TRIBUTE: Will Kelley

Five days after seventeen year-old Will passed away, his friends and family gathered at his home to remember his life. Blaine Hogan gave me a call and asked if I’d work with him to create a short tribute video for the memorial service later that week.  So I tossed my gear in the Jeep and [...]

See what I worked on this Spring…

I just completed work on a pretty large project. See what I did & how I did it…

CINEMATOGRAPHER: Sean Stiegemeier

I love this… “So I saw all of these mediocre pictures of that volcano in Iceland nobody can pronounce the name of, so I figured I should go and do better.” … and he clearly did. Check out Sean’s website (his visual style is very Andrew Wyeth) and the timelapse dolly he used to get [...]

BRANDED SHORT FILM: ProKeds

Promoting their Spring line, Pro-Keds recently debuted a short video telling the story of a shoe-based mission. With settings that will look familiar to NYC residents and a Bond-esque soundtrack, the playfully inventive piece follows a cast of characters who at various points throw shoes over a fence, trade them, pluck pairs from lamp posts, and [...]

WE WILL WALK

Filmed on-location in downtown Chicago and rural Kenya, two women from vastly different circumstances carry a yellow bucket of water through their respective landscapes.

“Be Hope to Her” (BH2O+) is a nationwide event hosted by NURU INTERNATIONAL designed to raise awareness about the need for clean water. With a yellow bucket on your head, participants journey to a water source, fill a yellow bucket and walk back as if they were providing a day’s worth of water for your family—just as millions of women and girls do across the globe every day. This project was featured in an article on the ONE CAMPAIGN blog.