New Remix - All Night

This isn't so much a new track as much as it is a new release.  I think I actually put this track together back in 2008, when I was still trying to wrap my head around using Apple's Soundtrack Pro (the worst sound program ever).  Specifically, I was working on quantizing and snapping cuts from a sound while keeping everything in time with the rhythm.  Some of my previous attempts with Michael Jackson remixes sounded a bit off because the samples were not snapping into the preset BPM.  Specifically I wanted to focus on the sharp dropouts of the song to get a stronger beat in the remix.  The mixing is pretty much nonexistent since the main focus for me at the time was timing.  Hope you enjoy it!

You Really Got Me - Music Video

I'm beyond excited to finally show you guys the music video that I have been slaving over for the past two months.  The video is for the band Michael Donner and the Southern Renaissance.  I was introduced to the band by a friend of mine, Jake Gentry, with whom I had worked on his short Kiss From Calcutta and the feature Biodead.  He and his partner Bryan Reugebrink wanted to create a music video and press package over a few days in November when the band would be in town for some shows.  We worked out the treatment over the phone and sent over scouting pictures and sample videos.

The video was shot in a single day up at the ranch in the Angeles National Forrest.  Interesting fact: I had planned a major element of the video to be the play between sun flares and actors, and to make the video feel like it was shot during sunset.  On the day we shot, it was overcast and it even rained for a bit.  So I had to get a little creative with After Effects and color timing to get it to look closer to the way I had envisioned and how I had pitched it.

The video took several weeks to edit and color time.  I pretty much used every good frame that we had shot that day.  If it wasn't in the video, there was something wrong with the shot.  I got a lot of creative leeway with both the band and the managers, and there was very little in the way of notes.  I think this was due in part to the planning and correspondence we had with the band in the period leading up to the shoot,

I'm super proud of this video, an ultra low budget affair and couldn't be happier about it.  Thanks to Jake and Bryan for helping organize the band.  Thanks to Matt Mangs and Mike Miller for helping on the shoot.  Thanks to Allison, our beautiful actress for dealing with my "non-directing."

New Song - Work About

Check out my newest mashup, bros.  A blast from the late 90's.  I had been playing this live for a while and finally put together a pre recorded version.  Like all the others on the EP its still rough around the edges.  For the soundcloud nerds, this is the first HTML5 embed.  Looks pretty slick.

Squaresville Day 4

This was the first day of the second weekend.  We spent the day shooting at Jasmine's neighbor's house.  Great view, great decor.  Fun facts, MK is allergic to gluten so she had to hold a fake cookie throughout most of the shoot in the pool room.  "Booby bandit" is now part of my daily lexicon.