November 2011
7 posts
Victoria's Secret angels in Mexico
I have been in Tulum, Mexico for the past week shooting the Victoria’s Secret angels with Ben Watts. Ben is super fun to work with and the models and crew and everybody are great. I’m looking forward to the last couple days and then back to LA where it’s been raining. Here are some photos.
Disco lights on Virgin
More soon!
Racing in NV
I shot a 90-mile road race outside of Ely, NV not long ago. My AC and I had to hike up a mountain at 4am to get our camera in position. We were up there for about 12 hours, shooting cars racing at 180mph past us with a RED.
Whip-pans at 180mph with a fully-loaded RED and an AC pulling focus is a tricky thing. We nailed nearly every one of the 100+ cars that passed us.
Auckland
We shot the movie with a Panasonic AF101 (PAL version of 100) and a couple 7Ds. We had a bunch of lenses and peripheral stuff and we divided it between the crew to get into NZ because they can be strict about productions coming into the country. They did sweat us in customs but eventually let us and all of our gear through.
A stop in Jo’burg on the way…
And another stop in...
Cape Town!
Cape Town is one of my favorite places in the world. There still exist a lot of social problems from past apartheid but it’s a beautiful place with a ton of energy. As one of our local musicians said, “This is where life is.”
One of our producers, Peter…
Self…
The star of the movie…
Collaborating with “The Ladies”…
Cape Town...
Around the world
This is the project I’ve been working on most recently. I won’t say much about it for now except that it’s a feature documentary I am directing (and editing) about a musician traveling around the world, recording an album and collaborating with local artists. We went to Kingston, London, Stockholm, Cape Town, Auckland, and a few other places. I have a ton of photos, here are a...
Short Straw and Big Spoon
I mentioned a couple posts back that some friends and I directed and shot a short film in Healdsburg: It is a story about two writer friends surviving after the apocalypse. My friend Cory Loykasek and his writing partner Robb Boardman and I wrote the general story over a series of lunch meetings in 2009 and then they created the screenplay together. Robb and I directed the short together....
Just got back from TX!
It’s been a while since my last update and I’ve been busy with a lot of stuff. I just got back from Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin and I have a couple down days until I leave for a shoot in Mexico, so I figured this might be a good time to throw some photos up on the ol blog.
This is a pilot I DP’d in June (?). Of course, I can’t really say anything about it but it involved...