A couple of weeks ago I worked with Atomic Feist on an original music video for the New Orleans based band Teenage.  It was a small crew of three on a one day shoot with the band and 6 actors.  I basically played camera assistant, grip and PA but also provided my AtomOS Shogun 4k recorder/monitor to back up the Sony FS700 we shot on (which is an amazing low light camera i learned).  It was the first time I used the Shogun to record high speed so I was nervous about how it would handle it.  It worked perfectly.  Record trigger from the camera worked every time and 180 frames a second was no problem.  The way the FS700 handles high speed is it shoots the clip and then renders it in camera at project frame rate after you stop recording.  The the Shogun would trigger once you hit the stop record button on camera and it began to render at normal speed.  It was a really fun day and everyone worked together great and made it a stress free day.  Here's the final product.  Enjoy!

The McDonald's All-American Game is live on ESPN tonight.  Here is the promo cut by Matthew Bartolacci for it using footage from this last season of 22 episodes of the web series Get 2 the Game - Basketball I was Director of Photography and Camera Op on.  Nice work on the edit Matty!  I'm excited to be outside for the football version season starting around mid-May.  We're gonna be shooting with the new Sony FS7s and the ENG lenses they are now shipping for them.  Gonna be nice to track footballs in the air not using Canon photo lenses!!!  You can watch a bunch of the episodes from this season on the YouTube channel.

Super psyched for the opportunity to go film for a week at Sundance Film Festival in Park City, UT.  Brought in by HP to showcase their insanely beautiful, tech'd out Sundance House.  The Salt Lake City area is so beautiful and one of the few places that you can be so close to downtown and feel like you're in the wilderness.  And a breathtaking wilderness at that.  It was a super fun trip that included some famous people of all disciplines spotting and interviewing, really good food (no 15 minute on set lunches this trip), beautiful scenery and going to a Pauly Shore stand up!  I will be posting some more of the many videos we shot while there but here is the first taste of the Sundance House presented by HP.

Mac Premo is a new source of inspiration for me.  His view of things is very inline with how I have seen certain things in my own mind.  The fact that he creates in so many different mediums gives me tremendous drive.  His editing is one I have always appreciated and the execution is infallible.  Now go waste an hour or two on his website.

This summer and fall I had the pleasure of shooting a bunch of new content for 6 ABCs news intro montages.  I received access to some pretty cool locations like the Phillies game, the Philadelphia Zoo (Gus made me fall on love with giraffes) and Reading Terminal Market.  It's a completely different run and gun filming experience in that usually when you're filming random things in public, people shy away from the camera.  But when you have a 6 ABC shirt on....  People jump at the chance to be on TV.  It makes my job a whole lot easier when your subjects are excited to be filmI guess being considered the "unbiased, nonpolitical" news station has it's benefits.  Shooting the Phillies game with a Canon 400mm on RED Epic using a monopod (they didn't allow tripods in the well) was a learning experience.  But shooting Ryan Howard crack one at 300 fps made working with that cumbersome rig well worth it.  If the project calls to avoid phase issues then stay at 240 with a 180 degree shutter.

While I was 1st AC for a commercial series shoot for NetApp and NFL Partnership out in Silicon Valley, they needed an actor/stunt guy for an added scene.  Since it involved diving into a 2-3 ft. pond, naturally they thought of me.  It was really fun getting a chance to be in front of the camera.  Got to improv a little too.  Check it out!!!

Sometimes people don't make it to set.  And sometimes you end up switching roles.  Or possibly doing two roles at once.  And there is never a shortage of roles when it comes to using the MoVI M10.  Pulling focus and Pan/Tilting simultaneously is not an easy task!

Well OK Go has done it again with another seemingly impossible single shot music video that plays on tricking the human mind using perspective.  I really appreciate the time they put into all their work and they always get my gears turning and wanting to do bigger, better things myself.   Watch the official music video and the behind the scenes below.  Then you'll really have an understanding of just how much work went into this one.

A couple months back I was Director of Photography/Camera Op for Bowstring Studios on their original production of a sizzle reel for a possible TV Show for a boxing gym in the financial district of NYC.  They have an interesting story being an old school boxing gym in the basement of a high rise just a few blocks from Wall St.  They have 6 figure clients coming in to train along side local teenagers who have the opportunity to train for free as long as they help out around the gym.  It was such a cool place to shoot.  The walls are covered, and I mean covered, in posters, articles and fight bills dating back to the opening of the gym.  I was able to do some really beautiful shots backlighting subjects and shooting on the RED Epic.  The piece came out looking as good as I'd hoped and I hope it gets picked up.  Fingers crossed!