I’ve been working quite a bit without updating it all here. As I’ve settled into Omaha as homebase I’ve been going to alot of shows and started to shoot some songs of bands. After the Conduits video, I got a huge local response from other shooters who wanted to help out. And slowly I’ve built a small community of DSLR shooters who will come out to shows with me. To give this ongoing series a brand, I came up with Ingrained. Godard mused that filmmaking is a beautiful fraud for the media used to capture a moment is limited by its very structure. It’s only an approximation of reality. But somehow we look into the grain, past the pixel, and come out with something greater. So somewhere inbetween the blurry line of live music, music video, and documentary, Ingrained exists.
Progressively, I’ll be posting videos here until we’re up to date.
First up is from Kyle Harvey’s Christmas in Outer Space CD Release show. Kyle is a minimalist singer/songwriter who has been talking about this idea to make an alien-themed Christmas album. This year he actually made it and put together a show with balloons and lazer lights and dancing space babes, all completely out of character for Kyle, but so awesome.
From the moment of hearing about it, I knew I wanted to shoot it. And I thought it would be fun to shoot it extra grainy and maybe in night vision. I borrowed a T2i from a friend and went down to The Barley Street Tavern. All the montage shots I grabbed before it got crowded. The alien face was actually off a book Kyle had brought and the full moon was perfect for a cold dreary night. I set up my H4N about ten feet from the main speakers and handed the second T2i to my friend Aaron Gum. Not even thinking about the danger of lazers and digital cameras we shot a number of songs, lazers passing by our cameras. Aaron’s camera especially had some unique images from the effect of the lazers, creating an almost cutout of kyle. In post, I added the green tint and vignette but the effect of the lazers is all natural. This was the perfect document of that grand night. Hope you enjoy!
