BLUE COUP D’ETAT

a moment in my life
with
misterioso by thelonious monk

a little song from one of the girls at the palm tree orphanage in phnom penh. spent an afternoon there on december 30th. truly magical. will return there on jan 6th to do some more shooting and will undoubtedly post more video when i can.

additional images from that evening here

music by fruit bats
death of clayton peacock

Looking at motion in extremes: hyper control and complete acceptance.

Hyper control (also referred to as micro-editing) looks at each individual motion of the camera or motion within the frame, often times neither a bump nor a nudge can be tolerated. The eye darts around the frame, following the rhythm of the cuts. (OUTSIDE)

Complete acceptance waits, allows each shot it’s moment, a revelation, a life within the frame. (INSIDE)

My process uses one to stimulate the other.

walker april 2004

about to make dumplings
kentucky home

Ginza area
kumi escalator
theater
skyline river
bridge
new office building interior exterior night
denny’s tokyo
bridge
garage
subway sleepers, platform, and worriers
motorcycle graveyard ropangi
art museum ropangi
baby, posers, photographers, and and a kimono along with a pinkish trenchcoat, sunshine smiles, and dance practice in the woods, baby pointing at ducks in the pond, a woman with a red umbrella under a blue sky, kumi smile, long tree shadow, benches and trees and fountains

a meditation

suitman’s house
going to the mountains
great dinner at a 400 year old restaurant village, the whole village is a restaurant
colonel sanders, you know my parents knew him when they were growing up, they are from the same small town in kentucky - corbin
old people, babies, lots of people on subways
homeless lost in the corners
style and grit
a tender moment with a blond red hed
living doll bar (not my best picture, wasn’t supposed to take any pictures)…..
sleepers, shoppers, men and kids alone in corners and steps
skull fashion
me in the world
small doorway
japanes kid on a bike and tommy lee jones
ramshackle lockers
drunk man in shinjuku tries to pull it together
american club/japanese only
a heel adjustment
shinjuku lights
food, cell phones, bicycle and a pot
finally met up with young, alex, forgive me famous fashion designer i forgot your name, and my buddy kumi for a great great dinner and lots of drunken fun
think that’s it