Delayed Reactionz

2012! The end is nigh! The apocalypse is coming...or at least thats what the rumor mill will have you believe. Though sometimes thats how I feel when I look at current trends in pop music, ridiculous hate politics and our obsessive culture of celebrity consumption that seems to be oversaturating our minds with lard-like stupidity. Then again I might be vicitim of this current epidemic as its taken me 3 months into the new year (March, my bday month!) to update my blog. Hopefully with the soon to be announced iPad 3, I'll do more blogging..and while I've been obsessed with Instagram and its uber cool social photography functionality, I've been churning away on my feature film script that I intend to get into pre-pro by the end of the year...TRACES...its happening people! 

Did I mention that earlier in the year I covered the 2012 Sundance film festival for the Film Stage? Had an amazing time covering a slew of movies including Queen of Versailles, Kid-Thing, Indie Game Movie, Room 237, Compliance, Bachelorette and Wrong while getting to interview talented people like Quentin Dupieux, Cliff Martinez, Leslye Headland and the Indie Game filmmakers! Let's also not forget all the partying with cool peeps like writer Jeanne Veillette Bowerman, editor Eric Brodeur, filmmaker Julie Keck (one half of the awesome King is a Fink duo!) and of course all of my fellow film bloggerati. I look forward to continuing my film critic capacades when I return to my favorite festival of the year in May, Cannes!

One final shoutout to my friends Christian and Woody, otherwise known as the musically gifted duo With Lions, for whom I directed their first official music video Leaving Me. It got re-posted on a bunch of music blogs and hopes to be one of many collobarations with this awesome band! So that's it for now and stay tuned for more big news (hopefully) before the world comes to an end!

Return to Origin

It's been a crazy past few months and lot of amazing things have been happening in my life, but first off apologies for not being able to update my site more frequently to better share them with you. It's been a time of reflection, refocusing and re-enegrizing my creative spirit to manifest some creative concepts that have been lurking deep in the recess of my mind. It's also a time to be grateful for the many awesome experiences I've had that have made me very happy and grateful to be where I am today.

My work with The Film Stage continues to grow with strides, having interviewed the cast of Melancholia, director of Attack the Block Joe Cornish and conversed with one of my personal heroes Werner Herzog. Made the above music video promo for the band With Lions and have many more upcoming projects with them on the horizon. In the reality TV department, I've been editing show for TLC, The Sundance Channel, National Geographic and The Nature Conservancy. A show I edited Lady Hoggers just started airing and my episode 'Boss Hog' airs this Wednesday night.  Saw Tycho live, he was awesome. I saw Radiohead perform live twice, once in the audience of The Stephen Colbert Report which was unreal and then front row and center at Roseland just like my first RH show in 2000 when they debuted Kid A and I was a freshman at NYU.

I got the iPhone4S and absolutely love it, the optics are outstanding and I've been doing a lot of instagram-ing. I'm going back to Sundance and Cannes next year (and maybe hopefully SXSW and Fantastic Fest as well) and I'm looking forward to interacting with all sorts of cool new people. I also have some interesting projects in the pipeline, both photography and video and a fan funded project I'm developing. So lots of good things on the horizon, including a re-designed site with some cool new features to make interacting with me cooler! All the best and keep the creative juices flowing!

Stargazer

Awhile back I was slated to direct a music video for an up and coming band called Benzos. They were an amazing group that had a unique and distinctive sound with the perfect blend of rock, trip hop and electronica. Unfortunately, the band broke up over some artistic differences, but I remained close friends with the lead singer Christian who went on to form a new group called With Lions. Right now they specialize in providing original music for promos, commercials, TV shows and feature films but they are also creating some amazing songs which they intend to preform live in a cool audio visual fusion show.

Stargazer is the first video I created for them. Over the next several weeks I will be releasing three more With Lions videos to continue our artistic collaboration and help create their show. So stay tuned on the blog, check out the video and let me know what you think!