Magic Spoon Productions

July 21, 2021 | Briar + Michael Wedding Teaser

July 11, 2021 | Tara + Dustin Wedding Highlight Film

June 14, 2021 | Behind The Scenes: Hollywood’s Sistine Chapel (Trailer)

June 11, 2021 | The VORTEX presents Annie Jump and the Library of Heaven (Promo Trailer)

May 17, 2021 | Melina + Scott Wedding Highlight Film

May 10, 2021 | ATX Theatre Pre-Reopening Promo with ASL

April 8, 2021 | The VORTEX presents Tales of a Blerd Ballerina (Promo Trailer)

April 5, 2021 | Nick Garza’s Get Along – “Another Bloody Morning” (Official Video)

April 1, 2021 | Texas Performing Arts Center: Bass Concert Hall 2021 Renovations

February 9, 2021 | Ground Floor Theatre 2021 Promo Video

February 3, 2021 | The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop (Promo)

January 29, 2021 | Emily + Brian Wedding Highlight Film

January 7, 2021 | Jenna + Daniel Wedding Highlight Film

December 30, 2020 | Indigenous Cultures Institute: Youth Programs

December 18, 2020 | St. Mary’s Engineering Department 2020 Recruitment Video

November 19, 2020 | The VORTEX presents La Raza Cósmica (Promo Trailer)

October 19, 2020 | Embrace E-Course Promo

September 30, 2020 | The VORTEX presents The Odyssey (Promo Trailer)

July 16, 2020 | Hidden Room Promo Trailer

June 30, 2020 | Austin Symphony Orchestra – Connecting With Music

June 29, 2020 | Bike Zoo Juneteenth Parade 2020

June 26, 2020 | Texas 4000 for Cancer 2020 Tribute Feature Film

June 25, 2020 | Texas 4000 for Cancer 2020 Tribute – Leadership Development Program Video

June 17, 2020 | Austin Symphony Orchestra – ENTRE LÍNEAS

June 8, 2020 | The Vortex 2020 TCA Grant Work Sample

May 22, 2020 | Tiny Tails To You – Virtual Hangout Promo Video

May 13, 2020 | Tiny Tails To You – Meet Quillie Nelson

May 4, 2020 | The Austin Symphony Orchestra presents Children’s Day Art Park @ Austin Central Library

April 19, 2020 | The VORTEX Memberships Program

February 28, 2020 | The VORTEX presents Good Friday (Promo Trailer)

February 25, 2020 | The VORTEX presents Performance Park – The Wheel Won’t Stop (Work Sample)

February 13, 2020 | The VORTEX presents The Hands That Feed You (Promo Trailer)

February 8, 2020 | Different Stages presents Gliders (Promo Trailer)

February 6, 2020 | The Hidden Room presents Arden of Faversham (Promo Trailer)

January 17, 2020 | The VORTEX presents Click (Promo Trailer)

January 10, 2020 | The VORTEX presents (Un)Documents – 2020 Promo Trailer

December 19, 2019 | The VORTEX presents The Mutt-Cracker (Sweet!) Promo Trailer

December 16, 2019 | The Bike Zoo: Mexic-Arte Viva La Vida Festival & Parade

November 27, 2019 | Penfold Theatre presents It’s A Wonderful Life (Promo Trailer)

November 22, 2019 | Different Stages presents Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein (Promo Trailer)

November 14, 2019 | Thinkery & Verse present Aftershock/La Replica (Promo Trailer)

November 13, 2019 | Panoramic Voices and Austin Soundwaves present IN BLOOM (Highlight Film)

November 12, 2019 | Yana Wana’s Legend of the Bluebonnet Performance Feature

November 6, 2019 | Magic Spoon Productions New Reel

November 5, 2019 | Song Rise Arts Promo Video

November 1, 2019 | The Vortex and Teatro Vivo present MÁS CARA (Promo Trailer)

