Sunday, August 28, 2011

Zealots Of Bliss - "Love"

Recorded on a hot summer night in 1997 to a 4-track cassette recorder in a Mission Hills apt living room. All improv, what you hear is what we did in one un-rehearsed jam session-turn recording session.

"Love" Zealots of Bliss by xavaz

The Sky Is Falling

This one..., years in the making in my head, and pieced together quickly to defeat any over analysis on my part. 5/5/2000 were a San Diego band formed in the 90's by Cattle Decapitation frontman Travis Ryan and Nathan Berlinguette. This song came from, the Accretions Records release 015, "Fin". It contains audio from Air Traffic Control in San Diego during the doomed flight of PSA 182 in 1978. Here I merged original video and footage from SOHO to create a parallel "visual" dirge. 

Thursday, August 25, 2011

All Leather at U31 - August 24, 2011 - "Mystery Meat"

From last night's show at U31 in North Park.  Used super slow shutter speed on this for the effects. So this is how it looks in the raw footage. I merged it with an stereo recording from my Tascam DR-7 (thought it was set for line-input, but it was set for mic... doh).  Anyway, it's another ok quick little project.  There were other videographers there last night, using what looked like SD Canons', DSLR's and little handheld video cameras.  Felt like a competition! haha. Someone even had GoPro cams installed on the stage.  Can't wait to see these cool videos from the GoPro cams that someone will upload soon.


Wednesday, August 24, 2011

RETOX Ten Pounds Of Shit In A Five Pound Bag

Another RETOX video. This one like the first, Piss Elegant, includes current-event footage (london riots here), but also live footage. I shot them during their February visit to the Echo Plex, and did my best to make it work with new music from the recently released CD "Ugly Animals". I think I'd probably do more to the video, now that I've seen it a dozen times, but that would be overkill. It's good enough to make me happy. Time for the next project.

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Katie Carney | Audition Video for L'Oréal


Katie Carney's audition video for L'Oréal. Featuring Andrea Ruhl (model), Friend Slash Lover (music), and Acamonchi (graphics).

Another, basically 48 hour video project. For Katie, as she auditions for a spot on L'Oréal's session team in NY during fashion week.

48 Hour Film Project - August 5-7 2011 - Amalgamated Grommets - "What's Your Fantasy"



I was responsible for audio on this little film project...for 7 microphones for 7 characters, who made over 20 costume changes...! No boom, until later in the shooting, because I was drained mentally and out of ideas of how to manage placing lavaliers on characters who wore things like robes, noisy prom-like dresses, disheveled attire, and plastic armor. Despite the insanity, I learned alot about my abilities as a sound guy, my limitations and how to be better prepared for the next 48 Hour Film Project for 2012!

We were honored for the following awards BTW:

Best Title Sequence
Best Costumes
Best Ensemble Acting
Best Use of Prop (the required "ticket")