Back in February Chris Parkhurst of Barang Films brought me to Cambodia. I was lucky to spend weeks as his cinematographer, shooting a short documentary and even shorter commercial. Both videos below are for Bronze Lake Resort, a cultural heritage vacation spot in the middle of the country. The first video ...Read More
Here is another installment from my journal during the John Cassavetes portion of the "Capra, Cassavetes, and Brakhage" class I took in college. This time I wrote on the film Husbands Before I forget, I want to talk about the opening sequence. In terms of style it was different from ...Read More
Over the weekend I got to shoot a music video for the song "Long Way to Louisiana" for Johnny O'Donnell. Alex Morris directed while I handled things on the camera end. We have a couple pickup shots tomorrow, but the video should be completely edited by the end ...Read More
Here is another installment from my journal during the John Cassavetes portion of the "Capra, Cassavetes, and Brakhage" class I took in college. This time I wrote on the film Faces. Given the title of this film and that my last entry ended by talking about the importance of ...Read More
I am starting an occasional series of posts consisting of pictures of the TV. These will be a variation on the found footage project, in that I am the aggregator but rather than purposefully creating meaning through assemblage, I will try to make order and selection random. Hopefully, ...Read More
Perhaps you notice the blog's new look, though probably not. I don't get a lot of repeat visitors around here. Earlier today I watched Helvectica which inspired me to give my site a more streamlined look. If you've seen the movie, or are smarter than me, you ...Read More
We started the weekend with a pre-midnight call time at a gym that looked like a coal mine office. Lucky for us, the scene was set in a coal mine office. Maybe not so lucky for people who use it as a gym. 3:30 A.M. All-night shoots tend to go ...Read More
Last Saturday I took a break from delivering coffee orders and picked up a camera, a 3-ton truck, and a lot of lighting equipment. For the first time since college, I am making a movie. Actually, Cime Bruce is making a movie. She wrote the script and ...Read More
Without a second-thought I will go to a movie theatre by myself, totally undeterred by the social stigma of such actions. This is partly because when I want to see a movie, I want to see it now--I'm not waiting until later when others can join me. There ...Read More