October 18, 2019 | Parents’ Academy Impact Film

October 16, 2019 | Tito’s Prize: Steve Parker – War Tuba Recital (1MIN)

October 14, 2019 | Sky Candy Live @ The Umlauf

October 11, 2019 | Dionysus in America (Promo Trailer)

October 10, 2019 | Blessed Sacrament Academy Jubilee Legacy of Love Film

October 4, 2019 | Collide Arts – Traffic Jam

October 3, 2019 | Yana Wana’s Legend of the Bluebonnet (Promo Trailer)

September 24, 2019 | IN BLOOM – Feature Film

September 18, 2019 | Winn Elementary School Montessori Promo

September 13, 2019 | The Vortex presents Humpty: A Twisted Nursery Rhyme Pantomime (Promo Trailer)

August 8, 2019 | “Our Home” Music Video by G. Galindo

August 5, 2019 | The VORTEX presents The Mamalogues (Promo Trailer)

July 21, 2019 | Bike Zoo Juneteenth Parade Highlight

June 20, 2019 | Tito’s Prize Exhibition: Steve Parker “War Tuba Recital”

June 6, 2019 | Kelley McRae “Sparrow” Live @ The Cactus Cafe

May 28, 2019 | Draylen Mason Fellows Program Capstone Performance Film

May 11, 2019 | Rabea + Jesse Wedding Highlight Film

April 16, 2019 | Griffin School Arts Showcase

February 28, 2019 | The VORTEX Texas Commission on the Arts Work Sample Video

January 6, 2019 | The Hideout Theatre presents Grand Misery (Promo Trailer)

November 16, 2018 | Steve Parker: Ghost Radio Work Sample – Big Medium Tito’s Prize Showcase

November 15, 2018 | Steve Parker: War Tuba Work Sample – Big Medium Tito’s Prize Showcase

November 14, 2018 | Steve Parker: ASMR Work Sample – Big Medium Tito’s Prize Showcase

September 27, 2018 | Tito’s Prize Winner Steve Parker “War Tuba Recital” Promo

August 25, 2018 | Texas 4000 Tribute Feature Film

August 24, 2018 | Texas 4000 15 Year Anniversary Feature Film

August 23, 2018 | Texas 4000 15 Year Anniversary Highlight Film

August 14, 2018 | The VORTEX presents ATLANTIS: A PUPPET OPERA (Promo Trailer)

August 6, 2018 | Hispanic Alliance Stories of Transformation: Austin Soundwaves

July 20, 2018 | The Vortex Summer Youth Theater presents She Kills Monsters

July 19, 2018 | Grackle Call – Fusebox Festival 2018

June 15, 2018 | Shrewd Productions presents The Afterparty (Promo Trailer)

May 31, 2018 | Penfold Theatre Company presents Much Ado About Nothing (Promo Trailer)

May 26, 2018 | Glass Half Full Theatre presents Polly Mermaid: Apocalypse Wow! (Promo Trailer)

May 24, 2018 | Billy King & the Bad Bad Bad: Methmatics Music Video

May 21, 2018 | 3 Of Cups presents Vinyl + Fringe: Event Recap Video

May 1, 2018 | Shrewd Productions Show Reel

April 24, 2018 | The Bike Zoo – Pedal Powered Puppetry

April 15, 2018 | Traffic Jam Work Sample

March 23, 2018 | The VORTEX presents Performance Park (Promo Trailer)

February 12, 2018 | The Griffin School Art & Theatre Showcase

February 3, 2018 | Rachel Pallante: The Girl In 14G

January 17, 2018 | Agent Andromeda: The Orion Crusade (2018)

January 8, 2018 | The Hideout Theatre presents Orphans (Promo Trailer)

December 21, 2017 | The VORTEX presents The Mutt-Cracker (Sweet!) Promo Trailer

November 8, 2017 | George Tobolowsky Sculpture Installation at Centenary College

October 5, 2017 | REQUIEM by Steve Parker

September 21, 2017 | The VORTEX presents Vampyress (Promo Trailer)

