Category: Video

Toy Theremin

Need to do more ran­dom videos like this. Here’s toy Theremin I was given as a birth­day present years ago. Squir­relly lit­tle guy, ain’t he?

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Sketchy Betches Pilot

Over the month of Jan­u­ary I had the plea­sure of work­ing on a com­edy pilot episode des­tined for the New York Tele­vi­sion Fes­ti­val 2012 Com­edy Cen­tral Pilot Com­pe­ti­tion. It was directed and pro­duced by local Melanie Case (www.melaniecase.com/) of Killing My Lob­ster fame. I was brought on to edit, and ended up doing motion graph­ics and some sound, too.

We found out recently it did not make the finals, which is sad, but it’s also happy because now I can make the video pub­lic and share it with you. I’ll tell ya, if you’re in to neu­rotic women smok­ing pot and talk­ing about their lady­parts, you’re in for a treat!

With that, I present the pilot for Sketchy Betches. Hope you enjoy watch­ing as much as I did work­ing on it!

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Meeblip Story / Video Feature on Create Digital Music

After the fun we had cre­at­ing both the Mee­blips them­selves and the video behind it (see this post: http://sound-and-vision.org/2012/01/20/meeblip/), we decided to share our expe­ri­ence with Cre­ate Dig­i­tal Music, who with Reflex Audio are respon­si­ble for bring­ing us these awe­some, afford­able dig­i­tal syn­the­sizer kits. We received a very nice email back from Peter Kirn of CDM say­ing they would fea­ture the video when they re-upped their stock, and fea­ture they did! Check out the arti­cle here : http://createdigitalmusic.com/2012/03/meeblip-se-making-our-open-synth-hardware-better-more-available-starting-now/

Thanks to CDM and Reflex for the shout and for the fun music project. Can’t wait to see what you come up with next. (Psssst… XOX style drum synthesizer!!)

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Cinema 4D 2011 Roundup

After two years of free­lanc­ing, I’ve man­aged to land a nice, sta­ble 9 – 5 gig which starts in less than a week. Know­ing your free time is about to become a very pre­cious com­mod­ity is great moti­va­tion to fin­ish up the odd project you might have sit­ting around.

Result? I cleaned up, fin­ished, and edited together this reel of mis­cel­la­neous Cin­ema 4D projects from the last few months. Every­thing that was cool but didn’t war­rant upload­ing to Vimeo on it’s own. We’ve got 300 fps fly­ing Legos, a few idents for imag­i­nary movie stu­dios, a spot for an SF Weekly col­umn, and lots of neon lights. Fun, ran­dom stuff.

Tools used :

Cin­ema 4D, Realflow, Grey Scale Gorilla HDR Light Kit Pro, After Effects, Pre­miere, & Boris FX.

Music : Washed Out — Feel It All Around

Type-F Survival Guide

Type-F is a Tyra Banks branded beauty and fash­ion site fea­tur­ing, among other things, video “tips for camp­ing, sport­ing events, and more style sit­u­a­tions”. Branded their “Sur­vival Guide”, it’s an ongo­ing series of videos that went live today, and that I was was an edi­tor on.


What is typeF’s Sur­vival Guide? — pow­ered by typef.com
Unlike other projects I’ve worked on, I had vir­tu­ally zero cre­ative license with this. I came in to take the rough cuts and assem­ble them with alpha-channel graph­ics. I also mixed sound for most of the videos cur­rently fea­tured here, which included some fancy EQ and Altiverb set­tings to get some audio recorded in a car to match the big-room sound of the set they did most of the work on. It was all mostly a case of “make this look and sound as good as humanly pos­si­ble with the time we’ve got”.
Not hav­ing cre­ative license doesn’t mean it wasn’t a lit­tle fun. I really like all the swoops and fast pace of the whole thing. This is def­i­nitely the most up-to-date com­mer­cial thing I’ve had the plea­sure of work­ing on, and I cer­tainly wouldn’t mind doing more.
There will be more of these released over the next few months. If this is your thing, stay cur­rent @ typef.com/featured-videos/survival-guide/.