The video goes out to the world...
At long last I can show you the video we made.
It's a beautiful quicktime at supbop HERE which is where you should watch it. You'll see all the work that went into it.
For those who can't, here's some youtube.
The music video world is so unpredictable. I thought I'd be out of work for a good month or so, writing treatments that don't get picked.
Here's some of the bands I've written for in the past few weeks that didn't get chosen: Cansei de ser Sexy, The Long Winters, The Academy Is, Band of Horses... I know there's more but they just bleed into one another. I labor over these obsessively, and then they don't get picked. I tell my friend that being a director of music videos is like being the person who everyone wants to be friends in with in high school. You fall for someone, or maybe someone says you should think about them, and you write them a nice little heartfelt letter, and then you find out they're going out with someone else. A lot.
In this case though I returned from vacation, wrote a treatment without thinking about it too much, and the next thing I knew here I am in L.A. having just shot my first major label video a day ago. It's for an artist named Annie Stela on Capitol. There's a huge story behind that, but it's far more to do with the boring minutiae of making a step up and how much more of an investment a major label has in the financial gamble of a music video and how carefully they treat it. I didn't produce it this time, and instead formed a relationship with a producer who showed me what a producer should and could be and it makes this job even better and more rewarding.
The Album Leaf video was very complicated in ediitorial so it took a long time. But I can't take any credit for that; Rob did an extraordinary job cutting it and honestly this is the least input I've ever given to an edit. He's a genius, in my opinion.
Tarin Anderson is so damn good i noticed lately she's been getting hired on all sorts of other videos.
Lots of thanks needs to be shared with the people who let us make this for so little money, like Angela Botta at the Mill and our colorist Damien. I keep coming back to work with Damien because I've found my favorite colorist. And the good people of PS260 continue to be supportive beyond belief. I'm going to work with all of these people again on this next video.
In San Diego a huge debt is owed to these places that feature in the video: Blue Stocking books, which feature in my favorite shot in the video. And also M Theory music. I tried to make San Diego a character in this piece as I've written about before, and having two independent stores getting by in a much more homogonized world open their doors to us was huge. They're just great places in San Diego.
And man my crew, Roberto, Elle, Mike... And most of Kyle Dettweiler, who on hiatus from his work counseling children helped make it all happen more than anyone. He was incredible and I hope he's proud of this.
I want to write more about Vieques, because I think the place has a storied history. I'd like to share some of the experience of this last job, too. It's just been a hectic blur. Today I sit in a hotel room not wanting to do anything but get my strength back. Tomorrow hopefully I return to New York. And when I get there I plan on staring at my girlfriend for about four hours, smiling.
It's a beautiful quicktime at supbop HERE which is where you should watch it. You'll see all the work that went into it.
For those who can't, here's some youtube.
The music video world is so unpredictable. I thought I'd be out of work for a good month or so, writing treatments that don't get picked.
Here's some of the bands I've written for in the past few weeks that didn't get chosen: Cansei de ser Sexy, The Long Winters, The Academy Is, Band of Horses... I know there's more but they just bleed into one another. I labor over these obsessively, and then they don't get picked. I tell my friend that being a director of music videos is like being the person who everyone wants to be friends in with in high school. You fall for someone, or maybe someone says you should think about them, and you write them a nice little heartfelt letter, and then you find out they're going out with someone else. A lot.
In this case though I returned from vacation, wrote a treatment without thinking about it too much, and the next thing I knew here I am in L.A. having just shot my first major label video a day ago. It's for an artist named Annie Stela on Capitol. There's a huge story behind that, but it's far more to do with the boring minutiae of making a step up and how much more of an investment a major label has in the financial gamble of a music video and how carefully they treat it. I didn't produce it this time, and instead formed a relationship with a producer who showed me what a producer should and could be and it makes this job even better and more rewarding.
The Album Leaf video was very complicated in ediitorial so it took a long time. But I can't take any credit for that; Rob did an extraordinary job cutting it and honestly this is the least input I've ever given to an edit. He's a genius, in my opinion.
Tarin Anderson is so damn good i noticed lately she's been getting hired on all sorts of other videos.
Lots of thanks needs to be shared with the people who let us make this for so little money, like Angela Botta at the Mill and our colorist Damien. I keep coming back to work with Damien because I've found my favorite colorist. And the good people of PS260 continue to be supportive beyond belief. I'm going to work with all of these people again on this next video.
In San Diego a huge debt is owed to these places that feature in the video: Blue Stocking books, which feature in my favorite shot in the video. And also M Theory music. I tried to make San Diego a character in this piece as I've written about before, and having two independent stores getting by in a much more homogonized world open their doors to us was huge. They're just great places in San Diego.
And man my crew, Roberto, Elle, Mike... And most of Kyle Dettweiler, who on hiatus from his work counseling children helped make it all happen more than anyone. He was incredible and I hope he's proud of this.
I want to write more about Vieques, because I think the place has a storied history. I'd like to share some of the experience of this last job, too. It's just been a hectic blur. Today I sit in a hotel room not wanting to do anything but get my strength back. Tomorrow hopefully I return to New York. And when I get there I plan on staring at my girlfriend for about four hours, smiling.
