I am moving this blod back over to:

www.occupant.wordpress.com

Right now I don’t have the time or where-with-all to make these pages do what I want. I am hoping that wordpress can help.

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This minute long film shows Elise’s love for her favorite new food group, super slimy cereal.

(click to play)

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Recently, I received a phone call to shoot for a national commercial. I had been hoping for a chance to break into the commercial world, and here it was. There was another reason to be excited, the director was going to be Jessica Yu, who is quite well known in the documentary world, maybe it is because she has a shiny Oscar. I had no idea what the commercial was about or who it was for, the production company seemed to be keeping a rather tight lid on all the details, I was just glad to have the opportunity.

Well, chances are that if you watch TV you have seen the ads.

If you want to take a look at me in action on the commercial take a look at the behind the scenes video.
www.fordchallenge.com

( I was one of a few camera crews, I show up towards the end.)

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Quarter after six this morning my phone rings, I thought it was my alarm, but it turns off without me having to hit the snooze, a few minutes later and it rings again. The executive producer for Intervention is on the phone, he informs me that unfortunately Intervention was not nominated for best Reality Series, something that all of us that work on the show was really hoping for. But he does not stop there, he tells me that I was nominated for an Emmy. I had no idea what he was talking about, I was trying to think about what shows I worked one that was up for cinematography, it was 6 am and I was drawing a blank.

Much to my surprise I have been nominated for a 2007 Emmy Award for “Outstanding Cinematography For Reality Programming”

I don’t know what else to say, it feels as if I am reading about someone else as I write this.
It is an honor.

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I have recently begun working on a documentary about the way we farm, create and eat food in America, and more and more the world. It has been a great learning experience, being able to see and smell the reality of where our food comes from. I think that anyone who decides to eat, weather it’s chicken, beef or tofu, should take some time to find out where their food comes from.

Sometimes it is nice to get your hands dirty in a little bit of reality.

On the technical side of the project, I believe I have the title of 2nd Camera and Gaffer. The film is being shot entirely in HD (720p) and will be in theaters across the country in a year (fingers crossed).

Just to let you know, I am not a vegetarian nor do I plan to convert any time soon, I just love bacon too much.
Sorry pigs.

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Over the last 3 months I have had 5 days off. Here is where I have been.

Hunting for Burl wood in Eureka, California (with a meth addict)
Hanging over the edge of a 30 story building in downtown Los Angeles (with another meth addict)
On an apple orchard
In a Hospital
Stuck in a room with 50 baby chickens
Standing on the top of a 90 meter wind turbine
Stuck in a room with 30,000 chickens

Stuck in a hotel room alone at night missing my wife and daughter.

I am home for a few days at least, I am going to have to make some time to get this blog caught up.

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Back in high school I thought it would be amazing, but nearly impossible to visit every state in the union. Thanks to my work as a documentary producer and DP I am close, only seven states to go.

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Little Elise is much bigger and I have criss-crossed the country at least once since the last post. What can I say, life is busy and the moments are so fleeting they seem to pass by before I can put them into words, or thoughts for that matter. I Recently began working on a corporate documentary for an Investment Bank that funds wind farms, the first shoot was in New Mexico. I would write more but I have to pack for an early flight to Kentucky. More about that soon.

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One moment the wife and I are at wits end asking each other, “God what have we done?” A moment later we look at our daughter and thank God for what He has done.

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No baby yet, but we do have some signs that one is coming soon, so last night I got my DP reel out the door - well, up on the web at least. Yesterday I received an email from a director looking for a DP for his new documentary to be shot this summer in Mexico. The production company, Chronicle Project looks really interesting and they have done some good things, so I passed them my reel. We will see if it does the job and gets me a job.

If you have not already checked it out here you go.

www.csbaron.com

Let me know what you think.

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