Warpaint Stuffz

A while back my boy Theodore Robert Newsome directed a video for Warpaint's song "Warpaint," and he asked me to come out and shoot the behind the scenes clip that would accompany the video. Of course I was down.


Five days before Ted's shoot I had ended up going out to Arizona with Clint (on a drunken whim at midnight) and we planned to come back the night before...we almost ended up running out of gas in the middle of nowhere coming back from Phoenix the night before said shoot! Needless to say, Clint's Hemi got us to a gas station (barely), we fueled up, and made it back to LA! I got home and went right to bed. Woke up less than 4 hours later and had to drive to Echo Park to go shoot this behind the scenes stuff...I was in a daze to say the least. Five days of non stop hanging, staying up all night, and shooting out in Arizona, followed by the long drive back did not quite put me in the proper mind state, or mood to go shoot this stuff on little to no sleep (sorry). I was hating life and the zombie state that I felt was going to last all day/make my brain devoid of basic functions. As soon as things got rolling at the pool though...it was on.


I think it's safe to say everyone had a lot of fun the day of the shoot. It was a long, and hard day (haha long and hard) but it was all well worth it! Click and watch:

That was, what now seems like, a long time ago. Because of this though it allows Theresa and I to even dive back into the "Shadows" video and maybe make it that much cooler. Soon enough that one will be done, I swear. I have so many projects that are close to being done at this point and planning on shooting a comedy skit with 2 of my friends this week. When will the madness end? Hopefully never because madness is too fun.

Last weekend I did some other random Warpaint related stuff as well. When will I ever pull away from these kooks? Time will tell, I guess. Theresa and Stella got asked to be a part of some art instillation in Europe. We basically rearranged Stella's whole livingroom and I set up a green screen area all up in there. We got a little weird to say the least. I will not divulge any details other than these photos.

 Things were about to get interesting...

I tried telling Theresa not to exfoliate during shooting but would she listen? No.

Stella looking she could be on the cover of a kvlt black metal album.

Peep dat footy.

Stella spinning the digital turn tables.

Powder.

Who knows if people in The States will ever even see what we did that night. To be perfectly honest...don't really care either. It was fun doing this though...that's all that I DO know. I'm too busy laughing at Derek and Brandon's dogs to write anymore regarding this subject.

Here's two more photos I shot that same weekend over at Theresa's place. Emily stopped by and got Tiger ready to take a dip in the kiddy pool and run around the backyard naked.

The grass is greener on the other side...of the backyard.

Let the naked anticz begin!

I've been lagging super hard on posting as of late...that mean's I'm busy having fun. Remember fun?

Insta.Posts

I found a way to download all the photos from your instagram profile to your computer today. Exciting...right? If you'd like to do the same I urge you to go to here to do so.  Now you can share instagram photos easily with non-iPhone users :0

I was glad to see this thing go. It's been a month since it got cut off and I'm still not back to normal yet...

This was my first instagram photo taken. I see this cat more than I see most people in this world.

I got flown out to Maloof along with a few other heavy hitters this year to camera operate the webcast. A day before the contest I got to watch Evan Smith skating the course for fun. I knew he was going to kill it from the looks of it at the moment. This photo was a make. Kickflip in...with ease!

Don't worry Gonzo...weed isn't a drug? No need for the thumbs down?

The only name in my phone that's in ALLxCAPS. Since day one (no pun intended).

My little nephew stole the west.

I wish I could bring you down south with me every time I go home.

 Ryan Reyes doing the first of many of this pose in different places.

Cerebral Ballzy music video shoot.

Theresa foaming at the cup.

It's good to know that when the DSLR is too clunky to bring along my phone can still put it down. Us iPhone owners have quite a powerful little tool in our pockets. Put it to use!

7/12/11

I want to edit right now. I want to blog right now. I want to edit photos right now.


I don't feel like spending much time doing either of them right now (if that makes sense) so I don't know what I'm going to do. I guess this is what I ended up doing since I am laying on the couch typing this right now. I have a headache and ultimately that is what I blame for creating this sense of "I want to do things but I don't want to" feeling. There are a bunch of photos that have just been laying around on my hard drive for a while that have yet to be posted. This is the time where I dump them all out and then I hope edit a new batch of stuff. Time to unload...haha I said...

2/3's of MEECHabartALET.

Mike Abarta and his little buddy.

Adam Bertolet and Jesse "The Canadian Stefan Janoski" Landen relaxing after shredding.

Westside Ryderz.

So glad to have that thing off.

Adam broke 2 boards in 5 tries.

Daniel Knapp brewing it up.

San Francisco photographers, Ken Tadashi and Brad Burt, posted.

Watsonville Skate Park OG's reunite!

Laban and Vito.

Laban lurking in the outskirts of Joshua Tree.

ChriSlambert reflecting on ones self.

Tosh.0 is on and my attention is fading from the laptop to the TV screen. BAI!

New Maneuver?

People say that you can't teach an old dog new tricks...well I say fuck you and fuck that old dog. I learned a new trick after not trying to do tricks for weeks because of my wrist. Elliot, thanks for making me try one more after I had already given up!

I lucked out. 

Warpaint "Warpaint" Music video

The illustrious Theodore Robert Newsome's music video for Warpaint's song "Warpaint" dropped today. In the US, NPR is hosting the video at the moment, however in the UK Youtube's VEVO is handling viewing duties...haha I said duty.  Check the moving imagery here:


"Warpaint" Music Video

Everyone involved did a band up job and all contributed to making this project what it is. A lot of the people on the crew were my friends and it was so great to see the people I went to school with, and "came up with" working with the people that I "work" with. Kudoz for all! Especially Ted, Brad, Brant, the girls, and anyone else who had to withstand the weight of liquid form H20 for hours upon hours on end.


The "behind the scenes" video that I made to accompany Ted's masterpiece should be out rather soon. I will post it when Theodore posts it!


In other news...the wrist is still fucked up. Pretty bummed at this point because I'm done with physical therapy in 2 weeks and I already know that I will not be recooped by then. My range of motion has just about returned, however I canNOT put any weight on my wrist still. The break went from...well a BREAK to a fracture after having spent months in the cast. I probably should have taken it easy while I was in the cast but I skated just about everyday and maybe did this to myself. The pains of having to do nothing could drive an active skateboarder into insanity. Sudden spurts of random factoids:


- Kyle Walker's been raping and pillaging the streets with his trusty 8.4 sized skateboards.
- Dan Roberts got his knee surgery...FINALLY!
- I missed the Panic at the Disco LA show :(
- Ryan Reyes is getting instagram UPS like a madman.
- CARmageddon is about to become a reality when the 405 gets shut down.
- Ladytron is playing at the Wiltern in September!


I can't wait to be skating again instead of just filming. And on that note...I'm going to dive back into doing some editing for my Warpaint video for "Shadows." Since Ted's barely came out that means that there's some time to let this one penetrate the world and give me time to double click a certain Final Cut project file and go back into crazy editing mode for "Shadows" now that I know there's a lil more time to maybe take it even further?


Stay weird.