Tom Pieczkolon

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Finally crossed Vespertine off my list thanks to @tom.pie and it was a surreal odyssey. Felt like escaping to a brutalist concrete monastery from the future that’s slowly being overtaken by nature. It’s easy to dismiss as high concept nonsense, but I found the experience more akin to visiting an artist’s studio than that of a restaurant. Some dishes barely looked edible and resembled sculptures. There was so much to appreciate beyond eating food. If you took the movie Annihilation (2018) and made it into a tasting menu, that’s Vespertine. For context, chef Jordan Kahn aimed to create “food devoid of tradition” at Vespertine. While I think that’s impossible, dude aimed for the stars and landed on the moon. He collaborated with architects, fashion designers, ceramicists, and musicians to craft every element of the experience in alignment with his vision 1. 🍴Wild Scallop - passionfruit, aji amarillo, horseradish 2. 🍴Summer - snap peas, kiwi 3. 🍷Kiwi with oxalis and lemon verbena 4. 🍴Deep Ocean - sweet prawns, quince 5. 🍷Kuheiji junmai daiginjo 6. 🍴Obsidian Mirror - smoked mussel mousse, plum, squid ink gel 7. 🍷Plum kombucha with redcurrant and lipstick pepper 8. 🍴Aged Kinmedai - red papaya, indian mallow 9. 🍴Coturnix Quail - waxflower, sacred pepper 10. 🍴Sourdough Porridge Bread - heirloom peel-corn oats, quail fat 11. 🍴Spring Lamb - yeast fudge, magnolia foam 12. 🍷Heiwa shuzou red rice sake 13. 🍰 Red Earth - hokkaido pumpkin, strawberry, temescal, palo santo mist 14. 🍰 Caramelized Pancake - lamb fat, single-malt scotch, birch syrup, deconstructed blackberry. Douglas fir tea infusion 15. 🍰 Uni - white chocolate, candied kelp, water chestnut, 1968 PX sherry 16. 🍷Sparkling redwood sapling & verjus 17. 🍰 Layers - black raspberry, sheep’s milk yogurt, beets, butterfly pea milk dust Despite feeling completely overstimulated at the end, I highly recommend

I mixed “Not an Artist” back in 2021 and it’s finally available for all to see on Apple and Amazon. We shot this film up in Big Bear during heavy COVID times and it meant living at the camp we filmed at to preserve our bubble. A real bonding experience for the crew after intense isolation, and a difficult but rewarding project. There was no script for this film, merely an outline for the direction each scene should take and interpretation for what to say and do to get there was up to the skilled improv actors we had. Recording and mixing scenes where it’s unknown who will say what and when and at what volume or intensity is an enormous challenge that I would not have made it through without @stephenspeedssound and Chris Omae on my sound team. No written dialogue meant every unique word in each unique take was precious and could not be recaptured in a second or third take, increasing the need for ideas and suggestions from any of us on how to approach each scene. Sometimes throwing multiple lav’s on characters, unique plant mics, and chancing camera perspective to capture a visually accurate but unexpected line. I’ve worked in a lot of comedy over the last 10 years, but going in with such a little script for a full feature with as much drama as comedy in its approach was a new level of unknown that I feel proud to have overcome with the help of a great sound team. The premiere on Monday was a nice moment of validation to hear our work so cleanly! Give it a watch!

When @commongenus texted me in the morning on January 9th from Colorado saying, hey i wanna use the Snail Farm to help and figured you would know what to do, I could not imagine that within 4hrs @davidnastcole would be calling me asking how I had donations showing up and cars coming to take them out to the people who needed them. It became even harder to believe that over the next 9 days straight we’d be working every single day, growing in efficiency, taking help from incredible volunteers who streamlined our request process and Google docs(@saraseligman ) people hopping in helping to organize, drive, and offer much needed advice, help, contacts, and hugs(@billiegreyheck @melczerkahn ). In the 9 days straight we all worked to provide for our community in the wake of devastation these fires brought on our friends, family, and neighbors in Altadena and beyond, we managed to never lose respect and the ability to listen to one another. To keep focus and cool heads amongst the chaos. Even when that chaos was a 26ft truck over filled top to bottom, front to back from San Diego. So full the door was concave and it took 45minutes with crowbars and a carjack to open… Yet these maniacs helped us pull together and in a single day pushed those 50,000lbs of supplies to families and front lines distro centers in Altadena that had requested more aid. And then another truck came from the Bay Area…and we got those goods out too. As FEMA is up and running, the bigger orgs and distro centers are becoming dialed in, and our requests grow smaller and we look upon today as our last day in this chapter of aid. There is still tons of work to be done for all those affected by these fires. Still partnering with @weejeebored and @nonplusultrala who have an incredible setup for families in need of clothes including request forms with categories and sizes that they will find amongst their donations to prepare deliveries of. As this chapter of our work ends and the next begins, I just want to say thank you and I love you all for jumping in on this crazy effort to help people in need.

