Nils.at.work.on.the.road

"21 and over" camera crew.

2011-10-12T13:02:00.000-07:00

Good times, good people.

"The Ropes"

2011-04-23T09:18:00.000-07:00

I am in LA working as Camera Operator on TV show called "The Ropes" it will show on FOX. The show is about the bouncers at a club in NYC and their shenanigans. They connive, fuck, and fight. This is the interior of the club we shot at the other night. It is in down town LA and is AMAZING! The crew is fantastic as are the actors.

2010-10-25T12:52:00.000-07:00

I spent 2 months in Kingston Jamaica, working on a film called "Ghetta Life". This is the pool I swam in every day after work and on weekends. Eventually they put enough chemicals in it to turn it blue again but it took awhile.

I haven't been anywhere?

2009-08-24T19:22:00.000-07:00

Well thats not true, Katie and I did go camping at the cool beach whilst Portland was in a heat wave.

havent been on the road for awhile...

2009-03-08T09:43:00.000-07:00

Thank goodness for that, ive been spending my time here where i live in portland or. I worked on the film Coraline for the last year and now am unemployed looking for work like many other people all over the world.

I was the guy who put up the lights and c-stands and flags and bounces and hauled the sand bags, put down the hot glue and moved things around for this shot and many others . It is a terrific film, looks good in 3-d and i hope you get to see it.

on lopez with the boys

2008-12-06T18:18:00.000-08:00

They grow taller, bigger, more mature. I love them and miss them. But here we are on a walk the other way at otis perkins, kaj and i come across a large tree stump

something reallly fun and neat

2008-02-24T15:29:00.001-08:00

pass it on

2008-02-10T15:28:00.000-08:00

a will for creative types

working at laika

2008-02-09T13:55:00.000-08:00

Ah the first week out at Laika on the film Coraline. Here I am.

A film i shot "b" roll for

2008-02-02T14:49:00.001-08:00

They finally finished the edit and made the web site and now you can watch the trailer.

I shoot all the beauty shots, landscapes, nights capes, insects, trees, still life's, moods. What a lovely place it is their in Big Sur and SF!

click to watch trailer

a new post

2008-01-28T16:26:00.000-08:00

Ok, so it has been quite awhile since i have written or posted any photos here but since I have a moment, as i am sitting in the way cool PDX airport that has the nicest wi-fi everywhere for free, and am feeling rather good having just gotten hired for job that lasts till Oct. i thought id share a cool feature that i use while traveling. I have a very short, short term memory, way short, some times only seconds so I use my phone to take pictures of things i need remeber, like where i parked in the parking structure, or what my bag looks like that I checked in. And the 3rd photo is of where I have been work the last couple of weeks, but that is another post.

Nilsi

its missing allot but still interesting

2007-10-16T09:28:00.000-07:00

yamamoto

2007-09-24T09:09:00.000-07:00

the amazing photos of Yamamoto are back in Portland at thePDX gallery, small silver prints hung on white walls.

some cats from japan

2007-09-17T07:30:00.000-07:00

Went to see this show last night Some cats from Japan .
Very inspiring and the first performance was a young man who did throat signing and had a mic hooked up to his chest so he could use his heart beat in the sounds he created, at one point he stopped his heart for what seemed way -to- long. He was a musical yogi or ninja, christ. Tall lanky, long black hair

weekend on lopez

2007-09-17T07:01:00.000-07:00

Bjorn, Kirsten and I flew up from Portland OR. to Lopez this friday, in thier plane "SUPER BOY" they dropped me off and went on to see Kirsten's extended family in Bellingham while I got spend the weekend with my boys. This is Eski casting off on a journey, we found this nice raft down at flat point.

The flight back last night was amazing as it was total IMC the whole way and since Bjorn has this nifty cool GPS unit the navigatio0n becomes awhole lot easier and abit more like a video game. hmmmm? Except that we actually were up there at 7000 ft in the cold air going 120 knts.

