Stories

This is a short documentary I produced with director Eric Frick featuring a Buffalo, NY vodka distillery that’s been making hand sanitizer. Feels good to tell a hopeful story at the (hopefully) end of our coronavirus era.

I spent a little time knocking around Tampa and Miami (mostly) late last December in an attempt to make the winter shorter and just recently found time (ugh) to do a little edit with the footage. The next time I visit Miami in the winter, I have to remember to bring some kites.

Got out of the studio for a week ish to shoot these broadcast spots for the European market on my vintage Red Epic-X camera. Transistor Studios handled the fresh animation and the the Buffalo A team was on hand to get’re done.

The first episode of Posted is premiering on March 30th at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at 7pm! If you’re in Buffalo and feel like seeing it (it’s 20 minutes long and there should be other entertainment added) go check it out. It’s free!

Spent a long day recently at a local home shooting babies and moms for F!sher-Price with a team of 8 people. One thing you come to understand when working with babies is, they either perform or they don’t perform. There’s almost no middle ground.

Got out to Rochester with half of the A-Team to interview the techsters at Fusion Digital and then to ACP Technologies back in Buffalo for Ingram Micro. Felt good putting the Hemi to work carpooling with 4 personnel and all my equipment.

Got out to Apple Rubber yesterday with a small contingent of the A-team and my friends from Quinlan to make another video. It was nice to see that they’re expanding and improving with a shload of big shiny new machines in a brand new giant addition to their building. I love being part of a winning effort.

I was enlisted by these local creative geniuses to help craft an indie pilot featuring a pair of buddies who fall ass backwards into a government conspiracy. It was many months in the making and hopefully generates some laughs.

Got out to firestarter Stacey Bauch’s office again for some teleprompter action with her and her amazing team. I love working with people who love what they do.

Last winter I found a very special model to work with and eventually after an exhaustive search, a very special location. When spring rolled around, I made a 10 hour run down to North Carolina where all the crucial elements converged after another 2 hours of driving.

I spent a half day shooting and came away with an image I actually dreamt about a few days before heading South. I never really thought much about Andrew Wyeth’s profoundly, poignant painting, Christina’s World, but for some reason, I woke up at 4am with that image in my head and immediately knew I would employ it in my impending work.

One thing my model and I discovered in trying to recreate that classic pose is, painters have a lot more flexibility in arranging bodies, haha.