So if you know me personally, you know that I love anything with two wheels.  The only other “job” that I have had (other then working as a filmmaker) was as a bicycle mechanic in high school and college.  This two wheeled passion has evolved into working on and fixing up vintage motorcycles, mostly Hondas.

There is an amazing vintage motorcycle shop in Philadelphia called “Liberty Vintage” run by an awesome dude named Adam.  I have always wanted to do a short doc on the shop, and the other week I found myself in Philly with all my gear, so I called him up and he was game.

Its easy to get caught up in real life, paying the bills, and working on other people’s project, etc… but I decided that I really wanted to & needed to do a personal project,  something that from start to finish I can call my own.  Hanging around Adam’s shop for two days was great, and the footage I got was even better.  I typically hate editing, but I can’t wait to start this edit!

A few weeks ago I shot another round of TV spots for Susquehanna Bank.  Once again Scott Whitham was directing, Shooters Post and Transfer was producing and the agency was Aloysius Butler & Clark. Like before, we shot on the 5d mkII.  The spots are finished, color corrected and should be hitting the air shortly!

I’ve been working on a number of projects with Scott.  We have also been working on a project for the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia which has involved several days of shooting in the hospital plus a short trip to North Carolina.

I had a fun shoot with the guys at ART 21 last week. We shot with photographer Lucas Blalock. Lucas works for Vik Muniz so we started the day shooting in Vik’s Brooklyn studio. What a cool space (my dream space!).

We then followed Lucas over to Griffin Editions, a fine art photography print shop in Brooklyn. There we had a sneak peak of some new work by Vik Muniz. Griffin Editions was also an extremely awesome space, but I may be bias due to my love for anything photography related.

We finished up the day shooting with Lucas at his apartment / studio. We had a fun time trekking across an iced covered roofs to get some shots of the JMZ train. We shot vertie all day, and despite a sore back, it was a really great day of shooting!!!

I spent last weekend working on ART 21′s New York Up Close web series. This time we were shooting Whispering Pines 10 a one-act opera by artist Shana Moulton in collaboration with composer Nick Hallett. The opera was an interesting mix between performance, video projection and pop/opera songs. We spent most of the time shooting at the New Museum followed by a later performance at The Delancey.

Once again we were shooting all cinema vertie on the 5d mkII. I have dialed in a pretty good system for vertie on that camera. I also recently picked up a Canon 24mm f1.4 with still photography in mind, but its proving to be much more useful for video then I originally imaged. A funny side note, I bought the lens off a stranger on craigslist who happened to be the DP of Gossip Girl.