Well I’m starting this Blog as part of my new website, which has been a long time coming. I appreciate the power of the Internet, and want to somehow try and stay on the cutting edge of what’s possible. At this point in my career I’ve acquired enough production experience to tell the stories I want to. I’ve chosen to focus on documentaries as I feel that is the best medium for me to express my ideas. I don’t like boxing myself, and try to apply my creativity to everything I do. I’m still shooting photos, started a new project with my friend Ryan Roco, called Purple Ninja Photography as way to try and market some of our photos towards magazines.

I really enjoy conceptualizing what I think would be brilliant art, fashion, installation, music, whatever… I’m trying to create a couple installations for a gallery my friends run in Berlin called the Spielraum. They’ve already offered to show my work there, when I was there two years ago. I was lucky enough to be there to help set up for the opening, and tape some of the opening party. I had started to make an instructional video about how to pick up after your dog after it shits to post as an installation in the window. Anyone that spent some time in the Kruetzberg in Berlin knows why they need this. I recently created an installation of the beach with waves, and the freeway with cars, and drawing comparisons between their meditative qualities. My idea is to have the waves shown with the freeway audio on one wall, and on another wall across would be the freeway with the sounds of the ocean. I edited one short video that had both videos in it, so you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.

I also recently started creating a video wallpaper to be projected behind my friends The Voxhaul Broadcast, while they play their shows. Still deciding on the concept as a whole, but have started with a study of birds flying in large groups. I love the way they form a shape, and how this shape moves and evolves, it has an organic quality that would be impossible to re-create.I’ve recently been doing some experimenting with my friends camera the HVX-200, which allows we to shoot in 720p. What I’m most interested in is the ability it has to shoot in multiple frame rates, that I then can manipulate in Final Cut to slow down, or speed up. I did some test with my friends, smoking cigarettes, and by slowing down the footage shot at 60 frames to 24, gave me a clean slow motion, that made simple acts seem so much more dynamic.