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I spent the last two days in Calgary shooting a portrait project for the CFL during Grey Cup weekend. The portrait project focused on the fans of the game – there definitely was no shortage of colourful characters. In total I was able to photograph just shy of 300 fans. Huge thanks to Photographers Chris Bolin and Paula Trotter who helped me out for the weekend. The image below was shot by Chris Bolin.
I’ve been engrossed in 3 days of intense colour grading for the final cut of RGB MOVE. I’m in between computers right now, and was planning on grading this project on a much more advanced system, but unfortunately the order couldn’t make it through in time. Consequently I’ve been working on a system that can’t keep up to the pace I work, so I’ve been dealing with much waiting/rendering time. Very excited to work on the new system from here on in. RGB MOVE is entering the end phase of post-production, and will be ready for the press launch by CODE Motion Pictures in early December – prior to its exhibition at The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.
Last week I spent Sunday shooting a Style Story for The Globe and Mail. Here’s some pics from Saturday’s publication – the cover, and insert images.
I spent the day in studio conducting camera tests comparing Canon’s 5DII and the newer 7D. It was a bit of a meeting of minds – two cinematographers, a photographer, and myself – each with our own perspectives on image making and the tools necessary to get the job done. I’ll be sure to post some results/findings in the next little while.
Yesterday I found out that I’m a recipient of a Chalmers Arts Fellowship. This Fellowship will support a 6 month period of research to ‘explore the structural elements of the moving image with the aim of developing alternative technical processes for the production and presentation of the moving image as an artform’. The work I have been creating lately is based in an interdisciplinary approach to image making – making use of a combination of film and photography methodologies. I’m incredibly excited to be awarded this Fellowship at this point in my career – I feel I’ve been greenlit to really push some boundaries. 2010 is going to be a pivotal year.
This month has been an insanely busy and productive one. Much of my time has been invested in the 5 film/motion projects I’ve been prepping for presentation at The 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. I’m really enjoying taking the bull by the horns on all these projects – handling a lot of the behind the scenes business necessary to make the projects possible. However, it’s nice to just shoot sometimes – which is what I did today for The Globe and Mail. Below is a behind the scenes pic from a location fashion story that will run next week. The theme – Gold.
Right now I’m collaborating with Editor Kyle Wilson on cutting RGB MOVE. Its definitely been quite the process handling an offline edit of over 18, 000 still images assembled to motion. The rest of this month will be a very busy time. In addition to RGB MOVE, four separate projects I’ve created have been licensed for presentation at The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. My 2007 project “Makeout!”, which was shot on 35mm film, is being remastered – I’ll be colour grading it from 4K files – very excited about this.
I spent last night in studio with Photographers Arash Moallemi and James Kachan creating the title sequence for my motion arts project RGB MOVE. I began image making as a Painter years back – so very interesting to incorporate some of these ideas and methods back into what I am doing these days.
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