Without Troy - Seven Weeks

"Thats a wrap on primary photography for Without Troy." It was with little fanfare that I uttered those words in the freezing cold Safeway parking lot. I think after spending most of the weekend moving at double speed to get everything done and get everyone back inside for hot cocoa, those words didn't hold much weight.

Didn't Joanna do a great job with those pictures? She's gotten so much better since we started this project. It's kind of disappointing that there won't be more days on set for her to take pictures on. Did you take a look at her artsy post? Joanna has become my unofficial co-blogger at this point.

So we've officially entered post production. Damn. I'm going to be spending way more time in the edit bays. I'll be trying to knock out rough edits soon. We'll also be knocking out some music tracks with our musicians. I've already been in talks with David Keim who is doing all our incidentals. You'll remember him as having done the music for Random Action ep5. Not only is he a great musician and composer but he also puts up with my complete lack of musical knowledge.

Joanna is Artsy

Joanna is the photographer slash makeup girl for Without Troy. She's supposed to take pictures of the cast and crew. Then I taught her how to manual focus. I've created a monster.

Oh yeah, that's me.

Forgive me for appealing to your more prurient interests.

Ephemera pt 1 - Working for the Colts

I'm posting a single photo/scan and talking about it. This stuff normally loses it's meaning quickly (thus ephemera) so hopefully this makes the magic lasts longer.

For the 2008 football season, I worked for the Indianapolis Colts as a photographer. This sounds like a dream come true. Regrettably I was asked to take pictures of the fans. Still not bad, I get to be there in the new Lucas Oil Stadium and see the game in person right? Sure, but I also had to take 200 pictures a game. I never reached my quota even once. It was so weird showing up to a job I knew I couldn't do, but they kept asking me back.

The problem lies in my greatest fear. You know how most people are deathly afraid of public speaking and would cry if they had to be in front of 63,000 people? I'm the opposite. I freak out if I'm part of the 63,000 fans there. As the stadium filled and the crowd swelled I would freeze up and I wouldn't be able to approach anyone to take there picture. In the end it was alright though because I got that sweet picture with my mom, my cousin Eli, and my Uncle John.

Super Bowl

I am way behind in posting these. I shot them all at my Super Bowl party, but getting them developed and then scanning them and then posting them, was a real hassle. At least they're here now. It's great having memories of that night. I made my famous veggie soup and my famous chili. This is the first time I've made them both for the same event. In addition to this I had veggie con carne and veggie con veggie options. I was rooting for the Steelers but mostly because my roommate and on again off again nemesis Tom was rooting for the Cardinals.

As the game went on and I got out my Holga camera I became progressively sedentary, having found my spot on the floor and dug in. I'm afraid that makes my pictures less interesting than they could be. I'm also afraid that most of my pictures are from my apartment. I spend almost all of my time there. It's kind of a hang out spot so everybody comes and sees me instead. This fits well with my sedentary ways, but should sediment settle I'm certain I would fossilize. Oh, I guess I should mention that some of these pictures are from the night we tried out bruise makeup for the movie. They fit in pretty well.

PS. Cara if you read this: There is no good way to take a picture of you. You really do glow.