowd in a grand hall
Black-tie dinner · grand hall

What we do

Production

Seated dinners, salons, launch activations, fabricated buildouts, culinary events and multi-city series.

Creative

Concepting, creative direction and event visual identity, from the first idea to the room you walk into.

Convening

Wild Card Dinners, Oyster Club and executive programming that gathers the people worth gathering.

Selected work

Creative · production · convening

Mouthwash Studio Holiday PartyParamour Estate · creative direction, production & F&B
Guests around a pool ringed with blue light beneath candlelit statuary
Paramour Estate · pool after dark
A guest reclines on an antique settee in a candlelit salon
A glowing light ring over the reflecting pool among marble statuary and candelabra
A DJ beneath a taxidermy wolf and gilded mirror
A harpist in purple velvet plays in a candlelit courtyard
A tall tower built of green olives dressed with a ribbon
A pianist plays beside a standing polar bear mount in a green salon
Salon · live piano
Ancestral-method wine bottles chilling in a silver urn among grapes
Black-and-white portrait of a guest in a tuxedo before a candelabra
A draped food table against a chartreuse wall and arched window
Guests gather by the grand piano in a green salon
A full group portrait in a crimson drawing room

A grand mansion soirée: taxidermy, mariachi, harpist, an olive tower and a fully fabricated F&B program.

Maisie WilenSummer brand activation · styling & production
A sunbather on a branded Maisie Wilen towel on a lawn
PlayboyParties & activations · content & production
A beachfront party tent glowing pink at dusk with a city skyline behind
Guests lounge on the sand under shade sails at a beach party
A DJ plays a crowded tent washed in magenta light
Three guests pose together at a party under chandeliers
Kenshi Yonezu × Studio Ghibli / GKIDSUS album launch & premiere · with Sony Music
A guest beneath a marquee reading Studio Ghibli GKIDS Kenshi Yonezu
A white stretch limousine outside the lit theater marquee at night
A sculptural produce centerpiece of tomatoes, eggplant and carrots by candlelight
Event poster for the private screening of The Boy and the Heron
LabucqPress lunch · creative direction & production
An overhead view of a long grid-cloth lunch table with yellow chairs
Guests at the Labucq lunch passing salad family-style
A vertical view of the styled Labucq lunch table
A Labucq box beside birds-of-paradise and yellow blooms on a mirrored plinth
Overhead of the styled table with pink heliconia and tropical flowers
ParachutePoolside lunch · creative & production
A long poolside lunch under scalloped blue umbrellas against a vine wall
Guests in conversation at the sunlit poolside table
A plate of summer berries and cherries on a striped cloth
Gallery openingsArt programming · openings & receptions
Two guests before a black-and-white cartoon mural and floor-set screens
Two guests before a large abstract painting in a white gallery
David Zwirner30th Anniversary · campaign moment
A hand-painted billboard reading David Zwirner Gallery 30th Anniversary Exhibition
30th Anniversary · hand-painted billboard
Gala & panel at SeacliffBay-view gala, supper & panel · creative + production + F&B
An overhead candlelit garden dinner with string lights and heaters
A DJ plays beside a window overlooking the bay
A four-person panel conversation against a wall of greenery
A candlelit dessert table layered with tiered stands and flowers
A candlelit table with dried florals before a window of bay lights
A host poses beside a layered dessert and floral table
A towering madeleine dessert centerpiece with moss and florals

From the archive

A guest floats in a pool at a hillside daytime party
A sunny rooftop lunch with watercress centerpieces
Silhouettes before a projection screen amid inflatable forms
An immersive installation lit in blue and pink with draped sheeting
Translucent inflatable furniture under colored light
A candy and treats table under string lights
A second candy and snack table
White draped cabana fabric mirrored in a pool at dusk
Guests at a sunlit poolside lunch
A poolside lunch in the afternoon sun
A long poolside table under scalloped umbrellas
Guests gathered at the poolside lunch
A poolside lunch table detail
A poolside lunch place setting
A Labucq lunch detail

Press & events

Selected events

Press

Selected collaborators

Studio Ghibli / GKIDS· David Zwirner· Mouthwash Studio· Maisie Wilen· Sony Music· XG· Kenshi Yonezu· MSCHF· Scout Motors· Seek AI· Parachute· Hammer Museum

Previously  LACMA · Apple · Tesla · Playboy

Get in touch

To work together
or just gab

rsvp@futuretrashcan.com →
Future TrashCanSan Francisco / Los Angeles