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Gale Tattersall and Greg Yaitanes on the House finale from stillmotion on Vimeo.

For those of you that aren’t video nerds the season finale of “House” was shot on the 5DmII.  That’s a DSLR that costs under $3000.  I haven’t seen the episode because I’ve been toying with the idea of going back and watching all of the previous seasons, but its cool nonetheless.

Greg Yaitanes directed that episode and recently did a Q & A with his DP Gale Tattersal at the Cine Gear Expo.  The StillMotion crew put together a little teaser of a talk that Greg and his DP Gale Tattersall gave and they used some of two seconds away’s music.  Its kind of surreal seeing (or in this case hearing) something you created used by someone else to create something entirely new.

The full presentation can be watched here.

I like music a lot.  And I’m always on the lookout for new stuff.  I love it when you find a young band that is unknown and has a great sound and then starts to take off.  Then you can say “I knew (of) them when…” and you can pat yourself on the back for having such great taste.  And I’ve got one of those bands for you.

Rewind:

Its the spring of 2007.  I’m in a band called Moving Rushmore and my role is the video guy.  We start up a vidcast (and I think the first HD podcast for a band.)  Since I’m producing a podcast I’m also quite the consumer of other podcasts out there.  One day I’m browsing itunes and I find a podcast by a band that has been around for quite awhile and I’m very intrigued as to what has happened to them over the years.  That band was… Continue Reading

Had a cool opportunity to shoot a wedding this weekend.

This is normally where I would put an entry that says something like… “I haven’t blogged for (time frame) but this time we’ll see how it goes.”  Well I haven’t blogged for awhile but this time I’m going to try something different.  Despite the fact that there are numerous places around the web where I might occasionally post something mildly interesting, I need a place to call home.  So – I doubt I’ll blog much if any, but even if I only get the hankering once a year, this will be the place… until I change my mind again.