LIFTED APPAREL

I never in a million years thought my mind would start to drift in other interests besides the life style of working in the film industry. However, this past summer I found something new. I started silk screening again. Something I hadn't done in two in a half years. This time I started making t-shirts.

Image and look was something that always struck my interest. I guess that's one of the reasons I am in film and take photography. My brother Quincy started his company LIFTED APPAREL to go along with his music and merchandise.

But I wanted to start something with my little brother so, we decided to push his company in the direction it should be. We started a Facebook page and twitter, but have yet to really launch it as we still are planning out our approach and methods of how we will show the world LIFTED APPAREL.

We kept wondering if our designs would catch on, but I think when strangers stop you at a bar or on the streets about your shirt, I think that means you might have something...

HERE is the link to the FACEBOOK PAGE. Yeah we only got twenty some odd people, but it's only the start. So LIKE us now!

http://www.facebook.com/getLIFTEDAPPAREL

STOP-MOTION with CHALK

So I thought I was done with stop-motion for a while, however when I got the call that my next music video had dropped and I had nothing.

Just then, I got another call from friend and Austrian musician James Hersey. He was coming into the city and needed a place to crash. I remembered always wanting to do a video with him, but nothing ever panned out.

I immediately messaged him back asking, "Do you want to do a music video while your here?" He freaked and automatically said "Yes!" The next day I told my long time friend and fellow cinematographer Hunter Baker about doing the video over the next day or two since our last one dropped. He was in and brought up the idea of doing stop-motion in chalk. Since he was already painting his walls chalkboard color we could easily do it at his place. I had a 1987 VHS camera that I have been dieing to use. So for the first time in a long time this music video will be chalk stop-motion on VHS. Two different blends in one!

You are probably wondering about the story or more of what the video is about besides just chalk and VHS. Well you see the whole thing starts off with James setting up his VHS camera singing along, but once the chorus kicks in we cut to the POV of the VHS camera as it captures James singing about his travels and leaving his girl back home. With that story in mind, we took the time to animate his journey fron New York to Hollywood and then back home.

So in a sense it's just a man singing about his travels with pictures drawn behind him to go along...oh and shot on VHS too!! COMING SOON!!