NYIP On Location: PhotoPlus Expo

This past October, my coworker Chris Corradino and I hit the floor of the PDN PhotoPlus Expo, one of the largest photography trade shows in the nation. Having both worked and attended several large trade events in the past, this one was special for me as it was my first time to go as the press. Chris and I went around and interviewed several key people from companies with a very quick-and-dirty web 2.0 approach: a Flip HD camera and a Zoom H2 audio recorder.

I was particularly impressed by Animoto, makers of some impressive video rendering software where the user uploads their pictures and music and the software does all the transitions and panning. My sample clip – built from stills of my band DBCR and one of our demos – came out well, so I led the interview with Eric Bjornard, their VP of marketing.

Underwater

A video I made for Reiko from clips I shot on my digital cam at the aquarium in Beppu City, Japan. The quality is a bit compressed here, but the song is perfect for it (Avril 14th by Aphex Twin).

Give the Dog a Drink

Here’s a short feature I put together during my trip to Japan in 2008. I’ve always been a huge fan of driving films, so the idea was to chauffeur around a dog that needs to get a drink. That, and there’s something mesmerizing about watching those shutters open up at the back of Reiko’s parents house.

The Train from Jokoji

Another film experiment from my trip to Japan in 2008. We were stranded at this train stop in Jokoji Japan, a small, rural village outside of Nagoya where the trains seldom stop. I ended up shooting a lot of footage of the trains passing by and really wanted to do something with it. The song Insensatez inspired me to tell the story of me stopping the train for m’lady. I really enjoyed the simple pleasure of having titles on the screen tell the story, much like an old film would have had, and I added the film grain filter and some slightly greenish color to give it that dated feel.