"Weatherman" by Dead Sara released by Matt Odom Creative!

After seeing Dead Sara perform at "Sunset Sessions Rock! 2011", I knew I wanted to shoot a video for them.  I went and chatted them up on Sunset Avenue, outside the Viper Room after the show, and after a few meetings, they agreed to work with me.  

We decided to make a straight forward "performance" video which would introduce the band to new fans who haven't seen them play live yet and would most likely want to check them out after seeing them open for Bush this fall.   If you've seen "Weatherman" live, you know that Emily and the rest of the band really tear it up.  I wanted to accent their performance with some high intensity, kinetic graphics.  Initially, we played around with the idea of dropping in the graphics in post, but opted instead to do a front projection across the band while they performed.  The results were fantastic!

If you don't know the band already, make sure to check them out at deadsara.com and purchase the new record!

"Goodnight California" video by Nate Currin just released!

This was a super fun video to put together for Nate.  We shot all over LA, as well as a live show in Athens, GA. Nate is an amazing performer, so if you have a chance to catch him live ... DO! And if you like this song, you should really purchase his album on iTunes!

Sunset Sessions 2011

Earlier this year (in February), I had the pleasure of shooting all the performers at Sunset Sessions in Carlsbad, CA. I think I shot about 30 performers over 72 hours, including K.D. Lang, Vanessa Carlton, Stevie Nicks, Daniel Lanois & Black Dub, Iron & Wine, Everest, Augustana, Sia, The Wood Brothers, Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears, and more...

I can't post them all, but I am going to post a few that I thought were personally impressive, both in terms of performance and resulting footage.  A BIG SHOUT OUT TO MIKE GONAZALES, who was super instrumental in shooting many of the bands with me.  I'm looking forward to working with him again on the next Sessions!

Augustana

The Wood Brothers

K.D. Lang

We're on THE NATE BERKUS SHOW!!

My wedding specific video work was featured today on The Nate Berkus show!  To see the before and after videos, and the rest of my wedding centric work, go to WWW.ROCKANDROLLHEARTS.COM!!

Wow! We're featured on Squarespace.com!

It's not everyday that we get featured by a company that we love!  We've been using squarespace.com to host this site for about two years now, and we LOVE SQUARESPACE. So it's no small compliment when I notice that we are featured as the first site on their photography examples page!  I wonder how long it will stay up!

Check out the highlight here!