Archive for January, 2010

Your Eyes

Had a splendid weekend shooting a music video with Josh Shorhagen for his single, “Your Eyes”. The tune is quite catchy, and Josh is an ever talented young musician who will definitely be going places. Today we shot at this awesome warehouse, which let our creativity have no bounds. Above, I’m operating the crane to [...]

The Bathroom Reinvented

The latest for Dwell, featuring Smart Design in Manhattan where Universal Design in NYC Public Bathrooms was discussed on a shoot back in December that I assisted on.. wait for my name in those credits! Produced, directed, and edited by the highly talented and personable Gary Nadeau.

State of the Union

Yes, Barack Obama, YES.

Happy Australia Day

Today commemorates the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove in 1788, the hoisting of the British flag there, and the proclamation of British sovereignty over the eastern seaboard of Australia (via Wikipedia). For me, the day symbolizes a deep missing of the time I spent in the country while studying* abroad. All the [...]

Obama, Innovation

An interesting article this morning from one of my favorite authors, Thomas Friedman, on the demise of president Obama’s previously successful campaign to gain the hopes of the American people. It’s interesting how such a well executed plan of having a grassroots level movement for his election has all but disappear now that he is [...]

Long Weekend Shoot

This is what happens when your fri/sat/sun consist of working 12+ hour days on set with hour + half commutes each way. Ride home enjoying tunes and a cold one, wondering if New Orleans or Minnesota has won the game yet in overtime. Aside from missing the football games, great weekend. Learned a bunch, met [...]

Finding Your Niche

There are few things as inspiring as finding other people with the same dreams and aspirations as you. I find that my mindset these days are a lot different from a lot of my friends and other people surrounding me. With this different approach to life, there is a big disconnection on some level. I’m [...]

A Wedding Shoot

I have to be honest.. when I first received a call from my college coach in regards to filming his wedding, I wasn’t jumping up and down. Weddings can generally be dry, lots of pressure to shoot, and both a long day of production as well as many hours editing. But knowing I could do [...]

Quotable

It is better to travel well than to arrive.
~Buddha

Wedding Prep

Getting things together for the big wedding shoot tomorrow. Brandon and I couldn’t be more excited for it. After watching a few very well done, extremely unique weddings films online, we instantly changed our mindset going in to tomorrow. We realized that with everything we film, we have a chance to make a great film. [...]