September 6, 2017 | The VORTEX presents Storm Still (Promo Trailer)

August 24, 2017 | The VORTEX presents OCEAN (Promo Trailer)

August 3, 2017 | The VORTEX and Gale Theatre Company presents TWENTYEIGHT

July 13, 2017 | CommuniCare Recruitment Video

July 1, 2017 | Crave Blue Kickstarter Video

June 22, 2017 | Fractals, New Movements Promo Video 2

June 15, 2017 | Fractals, New Movements Promo Video 2

June 9, 2017 | Shrewd Productions presents The Revolutionists (Promo Trailer)

May 30, 2017 | Leah Durrett Memorial Highlight Film

May 8, 2017 | Chelsea + Danny Wedding Highlight Film

April 20, 2017 | The VORTEX presents My Big Fat Bahookie (Promo Trailer)

March 10, 2017 | Parents’ Academy Promo Video

February 12, 2017 | Penfold Theatre Company presents An Iliad (Promo Trailer)

January 23, 2017 | HONK!TX Marching Band Music Festival: Celebrating 5 Years of Community Street Bands

Official Selection 2017 Faces of Austin Film Festival during SXSW Film Conference

January 18, 2017 | The VORTEX presents A Perfect Robot (Promo Trailer)

December 20, 2016 | Griffin School Art & Theater Showcase Fall 2016

December 12, 2016 | TEMPO 2016: Ney Remixed by Lisa Woods and Rodolfo Magnus

Artist team Lisa Woods and Rodolfo Magnus propose to take an already existing piece of neoclassical art, a bust of sculpture Elisabet Ney, and produce a new, remixed work using digital technology, titled Ney Remixed. The “remixed” sculpture will be made of alternating opaque and translucent layers of laser cut metal and acrylic. The plinth to the bust will have fiber optic lights embedded into a cement column and powered by a solar generator. The artists will also invite the public to produce remixes of their own from the digital file in a 3D art hackathon event. The artists are interested in technology as a tool for creative expression and enable everyday people make art. Participants can utilize the existing 3D scan or capture their own (or via phone apps like 123D Catch) to remix new works of their own. Whether it is via encountering the sculpture, participating in the hackathon, or attending the exhibit, the artists intend that Ney Remixed will shine a spotlight on the rich history nestled in a small Austin neighborhood.

December 10, 2016 | TEMPO 2016: Geoscape by Yareth Fernandez

Exploring the simplicity and complexity of patterns, 30 tetrahedrons made of tubing and fabric will sit in a different geometric pattern and will explore fractal patterning which is a basis for natural growth. Tetrahedron is an infinite shape and fractal in nature, suggesting never-ending growth. The installations will be installed in three different parks over three weekends. Each park was selected based on the vegetation and trees as the raised geometric pattern of the sculpture sits in contrast to the natural surroundings.

December 8, 2016 | TEMPO 2016: 1800 Cats by Teruko Nimura

Teruko Nimura’s “1800 Lucky Cats” is a temporary public art installation commissioned by Austin Art in Public Places TEMPO Project. Each four‐inch cat represents 1/10th of the 18,000 animals the shelter serves every year. The sculpture raises awareness about the no‐kill animal shelter. November 11 will be the opening event for the East Austin Studio Tour. Partnering with the Friends of the Austin Animal Center organization to sell the individual sculptures framed as an “adopt a lucky cat,” the installation will function as a fundraising tool to help the center with pet adoptions. People can purchase each cat to help sponsor individual animals that are in need of adoption.

December 6, 2016 | TEMPO 2016: Hyperprism by Autumn Ewalt

Hundreds of crystal prisms are mounted between two aluminum panels that refract sunlight into an array of rainbows in this sculpture installation by Autum Ewalt entitled Hyperprism. The work utilizes light both physically & conceptually to create immersive environments for viewers that allow moments of wonder.

