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Austin Texas undergroundplanet.com
I'm an independent Director/Producer/Director of Photography/Editor/Writer/Entrepreneur and a dishwasher at the local Denny's. Once upon a time that was an improbable if not impossible claim to state. If ya had the balls to assert qualifications like those people would assume that you were either crazy, or at the very least mildly retarded (which I am as well). Now a days it's as probable as anything and I can't seem to drive to the gas station without running into three other's who share all of my same credentials (well mayhaps not Denny's).

So the story goes, In 2003 with not much more than a camera and a computer I gave up a pretty comfortable living in the "real world" and made the conscious decision to never ever go back. I had done a few shows on access in the past and had fallen in love with the entire process but, at that time, doing production from anything but a studio or a post house was all but impossible and beyond the reach of anyone without deep pockets. The show eventually came to an end but apparently the bug never left.

Fast forward a number of years to one random afternoon while flipping channels I stumbled on “Evil Dead”. I’d seen it before but for some reason on that day in that moment while watching this low budget cult classic indie I thought “I wanna make a movie”. Off to the internet I went trying to decipher just what it would take. I read somewhere that Steven Soderbergh, who I mostly knew from “Traffic”, was working on a film called “Full Frontal” and shooting much of it with a Canon XL1. Figuring if it was good enough for him it was good enough for me and a week later one I had bought from a wedding videographer in Hawaii through eBay for $1,875.00 arrived on my doorstep. That was April 2002, it was less than a year later that I made the leap to full time video production.

Funny thing is I honestly didn't even know what I was doing but for the first time ever I truly felt that I had found my “calling” (as corny as that may sound and as dumb as it feels to say). All I knew was that I was passionate and the impact was profound. I was entirely self taught and more or less just bumbling around shooting stuff, throwing it together in an edit, and generally speaking people seemed to like it. I had no connections, no leads, was broke as a monkey and all but pretty much fucked. Despite this, somehow through the course of years I've seem to have made a bit of a name for myself and with some luck garnered 5 awards for various music videos I directed/edited/and produced, later winning two more for my feature length film "For Love & Stacie".

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Technical

Camera : Sony Ex1
Adapter : Letus35 Extreme
Tripod : Sactler FSB 6 Head with Carbon Fiber Legs
Jib: GlideCam
Dolly : Aria
indiSliderpro - indifocus.com/
Basic Lighting : Lowell Light Kit
Camera Light : Litepanels
Edit : Sony Vegas - sonycreativesoftware.com/vegaspro
Noise Reduction : iZotope RX - izotope.com/
Audio EX : iZotope Ozone 3
Additional CC : Magic Bullet
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    He added First Lip-Dub to Lipdubs!
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    He commented on THE MUSTACHE

    lol, that was simultaneously disturbing and hilarious.

    - Ray

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    He commented on MSI-Tight-Dub in Lipdubs!

    lol, nicely done Owen. - Ray

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    He commented on How and where not to do The Fishstick in Lipdubs!

    Is it a LipDub? Prolly not, but its f'kn awesome and needed ta be here! - Ray

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    2 days ago
    He commented on Vimeo for commercial use

    Besides Midget Porn? This actually stems back to previous threads and conversations we've had about what is or isn't commercial and what is or isn't allowed on Vimeo, that thin gray line we discussed. What I was eluding to in my last post was that when "Pro" rolls out, I'd like to not have to worry about that gray line. If I make something for a client that's obviously a commercial, I'd still like to be able to post it without worrying that it might be flagged/yanked, that's all. If I'm paying for a "Pro" account (someday) I would like for that to entitle me to that privilege. At the end of the day whatever I produce is my work, be it commercial or artistic, and either type is still a creative endeavor.

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    2 days ago
    He commented on Video editing apps!

    lol, you're funny. Sure, I'll say PC's are the way to go if that's the environment someone prefers to work in, in this day and age a person doesn't have to learn a new operating system just to edit. You've already conceded and defined other applications that are on other platforms as being, by your definition "Pro", so it's kind of silly to then try and assert Mac as being the be-all-end-all. Nothing against Mac, just saying it's by no means the only way to go. You work in a production house, that rules man, I'm sure you'll learn a lot. I've checked out some of your co-workers work and there's some talent there to be sure. But working at a production house does not make you the expert, it just means you got a job, congrats. And you are correct that you have a right to say whatever you want, you would have that right even if you didn't work at a production house, it just doesn't mean you would be right. - Ray

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    3 days ago
    He commented on University Lipdub (HS Furtwangen)

    Great job, incredible how well choreographed this was. Also notice that less people flubbed their lines than in most lipdubs of this size. Nicely done. Loved the pan down to the card and the pan up to empty seats. =)

    - Ray

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