I always have a hard time posting about my self, but this is a project that I’m super proud of and very happy to finally be able to share it with everyone. Over a year ago I was at home browsing Netflix and I came across a documentary by Ken Burns about the Brooklyn Bridge. I didn’t have anything else to watch that night, so I threw it on and ended up getting super inspired.

I think the two main things that really got me thinking was that I ride/walk/drive over the bridge all the time and never really take the time to look around and really think about the bridge it self… and also that I grew up on the west coast (in Seattle) in such a new area that there wasn’t really anything that old, or historic… and the fact that I now live really close to this massive structure that was basically hand made in the 1800′s and I didn’t even really think twice about is kind of crazy. For everyone who lives outside of the states and is reading this… yes, I know you have buildings that you probably live in that were built in the 1300′s and that is just nuts… but back to the topic… Essentially, I watched a documentary about the Brooklyn Bridge, woke up the next day, grabbed my camera and went and shot a bunch of footage.

I didn’t really have a plan for what I was going to do with the footage, but a few weeks after I shot it, I ended up scanning through the clips and throwing a rough edit together. The first cut I used Pink Floyd’s “Cluster” and some voiceover’s from the Ken Burn’s doc… I ended up throwing it up on my Vimeo and sending it to a few people… I had done a project for Nowness before and they were one of the people I sent it to. They hit me back saying they loved it and really wanted to use it… But that I’d need to get clearance for the voiceover and music. This is where I got caught up and essentially had “writers block”. A few months had actually passed from the time I put it together and sent it to Nowness and by this time I was really attached to the piece in it’s current form. It was super hard for me to take it apart and figure out new music and a new voiceover…

Months went by and I kept trying different royalty free tracks and trying to figure out what I could do for a voiceover. I ended up working on a project with Fisher Steven’s who I got connected to through my friend Zach Sky and while we were at my place editing, I showed Fisher The Bridge piece… I told him how I was trying to figure out what to do with it and he offered to do the voiceover… Crazy. Now that I somehow ended up with an Oscar winner narrating my piece, I knew I needed to do something more than just finding some bad royalty free music. Luckily I grew up in a family of very talented people and happen to have a brother who’s an amazing musician. I sent him the video and he wrote an original track that he recorded with his band Song Sparrow Research and I finally had all the pieces in place.

The film went online this past Monday and I couldn’t be more blown away by the amount of great response I gotten. Huge thank you to everyone who’s watched it and even bigger thank you to everyone who help me in any way.

Need to see this

A compilation of the best Steadicam shots since the invention in the early 70′s, pulled from the best rated list on steadishots.org. Get ready to get lost in a dream world of floating cinema.

Roger Deakins, the incredible cinematographer behind all the Coen Brother’s films and countless others, has a great interview on Vulture about how he achieved specific shots in different films over his career . Check the article out here and if you end up watching the Oscars this weekend, keep an eye out for the best cinematography category. Deakins is up for an Oscar for his work on Skyfall… He’s been nominated 10 times through out his career and has never won…

James Cox knows a thing or two about producing videos. Follow those links for a refresher.

Someone like James is bound to have videos/video parts that they cherish from their years in BMX, so I got in touch with him to find out what they are and to hear what he had to say about each.

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This looks awesome. All shot on 70mm film.

The film ‘The Fall’ came out in 2007, but somehow I hadn’t seen it until this past weekend. Directed by Tarsem, an acclaimed music video and commercial director, It was shot in over 20 countries and over the span of four years, financed mostly by my Tarsem him self, so he could avoid the creative restrictions that come with a big studio movie. If you haven’t already seen it, I recommend watching The Fall solely based off the visuals and locations… and If you have seen it, you might as well just watch it again because it’s that good. I swear I was taking screen shots every few seconds. So many incredible locations. Keep reading to see the trailer and a bunch of stills from the movie.

