Shot a commercial with the RED camera for the Indian Casino at ‘Blue Lake’ in Humboldt County. Developed by the creator of Oakley sunglasses, it is the world’s first digital video camera to employ magnetic (hard drive) storage. Not video tape, not celluloid, you just snap a hard drive onto the side of the R2D2-looking-thing. It shot [...]
The Shoreline
It is easy to bag on L.A. There’s always congestion, but now it’s totally death metal traffic, not the traffic of my 1979 memories. But I’m still with Randy Newman. I love LA! I love seeing movies and commercials shot on every corner. I love the heat and diversity and energy from that many artists jammed [...]
Yosemite
I just came down from being very high. At 9,000 feet, a Brown Trout tagged my Panther Martin spinner deep within a gin-clear pool. A small series of falls dropped the Tuolumne River a hundred feet or so.
I shared a bottle of my uncle’s “The Rock” red wine with my old friend Darren Moffet while fishing from a [...]