Mount Bakers Glory

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

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

My new other Blog

my paintings blog
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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

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

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.

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driving south on I-5

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

My fav photo today

WindyDay

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Lopez Blossoms

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

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...

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

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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

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

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

a long trip

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

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

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

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.