A production still from the film, Kiss Before the Slaughter, originally shot on 2-perf with Multivision cameras. View trailer.
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4.13.12 - Run-n-gun Futurecop! video from 2011 finally released. Hot-Rod 7d. Directed by AJ Jackson! ^
3.15.12 - Epic and Canon EF mount is really cool! - capturing Apollo! ^
3.14.12 - On location for Dispatch's newest music video. This band is awesome and so was the crew and the people at VLA. An all-around wonderful shoot. ^
2.13.12 - Wrapped Some Go Haunting "Voice Memos" music video. Looking for the next gig.
2.4.12 - Wrapped Nightbeast "Livin' Large" music video.
1.31.12 - There was a fire 2 blocks from my house so I grabbed the Epic and bolted. Shot a mix of HDR and high frame-rates. Hopefully I'll get the chance to put some of it online, I just need a composer to score it! ^
1.14.12 - Brave Soul video now online. Small issue with the output but theres something worth seeing! ^
12.17.11 - Just wrapped shooting "Keyhole" for new artist Brave Soul. This frame captured from my Van Diemen/Ziess 60mm Macro. The only spherical shot in the whole video! The rest was shot in Epic 5K anamorphic. ...More to come. ^
12.3.11 - Having fun with the Epic and Ultra Primes in a puddle jumper just moments before landing at the base of Punta Islita, 30 minutes outside of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our hotel has to have been the nicest in all of the country. This was my first paid gig outside of North America. Potato chip commercial with Pamela Anderson. DP: Lukas Ettlin. Thanks for having me. ^
12.5.11 - The Queen's throne. 14mm Panspheron. Nice for 5k, looking more like a 12 mil. ^
11.29.11 - Shooting an interview with Stevie Wonder!
11.13.11 - Operating Epic on an interview with James Cameron tomorrow morning.
11.12.11 - Production still from Four Winds. Lighting night with a minimal package. ^
11.5.11 - Shooting pick-ups for Four Winds on 2-perf. Exposing 5260, 19, and 07. Seems like a new stock every day!
10.28.11 - Just wrapped operating on Jim Cameron's "Last Word" for National Geographic.
10.22.11 - Epics in the house! ^
10.8.11 - Wow, I just learned how to embed videos :D
10.8.11 - Kiss Before the Slaughter. 2-perf, Mk3s, still needing final color.
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10.6.11 - I should have posted this a while ago. Live shoot with Balance and the Travelling sounds as the pay homage to J. Dilla with "Won't Do." 7D. ^
8.8.11 - Shot a viral ad for Scion last Friday on a Nikon modded RED MX with Zeiss ZF primes and a Tokina 11-16. Pulling my own reverse focus, eeek. Trying to make low-budge look good. ^
7.27.11 - Been crewing up a lot lately. Catch a few music videos I pulled on for the talented J. Reis... who I should indirectly thank for the opporunities. His work is sick, hire him.
- Tyga "Far Away"
- Cover Drive "Lick Ya Down"
- Estelle ft. Rick Ross "Break My Heart"
- Wolfgang ft Will.I.Am
"Forever"
- Pusha-T "My God"
5.27.11 - Started a group on facebook called 2-perf. Please join if you share the same love for the format!!
5.5.11 - Kiss before the Slaugther write up on Dread Central. John, I hope it gets picked up!
4.26.11 - Letter's Vs. Numbers "Let's Play God" music video released.
7D w/ Nikkor glass. I remember not sleeping the night before. ^
4.18.11 - Scouting a location to shoot a car chase.
4.18.11 - That's a wrap on the trailer! Ryan Harris op'ng the ARRI IIC on a 14mm prime... poor man's low mode on the Fisher 11. Shot the whole thing with 200' short ends of 5207 and 5219! Processing will be done through Deluxe and an HD telecine at Laser Pacific. So far the experience has been exceptional! Thanks to my crew and to everyone else who donated their time and equipment! I owe you all! Stay tuned @ www.kissbeforetheslaugher.com.
Let me throw a plug for Illuminated Path Productions and Cineworks for helping me secure g/e. ^
4.5.11 - Testing Kodak 5219 with B. Foster for KBTS @ 2000 ASA. Reference photo from a 7D. ^
4.4.11 - Location scouting for Kiss Before the Slaughter. Shooting this weekend with the Moviecam! Is 2-perf the perfect format? ^
3.24.11 - *** I now have 2 RED Mysterium-Xs, fully loaded, ready to rock. ^
3.21.11 - Here's a quick framegrab from a scene in the music video "Starworhipper" by Futurecop! Shot low-budge on the 7D with MK3s.
3.21.11 - Lenses I cleanded today: Zeiss Ultra Prime set (16, 24, 32, 50, 85) and a 10mm Ultra Prime, two Zeiss Super Speed MK3 sets (18, 25, 35, 50, 85) a 14mm Arriflex "Panspheron" for the 18 Super Speed, 135mm Zeiss Standard Speed, 60mm Zeiss Macro and a Zeiss Super Speed MK1 set. Ich muss etwas für Deutsch haben.
3.19.11 - Prepping to shoot the teaser for Kiss Before the Slaughter. <
3.19.11 - ...remembering Cannes '08. Non-stop fun. ^
3.18.11 - Saw a rough cut for the Four Winds trailer. It's about time. :D
3.10.11 - The music video I shot for Zaptra, premieres today at 11pm at the Downtown Independent Theater during the LA Artwalk.
3.10.11 - 10mm Ultra Prime T2.1. Ask about it.^
2.17.11 - Doing big things. New camera packages in the works! 2 perf, Super 35, and RED MX for hire! Ask me for a complete list!
2.1.11 - Shooting the music video "Starworshipper" for the band Futurecop!. <
1.15.11 - Check out a promo video I produced and directed for the International MBA program at CLU. <
1.7.10 - I uploaded a few frame grabs taken off a dirty ol' DVCam transfer of Four Winds. ^
12.22.10 - Completed telecine of principal photography on Four Winds. With so many months left in the dark I was happy to know that it was exposed!
11.28.10 - Time flies when keeping busy. Check out a music video I gaffed for my good friend and DP, Hiroyuki Haga: "Undertow," a new release by the legendary rock band, Mr. Big. We went into this completely blind, no concept, nothin'... didn't even hear the song until the night before. Good Job! ;-)
9.28.10 - The underground club scene in "The Wise." Yes, it's 2:1. ^
9.24.10 - Shooting "The Wise" by Zaptra on the MX.
8.18.10 - Wrapped the short film Exposure. Can't wait to dump the footage into RedCine-X.
8.2.10 - Just entered pre-pro on the short film Exposure shooting with the RED MX.
7.30.10 - Proud to possess two beautiful 2-perf 35mm cameras and a very snappy set of Zeiss Super Speeds. Willing to help out filmmakers who are dying to shoot film again. Especially in 2.35 :)
7.28.10 - Balance and Traveling Sounds live-recording session "Something About Us" just released!
7.25.10 - Just wrapped principal photography on the experimental western short film Four Winds. 2-perf 35mm shot on Kodak's Vision 2 and Vision 3 film stocks. Thanks to Kelvin Crumplin of Multivision Entertainment, Panavision, Illumination Dynamics, The Lighting Department and Cineworks for prodividing equipment for the production.
