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I just had two L O N G shoot days. Post production all weekend. Finish a pilot shoot Monday. Prep Tuesday for a Music Video shoot on Wednesday. The location is up in Ventura and they’re renting our HPX and a special lens package. I will be operating and Dani is helping me. Very excited [...]

What does the title mean? In the last 3 weeks I’ve spent 5 days shooting 6 music videos. I’m tired. But it’s been both fun and challenging. We’ve shot on rooftops, in a studio. Gorilla style in downtown LA. In dingy desert motels and on dusty deserted highways. The photo below was taken by producer [...]

Often times the ability or desire to wear multiple hats is not a helpful thing. People like to pigeon hole you or put you in an easily categorized little box and they aren’t always happy or accepting when you venture away from their idea of who you are or what you should be doing. I [...]

I wrote about a video I worked on a few weeks back. I was just the camera operator but got mad props from the director for how I “freaked the camera.” Well, he must have had faith in me cause he went ahead and hired me to edit the darn thing as well and I [...]

Spent all day editing. Hip Hop is in my blood now. I’m contemplating joining Twitter. But I can’t get past the name. It just sounds dorky. And I guess it wouldn’t be the first social phenomenon I let pass me by… Tweet

Had a pretty busy weekend with minimal sleep. Saturday I shot a Hip Hop video in downtown LA. When I say shot, I mean that’s all I did. No directing, no lighting. I was just hired as the “camera operator”. I didn’t know a soul involved and I’m not exactly known as a “hip hop [...]

A few days ago I shot a live band for a director who hires me from time to time. Actually I was one of nine shooters. The location turned out to be a few blocks south of the apartment where I lived the first year I moved to Hollywood. It seems like so long ago [...]

When Dani & I started Present Day Pictures a few years ago, this is one of the first things we did together. It’s a little profile of infamous photographer Justice Howard. Justice is a true one of a kind. A real artist. And these words I use not lightly. She’s also a hell of a [...]

I had so much fun posting the Danger Radio video yesterday, here’s another. The Band is called Warbringer and I also shot this for Dan Dobi. Except the stock footage. That’s not me… We shot this in about 3 hours cause the band was way late and we only had the location for a certain [...]

We shot this video for Director Dan Dobi last January. The band is Danger Radio and they’re from Seattle. This is the third video I’ve DP’d for Dan and its always been a really fun, and positive collaboration. He’s very smart and most importantly (to me) always knows exactly what he wants, or can give [...]