I posted on Bradford Young’s big Sundance win over at Desedo. And a hearty congrats here! Process interview? Got that. And a couple pics from the archive.
Often a location scout will yield fun shots that don’t end up being useful for anything else. Here are a couple, done up magazine style. These may not be direct quotes, but hey.
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arcade neon nyc scout • Dec 18 2010
Literally thousands of Santas descended upon the West Village on saturday. These are just a few of them. Shot some video on a borrowd tilt/shift lens — extra wide, as you can see — but there’s nothing like a good still frame.
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christmas nyc street • Dec 14 2010
Sometimes New York dazzles with simplicity. I did not even buy this roast pork bun, yet it made my day happier. In another city I might not have gone to the Chinese bakery for coffee. In another city there might not have been a Chinese bakery to go to. In this city there are plenty, with ample treats besides.
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food • Dec 10 2010
This past Halloween saw team Desedo plus a few hundred of our closest friends breaking things down in Brooklyn. At some point the camera came out. We’ll call it an exercise in creativity, a night of fun captured on film… Embedded journalism! All of that to say that time marches forward. And we like to march right along beside it. At times with booze and homies.
The Monster Mash was thrown by Jamie and Debbie (whose freshly minted ghost kitty is worth a checkout too). Of course, the scariest costume of the night goes to the guy with the custom-embroidered Bed Bugs hat and strap-on mattress. Don’t wave that thing at me, buddy.
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brooklyn music parties • Nov 22 2010
A few months ago I bought a new camera, primarily for filmmaking purposes. The surprising upshot is how often I use it to take stills. (… Duh!). There was a burst of light in the office this afternoon and… boom. This one was captured on a 28mm lens.
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photo self portrait • Nov 12 2010
A coming of age comedy about Del, a student on the eve of his graduation from Princeton University. At a crossroads in his life, he must decide between a career and his college love, Laura. A lighthearted take on the hook-up culture of campus life and the decisions that follow having beer bottles taped to one’s hands.
Opening Night film at the Black Harvest Film Festival, Chicago; Best Short, Roxbury International Film Festival; Nominee: Best Actor, LA Comedy Festival.
more info at gummybearsthemovie.com
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comedy film romantic • Nov 3 2010
Another couple shots from my ongoing “year in walls” series. One is from the handycam, the other from the new Canon. A friend’s office faces the back wall of the New Museum in Manhattan. I love looking at the strange quantization problems of an image shot with a consumer-grade lens, through a window, through a screen, at a highly textured facade, and finally compressed for the web.
The other one is shot on the street in front of the museum.
Stare at these two if you want to have a headache after a few minutes.
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nyc street yearinwalls • Sep 15 2010
I recently busted out the new camera while sitting with buds Seaton and Johnalynn at a Brooklyn bar on Comedy night. An hour later, Seaton took the mic and absolutely killed. People always complain that when comedy isn’t good, it’s unbearable. This was unbearable for completely the opposite reason — my stomach hurt afterwards.
What I most like about a good joke is how economical it is with story — setup and punchline must necessarily be rid of all extraneous elements. Only what is funny is left in. We storytellers could learn much from studying the technique of comedy writing.
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brooklyn friends • Aug 21 2010
So these last couple months have been a wicked ride in film. I’ve been directing a little something: a short, some commercials. And editing some of that stuff too. More to come in a minute. And my screenplay was just accepted into a prestigious film market. In the meantime there have been meetings and camera purchases, allegations and recriminations. All in a day’s work.
The short is called, Their Eyes Were Watching Gummy Bears. There will be laughs and tears. Soon, I promise.
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film • Jul 28 2010