Our setup for the final interview with Noam Chomsky, for the forthcoming "Requiem For The American Dream."We were running a skeleton-crew, just Kelly Nyks (director/interviewer), Jared Scott (producer/camera A/audio) and myself (Camera B).  I s… — Our setup for the final interview with Noam Chomsky, for the forthcoming "Requiem For The American Dream."
We were running a skeleton-crew, just Kelly Nyks (director/interviewer), Jared Scott (producer/camera A/audio) and myself (Camera B). I shot with the 5D on the left as cam b, and in the foreground is the c300 with an Eye Line Direct setup. It's a pretty cool piece of gear that allows an interviewee to look directly into the lens, but via some mirrors, see the interviewer's face and talk to them, instead of a lens. Pretty handy for direct-to-camera stuff to keep the interviewee more relaxed and natural.

The old and the new Williamsburg

One of my favorite buildings in brooklyn

view looking north, with Edge building in background

more williamsburg graffiti

Birdemic?

taken on corner of 42nd street and 10th ave.

Scenic from a hike at Hanging Lake, near Glenwood Springs, CO. Taken in 2010.

Williamsburg, Brooklyn

One of the better things about Williamsburg is the random artwork. This was in the loading dock of a warehouse.

Spiro, Spero

““To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places (and there are so many) where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.””

— Howard Zinn