OK so I didn’t write anything last month. Actually I wrote a lot, just not here. It’s kindof a goal to change that. Make this a little more “Daily”. Maybe it doesn’t matter but there is much to speak of. And I’m waiting. Always waiting. I can’t believe it’s September… – Staley Out

Four new film festivals to announce for the music video, “Let Me In”. I was the Cinematographer for director Matt Schutt. You do so much work that just disappears out there. It feels good to see something that you and a lot of other talented people worked very hard on get an audience around the [...]

It feels good to finish this. Even if it’s really only the beginning. The first lap of a long long race and everything is still dreams and possibility. – Staley Out

These letters have been in my head. Time flows steady like lines on an LCD screen. Like 8bit blips from a mono speaker. Up and down at (also) fairly steady intervals. The metaphor seems to fit. Tiny mountains. Peaks and valleys. Broken fangs. The rhythm of life.  Beats of your heart passing through a machine, [...]

I’ve been enjoying life. Less computer and more life. Long walks and icecream cones. Bugs and snails and lizards and giant desert turtles. Exploration. Food. Paint under fingernails and erasers rubbed down to the quick. Carving leather and building new realities from cardboard. Trust. Too much sun and then even more sun. Stories and songs [...]

Been kicking this around for a while. In my head that is. Finally got around to spitting it all out. Putting it down. Making it real. I think its about 95% done. I’ll be tweaking it for the next week or so. Taking suggestions. Letting it grow on me and figuring out what does and [...]

So this one is for my Mom. She gets impressed by this stuff. I stopped into the Academy of Country music yesterday for some brief business and as soon as I walked in it was, “Show Ben, show Ben!” Someone pulled out their (The ACM’s) magazine, highlighting the show I helped em with a few [...]

Almost done with two projects I directed. Long gestating projects. Painful at times projects. Should be done in the next week. And it’s gonna feel very good. And then on to the next one. I am also working on a new website and I was going through a bunch of production photos (there are many) [...]

Maybe its cause I was born a month early but I’ve always felt like I was late. Late bloomer. Late to the game. Maybe you get it and maybe you don’t. I’ll tell you this, if I actually am going to be late for something, it affects me physically. A kind of darkness creeps into [...]

Life is like an EKG. Waves rise and fall. Up and down. I was riding high. Running every day. Feeling stronger. Lighter. Younger even. Last Sunday was to be my first 5 mile run. But I worked all weekend. Shooting late on Saturday and then up early for a 12 hour shoot Sunday. Happy Valentines [...]