Dave,
I've never seen his video or even the article and/or award he won, just vaguely remember someone saying it was FWW. Jared used to hang out with the local Bay Area Woodworker's Association (BAWA) which meet around the bay at various venues. It was one of the BAWA members that told me he won a contest with one of his chairs, I think it was that palo alto, but not sure. He's got the most of those palo alto chairs, with various woods, on his site, I remember that.
I love his detail work though, even on the toolbox, I remember the handle had some interesting lines on the ends, refreshing stuff.
We talked quite a bit about Greene & Greene when I bought his planer, I had just been to the
Gamble House for the second time a month or two before.
His work is interesting as he uses some of the same/similar techniques that the Hall Bros. did on the Greene & Greene work, like the dark pyramid plugs, but he incorporates it into his work with his own style, and that's what I like about Rusten's work. It's refreshing, and very original. He seems to look at his pieces as art, and the Hall Bros. did also, in their own way. Some don't care for their work either, so it's more a matter of taste. To me that's the difference between hidden joinery and excentuated joinery, and the Hall Bros. always tried to excentuate it rather than hiding it. That's why you rarely see dovetails in Arts & Crafts work, the A&C era tried to excentuate it. Greene & Greene incorporated fancy scarfs joints, even in the foundation sills, as seen in this picture.
(linky pic for visually normalized people, bottom left is the scarf I'm talking about)
This also shows what I talk about on the planter, the Greene Bros. and Hall Bros. would more often than not use big soft finger joints. I like that.
Notice on Jared's chair, the lines of the bridle joint are fairly soft, and they excentuate the joint. I like those soft, excentuated joints, they get me to want to touch the wood...that would be good on a chair arm, since my hands are already there!
Never mind me, I'm just ramblin...