KAWEAH LAKE on the edge HDDSLR test project

I made a short video of one of my new favorite places in the central valley of Cali. Kaweah Lake. I shot some video on the edge of the water and some in the water on a little fishing boat with some freinds, Josh Zucker and Brian Johnson.

I shot everything on a canon 7D with a 90mm tiltshift lens and a 70-200mm. The shutter was on lock at 160 and the iso was at 100.

I had the format at 1080, 60 so I could slo the clips down using cinema tools.

Its super basic, but it was a way for me to relax and test out sticking to one setting for an entire shoot. Sometimes when shooting action sports the formats can vary because there are so man different people involved with many different cameras. ENJOY

the MUSIC artists are, Band of Horses...

song title: on my way back home

album: infinite arms

label: columbia records (the band was previously on subpop)

DETROIT drive by

I grew up in Mt. Clemens Michigan. I played music and skated everyday from the time I was 14 until I moved to California in 1991. We skated downtown Detroit and frequented a few abandon buildings to visit our squatter friends and sometimes drove up and down Woodward boulevard looking at hookers and taunting them, besides that, I never really knew much about the place.

I do now. Its in ruins. If this great nation is headed in a downward spiral, its starting here.

These pics are drive by snapshots. It would be way too much to show how many homes and buildings look like these.

I want it to be known that my intent for showing these images is not for art but awareness. every big city has its struggles, there is no doubt in my mind if you took a trip around detroit like I had on this day you would be shocked at the ruin. These houses burn and are left smack dab in the middle of perfectly fine houses..... for years. The city is a wreck.

I desire for this place to rise up again. It begins with awareness, so now your semi aware.