I live in Portland now

2007-09-09T07:13:00.000-07:00

Laundry day

2007-05-13T15:37:00.000-07:00

So i was walking to do my laundry and found out some one had lost there heart in the hood. Hope they find it. It wasnt in the washing machine or the dryer.

the giggly pink octopus

2007-05-07T18:23:00.000-07:00

just some thing fun from the dash of the car. I am in portland today and part of tomorrow. Powells book store is of course a good place to get second hand books. the trees are an amazing green this time of year and all the youth wondering the streets have tattoos.

Knocked Up

2007-03-24T23:09:00.000-07:00

The other film I did in LA last summer has a trailer though...

Knocked Up

Old posts

The Believers

2007-03-24T22:50:00.000-07:00

The film I worked on last Oct in LA has a website now for those of you who like those kinds of things. No trailer yet but coming soon

The Believers

And this was my old post about it.

Kaj and Lucas

2007-02-25T09:25:00.000-08:00

I took kaj and Lucas to the Seatac airport this morning at 4:30 AM for their flight to Mexico and the 3 week trip they are on with the Spring Street International School in Friday Harbor. Kaj is looking forward to seeing the Peten jungle again as he doesn't remeber much from the last time he was there, when he was 4? years old. And to hanging with some hot chicks as he puts it. Sounds like a great trip. The second photo is of the two of them on the way to the ticket counter this morning. The first from the ferry boat line yesterday afternoon as Kaj checks to make sure he has his passport.

The moon was laughing in the cold puddle

2007-01-08T18:07:00.000-08:00

The other night during the very full moon, I saw this stark white face having a good time reflecting it self in all the puddles I passed.

winter solstice

2006-12-21T22:41:00.000-08:00

We got up early and drove to the ferry dock where we had to wait for the 7:40 AM boat as the one an hour earlier was four cars too full, then up the mountain we drove and had such a fun day of snowboarding,skiing. Mount baker is our place to catch the hidden wave of gravity. We are tired by the end of the day. Eski got to ride his brand new and longer snowboard he got for his BDay.

winter weather displays

2006-11-30T10:12:00.000-08:00

here are 3 photos taken from the same spot on the driveway not to far away in time from eachother and the present.

Almost winter?

2006-11-01T09:10:00.000-08:00

7AM, after taking the boys to the ferry boat so they could go to school I went out to the mail box to put in the return envelope of a netflix DVD we had. The frost and this horse inspired me to go back and get my low quality digital camera. I have been working on Lopez these past few weeks shooting on video a documentary about the local school and how they are starting to garden at the school and then using the produce in the school lunch program thus teaching the kids how to plant, grow, cook and eat healthy, organic whole foods.

Words are to follow soon

2006-10-14T14:47:00.000-07:00

Kaj and Laurie and Tails all went walking down at the beach the other day. It was misty and nice. Cold but still nice. The house painting is slowly progressing as I find time to do it. I started up top and work my way down and save the bits that are under overhangs for when it rains. Which it is already doing.

A drive North

2006-10-09T11:05:00.000-07:00

I drove North on the I-5 LA to Lopez Island. Here is the trip in a few minutes of stills. I leave LA in the evening, trying to decide what music to put to the movie, this piece by Anushka Shankar inspires me because I start thinking about thinking, which driving is so good for. I think about the past, future, and present. The parts of my life I like and parts I want to change. I am the self critic and the opposite as well. I stop often in places off the road and make a cup of tea, walk around and enjoy being alone. I drive on, sleep in the car one night for awhile at a rest stop, pick up a hitch hiker, see the Shasta dam, make tea. Camp at rouge river, nice place for almost nothing. Get my email in Cottage grove OR. Talk on the mobile phone, send text messages. Stop in Portland to look for Eski's BDay present. Visit Bjorn and Kirsten. Drive on to Redmond to see hong Mei. Wake up to rain again and stop in Seattle to get fish and a sleeping bag, going north with all the rest of the crowd getting out of the city for Friday weekend in Oct. I miss the ferry and have to wait till 5 pm to get on and then off again on Lopez.

my drive north on I-5 on Vimeo

2006-10-03T18:25:00.000-07:00

I feel like all the photos are of me recently, I certainly have an ego but the real reason is that I had lost the cable that downloads my camera on to the computer. Well now it is found and again I can post photos worth a few words. This one is of me and Marie in the meat packing plant in downtown LA where we shot for a week. No sun, no air, dirty, ghosts, gross but still I found it interesting in my own twisted way. I am sitting on the wheel chair dolly waiting for the camera to be put on my shoulder. Another long shot in a dark hallway.

