Happy 18th Birthday to My Brother Eric!
Lodi Cyclefest (Documentary) Premiere
The Michael David Winery Cycling Team presents the Lodi Cyclefest documentary. If you're in the area of Lodi, CA. this Saturday March 15, 2014 the Lodi Cyclefest documentary I edited will be premiering at The Rusted Mic Entertainment House and Bistro. After the screening the video will be uploaded for you to view if you can't make it to Lodi. I want to thank Monkeys In Space, and SkunkM40 for contributing their music to the project which was very helpful in completing this documentary.
Lodi Cyclefest Directed by David Kano.
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
Below is an animated .gif of a scene from My Imaginary Friend, a short film I worked on with my friend Brandon Mackey.
Now here’s a frame from the film Citizen Kane directed by Orson Welles. (screen capture is fromCreativeCOW.net)
As I mentioned before, the screen capture above is directly from a CreativeCow.net article titled “The Camera Is An Eye – Not A Vacuum Or A Gun”. The article refreshed my memory of a scene I worked on from the short film ‘My Imaginary Friend’. This image stuck out to me the moment I saw it because I can remember lifting this same technique from Citizen Kane. In 2006 when I was in college and made ‘My Imaginary Friend’, is around the time when I watched Citizen Kane for the first time. I may have watched it a couple years before, but just around this time of my life I was obsessed with Orson Welles. Now I don’t believe I was technically ‘stealing’ like I have titled this post, but I was for sure influenced by the cinematography in Citizen Kane.
Nowadays these choices of where to place the camera is ingrained in the way we make movies today. In fact every movie is technically stealing from the past in one way or another.
As a filmmaker I believe it’s important to try and understand the history of filmmaking as much as possible in order to stay creative, and fully understand how stories can be told.
Micah Returns (Trailer)
I recently created a short video for my nephew titled "The Cowboy Adventure". He was excited when I showed him the video -- he kept replaying it! I decided to make another video for him with some footage of him playing around the house over the weekend. Here it is.. Micah Returns!
The Cowboy Adventure starring Cowboy Micah
Had some fun filming my nephew play around the house this weekend and decided to edit a short video to show him. He enjoyed it!
