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Ok, that happened faster than I expected. New photo gallery is up! I’m sure some bugs will pop up, but so far so good.

Sorry for the infrequent posts. My internet has been in and out for the past few weeks. I gotta admit though, it’s kind of nice to get away from the web for a while. I’m getting caught up on a lot of work and preparing some new projects. I might have some exciting news by [...]

Another photo from the Veronica shoot. I’m playing around with color saturation and some other techniques so this will look different from the last set. I’m really into the work of Zhang Jingna right now, an amazingly talented 21 year old girl from Singapore. She started photography at 18 and has already eared a Master [...]

We shot our 48hr film in a whirlwind of a weekend. We drew Mockumentary as our genre. Prop: Apple, Required Character: Louis/Louise Grimes, Required line of dialog: “How much money are we talking about?”. The writer’s went to work at 7pm, Friday night, focusing on a superhero mockumentary and sent the script out at 2am. [...]

I go to dannychoo.com to see all the great photos he takes on his photo-walks around Japan. Every once in a while you’ll find bit of inspiration in his posts. Here’s one I found recently that I really like and thought was worth sharing: “No matter what the odds are, Focus, Determination and Passion will [...]

It’s been a busy week! Last week I met with Christina Varotsis who just co-produced The Merry Gentleman starring and directed by Michael Keaton. The movie was shot locally and is playing around town right now. It’s a really nice, quiet film about a hitman who’s tired of his life until he meets a woman [...]