Directorial Debut

While hanging out with my boy Doc over the weekend, I felt the sudden urge to do some filming. Yep, you heard right...some filming.

So I asked him to grab his camcorder, some cans and told him to rock a little sumthin' sumthin' on his wall.  Nothing huge or elaborate...just something small, quick, simple and just for kicks. 

With camcorder in hand, I began to mess around by capturing some footage of him painting from all kinds of angles.  I would cue him in, yell "Action!"... and be like "Do this"..."Do that"..."Now try this"..."Now try that"... "No wait! Don't do that...." and at times he'd be like, "What about if I do this? or that?" (all excited) and I was like...straight up "uhhhhh...how about?...NA!".  At times, I don't think I would even let him finish his suggestions.  And between you and I, even if some sounded pretty good, I was like "NOPE!!!" I thought to myself, "if I was gonna debut as a director, it was gonna be all or nothing"...anyways....Back to the scene....

As he was finishing up what he had painted...I captured the last minutes of my footage and yelled "annnnnnd...CUT! - That's a wrap!"  - it actually felt pretty good to say that.

But now came the real challenge.  Placing it all on video format, editing it and adding a score to it.  Never have done any editing whatsoever at any capacity.  I dove straight into iMovie.  Yes people, I have a Mac...don't hate now! and began to mess with it.

The score came about by accident which pretty much sparked the idea for the editing.  And after 4 or 5 hours of sitting in front of the computer and messing with iMovie I came up with a running time of only 2 minutes. Anyways, peep it out...

Let me know your feedback and make sure you peep the credits out too.

**There are plenty of behind the scene shots that will, perhaps, be posted. And also be on the look out for an alternate ending too....**


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Cemita Challenge -

Old interview for Relevant Magazine - 2008

Click on image and flip through the pages to read my interview...GOOD STUFF

Open publication - Free publishing - More relevant

SANER illustrates for Televisa

Televisa of Mexico has been celebrating great artists and thinkers through a series of video/commercials entitled IMAGINANTES.

For this series, they highlight one of the great artists of Mexico, Jose Guadalupe Posada

During the late 19th century, a young kid by the name of José Clemente Orozco would stop at a press/printing shop on his way to and from school. The shop had large windows and Posada was in plain full view. Orozco, confessed, he would stop by on his way to school and spend endless amount of time watching Posada at work. It was the dark, rich work and finishes of Posada's calaveras (skulls) that awakened Orozco's imagination who'd later become one the of greatest artists/muralists of Mexico and the world. It was an encounter of two great visionaries.

My friend, Saner, follows in Posada's footsteps and tradition. Known for his elaborate artwork of skulls, Saner was asked to illustrate for this series. Check out the work...



Trivia: Who are the other 3 greats of Mexico?

FUCT interview on LA Graffiti Girls

Wanted to share this with ya'll.

Fuct of AL/OTR/3A/EE/LGF interviewd on LA GRAFFITI GIRLS

FUCT Interview by LA Graffiti Girls from Tiffany Evans on Vimeo.

Feel free to visit the site as well. GRAFFITI GIRLS - A great site purely dedicated to girl graff writers.