If you’ve been reading this blog for the past year then you know I’ve developed an interest in video/film.  It began last year when I stopped drinking and picked up a ton of books on video production and movie making.  Basically all I did last summer was read and ride my bike all over the place, two things I rarely did while I was drinking.  Shortly thereafter, I borrowed a friends camera and decided to get my feet wet by working on some projects for my friend and fellow artist Latimore Platz.   The first was a series of videos called “Who is Latimore Platz?” and the second was a music video for his song “10 Stone”.

After those I felt a little more confident in my work, and decided to put together the concept for what turned into The Adventures of Blueprint. I pitched it to Rhymesayers as something that I would direct and produce and they liked it enough to use as the main on-line component for Adventures in Counter-Culture, which to me was a huge confidence booster, especially knowing how critical they are.  It made me feel like maybe I could take on more and more ambitious things, but once the campaign for my record started I found that I didn’t have nearly as much time to work on video projects as I initially thought I would.  I started touring in February of this year and prior to June I had only been home a combined 2 weeks.   While I was on tour in Austin I found somebody on craigslist that was selling the camera I had my eyes on (canon t2i) for super cheap, so I picked it up and started taking pictures again, in hopes that when I had time to sit back down with video I would have a better understanding of photography and therefore be able to capture better images.

Well, it’s time to get busy.