Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs 'Trouble' Video Shoot

Have been meaning to post photos from the TEED 'Trouble' shoot for ages, but work, and the fun of summer have been getting way in the way.  The video was directed by the very nice and very talented Adam's of The General Assembly in Tarzana, California.  Apparently Tarzana is a porn production mecca FYI, and was named after Tarzan by the land's original owner.  Thanks Wikipedia.  The shoot was at the house of an amazing 90 year old grandmother and Jazz fan who seemed happy enough handing it over to a bunch of sinister valley occultists and random cowboys.  An amazing day that ended a really fun week for me of filming out in Barcelona, followed by ATP in Minehead and then this one day in LA, I some how managed to fit in two burgers and one Taco Bell meal in that time ; )

Here's the video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odNebyVXsZg&ob=av2e and a bonus Mike remix since he's such a dude - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wX3ekRndfg

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White Lies 'Holy Ghost'

Here's a few of my favourite photos from the White Lies 'Holy Ghost' video shoot, this particular scene makes up one part of an amazing video directed by CANADA that was all shot on 35mm.  Just the fact they were shooting 35mm blew my mind, let alone the whole recreating the sermon on the mount on a rock out to sea complete with a sheep.  Was such a cool day, and we had a 2 hour lunch of squid and local wine, best day at the office ever I think.

The extras were from a local church re-enactment group, deeply religious themselves and the sight of the guys in beards walking across the water will live in my mind for a long time.  Check out the video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Orl42Y-c4I

Photos taken on Contax T2 (love it!) and Lumix GF1 (love it too!)

Japanese Voyeurs - Get Hole Video Shoot

Here's a few photos from a day spent in a freezing cold, slimy bunker watching ballet and craziness for the 'Get Hole' video shoot.  Directed by Matt Lambert you can check the video out HERE

    

Contax Round Up - March 2011

Here's a jumble of photos from my replacement Contax T2, damn I'm such a geek about this camera.  It's just the purest photo making tool I know, or perhaps just the laziest with it's minimal controls and beautiful lens.  I've also just learnt that my favourite film Posertra 400VC is being discontinued, well merged with the 400NC, what this really means I don't know but it's another unfortunate milestone in the decline of film.  I found one supplier in South Korea that's still selling it at a reasonable price so I got 30 rolls : )

This mess of photos is from March, an amazing month that saw me travel to Hamburg and Berlin with Michael Kiwanuka and freeze in-front of a room full of journalists at the Foreign Press Association benefit evening for Japan.  After about 20seconds luckily I managed to snap out of it and gave my slide show of Lost Village photos, it was really an honour to be able to show them for such a good cause.  Here's me giving the talk.