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I had many people tell me France would be beautiful, filled with delicious food, a proper place to cry, an education in art and history, and they were right. But no one told me just how many incredible people I could make life long connections with while I was there. Your home was beautiful @mistralette , and I have been missing Virgile’s smile and Benoit’s ample consideration, as well as those crepes of his! So glad I got to visit you after 11 years of distant friendship. Especially after you and your family made it to LA to stay at my apt while I was gone this summer. Every suggestion given was better than I could have imagined. A country filled with joyfully radical, beautiful, and intelligent people that I look forward to seeing again whenever I am lucky enough. Until then, I’ll keep doing my best to clean up our increasingly dirty corner of the world while thinking about Paris, Strasbourg, and their lovely inhabitants.

A month ago I once again had to say goodbye to Unalaska Island and Dutch Harbor, as well as all the hard working folk that inhabit it. Always grateful to @mikezmorrell for bringing me to lend a hand on Deadliest Catch. No better place I know of on this planet to put your body to work and your mind at ease for a while. Couldn’t be happier to have powered through the season with an incredible tech team.

The Turnaround Now available on @netflix Director: @kylethrash Co-Director: @bgproudfoot Executive Producers: @barackobama @michelleobama @highergroundmedia @breakwaterstudios Producers: @nickisruff @rosenbergjosh @bgproudfoot Cinematographer: @davidbolendp Editor: @dillonmhayes Composer: @aribalouzian Colorist: @sderlug Supervising Sound Editor: @seanphiggins Additional Cinematography: @natehurtsellers 1st AC: @jord.scott @thatonedudeq Gaffer: @zachary.vanheel Grip: @comara12 Production Sound: @tom.pie Post Producer: @lauracarlz Post Supervisor: @dillonbrown.89 Co-Producer: @earne100 Music Producer: @_ryanhope Key PA: @seamusandthelonergans +so many others @breakwaterstudios @utaproductionarts @tvturner @netflix @mlb Shot on @arri Alexa 35 w/ Master Primes and @angenieuxlenses zooms.

This one was very special. I grew up going to Veterans stadium watching the Phillies, and when they shifted to Citizens Bank Park, my dad had me there immediately to shout for our team. From some of my earliest memories, to World Series parades my senior year of highschool, and to the last few heart breaking seasons, The Phillies have been a staple for me and my hometown. So @kylethrash doing what he could to bring me on board to mix this short documentary about The Philly Captain himself, Jon McCann, is a true Philadelphian and great human. Getting to be apart of telling his story for @breakwaterstudios and @highergroundmedia was an absolute honor. To showcase my city and its people, while also getting to go through parts of the Phillies stadium I could only dream of as a kid, is something I’ll cherish forever. This documentary is something really special, and I hope it goes beyond just sports fans because this is a story about a human I think many of us can relate to.

per usual, philly was overstuffed with friends, family, and fun. everything i need to rejuvenate the soul as the summer brings endings and fall creeps into view with big beginnings. the people i get to see grow are rad, keep up the incredible stuff philly fam, and save a spot for me when i’m lucky enough to return.

An astoundingly beautiful weekend for Brett and Cassidy to share with the lovely people they’ve brought into their life from all over the world(seriously…30+countries of traveler to this one). Every detail was perfect, down to the best light up Zaffe Dabke one could have!!! I’m grateful to have attended, and to have met and befriended some Sintra locals and pinheads at the best bar I’ve ever shut down 2 nights in a row. Old friends were reunited, new friends were made, initials were put into the highscore of the one pinball machine in town. Now it’s time to sit with my family in Philly and gorge on the sardines and pasteis de nata I brought back for them before sleeping for 3 days to make up for the 3 waking dreams I just spent in Portugal.

I spent the month of January in Vegas living at a casino working as sound mixer on a unique and challenging project that wouldn’t have been possible to complete without @theboomninja there with me. Absolutely crushing it on the boom, and as a friend, keeping us laughing while helping me with some crazy plant mic and practical mic ideas wherever we could. Congrats to @lastshowgirl on its premiere @tiff_net this weekend and to the whole crew that made it possible. Oh…and HUGE thanks to @silvia.silvia.crossbow for keeping the entire crew WOW’ed and inspired.