It should be said that most of the time, I don’t know what the hell I’m doing. Sure, I’ve made a living out of producing podcasts, but I still have trouble subscribing in my own iTunes. I make little daily films, but don’t know a thing about cameras. I like movies, but cannot sit down and hold my own in a Ingmar Bergman discussion.
That being said – the films that I am proud of are the funky hybrid shorts of ‘Urban Yoga’ – a concept project that started more than a year ago when I complimented the tattoo’s of the guy sitting next to me in the cafe. His name was Duncan, he was a yoga teacher from the Bay Area and 2 weeks after meeting, we shot the first, of now 3 films – combining the rough backdrop of Shanghai concrete with his ability to make the hardest of yoga movements seem poetic.
The first one was crap (on my end), cheap camera, bad editing, but somehow, it has over 20,000 hits on YouTube.
The second was in his ashram in the Jing’An area – my personal fave, as I started writing in an introduction sequence:
This last one was fun, and the first one we’ve done in public. At the end of the Bund, with the olders taking time off of flying their kites to gather around… This one was the longest of the 2, as we now have the intro, sequence and ending montage of an older lady teaching him tai chi.
This last one has gotten some great reviews, just yesterday it was linked to on Shanghaiist, who have been really supporting ‘the shanghai show’, so…we’ll see. We’re in talks of shooting all over SE Asia, which would be quite cool.
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