November 12, 2016 | Sky Candy Kids Promo

November 10, 2016 | Sky Candy Adult Promo

October 27, 2016 | Nikki Borodi “Dreams” Music Video

October 25, 2016 | TEMPO 2016: LoFi Cycle by Steve Parker

Artist Steve Parker will modified a bicycle into a sculpture that functions as an interactive musical instrument, titled Sound Cycle. The bicycle will be will be equipped with several music making devices in a wide array of bike horns and bells of different pitches and timbres. The artist hopes to creatively engage the public with art, help people think more broadly about what constitutes a musical instrument, a performance, and a musician, and facilitate interaction between community members. As more than one person can play the bike at a time, it provides the opportunity for strangers to meet and play a short duet together.

October 20, 2016 | TEMPO 2016: Humpty Dumpty by Yuliya Lanina

Artist Yuliya Lanina’s concept is a cute, plump, girl-version of Humpty Dumpty with stereotypical female gender attributes. The sculpture will have a skirt, lace, red shoes, and accessories and a solar-charged music mechanism that is activated by a motion sensor, playing original music by composer Yevgeniy Sharlat. The legs will be activated by steel coil springs to create a bouncy effect for the upper body. It is intended to bring joy, amusement, and a sense of wonder; and is also intended to challenge the way we perceive gender and body image.

October 18, 2016 | TEMPO 2016: Signals by Christine Angelone and Alexander Bingham

Entitled Signals, the artist team of Christine Angelone and Alexander Bingham wrapped five traffic signal boxes with artwork and original poems, adding a moment of visual interest to the neighborhood and inviting pedestrians to pause and reflect. Each box is unique with its own story – there is a phone number on the boxes to call and hear the poems read to you.

October 14, 2016 | TEMPO 2016: Flow Factory by the Vurv Collective

The Flow Factory by vûrv Art Collective is a temporary, mobile, and interactive artwork in which participants create flow frequencies using flow oscillators, a wearable pendulum that affixes to the ankle via a small plastic hoop. The flow oscillator is spun in a 360 degree rotation around the ankle and skipped continuously by the participant’s other foot. Participants experience real-time audiovisual feedback via an accelerometer gyroscope located inside the oscillator. The participants “flow” is broadcast back to the home base CPU located inside a mobile unit via wireless bluetooth transmitter. The collected data stimulates sound and animation that are projected onto a large screen behind each participant. The sound and animation projections gauges the participant’s performance control and helps each participant achieve a flow state.

October 12, 2016 | TEMPO 2016: Creek Speak by Eric Leshinsky

Through his artwork, titled Creek Speak, Artist Eric Leshinsky seeks to make Waller Creek more visible, giving the viewer a broader understanding of how daily actions impact the watershed as it reaches Lady Bird Lake.

October 10, 2016 | TEMPO 2016: El Capacitor by Michael Anthony Garcia

Artist Michael Anthony Garcia’s installation El Capacitor is meant to inspire residents and amplify their voices. Through empowering imagery and concept, this work deals with the transformation of the neighborhood surrounding the park over the past decade. Using flags made of clothing from residents in the area, and five flagpoles are mounted to a stage with a podium. The artwork’s title means “a passive element that stores energy in the form of electric field” and references the nearby decommissioned Holly Power Plant.

October 3, 2016 | CommuniCare 2016 Gala Video

September 14, 2016 | TEMPO 2016: Encounter by Brent Baggett

Encounter by artist Brent Baggett is a 6-sided, seven-foot tall interactive puzzle sculpture, with mazes on each side featuring movable, brightly colored pieces. Up to 12 people can interact with the sculpture at one time, moving the shapes through the maze by pushing them around pathways. The artist hopes to evoke discovery and exploration as the participants have their own encounter with the artwork and with other players.

