Sometimes there is nothing better than seeing New York on the horizon and coming closer through rain and fog. I got so giddy at the sight of the Empire State Building that I threw Dexter Gordon in the C.D. player and just kept shooting it and thinking about Andy Warhol, because, you know, we were leaving Pittsburgh (I hadn’t actually didn’t have time to see his museum, or anything but The Mattress Factory as far as art goes). I’m trying to cull all my holiday video and also using this piece as a way of perhaps making a very different Music Video for the Royal Wylds. The Dexter Gordon was the ambient music when I shot it, so I wanted to revisit it in the mood and pace it was shot in, with the snares playing time to the windshield wipers. I may try to turn it on it’s ear and make it a very frenetic fast rock and roll creature… unless the Wylds have come up with a ballad? This was a way of finding my favorite shots.
On a purely hype note, Two of my videos have been chosen by two editors at The Daily Reel for their top ten of the year lists: here’s Matthew Ross’s List and here’s Alexandra Delyle’s LIst. Yay for me!