Im back on the cameras in LA again...

2006-09-14T22:02:00.000-07:00

Here I am hanging out on the set of the film "The believers" yesterday in the hot So Cal sun. The camera assitant is a Chinese girl named Marie or Shou Gong and the film is a short 15 day shoot and goes straight to video, or TV? Its fun, its money, nice people too.

So it has been a month...

2006-09-07T20:42:00.000-07:00

or longer actually but hey who is counting. I always need good photos to write to or good music to paint to or... Here is a fav picture of Eski in an airport somewhere on the west coast this summer as we seemed to be all up and down its 1500 mile length in a short enough time, on Lopez, visiting Portland, Bjorn Kirsten and seeing my mother and going to Patty B's dads memorial service, He was a great man, Jerry baum. Radical, anarchist letter writer, communist walker and user of public transportation. Ah life is too short. And then living a lot of time in LA, trying to walk on my weekends away from work , because I get tired of driving, want to save money and gas and hey everything I need is in a short enough distance and I can still walk as I'm young enough you know.

a couple of paintings

2006-07-28T21:01:00.000-07:00

I made these two paingtings as gifts to my Camera assistants on the last two films. Camillie did the film "Home Land" in Seattle with me and not only did we have fun but it was so nice to get to know her and as she is a Buddist and I had found this little Buddha statue in the park I decide she needed it.
The eye is for Paul Horn, my focus puller on "Knocked Up" who left yesterday for another job on which he will be the operator. I made this one for him as a eyeline marker he can velcro to his matte box in ordser to give the actors a unique thing to look at.

Love both those guys. Hope to get to work with them again.

The chicken

2006-07-11T23:51:00.000-07:00

This is a close up of the little chicken that lives on the camera and when the camera dept gets inspired we find a place on the set to put the little guy so that it will be in shot one way or another. We are discrete and subtle, finding the unique spot that is hidden but also visible is a load of fun that keeps us on our toes all day. So when, and if you see this film in the theater, DVD or Web make sure you look for the chicken!

My new haircut

2006-07-05T20:47:00.000-07:00

So today at lunch I went down to base camp and got my hair cut by Nanxy our hair designer. My hair was getting at bit unruly, the crew gave me a round of applause when I got back, Paul took this nice photo on the camera truck this afternoon as we wait for our turn to do an insert of another TV

Photo coming later

2006-07-02T08:53:00.000-07:00

Saturday and I didn't get in my car once. I had pulled my back helping to move the camera dolly on Friday night at work so I made a point of not doing much today, I rested, painted, walked to the store for limes and lemons, ate at my favorite crepes place down the road and rested all day. Very nice.
...Later...
Here is a photo of my crew, left to right, Jon the on set dresser, Paul the focus puller, and our hand model stand in, Courtney as we do some inserts of hands holding positive tests for a montage in which the main character and her sister frantically pee on 30 pregnancy tests.

The next week end

2006-06-26T03:08:00.000-07:00

Its late Sunday nite, early Monday morning, I cant sleep so i will post a blog. The warm winds are blowing their ghosts around here in LA. I work long hours a making good money finally, doing a fun job with some really nice people. This weekend I do all the stuff I like to do. See a film, see friends, paint, work, do the laundry, sleep not quite enough, talk on the phone, go out for Sunday brunch, read the NY times, flirt with the waiter, write emails, make plans. Also get a camera, lights and shoot a screen test for Laurie and Niki's upcoming film.

These are pictures of bird formations over Denmark that I think are really cooool.

A weekend to do stuff...

2006-06-11T14:10:00.000-07:00

Like eat out, read the paper, emails, rip a few good reggae disks from Suzannes awesome collection, pick up my repaired sunglasses, they got dropped when we were shooting at Knotts Berry Farm a couple of weeks ago.
Buy a few groceries and plant two tomato, 3 basil and a multitude of greens out on the balcony. Change the oil in the car, water the plants at a friends house, oh yeah and sleep!

