Special thanks to Bert from Sesame Street for popping by and taking some photos with us.
J
Saturday, August 30, 2008
John Boyd Photo Shoot
John and I had a fun 15 minutes in the cemetery in Niagara Falls grabbing these promo shots. Looks kinda like Patrick Dempsey a little bit, don't ya think? I think I'm gonna start calling him Dr. McDreamy.
Special thanks to Bert from Sesame Street for popping by and taking some photos with us.
J
Special thanks to Bert from Sesame Street for popping by and taking some photos with us.
J
Friday, August 29, 2008
3 Photo Shoots in 1 Day
Well, today was a busy day. Started off with a nice and fun photo shoot at The Seaway Mall with Jess and Dara, we infiltrated a furniture store and took over, grabbing some pretty cool shots with Dara, then headed into the back halls at the mall and used a pretty cool corridor for a few shots.
Then Jess started the makeup for shoot #2, a "gothic wedding", not having a cool location yet, I decided to go out and take a drive to find somewhere to shoot. I drove around Welland for about an hour, until I came across the Rex Motel. Apparently it's not a real motel, I thought maybe they'd have some cool hallway with old vintage worn down red wallpaper, and cool lamps, but apparently they just take off-line bets for horse and dog racing.
After leaving the Rex and diving into a swimming pool full of Purel I headed down the street and stumbled across a very cool old abandoned building that was once called The Welland Club. Not sure exactly what it was, some sort of Club for Wellanders I suppose. But it looked like the perfect place. I snapped a few location shots, and headed back to the mall where Jess was doing makeup on Dara and Ky our two goth models.
I still had some time to kill so I bought some clothes, nothing big, but a pair of jeans, and some shirts I can wear in Mexico on our honeymoon in a few weeks.
I showed the pics to Jess and we headed back to Club De Welland and grabbed some pretty cool shots.
Here's a few samples from the day.
For Photo shoot #3 I headed over to Niagara Falls, and shot musician John Boyd. He needed some press photos for his website and for an upcoming show, I'll post those shots tomorrow.
Then Jess started the makeup for shoot #2, a "gothic wedding", not having a cool location yet, I decided to go out and take a drive to find somewhere to shoot. I drove around Welland for about an hour, until I came across the Rex Motel. Apparently it's not a real motel, I thought maybe they'd have some cool hallway with old vintage worn down red wallpaper, and cool lamps, but apparently they just take off-line bets for horse and dog racing.
After leaving the Rex and diving into a swimming pool full of Purel I headed down the street and stumbled across a very cool old abandoned building that was once called The Welland Club. Not sure exactly what it was, some sort of Club for Wellanders I suppose. But it looked like the perfect place. I snapped a few location shots, and headed back to the mall where Jess was doing makeup on Dara and Ky our two goth models.
I still had some time to kill so I bought some clothes, nothing big, but a pair of jeans, and some shirts I can wear in Mexico on our honeymoon in a few weeks.
I showed the pics to Jess and we headed back to Club De Welland and grabbed some pretty cool shots.
Here's a few samples from the day.
For Photo shoot #3 I headed over to Niagara Falls, and shot musician John Boyd. He needed some press photos for his website and for an upcoming show, I'll post those shots tomorrow.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Boogie Nights
Ok, for those of you who know me, you know that I have always been a big fan of the film Boogie Nights, and more specifically a HUGE fan of Paul Thomas Anderson. I have to say out of all of the directors working in the industry today, he is by far the most influential on my career.
Well, I watched Boogie Nights again for, probably the nine millionth time, but this was the first time I watched it with PTA's commentary, I don't know why, but I never really like watching commentaries, because most of the time I find it more distracting than anything. It doesn't matter who's talking, who's commentary it is, I would just rather be watching the film. 90% of the time I end up just turning it off and watching the movie. Well, I made it through the entire commentary, and I can't say it was anything spectacular, the best part was when PTA asks for a cigarette at the end. But it definitely gave me hope.
I felt some sort of weird connection to PTA as he was talking about his experience with his first movie Sydney. Since we finished shooting A Life Less Gone, I always joked about how we should call it Hard Eight because of how it has completely changed from my original vision. The original script that Adam wrote created such a huge buzz around Hollywood that we had actors' agents coming out to meet us at the auditions, telling us how original, and inspiring the script was. We had several named actors attached to the film, and to see it go from that, to what it is now, really frustrates, and disappoints me.
I think the is the first time I've spoken freely about this, but I think everyone should know that I'm not happy with the outcome. The film seems to be getting some good reviews from unbias people, but it's been going on several months of festival submissions and we haven't heard anything back from anyone, and it's getting frustrating, to have put this much time and effort into something.
And who knows, my version may not be any better, but at least I know my version is the version I wanted to make, and if I sent out my version, and didn't get into any festivals then I'd know that at least I did it my way, and that I could be happy with the end result, and I would know that I failed on my own terms.
So, this question goes out to PTA, what the hell did you do? How did you cope? What got your through it? And how did you manage to not give up?
Well, I watched Boogie Nights again for, probably the nine millionth time, but this was the first time I watched it with PTA's commentary, I don't know why, but I never really like watching commentaries, because most of the time I find it more distracting than anything. It doesn't matter who's talking, who's commentary it is, I would just rather be watching the film. 90% of the time I end up just turning it off and watching the movie. Well, I made it through the entire commentary, and I can't say it was anything spectacular, the best part was when PTA asks for a cigarette at the end. But it definitely gave me hope.
I felt some sort of weird connection to PTA as he was talking about his experience with his first movie Sydney. Since we finished shooting A Life Less Gone, I always joked about how we should call it Hard Eight because of how it has completely changed from my original vision. The original script that Adam wrote created such a huge buzz around Hollywood that we had actors' agents coming out to meet us at the auditions, telling us how original, and inspiring the script was. We had several named actors attached to the film, and to see it go from that, to what it is now, really frustrates, and disappoints me.
I think the is the first time I've spoken freely about this, but I think everyone should know that I'm not happy with the outcome. The film seems to be getting some good reviews from unbias people, but it's been going on several months of festival submissions and we haven't heard anything back from anyone, and it's getting frustrating, to have put this much time and effort into something.
And who knows, my version may not be any better, but at least I know my version is the version I wanted to make, and if I sent out my version, and didn't get into any festivals then I'd know that at least I did it my way, and that I could be happy with the end result, and I would know that I failed on my own terms.
So, this question goes out to PTA, what the hell did you do? How did you cope? What got your through it? And how did you manage to not give up?
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