These last few weeks I’ve been working on a hip hop music video with RA Scion, MC of Common Market. Production went quickly this weekend (Friday evening and a few hours on Saturday) and I’m taking a brief break from editing the footage to write this.
Here are some screen grabs of the film noir look, the crazy set, and the excellent performances:
Oh, and the best part? Breakdancing!
My obsession with time-lapse film continues.
This morning, thousands of cyclists from around the United States came to ride the 33 mile loop around Bainbridge Island known as the Chilly Hilly. I got a few hours of filming in before church, then grabbed Dylan after church for a few more hours of filming while Jill rested.
My favorite shot is featured in the video thumbnail: hundreds of cyclists on Baker Hill Road at once, weaving past each other in accelerated time. The scale of the cyclists is insect-like when viewing all of Baker Hill at once.
Music by Chopin and Prokofiev. Photography by Garrett Gibbons.
Sol, Common Market, Khingz, DJ Pryme, Dyno Jamz, Flying Sneakers and The Physics gave an excellent show at Neumo’s last night. The show sold out early, and 100% of the proceeds went to Doctors Without Borders. The music was great, the crowd excellent, and the cause noble. A lot of love was shared for family and friends of performers who have died or who are suffering right now in Haiti.
I was blessed enough to be backstage and onstage as the photographer for the event, and had an amazing experience capturing the show through images. Here’s a link to the full set of galleries, which you can also access by clicking on any picture below.
Update: Here’s UW TV’s piece that they did on the benefit show, featuring the talented SOL who put the show together.
I’m trying out a few different iPhone wallpapers to accompany the Glasklart theme for Winterboard (found through Cydia).
In general, I find the visual approach intriguing: rather than a colorless background with colorful icons, the emphasis is on the background with a semitransparent icon set. I am enjoying the minimalist take on the iPhone experience, though a wallpaper with much more energy might also be used instead.
Currently, my background is the white oak one shown below:
White Oak
White Oak (dark)
Nailed boards
Brushed metal
Plaster
We’ve moved into our new apartment and the kitchen is so beautiful that I wanted to film some baking footage last night while Jill made cookies. The result? Drama, cookies, and time-lapse!
We’ve been swamped this last week while moving apartments, but Dylan has had the time of his life. He helps with everything from loading and unloading boxes to assembling furniture. When we began to set his new crib up tonight, he immediately got involved with a rarely-seen level of focus and determination. Jill got the camera out for me and this is what I filmed:
We loved Lisa and Eldon’s wedding on a ranch in Houston, Texas. They had a carefree vibe that lent itself wonderfully to formal portraits.
Click on any of the images below to go to a full gallery.
I was the Nutcracker Prince in Olympic Performance Group’s performance of The Nutcracker this year. It was a unique experience for me, being a ballroom dancer (not a ballet dancer), and I learned volumes through the process. And I got paid!
This is a highlights video of some of my dancing, some footage I shot backstage, and some video recorded by my wife during the production.
Here’s a little diddy that Jill and I danced to at the Olympic Performance Group’s performance of “The Nutcracker,” which I was also in. We don’t have many recordings of us dancing, so I’m glad we got this filmed for our Bainbridge Ballroom website!
I often am asked for recommendations when people are looking for a musical, and I keep losing my DVDs when I lend them out to people, so I’ve started a small (but ever-growing) list of films that I commonly recommend. So far I only have three categories:
It has its own section on garrettgibbons.com, so check it out!