My place in LA

2006-06-08T23:50:00.000-07:00

I finally have a semi permanent place to stay in LA while working on this film. It is across from the Hollywood bowl so am looking forward to hearing the summer concerts but not the crowds that come with them. Ah well. I am almost never here but on weekends I hope to be so I have set up my painting studio here on the desk. 3 new paintings are taking place.

A photo of me at work

2006-05-26T12:30:00.000-07:00

Another drive south on I-5

2006-05-23T20:13:00.000-07:00

This time I was able to find away to walk along one of the canals that move tons of water around California. I wonder at them.

another photo I like

2006-05-19T20:07:00.000-07:00

This is one of Kaj and Laurie around christmas time I think, we went to the beach and had tea and then a walk in the woods. I had my Lieca IIf and a 35mm lens, some Illford black and white negative. They look good standing together. This has been a long fun week in LA on Knocked Up.

a lot of work

2006-05-17T00:18:00.000-07:00

I am tired. I having been working 12-14 hours a day for the last few months and have two more months to go at least. This new film I am on as camera operator. There are so many things to do as the operator besides just making nice shots all the time. There is lighting, crew management, communication, jokes to be told, food to be eaten, shared looks, sign language for setting lights and flags. The list goes on. We all work together in small spaces for endless hours and then scatter at the end of the day. I am staying at friends houses in LA here and there. Sofa surfing but not quite.

home land scouting

2006-04-08T14:42:00.000-07:00

We were in Arlington, Washington, scouting a potential cabin to shoot a number of scenes for "Home Land" when out of the dark woods pops this gigantic tree, with a beam of light saying "come hug me." So I do. Here is the photo.

A Spring day

2006-03-27T23:43:00.000-08:00

It was the first day for a small , cold dip in the pond, the fish were jumping and I waded out to get the hook and bobber that Eski and I had lost in the pond yesterday afternoon. We are really bad at fishing and I think the trout are happy about that.

Pressure washing done

2006-03-27T09:35:00.000-08:00

After many weeks of getting wet and one day of falling off the ladder I finish pressure washing the house and garden trellis and fences. There is a lot of surface area on this house.

BB Guns

2006-03-18T14:45:00.000-08:00

Are so much fun! We shoot cattails down by the pond and pine cones off of trees

Snow again

2006-03-10T18:12:00.000-08:00

On Lopez this very cold morning it let loose with a sprinkle of flakes that became ice and then slush. I woke early, the sky was blue, alot going on with Laurie getting ready for another trip to Nz and me getting ready to shoot a film in Seattle.

Seattle Public Library

2006-03-04T07:43:00.000-08:00

Two photos of the library where I spent some time looking at books. Lucky for me I meet my friend Janis, from Lopez on the ferry boat and she lent me her coveted library card. The second photo is of an installation work at the library that you see coming down the escalator to the ground floor, or is that level 3? My suggestion is that when at this Library suspend your need to know where you are or what level you are on as they all seem to coexist in one place at the same time, a unique sensation of chaos in amongst the Dewy Decimal system that thrives on order.
Rem Koolhaas is the genius in charge of this building.

Spring sprung

2006-03-01T15:24:00.000-08:00

Well the plum tree did what it always does in the spring. Thank goodness I had nothing to do with it, nature does it best.

Mount Bakers Glory II

2006-02-25T12:20:00.000-08:00

--1--Laurie @ Lunch
--2--The drive down the mountain
--3--After Kaj takes a ski lesson

I woke up

2006-02-20T21:47:00.000-08:00

In this field after having pulled off the freeway late at night and driven down the road past the truck stop a way, I wanted to sleep in the quiet and not hear the hum of diesel trucks. In the crisp morning breath of waking up I discovered this tree and gully next to my sleeping spot. And a vineyard. I get back in a drive north all day, stopping in Shasta for lunch and reaching PDX by late evening. I have a really nice talk with Kirsten and then fall asleep to wake up early as I have things to do in Seattle tomorrow.

Proof that I speed

2006-02-20T13:24:00.000-08:00

Here it is, in the dark night of I-5 North in SOCAL. I left LA at sunset and drove for hours. Lucky for me the sun goes down and I don't have to see the, to me, most boring part of California. My itues is on paryt shuffle until the battery goes out and NPR starts to repaeat itself.

