Diesel Vampire

Actress Mishel Prada thinks red

I was invited to shoot stills on the set of Lior Chefetz’ spec commercial, “Diesel Vampire” at USC’s Robert Zemeckis Center. Lior was directing a short tale of young love, fashion and… bloodsucking. Here are a few pics.

Lior at the camera

Gothic Beauty

Cameraman Raul Fernandez gets the shot

Medeni Griffiths prepares the Panavision

Stylist Adria Heath gets Michael Dolen camera ready

Actors Mishel Prada and Michael Dolan share a light moment... in bed

Lampooned

Last night I shot the red carpet arrivals for the premiere of National Lampoons' “One, Two, Many” at the Arclight here in Hollywood. Everything was pretty normal until the Kardashian girls showed up. The photographers simply went ape-s#*t. The shooter next to me got all ocd and yelled KIM, OVER HERE probably 50 times.

KIM, OVER HERE- KIM, OVER HERE-KIM, OVER HERE-KIM, OVER HERE-KIM, OVER HERE-KIM, OVER HERE-

At one point Kris Jenner watched him with a perplexed face then looked at me and we shared a shrug

Mother-Daughter moment

Other arrivals:

Playmate, Sandra Taylor

Nancy O’Dell

Music man, Kevin Eubanks

David Faustino

1985 Bond Girl, Tanya Roberts

Party for the Planet

The Family Affair organization threw a fun party in Beverly Hills raising money for the 11th Hour Action Campaign. A silent auction and ticket sales supported efforts to sustain the earth sponsored by The Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation.

Mad Men & Women

Where are my Mad Men Fans at? On Monday the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presented "Inside... Mad Men," honoring the AMC series. I shot the cast arriving at the Television Academy in North Hollywood and both men and women were looking pretty good.

To see all the pictures from the evening I shot for FilmMagic, click the link below:
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Presents An Evening with "Mad Men"

January Jones

On the left, Jon Hamm

Christina Hendricks

Vincent Kartheiser

Elizabeth Moss

Jennifer Westfeldt

HD Expo at The Beverly Hilton Hotel

On Thursday I shot stills for HD Expo at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. Industry leaders and vendors got together for a day of promotion and education in the latest HD technology.

Kristin Petrovich, founder and CEO of HD Expo introduces Ted Schilowitz of RED One

Filmmaker Joseph Toman (right)

Francoise Bourdonnec of Intel and David Cohen of Variety

Panasonic HD camera demonstration

The boys from Reel Data Inc, Joe Lewis, Jeff Spalla and Jay Coley, corporate partner and President of Editware

From USC's School of Cinematic Arts Richard Wirth, Lee Harwell and from Goal Productions Griff Parington, Robert Ballo

the Tech Art catalog Wins

The Tech Art catalog won an honorable mention in the HOW Magazine In-House Design Awards. Congrats to everyone who made this book a winner.

Click the link below to see the live page:

http://www.howdesign.com/2007InHOWsedesignawardwinners_nonprofit

HD Expo @ Panavision

My friends at HD Expo hired me on Saturday to shoot their HD Technology workshop at Panavision Studios in Woodland Hills. Examples of the latest hardware and cutting edge workflows were on hand for working professionals to play with. In the main theater instructors demonstrated the latest HD software.

Shot-Tini

It has been a while since I blogged. Lot's been going on, just haven't taken the time to add new entries. I sit here now after a few days off enjoying life-- anxious to share. First off, see below my new invention. If you want to experience what the perfect martini in a shot glass tastes like, see me after class. I give you the Shot-Tini:


Aside from inventing elixirs, I've been shooting events for FilmMagic and
Getty Images. I was hoping to blog them as I shot but time got away from me. To see the short list click the link below. They include red carpet arrivals, parties and pre Oscar events.

Getty Images | Vince Gonzales

Folkhlore

I shot my first movie poster!!! My bud David Freeman wrote, directed and starred in his gothic vampire movie "Folkhlore." I shot him in full armor posing from a scene in the script. Later he got with the talented layout artist Jaimie to finalize the official poster. The last image is of David proudly posing with his piece.

Happy 2008

Even though we are at the end of January, I wanted to wish everyone the best for 2008. Much to blog about so I thought I better get on it. At the beginning of the month we went away for D's birthday to Palm Desert for a few days. But before we did anything we kept to our yearly traditional ceremony of petting a goat and prank calling Carl Rove. It seems to always bring us luck.



Just kidding... Here you see Donna on the phone getting birthday wishes from our good friend Sue while visiting a petting zoo at the Living Desert Animal Park. Here are some more African animals enjoying the California desert climate.

Nicotine addicts give each other comfort.

Let sleeping hyenas lie.

Goat speak

Enjoying the view.

We finished up our trip with a refreshing hike into the desert.

Desert Queen.