I spent about 15 of my years working on music. I found my creative life in music and I still enjoy the pleasure of creating it (for fun) and having it be a part of my world. I select most of the tracks or composers I use for my productions. A lot of the time, when a project is in its kickoff stages, I reference music first. I’m inspired and guided by it in many ways and, once in a while, I find myself in the position of Music Supervisor on other productions. I have worked so closely with the M.A.C Cosmetics creative team over the last year that it seemed natural for me to jump in and get the music together for them on their Spring Colour Forecast videos.
Once again, I enlisted my team of composers over at Singing Serpent. We have worked together for a long time now and, this last year alone, I have commissioned them on over a dozen projects, including, Dsquared2, Flirt With Fall, Artists In Action etc. I was sure they would be the right match for this dynamic and would give me the flexibility needed to meet M.A.C’s requirements. Rocking.
Video - We Are Plus
Music Supervision - Austin Lynn Austin / Kovarova
I love this clip. I would like to make an entire video for them like this. Can anyone make this happen? I’m not sure who took the photo but JahTyler on youtube shot the clip.
Green Pink Caviar is currently screening in the lobby of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Visit the MoMA web site for hours and ticketing information.
The first week of November brings us to shooting another Artists In Action series for our favorite makeup company. Once again, we are going to the Tribeca Skyline Studios and setting up a four-camera shoot. The angle I took on this was to create an environment where the makeup artist gets to do what they do best and capture it with four cameras operated by some of the best indie film shooters in town. We have enlisted the talents of up-and-coming dps/filmmakers - Kai Leung, Julian King, Chris Teague and Bob Boothe. With the right environment and the right talent, all should run as smooth and with the best result as the last time we did this. I’m looking forward to it.
This project was like a jam session, a riff on graphics and stills. My motion graphics artist and I were playing the juxtaposed computers like instruments or turntables.
M.A.C had just finished shooting the stills in the UK with Miles Aldridge. Toni Lakis at M.A.C set this in motion with a cool direction she wanted to go in and gave me the freedom to take it there. A great starting point was the track by Mika from Klein Records in Vienna. It had the right tempo and spoke the right language.
M.A.C - Fall ‘09 as seen by New York artists Marilyn Minter, Richard Phillips, and Maira Kalman.
I embarked on this project at the end of last year and it’s great to finally have it go public. It gave me an intimate insight into some really wonderful New York artists. Their passion, techniques and points of view inspired me. Marilyn’s quest for the magic moment, Richard’s creative zone and Maira’s feel for color, texture and humor will resonate with me for a long time.
So many projects have come and gone this year but this is one I will remember. For me it was about creativity, process, color and New York City. I felt ‘right at home’ documenting creative minds that live for their work.
M∙A∙C takes you behind the scenes to visit the three top contemporary artists as they create the dynamic images for the Fall ‘09 Make-up Art Cosmetics colour collection. See what happens when M∙A∙C makeup and these art world luminaries get together. Art is in M∙A∙C’s DNA, so this season we celebrated artists in every shade and stripe by inviting three of the art worlds leading luminaries to create images for our Fall ‘09 Make-Up Art Cosmetics collection. See these artists as they work with M∙A∙C colour. Richard Phillips with his trademark approach to hyper-glamour, digitally retouches an image with supersaturated M∙A∙C colour and finishes. Illustrator, Maira Kalman, makes bold with shades, giving us a playfully eccentric, brighter-than-bright take on life, while Marilyn Minter’s attitude towards seduction and sexiness meets its match in M∙A∙C pigments and glitter.
A couple of years ago, a good friend (producer/director) was putting together this web series and looking for a DP.I was cutting a documentary for him at the time and I offered to step in if he was unable to find anybody. He didn’t and I was on board. I hadn’t shot drama for quite a while but it was a great time and now it’s on the Sundance Channel. Thanks Stuart.
The queen of pop MADONNA is using the video Marilyn Minter and I made for her Sticky and Sweet European tour! The video is featured on several massive screens during her show opening / Candy Shop performance. The tour kicked off in London yesterday, July 4th, and will run into September. If you are in Europe and have a chance to check it out, remember that I shot those lips. It’s not every day that things like this happen and it is cool to know that when that hot diva arrives on stage each night for the next couple months, she will be surrounded by our video. Totally cool.
Using the strategy of movie advertising, Marilyn Minter and I created a 60-second trailer which will be screened before midnight showings in conjunction with her solo exhibition Green Pink Caviar (2009), at Salon 94. A continuing exploration of blurring boundaries, this trailer continues a trajectory that began in 1989 when she bought 30-second commercial slots on David Letterman, Arsenio Hall, and a Nightline with Ted Koppel to advertise her exhibition, Food Porn Commercials, as well as her 2006 billboard series which accompanied the 2006 Whitney Biennial.
