Archives for posts tagged ‘Hollywood’

McBride on Straightedge

Completed And coming soon…

Waves

Waves. Busy. Travel. Many hotels in the last month. Downtown Los Angeles. Las Vegas. Newport Beach. Starpower. Strange birds and seashells collected. Friends discovered and enemies embraced. New endings and old beginnings. Inspiration and the lack there of. Resolve. New discovery. Rejection. Last night, the premier of a movie I shot. It was pretty. But [...]

More Festivals for “Let Me In”

The festival run for Let Me In continues. Below you will find a complete list of all the festivals so far. The cool thing is that it’s going to be in LA’s own Dances With Film Festival in June. This is cool because a feature I shot was in the festival last year. So this [...]

Arman

Ben Staley: Cinematographer

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Ben Staley: Cinematographer

Arman

Ben Staley: Cinematographer

Farzam

Ben Staley: Cinematographer

Ten

I’ve been here 10 years today. Here being California. Los Angeles. Hollywood. These places seem more a state of mind to me than something geographical. But so much has changed in my life. I think I’ve been dreading this day. I don’t know why. Maybe I do but I won’t write about it. Danielle and [...]

Today At Work

I mostly shoot music videos. But today I remembered just how much I love narrative filmmaking….

The End of September

I guess I haven’t written much in September. I haven’t felt like it. It’s been a busy month. Been moving my mental furniture around. Redecorating my mind. Refocusing my focus. Getting on with the getting on. Not the kind of stuff I like to talk about. There are some things I am excited about. Things [...]