Early on, Justin Frick was aimless. Then he made a decision that changed his life. Frick, who grew up in Richland, decided to forego his application to community college after his high school graduation about a decade ago. Instead, he took the little money he had and bought a video camera. From then, he’s been growing, building a career filming some of the state’s best musicians — from rapper Macntaj to rocker Vanna Oh! — and creating signature, eye-popping music videos, some of which have garnered hundreds of thousands of views. Frick, who got his first taste of filming with the family handheld camera as a young kid, has done the near-impossible. He’s built a company from scratch that could afford him to live out his creative dreams.
Read MoreLindsay Johnston is at a crossroads. The platinum-blonde frontwoman for the Spokane-borne electric, ecstatic rock ‘n’ roll act, Vanna Oh!, is mulling many things over in her mind. For an artist who threw herself deeply and decidedly into her musical project and persona, Johnston isn’t sure what the future might hold and if it will even contain music and her signature larger-than-life performance style. Capable of playing guitar like Jack White or singing like one of his solos, Johnston says when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, it changed everything she’d been working on. Now, what the road ahead may hold is as up in the air as a bouquet of balloons.
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