Been trying to learn how to paint the past couple of months and its been a slow process. Its hard to find the time to sit down and learn what works and what doesnt. I stumbled across this artist the other week and have been blown away by the portraits she paints with watercolor. Its very close to the style I want to learn. Seems like simple paintings but the technique is perfect.

Agnes Cecile

The Almost Kings video was released a few days ago. It contains footage over the course of 3 years at 6 different shows from Kennesaw, GA to Wilmington, NC. When I first started collecting footage, it was more for an EPK that I thought we would be working on. Then earlier in 2011, I figured that I had enough footage of this song to piece it together. Their home show a week ago allowed me to film a few final scenes to get it out into the publics eye. In the editing program, its really neat to watch all the footage. You can see the crowd grow bigger and bigger at each show.

Cool vid with some behind the scenes stuff of Kid Zoom. Plus a slight interview which seems rare with him. Always a fan of his work.

Not really sure the last time I made a video for personal enjoyment. Its been half a year at least. This month I am working on two new videos which are both very low budget. One is a music video for a solo song by Kyle Lucas. The other is a live montage video for a song called Bang Loud by Almost Kings. Both videos are going to be black and white..... kinda in a B&W phase. We shall see how they turn out. Its just fun to be editing some new video.

2012 has been rocking and rolling so far. After taking a few months off at the end of 2011 to recharge my batteries, I am finally motivated to start creating again. February will be a busy month working on some projects with friends as well as shooting some new ideas that have been sitting on paper for years. At the beginning of January, I got to shoot in the Fox Theater which has been a goal of mine living in Atlanta. Such a historic place and was interesting to be able to have the freedom to carelessly wonder around the place.

Currently shooting a TV show which seems to be in the middle of a hold for various reasons. My friends Almost Kings just won a contest last week to play the Grammys this year which is huge. You never know whats going to come from something like this but its super nice to have VIP travel to the event for a few days. I am psyched for them and as you can imagine, they are getting slammed with media and fans. This past week, they made the front page of the Grammys site with a photo of mine I took earlier last year. Huge publicity for both teams since millions of industry people will be visiting the page. Last Sunday I participated in Show & Tell at Eyedrum. Eyedrum has a new location in Castleberry Hills and they allowed new artists to come in a present their work for future shows. It was a great experience and hopefully things will continue with them.

Today I won a black and white photo contest on phlearn.com which is a site dedicated to photoshop lessons from the master Aaron Nace. The photo submitted was my Grand Canyon photo. I get a free pro lesson of my choice so I am eager sit down and learn some new fancy stuff.

One month in for 2012 and hopefully the chaos will continue.

New Kid Zoom. Amazing talent.

Over the past few months, my interest in art has expanded into other mediums. I watch a lot of videos now covering almost anything that has to do with art. I am trying to learn how to paint and have been working with acrylics. Gained an interest in street art (have not participated) along with other various things. I was joking the other day saying that the best videos to watch are the ones where the artist is wearing a hoodie. It has been a pretty good way to quickly browse on youtube to find appealing videos. Here is one that I just came across that im amazed with. Artist Max Zorn makes multilayer stencil art using masking tape and a razor. I guess its not really a stencil since he is cutting it free hand. Very very impressive though.