Diego's Bday

2006-02-16T21:02:00.000-08:00

Diego has his birthday party the night I get to LA. It was at a vegetarian Ethiopian restaurant on Fairfax Ave. Good food nice to meet new people and an evening celebrating a good man.

Mount Bakers Glory

2006-02-11T10:25:00.000-08:00

It was cool, cold, sunny, and a ton of fun. Laurie couldn't come as she is away working but we had a lovely time shredding the slopes of Mount Baker.

Garden in progress

2006-02-09T16:29:00.000-08:00

Much mulch was thrown in the air and on other people after Juniper showed up after school was out and then Eski came home too, and even more hay was thrown, and dogs were chased. Massive amounts of food will be grown this year in our enlarged plot!

1st audio blog

2006-02-08T20:43:00.000-08:00

My new other Blog

2006-02-07T15:49:00.000-08:00

my paintings blog
ebay.com
I have started a new blog where I am posting paintings that I am selling on eBay. I will post a new one every week.

PG&E Shoot

2006-02-02T21:32:00.000-08:00

Squirrels and cats running around a house turning on appliances. That's the concept for the spot. The DP Rodrigo Preito gets nominated for anOscar the morning of our shoot so there is much excitement and congratulations , his mobile phone never seems to stop ringing. these are photos of my friend Diego.

time travel

2006-01-29T22:02:00.000-08:00

Here is the clip of all the photos from my camera which was mounted on the dashboard for 3 days of driving, from Lopez Island, Wa. to Los Angeles, Ca. in 4:45 sec to the sounds of the Dandy Wahols, Eski's favorite tune.

View this clip on Vimeo

driving south on I-5

2006-01-28T09:51:00.000-08:00

Took the 11AM ferry to Anacortes, drove to Redmond to see my sister, Amy. She was busy as a "Snake on Easter" But it is always nice to see her. I continue South for hours and hours through rain, hail and all the other Friday evening drivers. 8PM I reach PDX and visit with an old art school friend Alison O'Donoghue and meet her 11 year old daughter.

my fav photo today

2006-01-27T21:58:00.000-08:00

My fav photo today

WindyDay

2006-01-26T19:33:00.000-08:00

View this clip on Vimeo

Lopez Blossoms

2006-01-24T14:15:00.000-08:00

The orchard is coming out for spring weather. We have a plum tree in the orchard that is showing up for first sun already and it has these lovely little blossoms poking out. It must be time to do some pruning.

Tukwila and the monitors job

2006-01-23T23:02:00.000-08:00

So, waking up I saw one of my favorite sites, the colors, and the bags. The bags mean I am working and homeless and they are bright and sturdy, there are some nice clothes, toothbrush, sewing kit, chargers for all the electric gadgets, books, drawing paper, pencils, and a few things that might just be "STUFF"

I drive to Seattle this morning to pick up a Arri 16mm SR take it to Tukwiloa to a place that supplies Plasma screens and LCD monitors for "events". We set up and then try to decide how to expose for the monitors. Are they light sources? Are they practicals? What colours should they be?

It was fun...

2006-01-22T09:27:00.000-08:00

Reminds me why I'm not in a rock band though.
It was such a treat to collaborate with Tobias and to be able to physically bring about the vision that we both had for the video. A boost in my confidence as a DP to be sure. We had 3 kinoflo's, the overhead house lights, a 750 watt lamp as the hard edge kicker on the band with a slight blue gel to separate them from the wall that I warmed up with the par cans low from the stage left side adding texture and patterns to the wall. I used a spare cymbal on a stand to create a halo/UFO effect over the band and then for the auditioner I put up a kino directly over the camera to flatten out the modeling. The lamp on the far right provides a hard edge for them as well. I think it looks good.
Once we had set up then Tobias takes over directing all the people who show up to be in the video. I am able to sit down for much of the day as the cameras just kept rolling in between takes. The video will consist of many jump cuts but with the locked of cameras will be a really neat effect I am thinking. I'll post the finished product when it comes available

the music vid for The Prids

2006-01-21T08:19:00.000-08:00

AudioCinema
The Prids
Tobias and I had been talking for the last week on the phone and by emails about the shoot, the concept and organizing it.

