Ready, Set, OK Go!

Have you seen this? Ya, probably…. I mean, I don’t tend to be on the “leading edge” of much these days. It’s a really amazing video by the band Ok Go for their song Needing/Getting. If you haven’t seen the video itself, you may have seen bits of it in a Chevy Sonic commercial (weird [...]

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Well-Shot

The more I learn about photography and the more time I spend on video sets (all work-related, unfortunately – but still fun!), the more I find I  watch movies differently. I’ve really started to notice the way a shot is set up, how its lit …  I see how different takes are edited together – [...]

What’s your theme song?

Music enhances so much of our lives – it can turn the most every day moments into special memories; it can bring the most mundane of activities to life; it can create tension and drama…. Take any good soundtrack, for instance. Next time you’re watching a movie, listen to how the musics punctuates what’s happening [...]

My Valentine

How do we feel about this? I can’t decide really. Normally, and I think if it were anybody else, I’d hate it. We’ve seen so many of the “greats” from the 60s and 70s fall prey to this shark jumping stunt: Rod Stewart and Barry Manilow spring to mind (though I’m not sure how big Barry’s [...]

Good sports

I thought it would be fitting to write something sports-related, what with this weekend being Superbowl and all. The obvious thing for me to do, of course, would be to post this: …..and write about how amazing his performance was in 2009. That’d be easy and appropriate and all but, instead, I want to talk [...]