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doing what doesn't come naturally

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The midway like you've never seen it before! Capturing the pure exuberant joy of being at the Marin County Fair on July 4, 2016.

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THE SONG MT. TAMALPAIS SINGS by Lew Welch

This is the last place. There is nowhere else to go.

Human movements, but for a few, are Westerly. Man follows the Sun.

This is the last place. There is nowhere else to go.

Or follows what he thinks to be the movement of the Sun. It is hard to feel it, as a rider, on a spinning ball.

This is the last place. There is nowhere else to go.

Centuries and hordes of us, from every quarter of the earth, now piling up, and each wave going back to get some more.

This is the last place. There is nowhere else to go.

“My face is the map of the Steppes,” she said, on this mountain, looking West. My blood set singing by it, to the old tunes, Irish, still, among these Oaks.

This is the last place. There is nowhere else to go.

This is why Once again we celebrate the great Spring Tides. Beaches are strewn again with Jasper, Agate, and Jade. The Mussel-rock stands clear.

This is the last place. There is nowhere else to go.

This is why Once again we celebrate the Headland’s huge, cairn-studded, fall into the Sea.

This is the last place. There is nowhere else to go.

For we have walked the jeweled beaches at the feet of the final cliffs of all Man’s wanderings.

This is the last place. There is nowhere else we need to go.

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I'm really proud of this short I helped Gary Yost produce about our local firemen. It's a 'behind the scenes' look at the day to day effort that goes into being ready for any emergency that may come their way. Working on this gave me a greater appreciation for the service they provide.

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Best Fried egg sammich you’ll ever eat.

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A Meditation on Impermanence. The synergy of creative collaboration can result in magic beyond our imagining. Witnessing Genna Panzarella paint this 8x10' mural of Mt. Tamalpais as it was when it was whole, literally inside of what used to be the mountaintop, is akin to stealing a peek through the kimono of mystery... the misty mystery of impermanence. Created as part of the ongoing project to raise awareness about the need to restore the West Peak of Mt. Tamalpais. www.invisiblepeak.com

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Growing up on the (Invisible) West Peak of Mt. Tamalpais: Interview with Lisa and Madelyn Byrne

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This was a fun shoot - got to be the ‘towel boy’! 

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Playing with a new camera and rigging.  Sometimes it's like that. 

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Day in the life of a resurrected bicycle. 

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The Mill Valley Film Festival announced their line-up today and… we’re on it! Since this is our home town (and also where Mt. Tamalpais “resides”) the MVFF is a very important festival for our film to be represented at. Our film will screen as its own event as part of the “Active Cinema” program on Saturday October 4th, 3:30pm at the Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael. Peter Coyote and MMWD board member Liza Crosse will join me in a panel discussion after the film. Please join us! www.mvff.com

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Turned the camera on for the drive from Sandpoint to Spokane - about 85 miles or so...then crunched the shit out of it. :)

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A teaser for 'Saving Beetle Joose' 

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"In Fits in Dreams" - Yassou Benedict NOT YET RATED

featuring Lilie Bytheway-Hoy and the SF-based indie band Yassou Benedict -- shot at 8 locations in San Francisco and Marin County during January 2014.  Gary's first commercial project with the Black Magic Pocket Cinema Camera -- lenses used were the Speedboosted Sigma 18-35/1.8 and Tokina 11-16/2.8. All scenes shot in CinemaDNG/Raw and graded in Davinci Resolve. Edited in FCPX 10.1.1.

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Over the years I've entered a lot of Fark.com Photoshop contests. This parody of the Facebook 'look back' video highlights that achievement. 

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The Invisible Peak - 22-minute documentary about Mt. Tamalpais and how in 1950, the Army Corps of Engineers bulldozed the highest peak of the mountain to build an Air Force Station tasked with directing jet interceptors and short range Nike nuclear missiles against the potential threat of Russian nuclear bombers.

The film explores the history of the West Peak and how local citizens have been working to restore their mountain to a natural state.

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Some of the 3d models I developed for Lucas Learning's Star Wars Math accompanied by the design sketches I was given.