Random Acts of Giving: Washington DC

On November 9th, 2009, Western Union launched it's Random Acts of Giving promotion celebrating the holiday season. In doing so, Western Union teamed up with artist and designer Chase, who designed a custom wrap for an RV and sent it out across the country with filmmaker Julian Rad to spread the news and to give out $50 Western Union Visa Gift Cards to the people they meet. Our last stop was Washington, DC.

Random Acts of Giving: Atlanta

On November 9th, 2009, Western Union launched it's Random Acts of Giving promotion celebrating the holiday season. In doing so, Western Union teamed up with artist and designer Chase, who designed a custom wrap for an RV and sent it out across the country with filmmaker Julian Rad to spread the news and to give out $50 Western Union Visa Gift Cards to the people they meet. Our eighth stop was Atlanta, Georgia.

Random Acts of Giving: Los Angeles

On November 9th, 2009, Western Union launched it's Random Acts of Giving promotion celebrating the holiday season. In doing so, Western Union teamed up with artist and designer Chase, who designed a custom wrap for an RV and sent it out across the country with filmmaker Julian Rad to spread the news and to give out $50 Western Union Visa Gift Cards to the people they meet. Our seventh stop was Los Angeles, California.

Random Acts of Giving: San Jose

On November 9th, 2009, Western Union launched it's Random Acts of Giving promotion celebrating the holiday season. In doing so, Western Union teamed up with artist and designer Chase, who designed a custom wrap for an RV and sent it out across the country with filmmaker Julian Rad to spread the news and to give out $50 Western Union Visa Gift Cards to the people they meet. Our sixth stop was San Jose, California.

Random Acts of Giving: Denver

On November 9th, 2009, Western Union launched it's Random Acts of Giving promotion celebrating the holiday season. In doing so, Western Union teamed up with artist and designer Chase, who designed a custom wrap for an RV and sent it out across the country with filmmaker Julian Rad to spread the news and to give out $50 Western Union Visa Gift Cards to the people they meet. Our fifth stop was in Denver, Colorado.

Random Acts of Giving: Chicago

On November 9th, 2009, Western Union launched it's Random Acts of Giving promotion celebrating the holiday season. In doing so, Western Union teamed up with artist and designer Chase, who designed a custom wrap for an RV and sent it out across the country with filmmaker Julian Rad to spread the news and to give out $50 Western Union Visa Gift Cards to the people they meet. The fourth stop was in Chicago, Illinois.

Random Acts of Giving: Brooklyn part 2

On November 9th, 2009, Western Union launched it's Random Acts of Giving promotion celebrating the holiday season. In doing so, Western Union teamed up with artist and designer Chase, who designed a custom wrap for an RV and sent it out across the country with filmmaker Julian Rad to spread the news and to give out $50 Western Union Visa Gift Cards to the people they meet. Here we continue our story at our third stop in Brooklyn, New York.

Random Acts of Giving: Brooklyn

On November 9th, 2009, Western Union launched it's Random Acts of Giving promotion celebrating the holiday season. In doing so, Western Union teamed up with artist and designer Chase, who designed a custom wrap for an RV and sent it out across the country with filmmaker Julian Rad to spread the news and to give out $50 Western Union Visa Gift Cards to the people they meet. Their third stop was in Brooklyn, New York.

Random Acts of Giving: Queens

On November 9th, 2009, Western Union launched it's Random Acts of Giving promotion celebrating the holiday season. In doing so, Western Union teamed up with artist and designer Chase, who designed a custom wrap for an RV and sent it out across the country with filmmaker Julian Rad to spread the news and to give out $50 Western Union Visa Gift Cards to the people they meet. The second stop was in Queens, New York.

Random Acts of Giving: New York City

On November 9th, 2009, Western Union launched it's Random Acts of Giving promotion celebrating the holiday season. In doing so, Western Union teamed up with artist and designer Chase, who designed a custom wrap for an RV and sent it out across the country with filmmaker Julian Rad to spread the news and to give out $50 Western Union Visa Gift Cards to the people they meet. The first event took place in Times Square, in front of the Western Union location at 1440 Broadway.

