Portrait of my father!
My life and image making.
Jessica Claire Pink Chair 1
While shooting interviews in support of the film “Wearing Normal” i caught a few chair photos with Jessica Claire the star of the film.
Wearing Normal Trailer
Hello all! The trailer for “Wearing Normal” a movie i shot last year, is posted. The director and I have been working diligently to finish this up for the June 4th Screening at the Hollywood Theater. Screening is at 5pm. All are welcome and admission is free!!!
Wearing Normal Trailer from Fantini Cinema on Vimeo.
Fantini Cinema Presents
Wearing Normal
Portland Screening on June 4, 2011 5pm at the Hollywood Theater.
www.wearingnormal.com
Workshops Are Fantastic
Originally this week was supposed to be the first week of shooting of a feature that i am 1st AC’ing on. It was pushed to next week and has since been pushed another week. This wasn’t the only pushes on this project either. Kind of frustrating as you can imagine. However I was lucky enough to pick up some work for photographer Andy Batt at Andy Batt studio.
They are working on a documentary project for Oregon Manifest. Oregon Manifest is design competition with a goal of building the ultimate utility bike. Many builders are participating in this competition and this week Andy has been shooting interviews with local builders. We have been going to there workshops and shooting interviews.
It has been amazing and i realize how much i like workshops. So much potential. Tools and equipment at the ready, works in progress around, craftsmanship apparent. As the doc is highlighting different types of custom bike builders from industrial design students to dedicated independent professionals, we have seen a wide range of diversity of building spaces. From a vast designed room full of equipment on the Nike campus to a dedicated metal workshop with vintage machines, to a shop that specializes in boat repair, and finally the flip side being a room where the designing takes place and the shop is just made reference to as being “in the building”, i have had the opportunity to see quite a variety of craftsmen and designers in there element. I have been loving it. One shop we visited that captured my imagination was the shop of Jordan Hufnagel of Hufnagel Cycles. Every sort of metal working tools that you could think of was represented even home build versions of some major tools like an English wheel. The whole time i just wanted to build something and ask to be taught how to use the tools around me. Even though I’m by trade involved in photography i still have an intense appreciation and love of industrial arts and metal working. It should also be mentioned that Jordan Hufnagel is cool dude. He was great in the interview and was great to chat with which is good as we forgot some gear in his shop and I have had to pop over and pick things up on three occasions. It really was a comedy of errors. I’m just waiting to hear what else we have left there.
A few more interviews to go and some great cut scenes and this will be one great doc about a great competition!
My Droids
My last post from last week mentioned my moto droid deciding to die. This is my history with moto droids.
Almost two years ago i got a Motorola Droid. After that first purchase i have had it replaced 4 different times. Not that the actual phone itself is bad it just seems that they aren’t very robust. The first of my droids worked well for a few months. Not without a few eccentricities, like if i didn’t power it down and back up once every few days it would stop receiving my emails. Kinda frustrating when your expecting to get emails from clients and you think that they are slacking but as it turns out you look like your slacking for not responding. That was not insurmountable as i could remember to reboot my phone every few days. The next little eccentricity was what i called the email infinity loop. Once every now and again it would let me know that i had an email, then i would open the email and delete it and it would then get that email again and let me know that it was a new email. Then it would keep setting off the tone to let me know it got a new email over and over and over again. I generally had to turn the volume way down and let it work it out of its system. This would commonly occur with my replacement handsets as well mostly with large emails with attachments. Then finally after about 4 months of dealing with these glitches the phones GPS decided to stop working. The one thing that i had really come to love about smart phones was its ability to be a GPS. Once that was not working i had to take it in and get rid of it. Thankfully it was under warranty and a new one was mailed to me over night.
My second droid was fantastic. I didn’t have to reboot it every other day to keep getting emails, it only occasionally infinity looped with large emails and was a great handset for about a year. This time user error set it. I had my phone in the compartment under the seat on a scooter that i rented while on vacation in Hawaii. I pulled a towel out from under it and the phone popped out and hit the pavement. The top of the screen cracked. I wasn’t too bothered by it as i kept using it for another few months. Mainly with the intention of picking up the iPhone 4 from Verizon when they came out. Once they announced the the Verizon iPhone i started to get emails and adds stating a $300 price for the iPhone i wanted but such is life when i went in there to pick one up that is only the price for folks whose contracts are up and folks who are starting a new account. I was neither and if i wanted to get an iPhone i would have had to spend $780. Not going to happen! So i bitterly used my phone insurance to replace my cracked phone. It cost $55 and was shipped overnight to me. That phone worked great for about a month. In one morning i took two calls then after that the screen went dead. Again a trip to the Verizon store where i got another one shipped overnight and under warranty. I guess looking, back, it has been a good phone but two out of three have been defective and who knows what will happen to this shinny new fourth one. If it is a pattern it will be user error the next time around. Later this year when Verizon sees fit to let me upgrade, i hope the iPhone 5 will be out and it is wonderful and indestructible. At least i know i will be able to get an Otterbox indestructible case for it! I love those cases!
Geocaching