The Oregon lootery shoot

2006-01-18T18:14:00.000-08:00

I remember now why I gave up being the camera assistant. The details are tiring, the standing up all day, grueling. The glory of being creative, none. So after being at the camera rental house from dawn to dusk I retire to a place around the corner to wifi my posting and chat to Tobias about are upcoming music video shoot. Its nice to be in one of my fav places, PDX.

Back to Lopez

2006-01-16T09:22:00.000-08:00

It was one of those long tiring trips that took me from 8am leaving Burbank to 4pm when I got to Lopez and crashed on the sofa for a long nap. Its quiet here and has rained so much that all the driveway is flooded as are the low fields around the house and of course the outhouse is flooded again this year as well. Mount Baker ski area is closed due to too much snow! Something like 8 feet in a week and dangers of avalanches. I get some work done around the house, pull my back and try to rest which I am not so good at. I decide to start a series of small paintings of a single object that I will then auction on eBay. There is some one out there that does this already at one painting every day. I think I should start at 1 per week

Los Angeles

2006-01-11T07:57:00.000-08:00

a long trip

2006-01-07T21:38:00.000-08:00

it takes me from 7 AM when I get on the ferry boat on Lopez till 6PM when I finally get a rental car to make it to Burbank Ca. Wow it truly is a long boring time. I do enjoy the small kiosk in Oakland airport that sells muslim pie, very delicious!

the cat offering

2006-01-03T16:24:00.000-08:00

Kaj offers his brothers cat Tim for affection and admiration. Tim is a good hunter and loves his family with lots of lying around on top of us.

a wind storm blows outside

2006-01-01T19:15:00.000-08:00

But we are back inside after a walk in the wind and then a cup of chai and a little champagne at the picnic table at Odlin state park.

a new year arrives

2006-01-01T00:09:00.000-08:00

Here it comes to Pacific Standard Time and we are all at home dancing and doing nothing much, reading, checking up on the WEB and making funny comics from our photos of xmas holiday times.

Long nights

2005-12-27T14:27:00.000-08:00

The lights got put outside this year on the little tree next to Kaj's room. The night begins so early these days that I feel rushed to try and spend anytime at all out in the sun, just doing anything to have some blue sky and wind. The mist on the window is because our house doesn't dry out much at this time of year as it seems to rain ALL the time.

Holiday

2005-12-25T19:08:00.000-08:00

We live on a island but too bad its cold. Anyway, we had some presents to open this morning and there were some stockings too. Kaj and Eski both got new kites and so we went out this afternoon almost-dark to the beach for a test flight. The blue French military kite looked so lovely hovering over the water and then it was wet. At home again and there was some napping and now dinner time. Damn it gets dark early!

Winter in the North

2005-12-16T10:23:00.000-08:00

The pond is frozen and deceptivly looking shallow in the morning sun. We all got up late this morning because the electric company shut off the power last night to do some pole replacements while we slept, thus since our lives revolve around electric power we were unable to charge our batterys till later.

Long ride back to Lopez from Piha...

2005-12-14T17:51:00.000-08:00

This is a photo of my friend christopher in Sydney going for a snorkel at clovelly beach.
It took us 3 days total time but only 2 days by calandar to travel from Piha to Lopez via car, plane, train, car, fery boat. Wilmot, good to speak with you today and i think you may be my only reader. spent the morning rearranging my studio in the living room and then doing some paingting until I suddnely realized I had to take the truck full of trash and an old dryer to the island soild waste centre this cold afternoon , that done and rushing home to help Eski cook a dish for his school potluck and other homework assignments, breathe, eat.

kaj finds bugs

2005-12-10T21:07:00.000-08:00

here is Kaj the Moana playing with a bug that had crawled its way on to Lauriew iBook some time this afternoon. Kaj is doing a photography class in school so many photos of the bug are taken.