I shot this artist-on-artist interview featuring Derek Nicoletto with The Raveonettes at Sirenfest 2009 presented by the Village Voice in Coney Island, New York. Sharin Foo and Sune Rose Wagner joined Derek in front of muscle beach to talk about their summer plans (Sirenfest, Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits) and their new album, "In and Out of Control," available October 6 2009.

The Cliks on New Now Next/Logo TV

Recently I got the opportunity to shoot a series of promotional inserts for LOGO TV starring the Canadian Band the Cliks - and shot them performing live, presented here for your viewing pleasure. If you'd like to see these videos in their original habitat, go to:

http://www.logoonline.com/video/misc/402894/the-cliks-on-newnownext-music.jhtml?id=1614412

Mad About You Music Video by Telling on Trixie

From "Ugly, Broke & Sober," Telling on Trixie's sophomore album. The footage filmed at Red Gorilla Music Fest in Austin at the Chuggin' Monkey, Music Gorilla at Spin in Austin, and at the "Ugly, Broke & Sober" CD release party filmed at Sullivan Hall, NYC. "Mad About You" is Telling on Trixie's one and only cover song, remade with permission. Telling on Trixie gives a darker take on Belinda Carlisle's wonderfully sugary pop hit. Shot, directed and edited by Julian Rad of Works Productions. Wonka Vision Magazine review: "Guitarists Brad Small and Tommy Kessler showcase their diversity within, from the searing solo that sears across the heavy hitting cover of Belinda Carlisle’s “Mad About You,” to their lilting work on the warm and breezy “Crash Me Up,” and on to the driving, new wave fired title track. Soaring rock, power ballads, lovely introspective numbers—the boys shine on them all. As does the rhythm section, whose tightness and self-assured performances underlie every song on the set....Nicoletto himself excels across Broke, but arguably reaches his soulful apex on “Mad About You” and his neo-soul apotheosis on the hard rock “A.N.F.O.” With a set full of powerful melodies and a diverse enough sound to please both pop and rock fans, Ugly, Broke & Sober has it all and then some."

egg by Alexandra Beller/Dances

egg is a solo work for Beller unearthing the turmoil, ecstasy, passion and ambivalence in the first year of motherhood. Shot during performance at the Abrons Arts Center at the Henry Street Settlement, NYC, March 2009. Shot, directed and edited by yours truly.

Excerpts from What Comes After Happy . . .

What comes after happy cracks open our cultural obsession with happiness. More than almost any country, America is driven by the search for a state we consider "happy." As if happiness were a state of the Union rather than a state of being, we seem to be constantly mapping out the route towards a place, rather than experiencing the journey and taking in the states along the way. While other countries give deep value to the states of sadness, anger, passion and fear, we often whitewash our everyday lives to announce to the world and ourselves that we do not covet, that we are not filled with unrest, that we do not mourn. What comes after happy features 300 fortune cookies, an eclectic score and a ferocious physical vocabulary. These are video excerpts of the 2009 rendition performed at Abrons Art Center, NYC. Created and directed by Alexandra Beller. Choreographed by Alexandra Beller in collaboration with the company. Performed by Tim Cusick, Toni Melaas, Milvia Pacheco Salvatierria, Edward Rice and Jenna Riegel. Co-photographed (with Martijn Hart) and edited by yours truly.

Alexandra Beller Anticipation Campaign

Through a series of four promotional video pieces taking a sneak peek at choreographer/dancer Alexandra Beller and her company as they prepared for their premiere presentation of What Comes After Happy, a new show which bowed at the Abrons Arts Center in New York City in May 2009, we were able to raise awareness and anticipation of this vital artist's new work.

Crash Me Up Music Video

"Crash Me Up," the first Telling on Trixie single from "Ugly, Broke & Sober," was filmed all over the world with clips sent in by fans in New York, Berlin Germany, San Diego California, Florida, Italy, Denver Colorado, Los Angeles, Valparaiso Indiana, Indianapolis, Woodbury Minnesota, Connecticut, New Jersey, Manhattan Central Park, Brooklyn and more we're probably forgetting. The contributory nature of this video honors the way the album was made, by donations and participation of Telling on Trixie fans through the Band with a Plan program.

