A while back I got a call from my good friend Walter May who is one of the more inherently creative individuals I may have ever met. He has produced, edited, concepted, and directed a huge assortment of music video and commercial projects for everyone from Katy Perry to Microsoft. If you haven’t seen his work, I highly recommend stopping by his site and checking out the portfolio. Walter had…
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I’ve been wanting to have the chance to show this since we shot it last year. My friends in Satellite are currently running full court press in promo for their upcoming “Calling Birds” album coming in March. Last August we jumped into a studio in North Hollywood to live-take a group of songs with five cameras rolling and the booth recording. It was a bit of a run-and-gun affair, but…
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Thanksgiving has always been the big, special get-together holiday for my extended family on my mother’s side. Each year it’s a special time of love, support, perspective, great food, and lazy fun. Things were a little different this year, but still filled with some amazing grace. The Lord is good indeed. I decided to shoot a little bit of the experience and then stay up far too late last night…
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Several months ago I had the pleasure of working with one of my good friends, Abe Serrano, on a local extension of a global art movement called the Inside Out Project. It was originally created by a French street artist known simply by the moniker “JR”. The basic premise is to shoot portraits of people, blow the prints up and paste them on buildings, roofs, walls, and anywhere else they…
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A few months ago I had the privilege of shooting the wedding for two very dear friends of mine, Angela Hudson & Svend Lerche. It was a four day long non-stop extravaganza of good times up on the Santa Barbara coast. Here are a (very tiny) few of my favorite highlights from the weekend: Svend’s 50 person clan in full attendance all the way from Denmark. Amazing people. Katy Perry…
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Amidst working on a plethora of new projects, I’ve been remiss in scanning some film rolls and polaroids taken over the course of The Daylights’ “No Reverse Tour” with Andy Davis last November and a couple of one-off shows in the SoCal area. Below are a few snapshots from various stops along the way including snowball fights, venomous snakes, tall tale telling new friends, tricked out 1950′s mobile homes, and…
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Ever get hold of that last bastion of reserve energy your body has somehow been hiding away despite almost 3 days of little to no sleep and it feels like you’re cruising around in some kind of harness being held up just enough so that your feet still touch the ground? That’s me right about now. Rocking out in the van to Temper Trap while barely being able to keep…
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Wow… so it’s closing in on November already. 2011 is going by in a blaze… just like every other year. The older I get, the more I realize how quickly the time flies. It’s like the week of summer camp on a grand scale: Monday would always seem to take FOR-EH-VAH and you’d be digging every moment. Then the next morning you’d wake up and have to pack up because…
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I received a call last week that Needtobreathe was going to be playing a one-off gig for the Tonight Show with Leno and needed a couple extra hands running the show since most of their crew and gear was on the road in Randomsville, America headed to the next spot on the Taylor Swift tour. I admit getting a little excited about it since the last time I’d been to…
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Back in March I was asked by OneRepublic’s tour manager to help them shoot a quick video of the encore performance for the first night’s show at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Just found that video again during the course of revamping the site and thought I’d share. The group playing with them are called Sons of Sylvia who are apparently are Ryan’s cousins that he had invited to come…
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