Bushwalk and mussels on the beach

2005-12-08T12:38:00.000-08:00

What a day this was! We went on a bush walk up through the Waitakere ranges to a remote beach that to get to we had a rough climb down a cliff with three rope sections to help us down the tight spots. After we got down to the hot sand we gathered a few sticks of wood for a fire our friends and there friend Jim had started. Then Jim showed us this cave that is only open at low tide whence we proceed to make our way through and out the other end where the rocks meet the west coast of New ealand. We swim across some rocks to another cave in to which the Maoris used to use as a hide away from fighting tribes due to the fact it is almost inaccessible at the most of times. On our way back we harvested a bucket of mussels for a nice cook on the beach, the boys both tried a bite but decide the texture was just too disgusting and ate crackers and avocados instead.

Piha, The Gap

2005-12-06T22:03:00.000-08:00

Here I am surfing The Gap at Piha beach on a low tide. The ride is excellent because the wave is trapped in the small canyon and can only continue forward and not out sideways.
Kaj gets a rough ride and ends up with a rock rash
Eski stayed at home but Laurie came out for a ride as well.

Piha Beach

2005-12-04T16:59:00.000-08:00

Kaj Eski and Laurie are here with me in Nz at Piha beach about an hour west of Auckland. Laurie and I are finished working on the job we came for so yesterday we all went for a surf, very nice. Today after visiting a friends house that actually has internet we are going into town, I have a doctors appointment and we have errands to do. I am getting shots for my upcoming job shoot in Africa and India for 10 weeks. We are going to try and see a film and maybe get some christmas shopping in as well.

Lopez Island

2005-11-16T06:51:00.000-08:00

Its dark, a bit chill in the air and dark. I''ve been here a few days, got in just in time to see Kaj and Eski in thier repective plays. I'm doing all the stuff around the house that always needs doing, fixing things that break, clearing leaves, cutting black brerries back. To day the dump is open so I will do that too.
Seeing Laurie, talking, watching movies, riding Eskis electric bike, looking for work for next month.

So I'm in LA

2005-11-07T10:51:00.000-08:00

Ive been here staying at Shiho and Andrews house enjoying not moving andd seeing old friends and working on Bi-The-Way when they call me up to shoot. I'm wondering how much longer this job will continue as they take down time to think about the project and wonder what is next. I find my self trying to find the next job.

Where I've been lately

2005-11-04T08:53:00.000-08:00

Here is the route map of this grizzly journey I've been on for this film Bi-The-Way. I had a few hours to myself yesterday and enjoyed them all. Took myself to see Capote which I highly recommend, engrossing and a finely crafted script plus amazing acting had me emotionally drawn in for the entire film. Caught up on some sleep and drove Shiho to the airport for her trip to Washington DC. Got to go shoot this morning and all this weekend.

My Blundys...

2005-10-24T10:06:00.000-07:00

My Blundys taking a foot break on a misty beach in Northern California. The mist rolled in this morning and We had gotten out to film some beach footage , I quickly took off my boots and rolled up my pants and splashed around in the waves. The black sand sticks to my feet after I get back in the car.

Seattle today

2005-10-18T12:10:00.000-07:00

This photo of me climbing a tree some where in Eastern Oregon was taken at a rest stop with an interpitive display about the hard ships of life on the Organ Trail by the award winning photographer Wilmot Kidd. Misty and cool, such a contrast to where we have been lately. My lips aren't feeling parched but I miss the glow of the sun on my face. My still camera battery was left in a hotel room somewhere charging, and so I am relying on Wilmot's photos now for my blogging inspiration. We are ensconsed at the Super8motel next to SeaTac airport while waiting for Jane Han, or "The Han Dynasty" as we have come to call her. Some how her plane connection didnt function in Las Vegas last night at 1 AM so she spends the night at the airport. This morning after I realized that we would spend most of the day in a cafe doing internet I looked up this incredible site for the best place to hang for the afternoon. Caffeinated and Unstrung
I seem to be the one on the trip with the least clothes so I am the one who says "hey who has dirty laundry" and then get to find the coin-op. The dryer hadn't finished by the time it was time to pack up for the airport so damp laundry accompanied us all day long in the big yellow bag.

