My pick for Video Of the Week is this Free Gold Watch’s Promo. Free Gold Watch is a personal favorite of mine. San Francisco based and always pumping out fresh designs. This video takes you through the process of designing, cutting, sewing, printing a transparency, burning a screen, washing out, lining up a planten, and screening a multi-color t-shirt print. Inspiring and very well done. In all regards.

Now I just need to get my own press and start printing some of my own gear.

Free Gold Watch

Patrick Mordaunt Racing – 2009 Season

Production Company: Medium Monster
Project: Patrick Mordaunt 2009 Season video
Role: Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Colorist.

On news stands now is the May 2010 issue of Import Tuner. The Longshots section on the last page is dedicated to reader submitted photographs. May’s issue features stills from Andy Sapp and I’s videos. Plus an interview with each of us. It also has an STI vs EVO battle, which features Elliot’s Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X.

Also interviewed is Miki Taka who I had the pleasure of working with at the Dubai 24H. Way to go Miki. Great interview and some hot photos.

Forza 3 x Puma sneakers showed up on my doorstep thanks to the ID Agency and Microsoft. Thanks guys! I like the hybrid Puma low profile mixed with a rounded heel driving shoe. Can’t wait to heel toe in them. The dance move and the brake/clutch combo.

If you haven’t checked out the Keep Drifting Fun landing page – Joshua Herron and I are going on a road trip to shoot a grassroots drifting DVD. The schedule will be posted shortly along with updates to the 1974 VW Westy van.

Thanks to BFGoodrich and Memphis Car Audio – for supporting the Keep Drifting Fun project.

Bob Moczydlowsky directs  72 Musicians, a documentary about indepedent musicians and the struggles that come with persuing a love of performing and creating music. I’ve known Bob for the past 3 years through working at the Sundance Film Festival.

Here is the synopsis from IMDB:

One stage, one chair, four days, 20 bands, 72 musicians. All speaking with a single, anonymous voice about art, poverty, booze, lies, class, hardship, food and failure. Oh, and day care. And rock ‘n’ roll.

Through a curtain of cigarette smoke, close up shots of eyes, mouths, and hands – anonymous voices – form one collective story about what it means to be an indepedent musician. Its inspiring, eye-opening, heart wrentching, and funny – all while being very real. Authentic and entertaining.

Do yourself a favor and check out the site. download a copy. or buy the raw footage and make your own documentary!

Recently picked up this 1974 Volskwagen Westy for my upcoming project Keep Drifting Fun

With some fresh tires, a bit of rust removal, a new coat of paint, and some tuning – it will be the ultimate road trip machine.

When I was considering a vehichle nothing was as iconic and efficient as a Volkswagen Van with a Westfalia pop top tent. California is covered with converted Westys that are surf vans and homes for one-legged-men with pirate eye patches. Not kidding. Maybe my next documentary project will be on him.

Need For Speed– Dubai 24H

Production Company: Speedhunters
Project: Need For Speed race team – Dubai 24 hour race
Role: Director, Cinematographer (+ Rod Chong!), Editor, Colorist

Over the past two months, I’ve been working on several projects with the Canon 7D. These projects include Linhbergh and I’s daily photo blog/365 photo challenge ARTPANTS & client work like the upcoming Dubai 24H short film for Speedhunters.

The Canon 7D is far from a video camera. Its a digital still camera with an APS-C sized CMOS sensor.

It does have an advantage over the Letus 35mm and other 35mm adapters for video cameras – in that it does not have a prism or ground glass element + plus additional lenses to pass light through in order to create shallow DoF.

Here are some screen grabs from graded clips I’ve shot with the Canon 7D. A sneak peak at the Dubai 24H short film coming soon on Speedhunters.

Drift Mechanik’s – Keep Drifting Fun.

Production Company: Self Produced
Project: Keep Drifting Fun.
Role: Co-Director, Co-Editor, Co-Colorist, and Co-Operation

Video Of the Week = Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – 40 Day Dream (live)

After listening to the album recording on repeat a few times I did a YouTube search for the song and found this live performance. Which totally blew my mind. This is my anthem for the week. Such a big sound. I love it.

Photo by Linhbergh

Sundance increasingly becomes more and more like summer camp each year. This could be because of all of the fun people that surround you and all the different activities happening at once. It might also be because its a break from reality. It’s a festival dedicated to the unique voice, the untold story, and the artist.

The last few days of the festival, we experienced power problems and were forced to move to festival headquarters in order to keep editing.

Icicles get to a point where they aren’t cute and decorative, but legitimate menacing killers.

They are not as scary as this face. Mid-edit face.

Calvin from the Sundance Insider team whipped up this Bacon explosion – sausage wrapped in a woven blanket of bacon – topped with BBQ sauce. Legendary.

Brandon Joseph Baker, showed off his bartender skills and made some tasty bloody marys. The left-over feast Saturday and Sunday nights at Sundance is quite a scene. Dave Drusky and I made pizza, omelets, sandwiches, and soup for our feast. Note for 2011 – one person buy peanut butter.

2009-2010 Snowboard season, count = 7 days. Got to double that amount.

Live @ Sundance – Ten Days of Different

The cinematic rebellion has only just begun. Let’s look back at ten days of different. Every festival, the Live @ Sundance team produces a “week in review” video. This year, after doing a paper edit of memorable quotes, we dove into the days of footage from this year’s festival. After locking down a quote based skeleton, we overlaid b-roll from films, events, and locations around Park City. Each one of the four editors had a pass on the edit. We all feel like the finished product is a solid piece of content.

Production Company: Sundance Institute
Client: Sundance Film Festival
Role: One of four Camera Operators, Editor, and Colorist.