The Oxford Olympic Triathlon

Sunday September 26 we shot the Oxford Olympic Triathlon hosted by Mike Nusbaum at Paceracing.org ... by "we" I mean wife Tracy, son Doug and myself. I shot the swim start from a canoe, the bike race from the back of our van and placed a tiny HD camera on one of the athlete's bikes...we had a great time all day long. This video is a 70 second "teaser" for the full approximately 12 min video that's being edited this week and possibly next as well...it's a monster undertaking and the longest film we've done to date. We shoot a Half Iron Triathlon on October 10th at Round Valley reservoir.

http://vimeo.com/15415903

Stanhope House is Open For Business

Tonight, Saturday Sept 11 is the official opening of the Stanhope House...last Saturday night, we shot Carmen Cosentino and his band, Real Rock Drive. Here is one of the tunes that night as the sound track for this video and the night's festivities..it was owner, Jon Klein's birthday...another group of friends also celebrated a birthday as well...the meat of the evening boiled down to five minutes. It was fun.

http://vimeo.com/14884941

A Night at the Stanhope House

The one-time 19th-century roadhouse has been a music club since the 1960s, hosting primarily blues acts, including Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Tonight, we shot Carmen Cosentino and his band The "Real Rock Drive"... what a great night. The place really rocked. I'll have a video completed maybe by tonight...Special thanks to Richard Urmston and Jon Klein for putting together a great club.

Kindred Quilts Music Video

I loved the music on the Kindred Quilt video so much that I just cut a music only version... ..basically, I removed Toby's voiceover as well as the testimonials... tightened it up, changed a bunch of shots..and voila...a new video..it's the same..only different...

http://vimeo.com/14621212

Congratulations Travis and Becca

A beautiful wedding on a beautiful day. Outdoor weddings in August have a special feel to them...warm, sunny and comfortable. Big tents, an archway of balloons, good music, lots of great food and drink and a dance floor that took a beating..oh and lots and lots of tattoos.

Tracy and I really enjoyed making this wedding video and were made to feel like part of Becca and Travis's extended family the entire time. We started shooting at 10am and called it a night around 9:30pm...oh and was up and back at the Sunset Inn at 5:30am the next morning to catch the sunrise with the camera for a time lapse shot I just wanted to be in this.

We have a ton of great footage... most of which didn't make it into this short trailer but will sure to be in the 30 minute feature due sometime this fall. This short trailer is intended for family and friends who couldn't be there as well as a thank you to the guests as well.

Thanks to Becca and Travis for giving us the opportunity to capture this day for them.

You can link to this video with the followingurl: http://vimeo.com/14582439

Starting the Becka and Travis edit

I'm getting ready to edit the trailer for Becka and Travis's Saturday wedding. Just setup my second, 1 terabyte G-Raid video drive to edit on and took awhile to get that going....then had to transcode my selected shots..and THAT takes forever...

My goals is to get the trailer completed today, up on the blog and to the client by late afternoon. It's the best I can do and still am in awe as to how the SDE guys to it the day of the wedding....anyway... I'm going to use the song "I Wish" by Rascal Flatts, and employ an editing technique called 'time shifting' rather than show the day in linear fashion.... The main film - which will be in the neighborhood of 20-30 minutes - should hopefully be done by early October.

Airport Life at 5am

Orlando Airport. 5am. It beats hanging out at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in N YC but it's no way to start a day. The morning started with my alarm going off at 3am; check out from the Dolphin Hotel in Disneyworld; ( I'm always amazed at how the front desk people at hotels always have a smile on their face regardless of the ungodly hour. I wonder what their shrink bills are at the end of the month).... on the shuttle at 3:40am..met a very interesting russian videographer living in Canada on the way.

Any way, a 6:51 flight to Memphis, then a 12:13 pm arrival at Newark Airport ( in theory)... gotta scout a location this afternoon, recharge batteries, shoot a rehearsal and rehearsal dinner tonight before the big wedding tomorrow. I need a nap...and a shave...too bad I don't drink joe.