Directed, shot and edited by Julian Rad of Works Productions. Concept by Julian Rad, Amy Kenefick and Derek Nicoletto.

Logo On-Air at SXSW 2009

Roaming through Austin Texas at SXSW 2009 with Derek Nicoletto of Telling on Trixie as he interviews his band, These Arms Are Snakes, Yelle, Semi Precious Weapons, Amanda Palmer, Margaret Cho, Girl in a Coma and Late of the Pier. All these pieces appeared on-air March 2009.

Logo Online at SXSW 2009

Roaming through Austin Texas at SXSW 2009 with Derek Nicoletto of Telling on Trixie as he interviews Rachael Sage, My Jerusalem, Jason Reeves, Queen Killing Kings, Justin Trantor of Semi Precious Weapons, Amanda Palmer, Margaret Cho, and Girl in a Coma. All these pieces appeared online March 2009.

Basic Training Sizzle Reel

Promotional Sizzle Reel for Kahlil Ashanti's one-man show Basic Training which played at the Barrow Street Theatre in New York City

Telling on Trixie Earth Hour Promo

Telling on Trixie does their part to promote Earth Hour - on March 28th, 2009, at 8:30 pm, everyone will turn off their lights for an hour to promote awareness, encourage change and bring everyone together for the environment. For more information, check out www.earthhour.org and www.worldwildlife.org.

VoiceOver Reel

I've had the good fortune to do VoiceOvers for a couple of commercials and of course, playing a DJ in the motion picture The Four Corners of Nowhere.  Here's a look at some of my voice work:

Life on Air - Amber Tobin

Part two in a two part corporate video made as a patient case study. This one features Amber Tobin, daughter of Karen Patten, who shares her mother's difficulty breathing due to asthma.

Life on Air - Karen Patten

Part One in a two part corporate video made as a patient case study.  This one features Karen Patten, an asthma sufferer, fitness competitor and single mother.

Backyardigans Live! Promo Video #3

The third in a series of videos I produced, directed, shot and edited for Nickelodeon/Broadway Across America to promote their tour of the Backyardigans Live! The Tale of the Mighty Knights.

Backyardigans Live! Promo Video #2

The first in a series of three online videos that I produced, directed, shot and edited for Nickelodeon/Broadway Across America to promote their live show The Backyardigans Live!

Backyardigans Live! Promo Video #1

The first in a series of three online videos that I produced, directed, shot and edited for Nickelodeon/Broadway Across America to promote their live show The Backyardigans Live!

The Four Corners of Nowhere Trailer

This trailer was original cut in 1994 for the Independent Feature Project's IFFM and was presented as a work-in-progress.  The Four Corners of Nowhere would eventually go on to the 1995 Sundance Film Festival, win the 1995 Chicago Underground Film Festival and kick off the newly minted Sundance Channel in 1997.  Awards:  Best of Fest, Chicago Underground, 1995; Best of Fest, Central Florida International, 1995; Audience Award, Leeds International, 1995; Audience Award, Capetown International, 1995; Runner-Up, Houston Worldfest, 1995.

Go Diego Go! Online Video Promo

Here's a video I produced, directed, shot and edited for Live Nation/Nickelodeon promoting the tour of Go Diego Go! live in early 2007.

My Reel

Here's a reel of some of my film work . . .

Pipilotti Rist: Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters) at MoMA

I saw the Pipilotti Rist exhibition at MoMA, Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters) and was very taken with the immersive nature of the installation - so I shot this video for a friend who wasn't going to have a chance to see it. This video is a poor substitute for seeing it in person - especially considering I shot it with a jailbroken/hacked 2nd gen Apple iPhone, but considering that the show closed on February 2nd, 2009, I offer this meager representation of what magnificently, for a few short months, was.