September 12, 2016 | TEMPO 2016: Let’s Talk In Volume by Mery Godigna Collet

As part of the yearly event “Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz Week” at the Mexican American Cultural Center, artist Mery Godigna Collet will have an exhibition of her new body of work titled “Petro-Poems” from April 14 to July 2016. In conjunction with that exhibition, a land art installation entitled Let’s Talk in Volume which highlights the volume of crude oil people consume annually, approximately 27 barrels per person will be exhibited on the lawn space of the MACC. Six vinyl spheres, in three varying sizes, illustrating the volume of 27 barrels of oil, are to be tethered to the ground on top of plastic pebbles and glow stones representing plankton. The intention is to ask people to reflect on, in the artist’s words, the “good and bad” aspects of crude oil.

September 10, 2016 | Blessed Sacrament Academy: Celebrating 90 Years of Mission and Ministry

September 7, 2016 | Sky Candy presents Agent Andromeda: The Orion Crusade (Promo Trailer)

September 1, 2016 | The VORTEX presents Atlantis: A Puppet Opera

August 4, 2016 | The VORTEX and Gale Theatre Company present Salomé

July 14, 2016 | Hold Me Well (Promo Trailer)

May 30, 2016 | Tanya + Henry Wedding Highlight Film

May 25, 2016 | Penfold Theatre presents Clybourne Park Promo

March 25, 2016 | The Vortex presents Persephone (Promo Trailer)

March 3, 2016 | Garrett Lebeau “Time Song”

February 18, 2016 | Shrewd Productions presents As You Like It

January 14, 2016 | The VORTEX presents Terminus (Promo Trailer)

January 8, 2016 | The Hey Lolly Puppet Theater Promo

December 22, 2015 | Haylie + Jeffrey Wedding Highlight Film

December 1, 2015 | The VORTEX presents Dali’s Naked Feast

October 19, 2015 | Brittany + Matt Wedding Highlight Film

October 7, 2015 | CommuniCare Gala Video

October 5, 2015 | Tartuffe: VORTEX Summer Youth Theatre 2015

September 27, 2015 | Sky Candy presents Swings Asunder directed by Nathan Brumbaugh

Sky Candy proudly presents the world premier of Swings Asunder, directed by world-travelled dancer and choreographer Nathan Brumbaugh. Swings Asunder is an avant-garde exploration of gender roles, sex, and self worth through modern dance, gesture, and innovative aerial movement. It examines gender duality versus fluidity, and how we struggle to fit the molds of masculinity and femininity through life’s rites of passage. Come along on a unique journey toward self-acceptance and ultimately, the power of breaking free to live our own unique truth, discovering our own vulnerability and courage along the way. A man cracks raw eggs and drinks them whole… Four women are contained by a metal cube, shifting within its bounds as it lifts into the air… Two men posture like peacocks as a herd of turtle-women drift nearby… Swings Asunder draws from the lyricism of modern dance movement as well as the stylized, precise movements of gesture to create a world where gender roles shift fluidly within the same body and blow up to extreme proportions. Identities develop, die, and are reborn anew. Perspectives shift through the courage of self exploration. Eight of Austin’s most talented aerialists, acrobats and dancers will take to the stage and the air accompanied by an original score by local Austin composer Justin Sherburn, on a breathtaking set by Ia Enstera, to explore through movement the complex, often problematic, but always hopeful world of identity in which we live.

September 3, 2015 | The VORTEX presents Dali’s Naked Feast – Event Highlight

August 22, 2015 | 2015 Texas 4000 Tribute Feature Film

August 3, 2015 | Velvet Dust presents METROPOLIS Issue Launch Party Recap Video

July 16, 2015 | Camp Discovery: A Forever Experience – Documentary Teaser

July 10, 2015 | Texas 4000: Cycling for a Cure from Austin to Anchorage

For the last 12 years, Texas 4000 has cultivated student leaders that spend their summers cycling from Austin, TX to Anchorage, AK spreading hope, knowledge and charity in the fight against cancer. This film takes a look at the journey of the 2014 team.

