Some color snaps from my time in Iceland.
A few black and white snaps from my time in Iceland and Netherlands.
Reykjavik
Rotterdam
Sometimes you go to France and ask your very well-seasoned production manager (Antonin Dedet) who has worked with the likes of Leos Carax and Jacques Audiard to kindly be your stand-in for Novak Djokovic at a defunct abattoir. He was such a good sport and even took us out for one hell of a memorable wrap party night on the town in Nice.
A few weeks ago, I went to the town of Tequila in Mexico to film the new campaign for Casa Noble Tequila. This was one of those projects that reminds me that the best part of filmmaking is meeting people and seeing new places. Here are some images taken from behind the scenes by my wonderful cinematographer, Max Goldman.
Just wrapped out filming this year’s new engagement campaign for Tiffany & Company. Production design (and this environment test photo) by the lovely David Gropman with lighting and cinematography by the Grandmaster, Philippe Le Sourd.
A few days ago I had the pleasure of teaming back up with the fine folks at Revolver Film and Clemenger BBDO. We did some filming with the Melbourne Victory FC for TAC at AAMI Stadium. We managed to shoot 3 separate spots in one day despite a crazy thunderstorm that positioned itself right above the stadium. Recce frames care of the super talented DOP, Ryley Brown .
Some location scout shots that I snapped from this week’s shoot for Hilton in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Got to finish the project with a fantastic meal at a really unique restaurant, Flora Farms.
Very pleased to have the Airwick Home Is In the Air film that I shot in conjunction with Droga5 shortlisted as part of the 2015 Cannes Lions.
Just wrapped out a shoot in Serbia with my mates from Cummins & Partners documenting the rise of the best tennis player in the world, Novak Djokovic. Aces photographer, Tovo caught a behind-the-scenes moment of DOP, Adam McDaid riding the dolly, working diligently while I stood around looking pissed off for no good reason.
Branislav Kropilak’s photos of indoor car parks and illuminated billboard posts are simply stunning.
Sculptor, Isaac Cordal’s brilliant work uses small-scale figurines to make a big statement about his concern for societies relationship with our leaders, our environment, technology and each other.
Here are a few useful reference resources for film makers. FilmGrab and Cinema Squid are both growing archives of film still frames. Just Screenshots does the same thing, but also categorizes TV series and documentaries.
Alan Wolfson is a native New Yorker who has spent decades creating miniature urban sculptures that recall the changing landscape of NYC. Often, he creates with painstaking detail models of places that have actually existed, like Katz’s Deli (below).
Similarly, Michael Paul Smith creates scale model nostalgic environments that he photographs in a manner that would make you swear they’re real. All of the images that he creates are of a fantasy town that he’s named Elgin Park.
Artist, Simon Beck does a lot of walking in the snow to create stunning, intricate pattern illustrations (see below). Another artist named Andres Amador does something quite similar using a rake to create his temporary patterns on beach sand.
Here are a few quick street snapshots that I took last week, whilst location scouting on a project filming in Yangon, Myanmar.
Love this portrait of my grandfather, Bob.
I’ve always been bothered by the the sexist trope in which women are posed suggestively to highlight a stereotypically “masculine” object of desire such as a car, motorcycle or a guitar. I was particularly amused by this series of ads in which a Portland-based Ducati dealer paired images of men from around their shop in contrast to their female model counterparts. I think it does a good job to point out just how absurd the cliche is.
Some stunning photos from Ben Roberts’ series Amazon Unpacked - a look inside Amazon’s new UK warehouse.
