What an honor to be asked to direct the first official music video for our friends The Lone Bellow.
Many thoughts and notes on the background of this piece are coming soon through another blog, but in the mean time, enjoy the video and read a bit about the production side on Ryan's blog.
Huge, huge thanks to Greg, Ryan, Shep, Josh, Phil, Sarah, Kristen, Zach, Kanene, Brian and the rest of the amazing people in our life. A true team effort : )
Spent a wild day in Fort Lee, NJ chasing around our new friend Nelson Gutierrez. Nelson owns and operates Strictly Bicycles, which is a big destination for many of NYC's biking enthusiasts, just over the George Washington Bridge. American Express was shooting a series of ads involving Nelson and the bike shop, and we were hired to come in and shoot stills for the print and web side of the campaign. The client wanted a 'grittier' look to the images to contrast some existing content, so we took Nelson into the basement workshop and got his hands dirty a bit.
A few of the images have started popping up online... let me know if you see them anywhere else. Thanks to Nelson and the team for a very fast-paced, fun day of shooting : )
Earlier this year, we spent a couple days running around Northern Los Angeles with our friend Rob Baird, shooting a new video for his song Dreams & Gasoline.
It was a pretty low-key production unit consisting of myself (director), Patrick Meade Jones (DP), Rob (Artist) and Sadie May (actress). We shot 90% of the video on 16mm film, with the remaining performance footage being captured digitally. Enjoy!
Capitol File Magazine recently commissioned me to shoot a couple portraits of their creative power team – Deborah Lloyd and Brad Goreski. A fun, albeit quick, shoot at the Kate Spade HQ in NYC.
A few more images can be seen on the Capitol File website.
Oldie from shoot with The Last Royals back in 2011... one of my favorite shoots.
Great band - check them out - www.thelastroyals.com
Amazing weekend in New Orleans... What an incredible city full of life and character and texture and color and music and food. Cannot wait to get back there.
A few lookbook images from Ernest Alexander's Fall 2013 line.
February 2013 - James Hotel, NYC
Spent a few minutes with Madi while out in LA a couple months ago... what can I say... she's awesome and super talented and really nice and way cooler than me.
Last year I had the pleasure of creating a range of new visuals for ATO Records and my new friend, Bobby Long. His record finally released a couple weeks ago, and I highly recommend checking it out. Not only is Bobby an established songwriter and musician, he's also a published poet and all-around great person. Below are a few of the images we shot last year, as well as one of the album trailers we created.
Here's one of the five album trailers we created...
Check out the record and more at www.bobbylong.info!
Honored to have my latest promo mentioned on a wonderful little blog called 'Art Buyers Are People Too' (and subsequently PDN's Promo's We Kept).
As freelance artists, there are so many unanswered emails, non-returned phone calls and promos that end up in the recycling bin... it's always encouraging to see one actually resonate with the intended people.
Check out these two blogs for some great insight on the commercial photo world. Thanks guys!
http://artbuyersarepeopletoo.tumblr.com
http://pdnpromoswekept.tumblr.com
NEEDTOBREATHE just released this little video we shot in Chicago back in 2011... at the time it was intended to be a quick acoustic video, but ended up working better with the album track. Enjoy!
Much of the work we're shooting won't be seen for a while, so I've been trying to shoot more with the X100 while on set and running around. Here's some photos from last week.
Began with Sunday afternoon date with my wife. Vietnemese sandwiches in Park Slope, then Silver Linings Playbook at the Angelika. We're trying to soak up days like this before the kid arrives in June.
Monday and Tuesday were full of pre-pro and shooting for a new video series I'm directing for Bonobos. Always a pleasure working with producer Greg and his team from The Bindery. That's my bud Phil running second camera. Can't wait for these videos to start releasing!
Immediately after wrapping with Bonobos, Phil and I drove to Washington DC for two full days shooting with our friends at GATHER, part of a re-brand for Aeras. Aeras researches and develops vaccine solutions for Tuberculosis, so part of the day was spent dressing up like scientists. Fun times.
After wrapping in DC Thursday night, we cruised back to New York for two days in the studio with Lindsay Mendez and Marco Paguia, recording a killer album at Sear Studios in Manhattan. Lindsay and Marco are both highly successful Broadway musicians, so it was an honor to document their time in the studio.
Shortly after leaving the studio on Saturday night, I was on a plane to Texas to spend a few days shooting some projects in Dallas/Fort Worth, and playing with my awesome nephew. Weeks like this are exhausting, but so rewarding. Lucky to be busy making a living with a camera.
Don't tell Brooklyn, but California has really been growing on me the past few months. After a wonderful trip in December, I was excited to get back to LA this week to direct a music video for my friend Rob Baird's song "Dreams & Gasoline." We spent a few days running around Angeles National Forest, playing with an amazing Ford Bronco, shooting film and BB guns and enjoying the open road.
I'll post the video here when it releases. For the time being, huge thanks to our DP Patrick Meade Jones, our actress Sadie May, our Bronco supplier Ryan Sturz and of course, Rob Baird for writing such a fun song.
This park is less than 30 minutes from downtown LA!! So ridiculous.
There is some GOOD music coming out of Brooklyn these days... Excited to finally get my hands on a copy of The Last Royal's new record, Twistification. Above is a shot from last night's record-release show at Rockwood Music Hall, and below is the record. The band used an old polaroid I shot in Marfa a few years back.
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