TapMPLS - a series of comedic PSAs which I produced, directed and edited for the City of Minneapolis to promote tap water instead of bottled water (which really hurts our environment and our wallets).
Credits: Producer, Director, Editor
Crazy when videos you edited months ago for two different clients are launched live in the same week!
My Life In Lee (Part 1: Jodi) - the first part of an on-going web series featuring real people doing extraordinary things (and probably wearing Lee Jeans).
Credit: Editor
» Paintthatshitgold.com Wins a GOLD Effie Yo!
This is awesome for my friends at Colle+McVoy and Rhymesayers, a relationship I created back in 2008. Good for me, too, as “creative consultant” ha! Nice to see the fruits of our labor recognized like this. Big win!
Alan Luke joined my video crew at Soundset 09 last week and snapped some pics. Here’s one of yours truly going over steadycam operator Jake Gardner’s next move.
Click the picture to see some other great ones of the entire festival.
This one is a bit different - I’ve joined up with the uber-talented photographer Jonathan Chapman to explore the increasing blur between digital photography and digital filmmaking. This piece, titled “Ola 2,” was a test with the new Canon 5d Mark II. I’m a bit of a geek and have been anxious to play with some footage from this new HD-capable, full-frame DSLR. It’s even more exciting that the footage comes from such a creative eye. Check out Jonathan Chapman Photography for more.
Direct link to Chapman’s blog post explaining this Ola series here.
NEW LEE.COM coming soon
I just finished the first of a series of videos for Lee Jeans to be featured on their new website designed by Olson Company.
Holy Buzzworthy
Another P.O.S post - but it’s okay because, well, it’s P.O.S for god’s sake.
Our video for “Why Go” just went Buzzworthy! (MTV)
More blog-love, too:
There are a few more out there…but you know how to use Google, right?
P.O.S did this cover of “Why Go” by Pearl Jam to celebrate the re-release of their album Ten (in stores this Tuesday - March 24).
I shot the video in his living room at 7 p.m., edited it and had it uploaded to MTV’s server by 11 p.m. Pretty exciting to see it all over their networks a few days later and now getting tossed around the internets like a favorite ragdoll.
New York Magazine picked it up
Who’s next?
Some friends made this - check it out if you’re in town:
Isaac Arvold, Eric Inkala, John Grider, and Keiko Yagishita follow up their 2007 “Almost Famous” show with the 2009 “ALMOST HOMELESS” show. The show will be March 28th at First Amendment Gallery.
The Truth Is Here EP/DVD was released today! Buy it, listen/watch it, check out my credit on the back of the album.
Ali is one of the most geniune, smart and interesting people I’ve ever met - I can’t wait to work on our next project.
Colbert, circa 1997
So, I don’t know how to label this one: Cool? Weird?
The one thing I do know - definitely blog worthy.
The Lime iMac you see in this clip is actually mine. In fact, it was the first computer I ever called my own — purchased my freshman year of high school and mostly used to download Biz Markee songs for free from the original Napster. I sold it to my brother (who now works as a Field Producer for The Colbert Report) when he moved to New York. The show needed an old iMac for this bit and ol’ faithful got the call. Colbert is hilarious and something is extra funny about seeing that thing end up on his desk.
Okay - Weirdly cool. And I admit this post is pretty lame, unless you’re me, but hey - who doesn’t like a good clip from The Colbert Report anyways?
Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c on Comedy Central
» Independent Film Channel blog features POS' Hands On Video.
Basking in the love from IFC… a very nice write-up about the insane packaging for POS’ new album Never Better - and a nice nod to the video I made showcasing the art.
P.O.S - Drumroll
MTV2, MTVu
Watch me get my head blown off - yes my HEAD BLOWN OFF. I’m the guy in the ski mask at the beginning (and end) of the video who points directly at some sort of missile, only to be decapitated by said pointed-at missile.
Directors: Todd Cobery & Scott Wenner
Producer: Brady Kiernan
Director of Photography: Bo Hakala
Editor: Joe Martin
Graphic Effects: Scott Wenner
Production Designer: Sarah Kruchowski
Production Company: Rent The Sky
» City Pages features POS' Behind The Scenes Video
Minneapolis’ City Pages blog featured my Behind The Scenes: POS’ Drumroll video today. Pretty great shoutout and plug for the video that will air on MTVu next week. Check it out.
An extended cut of this behind-the-scenes video will be featured on Xbox live (along with the video and a chance to play Skate2 against POS) sometime in the near future, too.
Correction: We did not shoot on a steadycam.
Hands On: Never Better
We did one of these last year for Atmosphere’s Lemons release. Rhymesayers puts out some of the best designed albums and I’m honored to be given the task of representing thim in these viral videos. How else will we get people to actually this stuff?
