Warpaint

At the beginning of the year I got a call from a buddy of mine asking me to help out with a project. Seeing as how it was a friend of mine and I always do what I can for him, or whoever he knows that needs help, I told him I'd help him before I even had all the details. When I finally asked for all the details near the end of the call he told me the project was a music video for the band Warpaint. I had been listening to the band very heavily ever since the release of their first full length album earlier in 2010...so of course I was rather stoked to be able to work on something with them.


Phone calls were traded between Theresa (one of the members of the band), and myself that day and we got started right away trying to figure things out. The band was about to head over the proverbial pond to tour some exotic areas that most will never get to see...this left little time for us to really work! We did what we could with the time that we had, and then I worked while Theresa and the rest of her homegirls got jiggy with it down under (among other places). Of course we made the most progress on the project while the band was not out on tour, but they had another trip lined up pretty much right after they got back.


To make a long story short. It took us upwards of 2 1/2 months to finish the music video for Shadows. In a way, I am glad that things were allowed to have a surplus of time because as we spent more and more time with it it allowed the project to get more and more dynamic.  If we had rushed the process it would have come out looking, and feeling completely different. Because it was such a post production heavy video it laid many roads with endless forks ahead of us. This was the first time I had done something like this on this type of scale so it was quite a learning experience!


The video got handed off to the record label fairly recently. Which is great! That means that all your little eyes can feast upon the brainchild that Theresa and I gave birth to. I also encourage anyone who hasn't heard the band to check them out. I don't mean to jock them too hard or anything, but their album "The Fool" is by far my favorite album of 2010. If you like good music you will enjoy "The Fool"...straight up. Buy the album and listen to it loudly. They are out on tour right now and if they come to a city near you buy a ticket and go watch them do their thang. I promise you will not be disappointed.

This is a photo I shot of Theresa, and her ghost, the night we shot a majority of the video.

The masked dancer in all her glory.

Rocky Horror Projector Show.

The link posted above is the music video for "Undertow," which was the first video off their album. If you like what you hear you're definitely going to like the rest of "The Fool." That is all for now. I am currently up in Watsonville visiting my family and friends amidst a barrage of gale force winds and water droplets that seem to have some sort of magnetic attraction to the lenses of my glasses. Not much skating to be done in settings like these! But it's always nice to get the hell out of LA...feel me!? I've been up to a lot since the last time I posted. And I have a bunch of photos I'd like to post as well! But that will have to wait until another time...since this rain won't be stopping today I'm guessing that means another time = tomorrow.