I recently visited Jon Langford at his art studio and filmed a performance of Strange Ways to Win Wars, a track from his new Bloodshot record, Old Devils. His talented accomplices here are Jim Elkington and Tawny Newsome. Thanks to Nancy Bardawil and Aadam Jacobs on camera and audio, respectively. If any music journalists are reading this, 1) god help you, and 2) if you ever interview Langford, you can be the first to ask: “Why are you such a fat Welsh bastard?”
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For the last 5 days I’ve been in Taos, shooting stills and video with my friends Diane Izzo and Marco Zas. They’re making a film with the working title Black and Gold. Here’s a picture of Vincente Martinez, one of the fabulous Taoseños we shot. More to follow.
Last November, in my pal Brian Belknap‘s San Francisco garage, I filmed the abundantly talented singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist performing his song Junkyard. Bill Paxton’s character in Adam Rifkin‘s strange film The Dark Backward was based on Brian. You can check out his music here.
Update: you can download 3 albums from Brian’s band Turpentine, for free (!) here.
(The resolution of this clip is very high. It should help to click play and then click pause, then wait for the video to load before hitting play again. Also, if you click on the arrows next to the word Vimeo you can watch it full screen.)
Violet Eyes, a brand spanking new video by the fabulous duo My Gold Mask, has just been posted. I shot and directed the video, which was shot both in HD (with the trusty Canon 5DMII) as well as with a low-res toy video camera (circuit-bent Fisher Price PXL-2000, aka “Pixelvision.”) Working with Jack and Greta and their Pug Roadie was a treat.
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I recently posted a still photo I shot from the Thriller Zombie Walk held in Wicker Park last weekend. Here’s a short film (work in progress) on the event. Thanks to The Goblins for the soundtrack music, and thanks to Martin and Lindsay (the Zombie Walk organizers) and all of the spectacular, gorgeous zombies.
Probably just a coincidence, but I just noticed that this New York Times blog post from last Friday—on the topic of lost moon landing video—opens with the exact same sentence as my blog post from a couple weeks ago on the same subject (“conspiracy theorists, start your engines”). Anyhow, my delusions of grandeur notwithstanding, it turns out the original Apollo 11 tapes were erased, and the “new” footage from NASA is just a freshly restored version. Monday is the 40th anniversary of the moon landing–here’s a Wired article on NASA’s festivities.
Yesterday I took 1,115 photographs from right outside my studio door. Here they are at 60 frames per second. (UPDATE: I’ve changed the Youtube link to point to a newer, 18% more fabulous version of the time-lapse video. The new version is higher resolution, with panning and zooming, and I obliterated the dust parasite that had invaded my camera’s sensor.)
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After being coaxed from his shell, the inimitable impresario Tim Tuten gives a highly energetic and tongue-in-cheek tour of the fantastic cardboard metropolis called The Exquisite City. I shot this video at the original opening of the exhibit at the Viaduct Theater last November. A few weeks ago the show moved to the Chicago Tourism Center, where it remains until March 15th. The show was curated by Kathleen Judge and features work by a bunch of talented artists. Check out the Exquisite City site for more info.
Time is running out! Bombaby Video, on Devon Avenue in Chicago, is going out of business, and prices are slashed. The place is stuffed to the gills with unusual and fascinating CDs, audio cassettes, and videos from the Indian subcontinent and beyond. The exotic titles available here for another week or two are not likely to be found at iTunes or your local hipster record store (not to mention chain stores). Head over there with a wad of cash and do some holiday shopping. Say hello to Sujay, the friendly and charismatic proprietor, and then get some delicious Indian food at one of the many Indian and Pakistani restaurants in the vicinity. (Thanks to Liam for introducing me to Sujay.)
Bombay Video, Chicago. Photo: Jim Newberry
Bombay Video, Chicago. Photo: Jim Newberry
Sujay Shah at Bombay Video. Photo: Jim Newberry
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