Staying Creative

I recently upgraded to Mountain Lion - low and behold, some of my older design programs no longer work.  frustrating, yes - but probably fair as well, you see, these are programs that may have been "gifted" to me years ago, perhaps from a friend at an ad agency or production company, someone generous who wanted to see me flourish as a young artist and granted the oh-so-important key codes and serial numbers.  turns out the modern era of technology frowns upon this type of sharing.  dare i say, some might even call it, shhhhhhhh- "stealing"

well, my parents would surely be upset if they found out i was stealing things, so i have been looking into a new Adobe service called "creative cloud."  any designer out there reading this would know that the new adobe creative suite runs about $2K all-in.  the new creative cloud is a pretty unique alternative.  it allows anyone to download any or all of the adobe "apps" and pay for them on a monthly basis at a monthly fee (from $29-$50 USD).  thus, minimizing your out-of-pocket-start-up costs, a blessing to any young designer or filmmaker and also, creating a work-platform that can constantly be updated by adobe.  gone are the days, of upgrading this or needing to download that - once you sign up for the "app" adobe will present you the newest, coolest version of the program and continue to update it for you.  they are offering trials now- i'm in the process of checking it out.  so don't take this as a recommendation, just a heads-up.  happy designing.

https://creative.adobe.com/apps

jb films artwork at LA art-walk

if you can make it - check out the ArtforPeople booth at the LA art-walk, thursday June 14th, 2012

spy optic - behind the scenes

we had a really fun group of people who all wore multiple hats to put together the spy optic "flip" commercial.  a big shout out to devon howard and michael marckx at spy for coming up with a fun idea and letting us run with it - my production team of DP scott kassenoff, 2nd unit Andrew Petersen via running roots productions, gripville kelly flood and super fantastic set utility via bob sugar aka jay moore.
and SALT for bringing the edit to life in culver city - thanks ian douglass and team!

artwork now available via Art for People

fun vid i did a few years ago- professional prints now available.
check out  Art for People

surf films and sausage

i really love this photo of friends in italy making home-made italian sausage and throwin' down in a One California Day movie tee-shirt via toes-on-the-nose.

nice guys.  grazi !!!

curren- so smooth

if you grew up surfing in the last 25yrs, it's hard to deny the influence on all of us via tom curren.  i believe it was lance carson, who stated, "good power surfing will never get old."

as we see the new guard blazing an acrobatic approach to the world tour, i still believe the above quote nails good surfing.  yes, the new school is more wide-open, higher above the lip and arguably more creative as to what-can-be-done on a wave but the good ones start with a foundation of solid power surfing.  phil edwards, billy hamilton, buttons, tom carrol, occy, tyler hatzikian, kelly slater, andy irons, joel parkinson- all great stylish surfers who begin with a foundation of smooth power-surfing and who can deny, perhaps the smoothest, tom curren.  enjoy

Rent or Buy One Cal Day digital download

here's any easy way to take One California Day everywhere you go!  amazon.com offers 7 day rental or the purchase of the film - all in the digital download format.  there's probably even a way to gift this download to a friend - although i'm not smart enough to figure that out.

thank you for watching!

click here for amazon.com link to download the film.