Dear Japan.
Dear Japan is beautiful, demanding, and exhausting. The imagery is that of the everyday ordinary—if you live in Japan that is. However, the editing, coupled with the cinematic technique of shallow depth of field, turns the regularity of everyday into much more. The intrusive soundtrack grinds the viewers' emotions, awakening us even further from the comatose of sameness. Dear Japan is beautiful, demanding, and exhausting.How To Be Alone.
I've started college this past week, and let's just say things are a little different than what I'm use to. This week has been like a roller coaster—full of ups and downs. "How To Be Alone" brought me much needed perspective that remedied the blues.Réflexion.
Like Jock Sturges, Mona Kuhn is a brilliant photographer and a great inspiration of mine. Her photographs are so intimate and so provocative, so beautiful and so potent, that allurement is inevitable. Like many photographers, she has ventured into the world of motion; it seems only natural really. In the hands of a storyteller—photographer and filmmaker alike—an image is a universal tool of impact, regardless if there's one or several. If lucky enough to already be familiar with her work, you will notice the presence of her photographic style in her filmmaking.
Ready For The World // How to Dress Well
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Suicide Dream 2 // How to Dress Well
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My Body // How to Dress Well
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How to Dress Well.
The sound of How to Dress Well was, lets say—unsettling at first. Unpolished, and unprofessional were two words that sprung to mind. However, I began thinking... are my ears so tuned to the flawless rhythms of iTunes' "Top Ten" that I can no longer appreciate the imperfect? So I gave them another chance, dismissing the brainwashed thoughts of what music HAS to sound like. Music shouldn't be confined to formula; but rather, music should connect with its listener. How to Dress Well does just that.Bodies.
Directed by Sam Norton, Bodies is a foggy look into the urban mind. Shot with an inexpensive DSLR and two actors, Bodies will remain as an example of what type of short film I'll strive to make while in Film School. Because seriously, how many more student films of random chases, hostages, and "struggling artist" can society take before riots begin?
ChiTown.
I spent time in Chicago this summer and got to see some amazing things. Saw The Blue Man Group, "Billy Elliot" (the musical), and the filming of Transformers 3! Nothing against Blue Man and Billy, but seeing the glimpse I did of Transformer's filming definitely took the cake. A entire block in ruin, cars and buses burnt out, massive camera cranes looming over—the chaotic surroundings really gave me a dose of what I'm heading into. And I can't wait! Posted is a video I took of some explosive action, and some pictures from around the city. Thank you, iPhone 4.
Woods (Starkey Remix) // Bon Iver
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La Forêt.
Not much to be said... Enter the forest if you dare...
Little Dreamer (Jones Remix) // Future Islands feat. Victoria Legrand
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Little Dreamer.
My Little Dreamer.
Heartless (Kanye West Cover) // The Fray
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