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Yes, you read that right. Cow films. If you were in India, you would be filming a god…which is a cow…that gives milk…which is why I was filming the cow to begin with. I was recently hire to be the DP/Camera operator for a film involving the Oregon Dairy Counsel. I was hired by Kelley Baker aka The Angry Filmmaker. You may know his work because it’s angry. Or because you watched Finding Forester. Anyway, we shoot for two days in Tillamook, Oregon, most specifically on the days when it snowed in Tillamook for the first time in something like a million years. Literally, Tillamook has not seen snow since the dawn of the Pleistocene. That’s the kind of shoot days I generate. I have seen the edit, though, and I must say it look marvelous!
Our music video marches on with the last major day of shooting completed with machine guns being present in downtown Portland. I have to say this was a highlight for me. I had big guns in the streets, and I am quite pleased with myself. We only had one person who questioned anything, other wise, people just stared at us and kept going. The edit is rough and I am zeroing in on a final! When the band releases the video, I will have it out all over the place.
Now, as to scuttling your career. I don’t that I can say how to scuttle your career in three moves or less, but I will say that I continue to have lessons in integrity and value in what anyone would call LIFE. I have had some issues with a company here in town that owed me money for working. Months I have toiled to get paid, with no resolution. Oddly, as I look back, one of the first work opportunities I had in town was one in which I did what would account to be thousands of dollars in work, and yet I only ever saw $50. I pulled the plug when I recognized that I wasn’t getting any where. I had been accomplishing feats of ledger domain and semantic intrepidity to make myself believe that I was going to get rich or famous with what I was a part of. My attitude was in the wrong place, and I didn’t know it until much later.
I will say this. I think there are several people that I think are scuttling their credibility as well as there ability to make film in this town. I know for my attitude with that first group of folks that if I had never done that work, suffered through all that I had done, and persevering I wouldn’t be here today, doing what I love.