Ā”HEAVY CLAIM ALERT!
Almost two years ago @express_lighting_grip hired @justinmcwilliams (who hired me) to go to Northrop Grumman in Torrance to point some led lights onto the James Webb telescope showcasing the concave mirrors and the sun shield together.
We were of the few people who werenāt directly working on the telescope to be let in the big room so we had to follow a strict suiting up and decontamination process to be able to work around the craft.
They told us that any spec of dust getting onto the sun shield and into space would tear it apart at the speeds it would be traveling at and be very bad since the sun shield protects the mirrors from warping from the drastic change of temperatures.
Itās pretty safe to say that the cooperation of Ron, Justin and I helped in some way provide the photos recently shared by NASA.
As a thanks for cooperation NASA sent me an unreleased photo of potential new life found with the telescope. (Last slide)
Thanks again to Ron and Justin for allowing me the experience of a lifetime.
Wow š First year of Keying in the bag.
This year started year started quite and small and ended big and robust and I could go on an on about what this all means to but honestly I wouldnāt be here without all the Cinematographer, gaffers who hired me and alll the crews that helped achieve the dream on set. God I never thought Iād meet so many people.
Sincerely thank you to everyone one who I got the chance to work with this year, I donāt know if itās just this year or this is how a department head always feels but I have so many people to thank for this year, thank you all. Forgive me if you are not in any of these photos or I wasnāt able to thank you before the end of the year, if we worked together this year know that I keep those memories very close to my heart as this is the year I reached the dream that Iāve dreamt about for so long.
Lastly I have to thank Alliance Grip Truck Rentals. Being a part of a grip family, being so well taken care of during the rental process and getting to rep the alliance logo is the icing on the cake for this year.
Again thank you to all and Iām excited to get after it in 2022!
With 2 jobs in the bag, one job in progress and 2 jobs to prep I feels like itās finally time to share these beautiful moments from Svens camping trip w/ Carl and I!
Seriously one post cannot contain how wonderful of a time we all had on this trip, it was something that we all needed and nature and svens planning delivered.
One thing that was not documented that you can ponder about is Sven cooking us wonderful dinners on his wood burning stove INSIDE his tent.
Also not documented was the small emotional shut down I had when the conversation about aliens got too real.
Love these boys ā¤ļø
āWest is a state of mindā
I was recently reminded by Eric of the adventure that was working this series of shorts for Dp Bryson, and Director Andrea.
In early December of last year we ventured out to the desert for 3 days to shoot these.
Those two had so much passion and stoke to be out in the world shooting a little narrative piece it was infectious and hard to not enjoy every second.
Sweaters when it was overcast, t-shirts when it the sun came out. It was truly a perfect time to be out in the desert.
I key gripped this job and it was just a lot of bouncing light around and a few hostess rigs here and there but honestly the best time was driving Erics truck following the actors while Eric was in the passenger pulling focus, Bryson in the left back seat shooting and Andre in the right back seat loosing his mind at the footage we were getting.
I canāt forget about the hotel nights with producer Phil and gaffer Justin.
Phil would send us all out to go get dinner and ask for recipts back which we somehow always managed to lose and back at the hotel Justin and I would eat dinner to random skate videos keeping the stoke alive. Around that time my friend texted me saying āI hope your in a good place right nowā and I was.
Such a good time and I never got around to posting about it but here it is, the videos are all about a minute or two long so I wonāt link it in the bio but the post is just to memorialize that great shoot.
In some places thereās an abundance of clouds, but in californiaaaa
You pull off to āfill up your tankā and admire the clouds after work, and then you hold up traffic a little to take a photo of the clouds making friends with a tree, and then you scramble to take a selfie with the clouds because youāre about to head south on the 110 and for some reason thereās no clouds to look at the way youāre driving, and then you pull into your drive way and your delighted to see that the clouds are in your back yard and you can admire them while you clean your car, and theeeeen you meet a new young street cat and face time your mom to share in the wonder while the clouds say good bye and slowly loose color.
Thatās my cloud story and Iām sticking to it.
āSoƱadoraā
Filmado en Abril, Sade y Kay me contrataron para ser el Key Grip de esta pelĆcula dirigida by Stacy.
La historia es uno de una mujer CaribeƱa en sus primeros dĆas en Nuevo York acostumbrĆ”ndose a su nueva vida.
Esta historia es muy similar a la historia de mi mamƔ y su experiencia de estar en America y tener niƱos creciendo en Guatemala.
Por esa razĆ³n y por poder trabajar con mis amigos estaba lleno de color a trabajar en esta pelĆcula.
Rigs, day or nights, night for days todo estaba divertido y siento alegrĆa ser parte de este proyecto.
Porfa please check it out!
Ā”Link in my bio!
A quick fun one!
Liquor store - @remiwolf
Had a lot of fun on this shoot working with @dadhatadventures to achieve @kaylahoff_ desired lighting for the two sets. It was my first time working with a grip crew this size since center piece last year (TBT post to come!) and relearned a lot like delegating and staying at monitor while trusting that the boys got my back! Wasnāt perfect at it but helped me get back into the swing of working with a decent size crew!
The boys in question:
BEST boi/ Dolly man: @stewartcarl
Grip: @rileyprichard
Grip: @astrangecraving
Grip Package from
@geronimocreek
(Doesnāt include a menace arm kit š)
&
@alliancegriptruckrentals for the crazy good 20x40 black velvets.
Ā”Link in bio!
Was SUPER psyched to have made it out and put this overhead rig to work for Joces and Peters vision for ā2011ā by Dreāes.
Got hired on through @jakelmitchell who had heard from Carl S. that i was hard at work on this rig for a Justin Mcwilliams shoot a week earlier.
I achieved this rig but utilizing a few different techniques of resistance as well as ball bearings for the rotational pieces. The camera was extended out on a ladder trust at some angle I canāt remember but It gave us a 8 foot over head.
There are still so many things I could imagine would make the rig more finessed but Iām glad to not be thinking about it 24/7 haha.
This video came out a week ago today and was so stoked when it did, on set Jake and I were like damn this song is pretty rad. It even had us free styling to and from locations.
It was such a pleasure to work with Joce and Peter. Peter so quick on his toes to make it happen even when I sometimes had some set backs with the rig and Joce just with so much vision. I really do hope to work with yāall again!
Ā”Link in bio!
