James Irvine Leadership Awards

This is Talking Eyes Media’s fifth year producing the leadership award videos for The James Irvine Foundation. These are documentary-style profiles of these winners and their organizations. We spent two days doing all the main interviews and then two days in the field with each subject. Two of winners from this year are posted below….

Trash Talk + Flatbush Zombies: In the studio

Converse hired Lauren and me to take over a series of short “In the Studio” films to accompany the release of the “CONS EP VOL. 1″ compilation, which pairs music artists to collaborate on songs for the album. We produced the shoot from beginning to end. The song in this video “97.92″ is produced by…

Automated Subtitles in Final Cut Pro 7

Over at Talking Eyes Media, we recently came across a useful subtitling tool using Final Cut Pro 7 and InqScribe, a transcribing software. Essentially, you can use InqScribe to subtitle a project, or a scene, and easily import those subtitles into FCP 7. There is a way to import these to Premiere Pro CC, but you have…

Traversing snowy New York City by bike

I’m one of the few souls in the tri-state area who lives in New York and commutes daily to work in New Jersey. The “reverse commute,” they call it. To get to work, I ride my bike from Fort Greene, Brooklyn, to Penn station in midtown. From there, I board a New Jersey Transit train…

great california road trip #5

Having never been to a hot spring, we made a stop after visiting Bodie at this undeveloped hot spring.  We had the small pool to ourselves for an hour or so. The spring is surrounded by mountains and it was a wonderful way to relax before getting back on the road for a couple more…