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Fraser Byrne sent over this rad film. “We just finished up this wee vid I thought you might appreciate. Although its not ‘bmx’ its in the spirit of DIY, cheap living adventure that I think most BMXers can relate to. The vid is based on a guy called Austin Vince who rode around the world (by the longest route possible) on DR350 dirt bikes with 8 mates. Pretty epic trip to say the least.”

This looks amazing.

Wild in the Wind is a new project I worked on with Chad Moore for Dazed and Confused. Chad shot the photos that are featured as an editorial in the October issue of Dazed and I shot a film to go along with the article.

Super happy with how the whole project turned out and it was great to work with Chad! We’ve been friends for ages (I actually met him at Woodward when he was a camper and I was working there almost 10 years ago). Keep reading to see the film and the rest of the photos and check out the whole thing on the Dazed site.

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A Red camera, BMX and some fireworks… Who doesn’t like that combination. Photographer and Director Brooks Reynolds had some extra time with a Red camera that was being rented for a commercial shoot so he linked up with Lee Dennis, Brad Hill & Josh Lichti and put this dope edit together!

I already know this film will be incredible. The Master is the latest movie from one of my favorite directors, Paul Thomas Anderson, who directed Boogie Nights and There Will Be Blood to name a few. Staring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix the story is about a new religion that is being launched just after World War II. The story is said to be based on the creation of Scientology and because of this there has been some controversy around the film. Not sure if it is related, but this is also the very first film Paul Thomas Anderson has done with out his long time collaborator and cinematographer Robert Elswit… None the less, the cinematography looks amazing. Check out some stills and trailers after the jump!

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URBAN OUTLAW – THE TRAILER from Tamir Moscovici on Vimeo.

Magnus Walker is a friendly dude with unique fashion sense and a couple of downtown loft spaces full of vintage 911s who attends the LA area Porsche meets, each time with a different car. In case you haven’t seen this yet, it’s the trailer for an upcoming documentary about him.

Don’t know too much about this project, but I’m really into the video that Wieden + Kennedy created for this Nike campaign. The sound design is beyond incredible.

Sitting here in Newport Rhode Island, living la vida loca…

A great piece on Architect and Designer Michael Graves for Dwell.

It seems there has been a string of unfortunate events lately, but I guess thats how life goes sometimes.. I can narrow it down to five or so key people who have influenced me to be where I am at today in my professional life, and one of those people is Hillman Curtis. You were such an early influence to me, I will cherish the times I got to work with you. Respect. R.I.P

The first episode of Nigel Sylvester’s new series ‘Get Sylvester’ just went live! I have been working with Nigel on this project for a bit and am super excited for everyone to get to check it out. This is just the first episode of 10 that we will be working on over the next few months and we have a lot of awesome stuff in the works.

To kick the series off, the first episode documents a trip we took to Barcelona to film an edit for Beats by Dre (that will be dropping on Thursday). Check out the first episode above, make sure to subscribe to the series on Nigel’s youtube page, and if you missed any of the teasers check out all three of them after the jump!

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Pretty awesome film from Casey Neistat for Nike’s Make It Count campaign. Apparently, he took all the money Nike gave him to make a film and spent it traveling the world until he ran out of money… It only took him 10 days, but he covered some serious ground and put together a great video about it. (via TWBE)

A little dark humor for your weekend – seven commercials by the brilliant Swedish director Roy Andersson.

“MANIFESTO NYC follows Joey “The Neck” LaBella around lower manhattan as he rhapsodizes about his history as a narcotics detective and thoughts about the city today.”

I don’t know a thing about horse racing, but I do know the cinematography in this trailer is absolutely amazing. Put together by Alfred Dunhill and Just So Films, this is definitely something I want to see.

This is one of those trailers that I wasn’t able to get three seconds into with out screen grabbing every frame. Film grain, lens flares, coloring, titles…. can it get any better??

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This video of Nigel Sylvester for G Shock was posted a few weeks back and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since it went up. Definitely one of my favorite video with Nigel and for those of you who haven’t seen it yet, it’s definitely worth a watch.