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caddyshack, 2010

Caddyshack is one of the best movies of all time. There, I said it. Every time I see it (TNT, USA, TBS seem to play it twice a day), I’m reminded that Harold Ramis is a genius. It’s classsic comedy whether you play golf, watch golf, despise golf or couldn’t care one way or the other.

So, I was surprised to learn that this summer marks the 30th anniversary of the film’s release. Yes, 30 years. And I realized, that over those 3 decades, Caddyshack has continued to remain relevant. People of all walks still quote it. Myriad fan pages scatter the web with trivia, pics, clips, memorabilia, etc, et al. Notions such as cinderella story, doodie doodie, the world needs ditch diggers too, night putting and a dancing ultra lo-fi gopher make the Caddyshack faithful nostalgic for those simpler times.

To celebrate Caddyshack’s big number 30, I decided to pay homage with a tribute photoshoot. Bring back all the characters. Recreate the iconic scenes. I was lucky enough to find a willing country club and an amazing cast. NYC phenom producer Inna Khavinson brought it all together. And on the longest day of the year, we shot like crazy and captured images I feel do the film justice.

I hope Harold would agree.

Below are a couple behind-the-scenes pics. The full series, along with Caddyshack trading card (collect ‘em all) are up on my site

: the finale

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Mar 10

lehigh valley rollergirls

Okay, who saw “Whip It?” I did not. But heard a lot of good things about Drew Barrymore’s comedy/drama following a “young misfit who finds a way to deal with her miserable, small town life through roller derby” (quote from rotten tomatoes). The trailer on youtube looked pretty cool, too.

Regardless, I was given the opportunity to head out to Schnecksville, PA for a portrait project with the Lehigh Valley Rollergirls and decided I better not pass it up. The entire team–the pivots, blockers and jammers–all would be there. And they were excited, really excited for the shoot.

The second I walked into the skating center and saw the women sitting around, I knew I had some big personalities on hand. These women are tough. And cocky. And funny. And athletic. Some mothers, some in their 40s. Everyone with a different reason for taking up roller derby. I shot for about 6 hours and it was a blast. I even was invited to an upcoming bout in Newark, NJ (which I most certainly will attend). Below are a few pics and video from the shoot. More will soon be up on my website.

By the way, these “girls” could definitely take me. On or off skates.

rollergirls video

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Jan 10

“wow.” shooting with the Phantom HD video camera

Last week I had the opportunity to direct an international, consumer video for Phonak hearing aids and work with the Phantom camera. For those of you who haven’t heard of the Phantom (I was in that boat until a couple months back), let me give you the nerdy, tech lo-down. It’s a HD video camera that can shoot 1000 frames/second at 1920 x 1080. 1000 frames gives you ridiculous slow motion. RIDICULOUS. Like “stop a bullet” slow-mo. At this frame rate, you can only shoot in 4.5 second bursts. That seemed like it might be a bit too short until I learned playback of those clips at normal speed goes for over 3 minutes.

I worked with DP Greg Wilson shooting “wildly-dressed” dancers (that’s as much as I can say for now. I’ll post the video when it has been officially released). The results were pretty cool. During aggressive, almost-frantic moves, we stopped the dancers in their tracks.

The Red One camera has already been a great tool for photographers as they dive even deeper into the world of video. The Phantom opens up a couple extra doors. Though you do need a mother-load of lights (we were up over 120k in the wattage department) that can start to melt whatever it is you’re shooting. People included

Here’s a pic of the camera setup:

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27
Oct 09

officewear

Office workers. In an office. Wearing clothes made out of office supplies. Sound fun? It’s my latest project that is now ready for prime time. Retouching props to Playground in Prague (that’s quite a few “Ps”) who were amazing to work with, virtually/digitally. Two shots below to tease. The rest are on my site.

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27
Oct 09

“officewear” behind the scenes vid

Okay, it has taken a little longer than expected, but the edit is finished. Check out Ami Goodheart and her SOTU crew popping some mad design skills on the unsuspecting office supplies. click on link below:

officewear2_small

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15
Sep 09

“office supply clothes” – behind the scenes

This past weekend, a project months in the making finally came to fruition. With the help (such not a strong enough word) of Ami Goodheart of SOTU Productions and her team of ridiculously-talented designers, we shot office workers, in an office, wearing clothes made entirely of office supplies. Computer cables, post-it notes, staples, xeroxes, erasers, envelopes, bubble wrap, papers clips and just about every other supply you’d find in the supply room were used to create modern couture. It was a long day (19 hours). The talent was super cool with amazing stamina (19 hours). Three meals were consumed (19 hours). Special thanks to Daniella Shachter for makeup/hair, Kirsten Thoen for assisting and Jen Freeman for use of the location and her help with assembling the wardrobe. Final selects will be on my website shortly, as well as a behind-the-scenes video.

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Jul 09

verizon wireless, behind-the-scenes

Just got back from LA where I shot some more print work for Verizon. As always, a fun group. I love to see what different people do when the shutter’s flying. The guy with the cap is mat, the art director. he took a stab at acting out the scenario. I think maybe the client should consider using him for the actual ad.

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May 09

This is not Cindy Sherman

Could be I’m “borrowing” from one of my photography idols, but I decided today to start shooting myself daily, dressed as another persona. I have the lights set up in a corner of my studio. I just have to remember to bring a different getup every day. This is my “sad cowboy.”

Maybe his horse Jasper was just rustled by the some insidious gang of thieves. Or maybe his girl, Charlotte, ran off with the rodeo clown. Or maybe his favorite tobaccy company filed chapter 11.

They won’t all be sad. Wait until I do my “ghost.”

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Apr 09

Verizon Government: behind the scenes

I recently finished up a shoot for Verizon Wireless Government. It was a pretty big job with about 28 images in total and I worked with both White & Partners and McCann-Erickson. Since it was for the government, the tricky part of this project was the casting. We wanted things to be the real deal. Real FBI agents. Real EMTs. Real military personnel. Real fireman and policeman. Real K-9 dogs. Real, real, real. Actors wouldn’t do.

So, over the course of two weeks, we cast in police stations, firehouses, bases, federal buildings, etc. and managed to find amazing talent who knew and understood the idiosyncrasies of their jobs. We didn’t fully get how valuable these real people would be until we started shooting. Little things, like where to put handcuffs on a police belt or which way EMTs would wear a stethoscope or how many quarter of inches above the pocket the name tag should be on navy fatigues–they could tell us (we would have never know otherwise). Most of these people had never had their pictures taken before professionally. But since we were going for “real,” we just had them do their thing. And it came as naturally as you would expect. Below are some BTS shots. I’ll post some of the final images once I’m able.

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