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I built myself a ring flash for my still camera.  It was a crafty little experience and went through a revision.  I used a disposable pie pan and some diffusion paper.  fitted it with a sealed hole to shoot through, and an unmounted flash. Lots of just, measuring and cutting but it was pretty simple, really.

Both work, each little differently in their effect.

I’ve come forward to help get a baking site/blog going by doing some food photography for a Miss Sarah Mae and her new site www.sugar-junkie.com. You should check it out. 

Food photography is great. It is usually small and controlled. Deals a lot of with color and texture. You are trying to get the eyes interested in something you would normally only be concerned about taste or smell. 

I’m not doing all the photography on that site.  The bottom of each post usually has a proper photo-credit listed.

If Factor has been putting a lot of focus into producing a feature film.  While we work and work on the edit and post production for “Fate Awakening” we are making sure our next project is even bigger. Legitimizing the If Factor production company.We brought Mark Michael Miller into our group as a producer to focus on our first project CONTAINMENT (working title).  As more happens with this, and I’m free to talk about it.  I’ll post stuff here.

The short film “Numbers” starring Annie Wood was completed and is starting of its races through the festival circuit. So for now, here is the trailer I can show you.

I had the opportunity to work on the Navajo Film titled Rainbow Boy.  Navajo director, all Navajo cast with most of it even spoken in ancient Navajo. It’s about an Native Indian that TIME TRAVELS to the FUTURE.  How flipping crazy awesome is that?

We shot in some cool areas in Gallup, New Mexico and Monument valley, Utah.  I took a lot more photos.  Take a peek at them!  Eventually I’ll have some video media on here as well.

Director - Norman Patrick Brown
Producer - Jenny Pond Muckerman
DoP - Vincent Pascoe
AC - Keegan Ead
Sound - Tony Bob

A long while back I worked in camera department on a shoot for the Elevated films festival.  The shoot was in Sedona, AZ, but most of the crew based south of Los Angeles, CA. The DoP was here from Venezuela, too, if I remember correctly.  I didn’t hear from them really after that, but I came across the film we shot on vimeo.  Enjoy!

We encountered so many stories we came across in POISON WIND, naturally we could not include them all.  As POISON WIND gained in success and popularity more and more stories surfaced.  So, fortunately Jenny Pond and Norman Patrick Brown went out and interviewed several more women who never actually worked in the mines, but rather were victims of where they lived,  downstream and downwind.  Areas with terrifyingly sick families, with high concentrations of 1 in a million diseases.  Here is a short trailer I helped them put together featuring some of these women and their stories.

I assisted Tim Allen on a short music video for a local church. It turned out a lot better after it was all said and done than I think we both expected.  But was definitely a great day of shooting, outside mostly.

Rolled on a Sony EX1, with the Letus Extreme, and some Nikon Lenses.

Here’s a peak..

On Friday, February 27, Beyond Nuclear will be bringing together a very special group of people at Busboys and Poets in Washington, DC, for a film screening and discussion. The event takes place 5:30pm–7:30pm and is free and open to the public. If you live in the area or are visiting from out of town, please consider joining us!

Hosted by the actor James Cromwell — most recently seen in the Oliver Stone movie W — the evening will begin with a screening of POISON WIND,

The film screening forms part of a series of events on uranium mining, human rights, and indigenous people, hosted over three days by Beyond Nuclear. The Busboys and Poets evening will feature:

James Cromwell (actor); Manny Pino (Acoma Pueblo) and Norman Brown (Navajo), leading Native American activists; Jenny Pond, director, Poison Wind; Mitch (she uses no last name), an Australian aboriginal anti-dumping and uranium mining activist; Issouf Maha or Bilalane Ouguet, Touareg leader from Niger; Dr. Bruno Chareyron, director of the French investigative lab that has conducted radiological testing at nuclear sites in France and around the world; and Nat Wasley, an activist from the Beyond Nuclear Initiative (Australia).

We hope you will join us for this important film, enjoy a delicious meal available from the menu at Busboys, and participate in a thought-provoking discussion about the human rights violations caused the world over by deadly uranium mining.

Busboys and Poets is located at 2021 14th St. NW (at V Street), Washington, DC 20009. Tel: 202-387-7638.

For more information about the Beyond Nuclear tour of indigenous activists, please contact Linda Gunter at 301-270-2209 ext. 2.”

POISON WIND is proud to be invited to the 9th annual International Fargo Film Festival, March 3-7th. Held at the historic Fargo Theater, an art-deco, art-moderne movie palace.

 Tickets