I closed my eyes on the plane ride back to Minnesota, woke up and it was already November 2nd. I cannot believe how quickly time is passing, and how much has been going on. I feel like a different person after returning from the best week of my life. I cannot relate to other people aside from Sig, Basti, and Peter. On the trip we talked about how it would be like coming back from war. We just spent every waking moment together having so much fun, and now we have to go back to our everyday lives, going to our shitty schools and our shitty jobs, seeing the same old shitty people (not you guys), etc. Enough complaining, here are some pictures from the trip, along with my most recent edits below:
Peter and I filming at the Southern Ledges We ate breakfast almost everyday at Dunkin' Donuts Sig pushing down University This is where we stayed for the entire week Sig at Michelle Blades' apartment
So I just began the best week of my life. Basti, Peter and I just flew to Arizona to visit our best friend, Sig. In just the first day of being here, it's been amazing. The weather is wonderful, we get to skateboard all day, and hang out with one of the coolest people ever. Here are some phone pics that I've taken so far:
I also just finished the fifth and final promo for New Flavors. Peep game!
Everyone knows how much I love Seinfeld. I simply cannot get enough of the show. I have read Jerry Seinfeld's book Seinlanguage, I have seen every episode of Seinfeld at least 3 times, and I am going to see him do stand-up in November. I watch the show so much that I have dreams about the characters. Well it has come time for me to buy a new skateboard and I just could not resist in buying the board below.
The graphic is from an episode of Seinfeld called "The Butter Shave", where Kramer starts shaving with butter. It's actually one of my favorite episodes.
Ahh, October. Is it really already October? I guess it's time to pull out my favorite outfits again. Not only does October mean hoodies and flannels, it means it's time to start making movies again for school. One of my favorite parts of going to film school is that we don't do the conventional college assignments. Oftentimes we don't even really get much homework assigned, other than watching a movie. Since when did watching a movie count as doing homework?!
One of the things I love to say to my non-film school friends is that "I don't write papers for school, I write movies". Here is a short example of the only bit of homework I've done all semester. It's a short exercise showing a scene lit in a stylized way. I lit the scene as if two guys were watching television at night.
I am officially 20 years old, or young? I don't really know what I am. I'm kind of confused as to how I should feel. Should I feel old, or should I feel young? I'm no longer a teenager, but I'm still not old enough to legally drink. Maybe I'll feel different when I wake up, who knows.
I took a photobooth picture of myself on my birthday last year. Do I look any older/younger?
19 years old 20 years old
Well as a gift to myself, I've made another montage. Here's September Part Two, along with another filming update below it. Enjoy it.
Okay so it's been what, almost 2 months since I've posted? Fuck. A lot has happened since then.
-August 18th one of my best friends moved away to Arizona for college. Take a guess at who that is. He threw an awesome going away party, a night that I will never forget. -August 24th I began my 3rd semester of film school. It's been awesome so far, and said awesomeness shall be posted as soon as possible. Here is a photo of me with my film crew: -September has just been really good all around. I've grown closer to certain people in my life, and I couldn't be happier. Though things have been a bit messy with some friends, I'm sure everything will turn around in no time. I have been lucky enough to get some coverage on a couple blog sites. Peep game here to read interviews on Andre Cofield and Sig's blogs.
Last night Basti, Peter and I all bought plane tickets to Arizona. We're going to visit Sig from October 13-19. I'm really excited to see him again, as are Basti and Peter. I'm looking forward to shenanigans and skateboarding with my best friends.
Hmm, what else have I been up to? Well I met a girl, who is super rad. I've also been filming non stop in between work and school. It's long days washing dishes that make me appreciate strenuous filming missions. I'd rather be behind a camera than a sink any day.
New Flavors is closing in on completion. I've hit what Peter calls "the bomb stage", basically meaning that hypothetically, if a bomb were to hit my camera, I'd have a quality video to produce right now. I'm pretty excited to be done with it. Speaking of which, here are some recent montages and filming updates below. Enjoy!
I'm going to try to keep on top of this blog as much as possible but it's kind of hard with the video going right now. I'll post as much skate related material as I can produce or find. Speaking of which, here are some skate flicks from a couple Twin Cities photogs, Alex Uncapher and Sebastian Zeck. Keep up the good work dudes!
Fucking finally. The school year is over and I can resume my laziness. My life until September will consist of skating, filming missions, late nights editing, and junk food. So hyped. I haven't posted in a grip, so I should probably update ya heads with my whereabouts the past few months.
I recently made a second promo for New Flavors. I shot it on 16mm for my final project in Cinema Production 2 class. I got an A!
In April I went to Chicago with Max Byers for a weekend, handled business as usual. Peep game on some of the throwaway from that month below.
Stay tuned for many video updates, as I have been filming all day every day.
Thanks to winter break my internal clock has been tweaked. I have been staying up until 5 a.m. and sleeping until 2 p.m. just about everyday for the past couple of weeks. I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing. Regardless, I've had plenty of time to film every night, working diligently for New Flavors. Taste my flavors:
Coming soon is the ever-so anticipated annual Skateperception montage. This is the first year I've submitted footage and I'm excited to see what made the cut. It's going to be so good that it needs its own promo! Peep game on this teaser edited by Julien Strasfeld:
