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“RED MEANS RUN” TRAILER

admin — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:10:02 +0000

I made this trailer along with a great team at Simon & Shuster, it’s about Red Means Run. Red Means Run is a novel by Brad Smith. It’s a murder mystery based on the lead character Virgil Cain, an ex-athelete who likes to be by himself, and gets framed for murder. It’s set in the Hudson River Valley. I made this little trailer for Brad’s book, where he lives in the Grand River Valley, around his farm, and his life, where he likes to be alone. Brad’s never been framed for murder though. Please watch it here. We made it one afternoon. No script.

I grew up around there too, so I did all the early morning footage driving around all my old haunts.

LINCVOLT

admin — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:59:44 +0000

Why the hell are we all still driving polluters? I know one guy who isn’t, he’s a farmer from Canada, he also happens to be a rock’n roll legend, my Buddy Neil Young! He’s converted a 50′s Lincoln into a full electric cruiser, It is one of the coolest cars ever. What I wonder is if a farmer from Canada can make a full on electric car, why the hell aren’t all automakers? Vote with your dollars and support sustainable, local and organic practises in your community, your children and grandchildren, and great grand children will thank you. The system is not going to change top down, so stop waiting, spread awareness and lets build a better planet from the inside out.

The little film above is of Neil presenting Lincvolt at the SEMA show in Las Vegas, Fall 2010. I made it with Neil and Will over at Shakey Pictures

Visit Lincvolt.com for all kinds of cool updates, in shop web cam, voyage tracking and more.

SHOW REEL – TWO

admin — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:12:42 +0000

My second ever show reel. More weird and wonderful, a small spattering of time-lapse, and some post fx work from my infancy. enjoy.

SHOW REEL – ONE

admin — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:42:37 +0000

A small sampling of my film work. I shot, edited and Directed all of these pieces. Included in order of appearance are: Neil Young -”Walk with Me” and “Love and War”, Lanois’ Black Dub – “I Believe in You”, Hallelujah Train feat. Brady Blade Sr. and the Zion Baptist choir, Brian Blade, Buddy Miller, Brady Blade Jr, Ms Ada Small, Daniel Lanois, Aaron Embry and Greg Leisz – “Lord Keep Me Day by Day”.
Thank You for watching.

NUIT BLANCHE 2010 – LATER THAT NIGHT AT THE DRIVE-IN

admin — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:35:20 +0000

In partnership with Scotiabank and the City of Toronto. Daniel Lanois, Mark Howard and myself worked with a team of experimental film artists, a curator and an team of architects to pull off a 24hr (7pm-7am), 100,000 watt (Meyer) surround sound and projection spectacle that occupied an entire city block sized square in front of Toronto City Hall in October of 2010.

This little film is a rough abbreviation of some moments from the night, beginning with one of my short time-lapse films of the gigantic 30′x50′ mirror that was suspended over the sunken boxing ring-like stage.

Daniel and Mark made all the sound, Meyer provided the 24 speaker towers, while I ran all of the prepared imagery and shot live performances.

At midnight we debuted the Neil Young film Le Noise to 25,000 spectators well above the allowed noise level.

It will always remain 24 hours that I will barely remember.

Special thanks to curator Anthony Kiendle, and his assistant Simon Plashkes, and to the Architects at Adrian Blackwell and associates for the speaker/visual pod and stage realizations . Extra Special thanks to the artists who performed all night, Trixie Whitley, Cannonball Pizer, Carolina Cerisola. Shouts out to the other contributors of filmic beauty Nicholas Provost (Kissing Film, and Vegas Cityscape) and Jwest (Fruitloops and marinated film loops). Most of all I want to thank the diehard fans and crew that were with us till well past 7am.

I will at some point add other interesting outtakes and insights from the night as I recollect them.

WATCH LE NOISE ON YOUTUBE

admin — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:36:40 +0000

Click to watch Le Noise the Film in it's entirety on youtube.

You can watch the whole film I made with Neil on youtube. 38 minutes. There are even comments from people who stole it from there with a downloader app. If you don’t care about quality go ahead and do that, but it’s available on DVD and Blu-ray.

Do yourself a favour and watch it with a good stereo system that has a sub and crank it to 11.

WALK WITH ME – ALTERNATE ENDING

admin — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:27:29 +0000

So much power the sound went out.

HERE IS WHAT IS – TRAILER

admin — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:12:53 +0000

This is a trailer for the film I made with Daniel Lanois and Adam Samuels. Anton Corbijn shot the moroccan courtyard scenes. It was the first time i’d ever done anything like it. I’d never shot or editied moving picture before, but i’ve been a photographer since I was about 6. It was a collaborative learning experience examining Lanois’ process inside out. The filming of “Harry” in this film is witness to the birth of my own unique vison. The film as a whole is a seed I will nurture and grow for the rest of my career. It premiered at the Toronto International film festival in 2007. Someday soon I will post the whole film streaming from my site.

“The mystery of the recording studio is what keeps me coming back. Many rewards have come to me through this laboratory. It is my temple, my domain, my frustration and my love. But most importantly, it is my place of innovation. The ultimate drug for me is the ever slippery creative process. My greatest joy in this has come from my associations – the creative, musical and lyrical minds that I’ve been lucky to work with through years of record making. A friend recently suggested that I turn on a camera and try to capture the elusive process. Adam Vollick followed me around the studio to see if we could unveil some of the mystery.”

Daniel Lanois

BLACK DUB / LIVE ON TOUR

admin — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 16:59:49 +0000

SNEAK PREVIEW of Black Dub live. Segments of 4 songs from a great show at Lincoln Hall in Chicago during the inaugural leg of touring November 2010. Features The Last Time. Surely. Love Lives, Nomad Knows

The touring lineup was Trixie Whitley, Daniel Lanois, Brian Blade and Jim Wilson.

LE NOISE – WALK WITH ME

admin — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 21:10:36 +0000

This is the opening of Neil Young’s Le Noise. I made this film with Neil, Daniel Lanois and Mark Howard. This song was recorded and filmed simultaneously in the foyer of Daniel’s Los Angeles home. This was the 2nd of 3 takes. You can get the film and the record on itunes, amazon.com and at your local record shop.