27.11.10

Today, someone tried to send a media message to my phone and my phone wouldn't let me see who tried to send it let alone what it was. It is driving me crazy.

My constant connection to technology and the continual stream of information it brings has created a fear in me. A fear that someone may want to tell me something and won't be able to if I'm not always connected.

It's a stupid fear, I know.

It's also stupid that I'm sharing this fear with you through more technology.

the end.


26.11.10


Anyone want to try this with me?

25.11.10


People tell me that Thanksgiving is all about Turkey and Football. Well I've already had my Turkey and I know nothing about Football, but, if this video is any indication, it seems like a tricky lil' sport to me.

24.11.10

I want you to feel the raw, unbridled power and beauty of this place. I felt that using anything but the unedited clip would subtract from it. I wish I could do more.

'For ever since the creation of the world His invisible nature and attributes, that is, His eternal power and divinity, have been made intelligible and clearly discernible in and through the things that have been made. So men are without excuse.'

- Romans 1:20 (Amplified Bible)

23.11.10

Let me indulge myself for a minute and pretend that there are some of you that eagerly await my video posts each and every weekday. If this is you, I apologize for the last of posts last Friday and this past Monday. I was on a backpacking trip in the snowy adirondacks (more on this later) and then a brief trip to NYC.


In NYC, Davey and I had to go check out every photographer/videographer's mecca, B&H Photo Video where we sent money we probably shouldn't have, but definitely don't regret! I bought myself a beautiful lil' canon 50mm f/1.8 lens, which Davey calls the 'nifty fifty' while he got a sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 wide angle.


Now check out the picture below (click to see a slightly larger version):



Now the picture on the left was taken with my stock lens, take note of the the field of view. The picture on the right was taken with my camera body in the exact position, but Davey's new lens. Check out that ginormous field of view compared to regular! We played around with it a little more as the day went on and, as you would expect, we found some linear distortion in the images, but very minimal amounts. That is one rad lens!




More Set Production, Less Special Effects


17.11.10


maybe I'll be able to make films that look this beautiful one day ...

16.11.10

15.11.10


All shot on a cell phone (Nokia N8) ...

10.11.10

Sometimes, he hits the nail straight on the head.
check it out

9.11.10


I found this beat' a few years back and recently it's popped back into my life. I guess I'll share it with you.

8.11.10


How do I mix my love of traveling and new experiences with my intense desire to have deep and meaningful relationships? I am torn between two loves, neither of which is wrong, but neither is self sufficient.

2.11.10

Up until last week I have always thought that art was an act of creation while science was merely an act of discovery. I had incorrectly held art in higher esteem than science. While I have always excelled at science, I have always strived to succeed at traditional art; drawing, painting, woodwork, film, photography, music, etc. I had strived, but nothing much has resulted.

On a drive home last week I was thinking over the relationship between art and science and what the balance between them is. Some are wired to capture absolutely gorgeous images with little thought or understanding to the millions of processes going on inside their tools they use. Others can understand every little process inside the tool, but are completely incapable of composing an image that the world would fawn over. It was while on this train of thought that I came to the conclusion that art is not only creation, but also the discovery of beauty in monotony. Along the same lines, science is not merely discovery, but also the creation of order in chaos. In a world where everything has already been created, both art and science are catalysts for the discovery of new combinations which create beauty.

My science is art and my art is science.
Both are expressions of beauty.