June 26, 2015 | The Vortex presents Changelings

June 25, 2015 | The Vortex presents Pythia Dust

June 4, 2015 | Sky Candy presents Swings Asunder

June 4, 2015 | Teatro Vivo presents El Nogalar (Trailer)

May 1st, 2015 | The Vortex presents Emma When You Need Her (Promo Trailer)

April 28th, 2015 | CommuniCare Marketing Video

April 26th, 2015 | Mistress Stephanie & Her Melodic Cat: Bearfoot Music Video

April 14th, 2015 | Rapt Aerial Dance presents the Blind Tiger Aerial Soiree at Brazos Hall in Austin, TX

Rapt Aerial Dance is a professional aerial dance company based in Austin, Texas, specializing in spellbinding performance. This video recap is from their fundraising event, The Blind Tiger Aerial Soiree, held at Brazos Hall in January 2015. Featuring performances by Rapt Aerial Dance and live music by the Wilhelm Scream, along with other amazing vendors from the Marvelous Vintage Tea Party to the Cupcake Bar. Hair and makeup by Sirens Salon.

March 22, 2015 | MadLaw Love: Chris + Libby’s Wedding

I’m excited to finally share my dear friend’s magical, music-filled wedding day!!! I met Chris several years ago in San Antonio, where he is one of the hardest-working musicians around, and with Libby by his side, they have blossomed a MadLaw love that is truly inspirational. Their picture-perfect wedding day took place at Libby’s family ranch, and with a little help from their friends, they ended the night in an unforgettable way that you will just have to watch to see for yourself. Congratulations to this wonderfully talented couple and may you always hit the high notes!

March 14, 2015 | HONK!TX Promo Video: 5 Years Celebration of Community Street Bands

HONK!TX Festival of Community Street Bands is a FREE music festival that builds community in public spaces through the power of music. HONK!TX is excited to return to Austin for our fifth fantastic year and we will be taking marching band madness to the streets from March 27th-29th! This year, scores of musician will descend once more on the city of Austin to bring you the big, bold and brassy musical mayhem HONK!TX is famous for. Three days of music, free and open to the public, from Friday through Sunday. HONK!TX is a nonprofit, community-driven festival that brings brass bands from around the country to perform absolutely free in the public spaces of Austin, TX.

January 15, 2015

I jumped at the chance to film this amazing performance when director Rudy Ramirez reached out to me and described it as “a dark fairytale adventure about a family that, for centuries, has had their children stolen by a fairy. Think Labyrinth, Neil Gaiman type stuff: funny, twisted, very magical.” Sold. CHANGELINGS opens tonight at The VORTEX and runs through Feb 7th. You should make every attempt to come watch this wonderfully twisted theatre performance! Here’s a teaser:

December 18, 2014

The Austin Bike Zoo is hands-down one the coolest & most creative collective of artists and bike enthusiasts that I have had the pleasure of being apart of! I recently produced these two videos to showcase the Bike Zoo’s versatility to provide a family-friendly and unforgettable experience that can artistically light up the night!

October 24, 2014

I’ve never photographed a more beautiful bride!!! All the love and congratulations to my stunning sister Stephanie and her husband Steve on celebrating a wonderful wedding weekend filled with family, friends and unforgettable memories!

October 10, 2014

CommuniCare Health Centers is a full-service primary healthcare system serving in both Bexar and Hays counties. We offer an array of services including pediatric medicine, family medicine, senior care, women’s health, podiatry, dental, behavioral health, minor surgery clinic, WIC services, vision care and pediatric speech therapy. We deliver our care through nine clinic locations utilizing integrative primary care practice, highly trained healthcare providers, state of the art diagnostic equipment, and electronic health records.

September 14, 2014

Annie is a dancer, strong as hell and driven. After witnessing the fall of the twin towers, Annie heads to Japan to study Butoh, looking for a dance form that expresses the destruction she can’t comprehend. Ten years later, Annie is diagnosed with stage four cancer and returns to Butoh to prepare for her final dance. Written by Katie Bender and staged in collaboration with celebrated director Rudy Ramirez and choreographer Abel Coelho, Still Now confronts us with the accelerated motion of a woman learning and losing her body, accompanied by the doctors, teachers, friends and lovers that become her partners in movement, to ask the question: what can our bodies teach us that our minds cannot fathom?

