Cysfilm

Medium Format

I was driving down 5th ave in San Diego a couple weeks ago and saw a pool of light in this parking lot and wondered if it would work for a portrait. That got me thinking about a portrait series here in SD and that got me thinking about photography in general. For the last year I’ve been experimenting almost non-stop with different camera systems just trying to get inside all of them to see what they do and how they work. I think I’m ready to quit doing that and start trying to tell stories instead.

Sarah E at Night:

Large Format Test

Here are some test shots from my Crown Graphic – first time out with this beast of a camera and I have a new appreciation for the great photogs of yesteryear who hauled these things all over the planet.

Holiday Spirit

If you’re looking for a great Non-Profit to support this holiday season then please consider New Media Rights. These are very bright media attorneys who could be raking in big corporate salaries and lunching on AT&T expense accounts but instead they spend their days consulting regular people about their online/media rights FOR FREE. They have assisted hundreds of individuals and small businesses including myself. I made a contribution and if you appreciate my work in Iraq, I hope you will too – even if it’s only a dollar. Films like INDENTURED cannot be made nor shared publicly without the critical support of organizations like NMR.

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Bush League screening at Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Bush League screened back at Rutgers University last Friday – what an honor! It was great to share the film with the students and faculty and also really nice to have Jake (the Peace Corps volunteer in the film) there to take questions.

Big thanks to Professor Frank Greenagel who put the event together. You can never anticipate what the tone or intensity of a Q&A will be and Rutgers did not dissappoint.  The students reflected some really amazing depth. Thanks Rutgers!

Here’s some of the audience saying hello to the folks in the film. I want to take these video clips back Malawi to show the people in the film where their stories have gone.

A CC license for the Zolokere Choir YouTube Video

For those who are interested in remixing/use of the music from the Zolokere church choir video on YouTube I’ve created a Creative Commons license which can be accessed below the videos. If you’re interested in commercial use please contact me at cysfilm@gmail.com and we can negotiate – I’d like to direct any funds received back to the community in Malawi. Thanks for your interest.

Zolokere Choir, African Music 1 by Zolokere Choir is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at www.cysfilm.com.

Zolokere Choir, African Music 2 by Zolokere Choir is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at www.cysfilm.com.

Zolokere Choir, African Music 3 by Zolokere Choir is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at www.cysfilm.com.

Zolokere Choir, African Music 4 by Zolokere Choir is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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Hello NACA West!

I’m headed to Spokane, WA with my sister this week to present Bush League at NACA West – Looking forward to the trip and can’t wait to see what’s going on at the conference.

Here’s the trailer for the film, please stop by and chat if you’re there!

Diamond on Vinyl Teaser

Here’s JR Hughto’s first peek of his new fiction film Diamond on Vinyl – how’s that for a great title. Congrats to JR and his crew, I can’t wait to see the final product.

Homemade Cyanotype 4×5, The Kitchen

Here’s my second try at exposing a homemade 4×5 cyanotype negative, this time looking into the kitchen. It’s a seventy hour exposure, plus or minus, at 5.6 on 135mm lens. The blue one is the negative, the black and white is after it’s been scanned, inverted, and flipped. It’s surprising to see how much information is revealed in the positive image.

Contaflex Test

My Dad picked an old Contaflex 35mm camera up on ebay for me a few months back and I finally got to test it. The built in lens is really nice; the camera itself is too pretty.

It has a really interesting example of early automations. Once the ISO/ASA is set, it lines the appropriate shutter to f-stop numbers automatically. Compared to today’s cameras that’s no big deal, but this one does it all mechanically – no batteries or motors in it anywhere.

LIKE + BUSH LEAGUE

Please help me get Bush League into the ArcLight Doc Festival in Los Angeles by “liking” the YouTube video below (you have to log into youtube) and liking the video on the ArcLight facebook page (link below). The ten film trailers with the most “likes” will screen at the festival next month, which would be really cool. Please help me with your clicks!
Cy

For facebook cut and paste this URL, Bush League is the first video:

https://www.facebook.com/ArclightCinemas?v=app_187933831285064&app_data=vote_entry_id%3D967629&ref=nf

For Youtube like the video below: