Photo #69790008
Taken with Holga 120CFN.
Photo #69790012 aka “6HOST IN F!ELD”
First roll of 120 film back from lab today! This shot with Holga 120CFN
Ron Gatty - All in the Dream. Directed by John Jeffcoat.
In addition to executive producing the song, I was John Jeffcoat’s crew for the video shoot. I lugged around tripods, ran playback sound and even shot a little b-roll. I think John ended up using one of my trippy Lens Baby water shots as a layer, other than that my handy worked was best suited for the cutting room floor.
Source: vimeo.com
Picture # 509
Elaine Summers and I made this video for the Vashon Island Pet Protectors’ Fur Ball auction earlier this year.
Picture #205: Saint Remy de Provence, France.
Dalai Rotten? Or The Sid Lama?
Earlier this year, my interest in taking pictures reached a new level. I’m still a total hobbyist, only now it feels like art. I don’t mean that in a highbrow way. I’ve just found a new, deeply fulfilling creative practice that’s one part punk rock and one part Zen.
I use the original iPhone camera. It’s slow, but for such an outdated piece of technology it’s actually quite crappy. I mean that in a good way. My method is to walk mindfully until something catches my eye, then I introduce chaos by moving the camera, sometimes quite radically, while I shoot. It’s a touch thing—it’s all in the arm. I’m sure I look like the village idiot waving my phone around, but over time, I’ve developed a feel. The element of surprise is what turns me on the most. It’s like adding heaps of echo to a guitar track, you can’t predict what’s going to happen.
Taking pictures is a great way to get out of my ears. As a musician and recording engineer, I spend so much time listening that it’s refreshing to be intently concious of what I see once in a while. Stay tuned to this space for some of my favorite pictures.
With Tchad Blake on the last day of Mix with the Masters at Studio La Fabrique in the south of France. I hope to find time to share some of what I learned at this amazing seminar in the coming weeks.
Caspar Babypants video for “Baby Cloud.” Animation by Piper O’Neill. Guitar solo by yours truly. (FYI: Caspar is Chris Ballew of Presidents of the United States of America fame.)
Today’s workstation for the American Masters show score. Getting trashy. So much so only a real trash can lid would do.
I’m on the cover of the new issue of Innocent Words magazine. Read the article HERE.
Peter Stroud came through town recently. We laughed about how packed full of gear Southern Tracks Studio was when we were making Spacey and Shakin’. After our visit, he emailed this picture of his amps taken during the sessions, but it does not begin to portray the breadth of our embarrassment of riches.
“One of the Lucky Ones” is the track that became “Two of the Lucky Ones.” Download it for free. Happy listening!
Last words.
In Moscozzi Studio control room with Michael Cozzi and his intern, Mark. This is the very first session to ever take place here. Note they have not even put the fabric up on the walls yet. Thanks to Michael for letting Branden Harper and I be your guinea pigs.
For more on this new studio, check out Michael’s blog on studio construction HERE.
