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Saturday, April 12, 2008

Ticklebooth

The Great Mashup just got mentioned on Ticklebooth.com

Here is what they say about themselves:

"Our community of bloggers have assigned ourselves with the task of finding the best and maybe even the worst (when it can't be helped) of all that can be played online."

thanks for the honor DeK

Friday, April 11, 2008

Kelly Cutrone just put The Great Mashup video as a front page on her website. She is the amazing publicist for Peoples Revolution and is featured in The Hills a reality show on MTV right now. The site is getting a gazillion hits.

check out Kelly here

and the video on her site here

Great web design by Christof Haemmerle at Buero New York

thanks Kelly, great friend you are

it was fun taking the PR logo and mashing it up, just like the rest of the footage

Saturday, April 5, 2008

Busy with other stuff.

Caught up in a long post production process for a fashion gig (the colors need to be perfect).

It has been amazing to put up stuff on this blog, I am not used to writing about the process, but it feels good so far.

The other weekend I shot some beautiful footage that will be fun to get back to when the job is completed and done. Hopefully in a short time I should be able to post the first scene that was directly shot for this project.

Saturday, March 29, 2008

The Great Mashup

From my very first super 8 clip at ten years old of my family and perhaps my first love (the little girl from next door that lingers with her eyes to the camera walking backwards downhill), through all the ups and downs of my life with images, film and video, to an isight shot of my hand while i sat on the floor among the cables putting this video together - completed published productions or projects randomly started and abandoned, with fragments of all of it -this is: The Great Mashup.

If you want a closer look at just the photography you can check out my photography website here, also a study in randomness as the "screensaver" function is a thousand picture slideshow appearing randomly over a grid of 45 samples of assignment work.

The music is also a mashup of various things playing in the background on all these films and videos made, but one piece of music stood out and was featured in a music video from a couple of years back, so here goes a shout-out to my old buddy and great performer Jeremy Parise.

The guy with the polaroid at the end is the same Jeremy who produced The Funeral.

Monday, March 24, 2008

The Funeral

This short was made a few years ago and has been a weird thing on my mind, as it was never really finished and didn't come out perfect. Every now and then I try to open it up and make it better, but truth is, it was a learning process to make it and it did come out OK.

It was done in honor of Arne Stenborg a friend of my dad. He would come and visit for coffee and stay for dinner, a few days later he would go home to his place and get new clothes. Then a couple of months later, he would stop hanging out at our place, and we wouldn't see him for maybe a year or two. I think he used us as a surrogate family as he was an eternal bachelor.

He was a photographer by trade and an amateur film maker at home, he used to film us with a Bolex 16mm camera and take pictures of us all the time. Half the pictures in our family album are black and white glossy old prints made by Arne.

When I got the call that he had passed away, I suddenly got a flood of memories of him, and I realized that he had been one of the earliest influences to my getting into film and photography. A guy I bumped into at a party had kind of dared me to make a movie finally, so when I got the news of Arne's death, it was natural that my memories and gratitude somehow got to be the subject of this short.

Another thing of his was that he wanted badly to make a movie. He had once done a feature he told me that never got completed. They ran out of money as the lab bills got to be too much. After he died I went to a lady that had all the old footage, still on some rolls, I don't know if it really would be enough for a movie, but there was some magical dreamlike sequences in there.

So not really complete either and in honor of early sixties black and white home made cinema we give you The Funeral.

The movie was produced by my long time friend Jeremy Doner, here is the rest of the credits.

Cast:
Tristan Hutson
John Trotter
Anadel Baughn
Julie Skinner
Eamon Behrens
Tom Benton

Crew:
Line Producer: Steve Kleiman
Additional Cinematography: Hisham Abahusayn
Gaffer: Declan Thomas
Costume: Sarah O'Donnell
Art Direction: Maya O'Donnell and Sara James
Make Up: Bridget O'Neill

Special Thanks:

Marni Zimmerman Panavision

Joey Fotokem
Ryan Lee and Coffin Eddie

Sequoia National Park
First Baptist Church of Three Rivers, CA
Billy Hancock and Julie Doctor
Sergei Franklin Earth Video
Sketch and Dani
Todd Kessler

and thanks for helping with distribution

Anders Bramsen

Scandinavia House

and Fly

Friday, March 21, 2008

A Garage With A Hub

I had an idea a couple of years ago about how to find a way to make the least expensive films and still get them distributed, the thinking went that all you needed to get things done was, a place to park your car and a way to connect to the internet. I asked a couple of friends if I could experiment and publish their movies on the web and set up a site. Agwah, the name I use on the forums, is the acronym for A Garage With A Hub.