Directed by Rudy Ramirez, winner of three B. Iden Payne Awards for Outstanding Direction, and by choreographer Abel Coelho, whose work has been throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas. Still Now was recently honored by inclusion on the Kilroy List, the first annual industry survey of excellent new plays by female playwrights, and was a nominee for the David Mark Cohen New Play Award. Still Now opens on September 12th at City Theatre, running through October 4th.

September 10, 2014

With a mix of affordable and market rate homes, along with commercial spaces to foster economic growth, The Chicon is more than just a condominium development – it’s a manifestation of the legacy, culture and future growth of East Austin. One of the only affordable mixed-use condominium projects in such close proximity to downtown Austin, The Chicon aims to fit into and support the area instead of changing it, through positive, sustainable growth.

September 2, 2014

As promised below, here are the 2014 Texas 4000 team videos that I produced and edited last month. Words can’t express how inspiring this organization is! If you would like to see more videos from this year’s Sierra, Rockies and Ozarks Routes, plus a bonus Day-70 video, check out my Texas 4000 Vimeo Album.

August 8, 2014

Congratulations to the 2014 Texas 4000 for Cancer team!!! After cycling 70 days from Austin, TX they have finally made it to Anchorage, Alaska on a picture perfect day. I’ve had an amazing time spending the last few days with them and hearing all the stories from their summer adventures. They collectively raised over $600,000 this year and are an inspiration to the world. I am eagerly looking forward to producing all their team videos and content for their Tribute Gala later this month!

July 6, 2014

It’s always special when I get to shoot a wedding for my friends and I recently had a blast getting to do so for Bill & Hayley in San Antonio! Their big day was nothing but smiles and the entire night was full of love and vibrant energy, from their beautiful ceremony down to the lively reception. It was wonderful to celebrate the day with their family & friends, cheers again to the amazing couple!

June 18, 2014

Sky Candy and B. Iden Payne award-winning director Rudy Ramirez are thrilled to announce their collaboration on COSMICOMICS, an aerial theatre adaptation of the internationally beloved short stories of Italo Calvino. This dazzling, romantic aerial theatre show for the whole family runs for two weekends only, June 21 – 29 at the Rollins Theatre at the Long Center. COSMICOMICS will draw from the aesthetics of silent film, commedia dell’arte and turn-of-the-century circus arts to tell stories of climbing ladders to the moon, the love-life of the last living dinosaur, and why the ultimate answer to the question “Why are we here?” just might be “pasta.”

June 10, 2014

Right Side / Wrong Side is a border sculpture installation by San Antonio based artist Bill FitzGibbons. I’ve documented Bill’s light art in the past in various cities across the country such as Knoxville and Seattle, but filming this project has been hands-down my favorite of his work! This powerful performance blends his art with live choreography, featuring dancers from both the United States and Mexico. As FitzGIbbons describes it, “Right Side/Wrong Side is a sculptural response to a geo-political situation that is being imposed on two cultures that are more similar than they are different. This artwork is not only a standalone sculpture, but also a platform for a mutli-cultural dance performance intervention. This artwork is in alignment with my approach to my public art projects as social sculpture. One of my main concepts of social sculpture is that by having art as part of the built environment it becomes accessible both physically and conceptually to the whole of the public. This idea also embraces ephemeral artwork in the public domain such as temporary installations and performance art.”

April 6, 2014

I love it when my friends get married and I love it even more when I get to be their photographer! Andy and Zoe’s big day at Red Corral Ranch was truly one to remember. I couldn’t think of a more perfect day from start to finish… It’s pretty hard to top a White Ghost Shivers ho-down at your reception!

