I mentioned the tiltshift app before in my blog, they have an online version, an AIR application version and a iPhone version... here is some recent use.

I took my son in for a bi monthly hair cut at the awesome old school shop "Sweeny Todd's Barbershop" and had my camera at my side, it was about 4PM and the light was perfectly falling into the shop, so I asked Todd (the owner) if I could take some pics. Here is some of what I got...

Filmed in between takes during a rope bondage shoot. This was one of the first times I had used the 7D with a 50mm lens. Music is "Gently Johnny" (edited) by Night People.

NSFW

!!NSFW!!

!!NSFW!!

More work Hi-Jinx! Time Lapse of a 4 hour bondage shoot (me shooting video) compressed into 1 minute

Time lapse shot during an adult bondage video shoot, time elapsed is roughly 4 hours.

NSFW

If you haven't already, you should update your Flash player to the new pre-release of 10.1 Why?? Cuz it's got Hardware Acceleration* support F I N A L L Y !! No more crappy frame rates and hickups *_{at least on the PC version}

Go get it here

Had a blast with the kids, ice cream cake and ribs!  

In case this doesn't make it out my queue I wanted to share it here, The collective that is Comedy Death Ray singing "Do They Know It's Christmas Time?" B R I L L I A N T !

An all-star comedy Christmas Carol
Directed & Edited by Scott Aukerman

Sung by the Comedy Death-Ray Xmas Nativity Choir (feat. Paul F. Tompkins, R.O. Manse, Tig Notaro, Rob Huebel, Patton Oswalt, Mike Phirman, Jimmy Pardo, Brian Posehn & Scott Aukerman, Garfunkel & Oates, Aimee Mann, Chris Hardwick, Paul Scheer & June Diane Raphael, Doug Benson, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Nick Thune, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Cracked Out, Dragon Boy Suede, Natasha Leggero, Thomas Lennon & Ed Helms)

Watch the ponies fly by and you can read great coverage by buddy "West Coast Craig" at "Meet The Matts" sports blog

Had a birthday drink with some friends at a beir house in downtown L.A., Wurstkuche.

Tom's birthday drink @ Wurstkuche in downtown L.A.

Shot with Canon T1i w/ 50mm f1.8

Music: Super Furry Animals - Minature

A couple of buddies of mine produced this gem of a doc and it will be making the festival circuit soon. If you live in the Austin TX area, Alamo Drafthouse will be showing it all next week starting on Monday the 26th.

Trailer for the documentary "The Dungeon Masters"
Directed by Keven McAlester
Original score by Blonde Redhead
Cinematography by Lee Daniel

Needed a little quite time from the web, back and feeling refreshed, added a fan page for my biz "Basement Tapes" you can check out the box to your right with all kinds of info.

Dad pushing his son in a big boy swing

no edits, no nothin'.... shot with a Canon T1i with a 50mm f 1.8

I posted this first picture a year or so ago showing a thunderstorm forming over the city of Glendale, the second is the same location taken this evening showing the visible fires in the San Gabriel hills.

From Funky LA weather

From Funky LA weather

Cripes, so. much. smoke.

So. much. fire.

Heart goes out to those families who have lost loved ones to the fires here in the San Gabriel valley.

Took the boy to Legoland and we quickly made our way back to the water park section to cool off.

A shameless attempt to get some folks to look at my queue and vote up some stuff.

please... vote early and often.

YouTube now allows for a 2GB upload and also enabled HD embeds...pretty sweet...now we just need to allow for these larger embeds here on the sift.

A friend had mentioned this collection to me in passing a couple of weeks ago and I finally got around to checking it out last night, now I'm sad that I could have been enjoying this collection for 2 weeks already!

Truly inspired work of so many talented artists, you can download the entire album from the website, in either an album style "side a and side b" version or as individual tracks.

I also have sifted one of the fantastic videos for the track "The Elephant Connection" check it out!

One of my clients I edit/shoot for is part of the "adult" industry, they are a fetish company and their main rope man J.P. aka "The Pope" set out to do a photo shoot with some of his rope work and model Soma Snakeoil.

I wanted to capture/focus on him doing his thing. As you can imagine the majority of shoots are about the model, as they should be, and not about the guy setting it up. For me I was looking to shoot with just available light to see how well the camera and lens could do, I was very pleased with the result.

This video should be considered NSFW, as there is some nudity (artsy), but that is as adult as it gets. Enjoy.