Provo Utah

2005-10-15T10:49:00.000-07:00

We make it to Provo Utah this afternoon. After being told we need permission to shoot on the campus I take a small break while they round up interviews. I go to the BYU art museum and enjoy the photography exibhit. After a couple of interviews and a garden burger at the creamery cafe we head out to find accomidations and do the internet for a few hours and then acting on a tip find a friday night provo Utah hang out where we interview people till 2 AM. I fall asleep on the drive back to the hotel. Sorry no photo today.

I love the warm sun...

2005-10-10T19:55:00.000-07:00

This photo from Sydney NSW Australia reminds me of the sun on my face and shoulders. It is cross processed slide film taken with my Lieca IIc.

Today was a regroup day here in Tempe Arizona, a few interviews on campus and me doing some laundry while the rest of the crew does producer duties and Wilmot changes the oil in the car, makes keys so we can all access or house on wheels with out having to find him when ever we want in. October in Arizona is a nice temperature. We have an interview this evening at 11pm and Wilmot has turned me on to Bittorrent so I am looking to watch "Shermans March" on my computer. It is one of my favorite and most inspiring doco's.

Finally a internet connection

2005-10-09T10:24:00.000-07:00

After many long days of driving and shooting, we find a hotel that has wireless internet and all plug in to do emails and blogs, collect podcasts, download and upload. This photo is of our first day on the raod in northwest Texas on the way to Roswell NM. It is hard driving, riding all the time and then when not moving getting out to shoot. We are meeting some amazing people who all have some really interesting things to say about love and relationships. The movie also has a website where they blog at www.bithewaymovie.com

A photo I like

2005-10-05T10:38:00.000-07:00

Here is a photo of Jo's pool in Dallas that Wilmot helped me photoshop to perfection.

Last day on Lopez for awhile.

2005-10-05T08:52:00.000-07:00

Last day on Lopez for awhile. Been ripping DVD’s to the hard drive for research refrences. The hard drive space is running out. Inspiring things. So many things left undone around the house though. For example painting it. That will take a while when it happens. Karen Fisher gave me a lift from the ferry to Sea-Tac this morning, thank you Karen as the bus ride is long and boring with out some one interesting to talk with.

Lots of time to hang at the airport before the flight to Denver and Dallas. I made a point to see all the great and not so great public art on dispaly and admire the sleek planes from the large windows SEA-TAC has. To bad there isn’t a place to go outside on such a nice shiny day.

Morning on Lopez

2005-09-28T20:00:00.000-07:00

Woke this morning to a dense fog. So nice to be with Laurie and the boys. They still have some of their surfer hair from our summer together in Baja Sur. And the garden produce is over flowing the house and onto the porch. Things need doing, light bulbs need changing, car oils need changing, stuff from us being away all summer, and then the chores that one assigns one self in a relationship with others and objects.

Redding CA-PDX

2005-09-26T21:49:00.000-07:00

When I woke this morning this was the first thing I saw.

The jug was glowing with light. I drove all day, stopped once at cow creek to have luch and take a dip in the water but after getting in half way decide it was too cold and just sat in the sun instead. In Portland I went over to see Eric E. at his "office" which seems to me more like the greatest studio space and he showed me his amazing infared photos and we talked about camera stuff. Had dinner with my oldest brother Bjorn and Kirsten his wife of 20? or more years. And now I sit on their sofa writing.

I'm tired behind my eye balls.

2005-09-25T21:40:00.000-07:00

I'm in a hotel in redding Ca.. I'm tired behind my eye balls. Sitting in a car driving is mind numbing. I left LA this morning and drove on cruise control all day. Stopped in the afternoon for a cup of tea on the back bumper somewhere up at the north end of the San Joaquin valley.

I find that the most lovely part of the valley and where there has been a grass fire the color contrasts are exquisite. Had a sandwich for dinner and some water.
This really is the beginning of the film for me because I am doing research on equipment and thinking all day as I drive about how to shoot and edit a on-the-road montage that is not cliche, hasn't been used a thousand times. We have all seen them, boring. No two road trips are the same.

I don't want to leave..

2005-09-24T20:29:00.000-07:00

I'm at Maryanne's house, and have to pack all my stuff and get ready to drive tomorrow. But I'm having such a good time with Maryanne I don't want to leave. We packed her garage and sorted things out for here garage sale. Spending time doing things with her, talking, its so nice to have such love and camaraderie