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March 24, 2014

I am super excited to finally premier the “Lion Queen” music video that I filmed and edited for Nikki Borodi, a multi-talented musician, clown, aerial acrobatic, yoga instructor and artist of countless dimensions. It was such an honor to get to film with her primarily on location at my own house and a few other Austin locations.

March 20, 2014

Tonight is the debut performance of Bill FitzGibbon’s border sculpture installation entitled Right Side/Wrong Side. It will be on exhibition in McAllen, TX until September at the International Museum of Art and Science. I will be filming a live choreographed dance performance at the exhibition opening as well as at the actual US-Mexico border in Brownsville on Saturday March 22nd. Check out the video below to see a sneak preview of Right Side/Wrong Side and keep an eye out for the full length performance, which will be hitting the blog and website by the end of April.

March 5, 2014

Mardi Gras may be over but March Madness is just around the corner as HONK!TX returns to the streets of Austin on March 21-23 for a free 3 day music festival featuring marching bands from all across the country. Performing an array of genres ranging from European Klezmer and Balkan, to New Orleans second-line brass music, spectacular bands will come from far and wide this year to transform everyday locations around Austin into organic stages, where the line between crowd and performers dissolves and music, mirth and mayhem are born. Check out this promo from HONK!TX 2013 to get a sense of the march madness that’s in store!

February 24, 2014

Last week I found out that my short film about the Austin Bike Zoo was selected to be one of 12 films screened at the Faces of Austin showcase during SXSW. The Austin Bike Zoo’s Human Powered Puppetry is dedicated to inspiring communities through the creation of unique human powered vehicles, bicycle-based theatrical performances and educational programs for youth. Our work was born out of a passion to combine the beauty and strength of human movement with the artistry and theater of puppets and a dedication to creating interactive works which engage our community.

January 31, 2014

We had a blast filming the last two days with the lovely and all-around talented Nikki Borodi from Oakland, California. She was in Austin for the week so we connected to shoot a music video for her track Lion Queen at some really awesome locations including my piano painted staircase which is pictured below. Words can not express how excited I am to edit what will be an amazing video for her. In the meantime, here’s some stunning eye candy to hold you over!

January 21, 2014

During the summer of 2008, I accomplished something that only a select few people in the world have ever done: I spent a life-changing 70 days cycling more than 4,000 miles from Austin, Texas to Anchorage, Alaska with an organization called Texas 4000 for Cancer. Texas 4000 was founded in 2004 by University of Texas student Chris Condit. A cancer survivor of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Chris wanted to give back to those who helped him fight cancer and to instill hope in the countless others fighting this disease. In the ten years since Texas 4000’s inception, 450 student riders have biked more than 2 million miles to spread awareness and hope in the prevention and treatment of cancer. To date, Texas 4000 has proudly raised more than 3.5 million for the fight against cancer.

As an alumni now, it has been an honor to work with the organization over the last several years to produce media content that helps further spread our mission of Hope, Knowledge and Charity. I recently filmed and edited the following video as a submission for the upcoming Faces of Austin film festival. This “through-the-years” retrospective takes a look back at Texas 4000 over the last 10 years through the stories of past alumni riders.

Texas 4000 is dedicated to fighting cancer by sharing hope, knowledge and charity. We cultivate the next generation to lead the fight against cancer through our cornerstone event, a more than 4,000-mile bike ride from Austin to Anchorage. Texas 4000 is a community of cancer fighters. Our riders, all University of Texas students, are the heart of the organization. They train, fundraise, educate, and bring hope to those with cancer during their 70-day bike ride from Texas to Alaska. For more information or to get involved, please visit www.texas4000.org

January 15, 2014

Jesca Hoop is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist from Northern California. She stopped in Austin at the end of last year in between current tour dates to record with some of Austin’s finest musicians and producers and I was brought in to record the session. Tulip features Erika Wennerstrom of Heartless Bastards. For more information on Hoop’s upcoming UNDRESS release visit www.pledgemusic.com/projects/undress