I had the great opportunity to shoot a music video for the song “Te Invitamos A Creer” (An Invitation to Believe). The song calls to action the Latino community in America to support Barack Obama for President.

You’ll have to wait and see the video, but the song is about taking action now in order to leave a better world for the next generation.

I was gaffer on “Rapenomics” for Bobby Garcia the other day. We shot in his studio in Jersey and on a rooftop in midtown Manhattan.

Turned out to be some nice setups, and it didn’t hurt that the song is great. Rodney Leconte directed.

The Loud Owls have never been louder. We crammed into their AWESOME, but small recording studio in Williamsburg the other night and banged out a video for “Out Crowd.”

We rigged some Pars up in the rafters and raked the walls. By the end it became rather spotty and reminded me a little of a musical guest on Saturday Night Live. Some day… Man it felt good to be in a studio again. Even though I still don’t know what half the stuff does.

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Stefani Vara’s video for “Water” premiered today on www.Complex.com

My crew’s hard work really paid off. And Stefani looks beautiful.

Brendon McQueen and I shot the music video for “Dandelion Lovers” by Kate Branagh. The shoot involves choreographed dancers in Central Park, green screen, and bubbles.

Kate has an awesome acoustic sound, somewhere between Amy Mann and Feist, and hopefully this is first of many videos we will do for her.

Made the trek up to North Haven, Maine this weekend to shoot hopefully the first of many videos to come for the Chip Hop group 8BITches.

We made use of the small community stage and some tungsten lights. The track features Sinister Minister of StreetWise. 8BITches recently signed with Red Car Records in Boston, and is performing this Saturday, May 10th at The Baggot Inn’s last show! Check them out!

Shot for Stefani Vara and Siri Music Group in Jersey City on the F900. We were in a luxury loft space which is currently under construction (we had to shoot in one of the model rooms).

I mostly used Kinos and a 1.2k par on the bedroom scenes because we got so much great natural daylight. For the performance scene we lit a long hall with hard 1k’s, and a 2k through half grid.

Siri Music just struck a distribution deal with Universal Republic Motown, so watch out for the album in stores.

I got to meet up with Daniel Silverman today, who is part of the Digital Intermediate team over at Technicolor New York. He was able to give me a tour of the facilities. Although it was sad (and exciting) to see an abandoned floor of printed dailies screening rooms and photochemical color graders, it was really amazing to see what their SAN rooms and edit bays can do. It’s nice to see so many people still shooting on film.

Afterwards I stopped by Abel Cine and drooled over the HPX3000. Kind of lame how it doesn’t do variable speeds, but man is the picture sharp.

Apparently not. Doug E. Doug is alive and well, funny as ever. I shot a TV pilot with Doug E. Doug, star of “Cool Runnings” and “Cosby,” in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.

The project is aimed at BET and the like. We shot in HD on the Panasonic HVX at 1080/24PA. The show is sure to be a laugh.

Last September I was DIT for “A Sense of Wonder.”

It was shot on location at Rachel Carson’s cabin in Maine. The film is directed by Christopher Monger, produced by Karen Montgomery and Kaiulani Lee and shot by Haskell Wexler, ASC.

The film will be available in spring 2008 and is scheduled to be screened at the D.C. Environmental Film Festival on March 12, 2008.

See the trailer here