I’ve been pretty lucky this fall that I’ve stayed busy with a lot of shooting, but haven’t had too much travel beyond the Northeast. I do enjoy, in theory (and usually in practice) the idea of traveling for work, but I often hate the hassle of airport travel with lots of gear, connecting flights, etc. I also like to come home at night and see my family. But still there is an adventure in business travel, and it’s part of the job, so I don’t generally turn it down when it comes my way. Read more…
Posts Tagged ‘travel’
Expansion
So this week I added a new piece of gear to my arsenal. Unfortunately this piece of gear won’t make me much money, but it will get me from point A to point B. I bought a new car, a minivan, in fact. As anyone in production knows, having a good sized production vehicle can be essential. Even though our cameras and a lot of other gear have gotten smaller, there is still a ton to take on shoots. My previous (now second) car was a Mazda 3 wagon. A great, fun, zippy little car. I could pack A LOT of stuff in it. I used to joke that this car could JUST barely fit whatever was needed. Read more…
What Happens at Blogs With Balls…
Here is one of the recap videos I put together for the Blogs With Balls conference that I shot at in Las Vegas. I assure you, this was as much hard work as it looks. Read more about this trip here.
NAB Wrap-up
I just got back last night from my first trip to the NAB Show in Las Vegas, and after a good night’s sleep I am now beginning to feel human again. It was a short trip, only there for 2 full days, but I sacrificed sleep in order to pack each day with as much stuff as possible, and my head is still spinning a little from everything I saw and everyone I met. This trip also included what will hopefully be the first of many All-In Film Charity Poker Tournaments on Monday night. It went great, and was well received. I will go through my highlights of the whole trip for you all. Read more…
Beauty and Beautiful Cameras
This past week I had two shoots in NYC for Image Source. I did my first shoot with them back in December and it was their first time using the Canon 5DMkII, but they were thrilled with what they got from it and liked the stuff I was shooting. The client I worked with on that shoot (Lisa Curesky) passed my name on to other art directors at Image Source and photographers they work with, which landed me these gigs. I went into these jobs pretty stoked as the content of these shoots (“beauty”) was different than what I am used to. I have certainly shot a ton of people with the goal of making them look as good as possible, Read more…
A New Year
Well it’s a brand new year, new decade, and a good time to reflect on the past year and come up with goals for the next one. I had the good fortune of spending New Years with my wife and some other folks in sunny Jamaica, on a work/pleasure trip. A friend of mine is developing some property in Jamaica into a resort/tourist attraction and he hired me to come down and do some video and photos of the progress. I went down 2 years ago, when he was just starting out, to do a video, and he wanted to update people on the progress. It was not a lot of work, and frankly spending some time (especially in the winter) in 85 degree weather was a treat. Read more…
Chasing Robots
The other week I had a long week of travel, shooting videos for Kiva Systems. Kiva makes robots and software used in order fulfillment distribution centers. I have been working with them for about two and half years now; they were one of my first clients when I went freelance and also one of the only jobs to come through Craigslist. (I have done about a dozen videos for them now, so it just goes to show to keep your eyes open for all possible job leads.) This particular job was to do two case study videos on two of their clients, DJO Medical Devices and Diapers.com. Our plan included shoots in three cities (Indianapolis, San Diego and Reno) Read more…
Blogs with Balls Wrap-up and Highlights Video
I returned the beginning of this week from Blogs with Balls in Las Vegas. Visiting Vegas, even if it is for work, can be a risky place but I came back in one piece and not completely broke. (I fared better than my traveling companion Rob Baker, who came back with a case of H1N1. No joke. Although he is doing much better now.) The folks from HHR Media put on an excellent conference, that was well-attended and had some great panelists. I got the sense that for people in the sports blogging world, who are doing this as a business, this event was one not to be missed. Unfortunately as a mostly non-sports fan some of the names, faces, and discussions were lost on me, but it was clearly a successful event. Read more…
Packing for Travel…Blogs with Balls #1
I am sitting on the plane headed to Las Vegas for Blogs with Balls. With me is Rob Baker of Kabimba Media (who designed this website) who is going to be helping out with the videos. Should be a fun time, with some work mixed in for good measure. My friend Chris, who is one of the organizers of the conference, has put together a good group of panelists and some fun events for the next few days and I’ll capture as much of it as I can. Read more…
Blogs With Balls 1.0
I am writing because I am excited. I just booked my flights to attend/work at Blogs With Balls 2.0 in Las Vegas next month. My good friend Chris Lucas started Blogs With Balls (BWB), which is a conference for sports bloggers and people in new media, and they hosted their first conference in June in NYC. I offered to go to the event and do some filming for him; I figured it’d be a good time, and I wanted to help him out. It turned out to be an amazing event! They had a great turnout with over 300 people in a great venue, Read more…