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Flicker Films Online
http://flickertista.com/flickerfilmshome.html
This year I finally posted a bunch of video projects that my buddies and I did over the last decade. Here are a few recommendations:
Last year at this time we were editing a new bit called AV guy. We finished and is featured at /www.prosoundweb.com with about 5000 views.
Click the "TV" to go to the master list of FREE shorts.
American Squatter
barrysmith.com
Forward by Barry Smith
"Don't forget Music and Sound Design for Award-Winning Multimedia Comedy in the highlights page...and it seems like having a one-eyed cat should be in there somewhere, too, if only because it sounds like a Tom Waits lyric..."
BS
I did in fact compose the Music and Sound Design for Barrys' new show American Squatter. He spent the summer touring and then did "American Squatter" at the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen. Our buddies managed a three camera video shoot with good audio which allowed for a good broadcast quality video. Check out the promo:
Two Beans And A Grape
100 Years
http://www.2beansandagrape.com
This Album was tracked about three days. Mixed in about four. The sessions ran like clock work and were a lot of fun.
Recorded mixed and mastered at my home studio:
http://flickertista.com/Studio.html
Product
Earth
http://flickertista.com/producthome.html
Of course our latest album is now over a year into production, because of me. Good news is all the main tracking is complete so we are finalizing the mixes in Tennessee in March 2008.
Piano tracking to lap top
My home studio
Montalvo Arts
Center
http://montalvoarts.org/
Sadly I came in during what appears to be the end of an era at Montalvo. No more big live acts during the summer. But last summer I worked with:
Dianne Reeves
Herbie Hancock
Mavis Staples
Bill Frisell
Vieux Farka Touré
Charlie Hunter Trio
Bruce Cockburn
Blind Boys of Alabama
Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood
Ron Sexsmith
Monitor World my POV
Salman Rushdie my POV
Mixed
Front of House for Madam Butterfly at the Aspen Music Festival
http://www.aspenmusicfestival.com
Well Actually I ended up not mixing much. But we were ready with wireless mics for all the singers in case it rained. But the weather was good so all I had to do was fire off a sound effect of a Cannon. That said, it was the most high pressure sound effect I've had to fire.
Educational
Symposia
http://www.edusymp.com/Default.asp
Got to go to some cool places like Whistler,BC doing video production for ESI. Oh yeah, and got a cup from Toni the meeting planner:
my co-worker in action
Mark Burrows AV Samurai (freelance)
Also went to
New Orleans
San Diego/TJ
30 Year Anniversary
Aspen Community Theatre
http://www.aspencommunitytheatre.com/
This last year I did a double booking in Aspen in Febuary. The first was doing sound for a 30 year Anniversary show for the Aspen Community theater which was a concert performance of over 20 musicals.
and then
US
Comedy Arts Festival
http://www.hbocomedyfestival.com/
Sadly they will no longer be doing the festival in Aspen, Which means no more festival for me. But it was a good run. This year I was standing near Norman Lear when he yelled, "we love you Dave" to a slightly intence and introspective Dave Chappelle at a 2am surprise performance in our venue.
Here some crew picts.
Location Digital Recording/CNBC
Did two live broadcast audio gigs for CNBC. I was on a big three mass sailing ship for Power Lunch and a front of house mixer for Fast Money.
Yes thats G.E. Smith
FAST MONEY, yes it was.
Walter Murch and Drew Todd
I have a buddy named Drew Todd who has been my friend since I was three years old. Despite that fact that we both moved around a lot our whole life we somehow both now live in Santa Cruz and both like film. He teaches Film History at UCSC and I like producing.
We both agree it would be difficult to choose one favorite movie, but The Conversation would be a top contender for sure. For me the movie resonates on many levels, it's about a sound guy AND the sound design is a feature of the film. The Sound Designer, in fact the first guy with that credit, was Walter Murch.
Just so happens also this year my editor/film maker buddy John Silva and I were working in Vegas in the same Hotel as a big Final Cut Pro Users Group meeting and Walter Murch was the featured speaker. So he lined us up with some tickets. Just a nice theme for the year. Now I like the movie more than ever.
Walter Murch at the Venetian
As for the one eyed cat. This is my cat Dinah, she is a 17 year old diabetic who had to have an eye removed this last summer. But she is alive and kicking... well sleeping anyway.
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