Is it a monkey that paints? Or a painter who paints monkeys? Or a monkey that paints monkeys? You decide…
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Soon I will be adding this to eleventhreehundred.com. But for now, the premier is here.
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We had been talking about it for almost a year. Last night and into the early morning hours we finally shot it. We spilt fire and water and blood. I wish I could share some screenshots but I won’t. Saving them for the end result. I think it will be good.

Sometimes in the morning Azure and I sit and draw together. She draws little dancing fairies in exquisite detail and I draw strange lumpy people(?)

I don’t know where this stuff comes from. These ideas. I think that the thing I’m most scared of in life is that someday there wont be any more ideas. For me, that is.
Hard to believe that I made this over 4 years ago now.
I was an inch away from calling it off. Throwing in [...]

The awesome thing about photography and filmmaking is that you never stop learning. There are always new challenges and new opportunities to express yourself.
Here’s the new DP reel.
The music is from my good friend at the Dead Beat Project, which I highly recommend if you are looking for awesome original scoring for any [...]

Every image here is from a digital still. Except the last, which was created in a program called Poser. It was all put together in After Effects and the music is a NIN track I remixed.
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Yesterday BOY|MAN was accepted into 2 more festivals. That’s three this week. Pretty darn cool. Here’s what we know so far:

International Family Film Festival – Hollywood – February 26th – March 1st, 2009

Women’s International Film Festival – Miami – February 27th – March 8th, 2009

Cleveland International Film Festival – Cleveland – March 19th [...]

Chase Jarvis posted this on facebook. He’s one of my “friends” so I happened to see it. I thought it was so cool I had to repost it here. This guy makes cameras out of (among other things) human skulls.
I would love to learn how to make cameras. Not necessarily out of human skulls [...]

We Staley’s are creative people. By we I mean the only other two Staley’s I know. And since this is the Daily Staley, they will undoubtedly be written of more and more. My brother David is an artist. And this is my Azure. She’s happy for hours with some paint or pencils or markers or [...]