I have been making films since I was 12 years old. From my 7th Grade Vietnam film to a suspense thriller in BW Film Noir, I was the go to guy to get your Super 8 film production shot. As a budding punk guitarist I became fully engulfed in music production and explored all dimensions of music with a particular interest in electronic, reggae, dance and the emerging world rhythms. I also gravitated to the early computing platforms and started midi sequencing on Commodore, Amiga and ultimately the first Mac. With Depeche, Johnny Rotten & Bob Marley for inspiration, I was soon making records in my bedroom and producing dance tracks for the Miami underground scene.
Then I was off to American University where I pursued a Communications Degree. While in D.C. I spent a lot of time at the 9:30 Club or commuting to and from CBGBs in NYC. The Punk scene along with Rick Rubin's fledgling hip hop movement was just a little more interesting than my International Relations class. Soon there after, I would find myself working for Joe Galdo & Chris Blackwell of Island Records as one of the first non-linear digital engineers using (or mastering) Soundtools/Protools in the country. At Island I met and worked with many of my gods!!! Hanging out with David Byrne, Mick Jones, Edge, Bono, Daniel Lanois, Trent Reznor, Flood, Paul Kendall, Lenny Kravitz to name drop a few! But a combination of meeting the one & only Bryan Ferry and assisting Anton Corbin along with helping out on Hype William's "Mangu" Video Shoot... thats was when I started getting the bug to shoot again and pursue the merging of music & images.
Cut too 15 years later and I have covered a lot of ground in multimedia including the startup of reelestates.com, creative directing at Hentchel & Prio (Effects & Motion Graphics Design House) and directing and shooting a very extensive range of commercial, corporate & interactive projects for Field Dominance.
My passion is directing and lensing short form films that sell people, products and brands. Incorporate music, beautiful women and unusual personalities that stretch reality or typical perspective and I am in creative heaven. I am blessed to do what I do and I take incredible pride in delivering art that compels. From elegant high key fashion to gritty organic images for a fresh new hip hop act... I can cover it all!
WHAT I USE -
Red One Camera
Red Epic (3rd qtr. 2010)
Phantom High Speed Cameras
Canon DSLR 5D/7D
Hasselblad Digital Medium Format
Zeiss Lens
Gates Underwater Housings
Final Cut Studio
Autodesk Flame
Autodesk Smoke
Assimilate Scratch
Adobe After Effects
Arri Lighting
Kino Flo
LED-Z Led Lighting
Profoto Strobes