In 2000, I found myself archiving all of the ridiculous videos I made with my friends when I was a kid. We called ourselves “Pig Pat Productions” and must have made 20 videos of questionable quality over our high school years. I made this title sequence to kick off the archive.

I made this loveletter of a title sequence when I transferred my family’s super-8 collection to digital in 2001. These early years were a period of reflection while I worked as an editor and VFX artist, wondering where my love of film might take me.

The Hazzard's "Gay Boyfriend" video was a pre-youtube viral hit in 2003, with over two million views from Ryantown. It began as a modest collaboration between myself and ukulele duo “The Hazzard’s.” But somehow between the band's zeitgeist-catching lyrics and my fanatical visual effects work, we raised this two thousand dollar video into something sublime. I released it with a behind-the-scenes video which created additional buzz . (January 2002)

A look into the thrifty shooting and post production of the $2000 budget music video shot in 2002.

Back in 2003, my NYU buddy Fred Northup convinced his bosses at Xbox Games to let him shoot a short film to promote one of their new titles. He’s an improvisor and we brought in all the talented people from Seattle’s “Unexpected Productions.”

This short was made for the Iron Mule film festival in 2003. At the end of each month's screening, an audience member was randomly chosen and a film title was suggested by the crowd. Then, a too-eager young filmmaker was enlisted to shoot a film using that person and that title, to be screened at the next month’s show! So with title and star in hand, I created this charming, lo-fi gem in under a month.