May/100
Short Film Project
I'm really excited to be working on a short film highlighting the spirit and process of ballet - a treatment idea I've had for some time and is recently taking shape. It will feature a principal ballerina with American Ballet Theatre (ABT) named Michele Wiles. She's simply amazing - one of the best in the world. For more on her see her site and her profile on ABT).
She moves like no other, and I eagerly look forward to capturing that on film. Here are a few clips from another video collaboration of hers: | 1| 2 |.
See what I mean?
I sat down with Michele and her fiancee James last week to discuss our treatment and begin the process of logistics with a hopeful shoot date in the fall. I'll keep you posted. Meantime we're going to kick out a small studio project later this month filming her turning - more of an instructional film on proper technique, which will serve as my camera and lighting test and a chance to see what the RED can do at 120 fps.
I'll keep you posted.
May/100
New Intro Reel
Draft one of my flash intro reel for Portlight Productions, LLC ... Hope you like it.
Apr/101
a viable alternative
“The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life away to a function that doesn’t interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative.”
-Charles Bukowski
Feb/101
a dark room and a big camera
Had a fine time this past Wednesday directing some commercial work on set downtown.
Jan/101
a few years back and beyond
I'd completely forgotten about this until A friend sent it back to me the other day.
I took it 3 years ago while still in grad school and living on my sailboat "Samsara". If I remember, I was still half drowsy on a warm spring day - had just made coffee and was listening to the birds on the dock pilings and the lapping of the still water against the hull, disturbed only by the morning boat traffic of fishermen and the tugboats silently heading out for the day. Nowadays, it seems like such a drastically different world, but the smell of the air those mornings won't leave me. Even now, it's intoxicating.
Jan/101
b-roll outtake
this is a raw clip from a few months ago. while I was on the sound stage at the teleprompter directing our actors, my DP Jesse was off in the offices shooting b-roll to intersperse with the speaking parts ... trying to get small everyday moments of our actors at "work".
It's hilarious what comes out when the audio isn't being used.
Jan/101
in the crossfire
I recently built my new site through Livebooks ... an inevitability. Though it's still basic vanilla at the moment, I've been working with them on some options, which ultimately culminated in their running a marketing email that featured my site and some encouraging words from yours truly on the merits of their product.
In some ways, I can't help but feel I've stepped into the center of the battlefield of flash-based (future-proof, turnkey, strategic) website (solutions). Ready, aim, fire ...
But I have to say, competition is a very good thing and I'm happy with all the options we as photographers have right now. Each option is good for a certain type of site/business, and I'm happy with my new one and looking forward to what it becomes over the next year.
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