Cottonmouth Creek Auditions

I've been a busy boy...
With help from a friend, Josh Butler (President of Texas Filmmakers), I've gotten a job as a camera operator for a feature length film that is being made next month in Shreveport, Louisiana. It's going to be a great time, I'm totally pumped. The shoot should take about 2 weeks of 12+ hour days. I'm heading back there this weekend to finish up with some auditions and do some more location scouting. Also, we're going to test out a camera dolly and camera boom that the Texas Filmmakers has. All and all when we are all said and done, this experience should really pay off for me in the end. I'll keep you posted on pre-production as it unwinds and production when it gets into full swing. Check out the little video I put together real quick from my trip out there a few weeks ago.

Also stay tuned for some for some clips from my rescent journey to the Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama. It was an incredible adventure. I'm working hard on putting a documentary together with my self and my dad, as well as others that made the journey.

Float On remix

And we'll all float on...
The following video is a short I made for one of classes at UNT (Film Styles). I had a blast making it! On two separate occasions we filled my apartment with balloon's, and when I say filled, I mean it. For at least a week after each incident we had to learn to live with the balloons. There were times in which I would have to push them out from under my sheets, or out of the shower. Every time that I left the house a few seemed to want to follow along. In the movie Rhett is attacked and killed by balloons, while in reality I almost suffered the same fate. I'm alive now and have been ballon free for a few years now. Haha. I originally got the idea for this movie from the Don Hertzfeldt cartoon, "Billy's Balloon." I put my own spin on the idea when I shot "Float On." I am a big fan of Modest Mouse and their songs as well as the thought of killer balloons. I originally wanted to shoot it as a clown being chased by balloon animals, but I believe this version is alot sweeter...

In this version of the video I edited out everyone's hand that threw balloons in through the window as well as from behind the stove. There are a few other things that I added to this version. Namely a shorter beginning as well as the balloon picking up the knife and stabbing Rhett. I mastered the audio as well. All and all I'm very proud of this version. This video has been shown at the Angelika theater in downtown Dallas, in a short film festival. When I first made it I didn't have the skills to remove the hands. But now that I do, it only took me a few hours...

The Tomato

Is toast...

A few years ago I filmed this video of The Tomato, long before it was subsequently burnt to the ground. I met alot of my now friends there on many an occasion. Just this past year I was asked if this video could be used in a documentary about the burning of fry st. My video appears along side Brave Combo, who is a Grammy Award winning polka band. Anyway, the documentary is coming out on dvd and my friend has sold well over 200 copies. It's a hit in Denton and for anyone who has ever eaten there. Boy howdy do I miss the place...

Check out this video titled: Bohemia Rising Trailer and Brave Combo's Denton Polka