August 21st was the 5th round of the 2010 Formula Drift season – Las Vegas Motor Speedway. It is not my favorite course on the Formula Drift circuit, but it is unique because it runs later in the night than the other rounds. Due to the later start, practice happens in the early evening also...
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Keep Drifting Fun Stickers – Las Vegas
Keep Drifting Fun has been partnered up with NOS energy drink to promote the trip/documentary project as well as create content for Chris Forsberg racing. For Las Vegas, Enemy2Fashion designed another round of great stickers. Limited to a run of 500, we will only have them at Formula Drift Las Vegas. Best part is that...
Quick Snaps – KITSCH skateboard
There are some serious concrete parks here in Vancouver. Unfortunately, my skateboard setup is somewhere in Minnesota – with the Westy van. So in the meantime, I picked up this Kitsch board.
So clean, that changed the same day when I rode the park down the street and scuffed it up proper. A lot of my...
Recent Work – Behind the Scenes – Speedhunters
Team Need For Speed/Speedhunters – Behind the Scenes – Speedhunters
Production Company: Speedhunters/Need For Speed
Project: Interview and create a narrative thread that familiarizes the Speedhunters audience with the team that creates the content.
Role: Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Colorist.
Shot on the Canon 7D and the Pansonic HPX-170. Converted to Sony XDCAM HD422 50mb/s codec. Edited in Final Cut Pro....
Random – Royksopp’s Senior Album
Royksopp recorded two albums when they went into the studio to make Junior – the second half which comes out in September is Senior. Junior/Senior, nice. The senior sound, is a more mature and less vocal based than Junior – which had some of the most “pop” friendly tracks to date. Ever since my friend...
Recent Work – Drift POV: Chris Forsberg
NOS ENERGY DRINK – Drift POV: Chris Forsberg
Production Company: Keep Drifting Fun
Project: Cover Chris Forsberg’s Qualifying run with Contour HD Point Of View cameras.
Role: Director, Editor, Graphics, and Co-Camera Operator.
Shot exclusively with the CONTOUR HD cameras. Edited in Final Cut Pro. Graded in Magic Bullet Looks.
REDUX – re-imagined and re-edited short form piece of one qualifying run...
Recent Work – Chris Forsberg POV @ Seattle
NOS ENERGY DRINK – Chris Forsberg POV @ Formula D Seattle
Production Company: Keep Drifting Fun
Project: Shoot an entire Formula Drift event with Contour HD Point Of View cameras.
Role: Co-Director, Graphics, and Co-Camera Operator, Edited by Joshua Herron
Shot exclusively with the CONTOUR HD cameras. Edited in Final Cut Pro. Graded in Magic Bullet Looks.
For Formula Drift Atlanta, Josh and...
Quick Snaps – JOB Seattle
Did a quick JOB, Jumping On Beds session in Washington state during Formula Drift Seattle. We had a solid crew of bouncers: Andy, Linhbergh, Hobo Herron, and I. Above, Linhbergh gets caught mid jump in a yoga like pose.
While I practice gravity defying one-handed handstands on the wall.
Andy dusts off his break beat record collection...
Recent Work – GT3 CLIMB
Jeff Zwart | Luminox | Porsche Motorsport North America – GT3 Climb
Production Company: Medium Monster/Will Roegge
Project: Create a short film that captures the essence of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb & the Porsche GT3 Cup
Role: Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Colorist.
2nd camera operation by DC Chavez.
Special thanks to Red Bull USA & the Pikes Peak...
Recent Work – GT3 CLIMB: preview
My first trip up Pikes Peak was with Rhys Millen in a Ford Focus rental car. We were scouting locations and camera positions for the 2009 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb short film I was creating to document his run. That film would later be called Climb Attack, a play on Hill Climb and Time...
Recent Work – Introducing Team Need for Speed Drift
Team Need For Speed – Introducing Team Need For Speed Drift
Production Company: Speedhunters/Need For Speed
Project: Introduce viewers with the Team Need For Speed drivers Matt Powers and Mad Mike Whiddett.
Role: Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Colorist.
Shot on the Canon 7D and the Pansonic HPX-170. Converted to Sony XDCAM HD422 50mb/s codec. Edited in Final Cut Pro. Cropped to...
VOW – Julian Casablancas ‘11th Dimension’
Strokes front man, Julian Casablancas ‘11th Dimension’. On the tardy train with this album. As a Strokes fan, should have heard about Julian’s solo project a while ago.