Time Machine: Vegetable Cruelty

It's time once again to take a trip in the time machine, ALL the way back to the summer of 2010. Sometime in June, my friend Shane Moeller came to me with an idea to parody a PETA video he had come across. Seeing great potential in the idea, we decided to grab some extra help and make the video a reality. The entire film was shot in the basement of my home with the only camera we could find: my consumer Canon Elura 80. Luckily, the camera had manual settings and I was able to get a rather descent image. The most frustrating part about this shoot was the camera's zoom malfunction. If the zoom trigger was not held back during shooting, the camera would start a slow phantom-zoom. Fighting through a smelly basement and finger cramps, we were able to create a pretty comical parody. The short was finally pulled together in post with Brian Wiedl's voice over and Kenny Sciuito's spooky guitar playing. Enough backstory, enjoy this Blast from the relatively recent past.

Extraordinary People: Landon Richmond

During my time in Boston my first semester of College, I was fortunate enough to meet Landon Richmond. One day while walking down Commonwealth, I noticed Landon selling prints on the street.

The prints spoke for themselves, questioning many disturbing societal normalcies that tend to get overlooked. Each painting held Landon's unique style, which can be seen below:

Time Machine: Can't Beat The Craving

It's time to pull a video out of the time vault. I was going through old videos and found the first film I shot on 16mm. The film short is a silent black and white film about one man's determination to obtain a cigarette: an object that is ultimately shortening his life span.

The video was shot in sequence and edited 'in-camera'. This process forced me to be extremely careful with all of my shots, since I only had one attempt at each. Enough backstory, watch & enjoy.

Keep an eye out for more for more Time Machine posts as I recall old videos from the In & Out Of Focus archive.

Lettish

Yet another installment of Royal Family Videos. I filmed this piece during the Royal Family Holiday Rage at the Brooklyn Bowl back in December. Due to the limited amount of space on my memory card, I was only able to capture certain parts of the night. Throughout the entire show, I made sure to save some time for "Lettish", a hybrid version of Royal Family recording artists, Lettuce. I was not able to film the entire set, but was able to catch a crazy drum solo by Adam Deitch that is included below as well as a some serious Eric Krasno guitar love making. It is just a little taste of the amazing set that closed the night.Enjoy!