My Blog

One time when I was at Tennis camp my coach got really upset with me because I decided it was a good idea during our break to set a tennis ball on fire.

On that note, here’s a little promo video we shot for Stunglasses. It’s got some FIRE and SLOW MOTION! All that’s missing is an explosion and you can call me Michael Bay. We chose to light these on fire because these pair are called “Coal“.

A couple days before the shoot, Peter helped me build this little fancy looking gem made from left over skateboard trucks he had and some sweet pink wheels and bearings I got off ebay for a couple bucks. We went to Home Depot and picked up a metal plate for around $7. Drilled some holes in it and it came out looking pretty good.

We had to do this several times. The first time we did it, once we lit the fire it blew everything out and you could barely see the sunglasses at all. The second time we did it, the fire looked good, but you couldn’t see the logo at all. So bottom line was that we didn’t have enough light (2 work lights). We regrouped and used 4 work lights the third time around and it made a big difference. Here she is…I really hate how youtube doesn’t let me embed in HD when using a custom size. So if you want to see it not look crappy, change it to 720p before you watch it.

We’re currently running a promotion on Facebook for the company I work for called the “Snack Bowl”. It’s a user generated promotion where fans submit their recipes. We decided to choose one of the top recipes that we liked and film someone making it. With Chrissy’s art direction we chose my lil’ sis Amanda (who is taller than me by a lot) to be the host and she was a friggin’ natural! The plan is to do more of these if not for my company, definitely for her blog which is coming soon. Chrissy and Amanda are preliminarily planning to make user submitted cooking videos and this was a great reason to test it out. Stay tuned for her blog, epicurasaurus.com to launch soon.

I was working with one Canon 60D and a wired lavalier mic but we tried our best to create the allusion that there was more than one camera present. I think it was accomplished for the most part. A lot of re-shooting the same thing and editing it together. Thanks to Chrissy because without her there, there would be a ton of inconsistencies in every shot. She’s amazing with the “details”. After all, it’s part of her real job…Ch-ch-check it out!


Make sure to change the resolution to 720p HD on the lower right of the video immediately once it starts playing that way you can watch it in full screen without it looking ugly.