Letters On Paper

I created this piece called "Letters On Paper" over a year ago when we still lived in a 520 square foot cottage in Santa Monica California.  We were staring down some big changes to our family, the way we were living, and our how we'd relate to our work.  I haven't felt super comfortable sharing this work, but I figure if I'm uncomfortable with it, it's probably worth sharing.  I wrote this piece in a series of segments and split the film up into pieces based on those segments.  I hope you can take the time to watch them all in the order I had intended them to be consumed.  I hope you enjoy it.

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Mac Premo

For a week or so I've been really feeling the stress and anxiety of where I am in my head right now.  I've been feeling the weight of balancing work and life.  Balancing creativity and a need to make a living.  I've been struggling to figure out who I am and what I do around here.   Then for some reason I clicked "play" on this piece.   I found it oddly terrifying, and totally comforting at the same time.  I'm so impressed by the piece from an editorial standpoint, but really during my first viewing.  (that's right, my first).  I only really watched for content, finding that it was feeling like Mac Premo was talking to me.  Face to face, man to man.   Hope you enjoy.

Year In Review 2013 (Year of the Baby)

If you ask me, I think we had quite an amazing year.  Some of the biggest changes in my life occurred during this last year.  Honestly, this might be the first time I've ever been sad about the passing of another year.  I feel like we've really become quite an amazing unit over the past year especially with recent addition of Oliver to our family.  Clearly if you follow me on Instagram you know that this has been the year of the baby.  I am sure that it's not the most fun thing for you to look at over and over again.  However, this has been a huge transition in my life, and its been all about him.  Much like your life is about art, or puppies, or food, or photography.  My life has transitioned to becoming a father which is all encompassing and to be quite honest.  I'm super fucking proud of it and you either get that, or you don't.  No big deal. Hope you enjoy the look at our two thousand and thirteen, and we hope that you'll make it into next years "Year In Review".  Happy New Year!

Holiday Travels in Stills

Hope your Thanksgiving holiday was great and you're getting all set and prepared for the onslaught of craziness that will be the Season coming straight at you.  We're all set and ready for a nice week visiting with family and friends.  However, before we get too far into that, we were just going through and editing some photo's taken during our ultra relaxing Thanksgiving weekend.  Although I got sick on Thanksgiving day and my wife spent all day cooking a nice vegetable only feast for us to enjoy.  We still both found some time to smile, relax and enjoy each other.  It felt great to have a casual holiday with no real expectations at all.  Hope yours was as nice.

The Morning Dance

While you may have noticed that a majority of the content of this blog has disappeared, you may also be wondering what content will be put up because of our forced rebuild. My life has changed so much over the past 4 months.  I'm not really sure where to begin.  I'm not sure that you're even all that interested in how my life has changed and what it all means.  Instead of writing for a few hours to explain to you somehow where I am in my life currently.   I'm just going to do my best to continue to post photographs and films from my current life and see if that convey's some sort of message of who and what I've become.   Or you'll just think I'm being another self serving guy with a blog on the internet.