08.08.2010
On Set
4 years ago when I first moved to Portland, I worked as a PA for a shoot directed by music video and commercial director Whitey. The music video was for The Thermals song. 'Pillar of Salt.' The 2 day shoot involved blowing up balloons, covering everything in white spray paint, cleaning up after a massive pillow fight and dumping buckets of paint on The Thermals. It was pretty fun.
I've always admired Whitey's work, especially how he incorporates hand made props into some of his videos - get a load of the video he did for Panther! In a nice turn of events, I spent a few days last week working in the art dept on a music video directed by Whitey for a new song by The Thermals.
It's always great to have a front seat to see how other Directors work and I'm going to try to do this on more of a regular basis from now on.