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Motolove Alison Clancy Photo: Jamie Nelson

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Strawberry by Emily Reo from the album Only You Can See It - Director, DP, Editor: Kevin Van Witt

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On Seeing: A Journal - #247

"Underwater for Brizo"

The advertising company Young & Laramore commissioned us to make a series of images for Brizo, a subsidiary of Delta, manufacturers of high end kitchen and bathroom faucets. The idea was for me to make underwater photographs of dancers and models wearing Jason Wu couture specifically designed for the gravity-free aquatic “set.” With a casting, always a unique test for models and dancers, we found three women who were at one with the water and could perform submerged with precise direction. Everything is slowed down underwater, so making still photographs of dance in the pool is actually easier than in the studio or on stage, where constant movement makes panning the camera and timing the shutter very challenging. Out of water, this can require the repetition of natural, rhythmic movements for the sake of “getting it just right.” Though underwater, in slow motion, with a flowing dress no pose can be exactly replicated. To make the images we did for Brizo required pristine lighting, talented and graceful models in a perfect and comfortable aquatic environment: warm, chemical-free and crystal clear. 

Here is some of the video footage we did that day:

The “trick" to controlling the dancers’ movement across the camera’s frame was to place a thin belt around the model’s waist, under her dress, and attach it to a long black cord inserted through a small slit in the dress. I directed an assistant who was also underwater and outside the camera’s frame to pull the model across the pool in order to move the dresses and create a mood nothing short of sublime and magical. One can “feel” my directions to my assistant to move the model gradually, then more quickly, or slowly or even to pause. And finally, some of the advertising pages that resulted:

Dancers: Diane Boyle, Tara Stiles and Alison Clancy   for Young & Laramore: Uriaha Austin Foust, Art Director Gowns by Jason Wu

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Motolove Alison Clancy Photo: Jamie Nelson

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In case you don't know (all three of you who follow me...if that...ha), I not only play guitar, but I also track, mix, and produce music.  Here's a track I started working on 3 years ago with Alison Clancy, Chris Lancaster and Sonny Ratcliff. I started working on it when I was just learning the inner workings of sound engineering, continued working on it as I went through the worst break-up of my adult life, stopped working on it to hit bottle after bottle of Rittenhouse Rye, started working on it again when I felt a glimmer of hope, dropped it for a while, then picked it back up earlier this year.  This song holds a really special, yet very dark place in my heart.  I would sit with the cello, vocals and guitar parts and depending on what I was feeling that day, would either write something up or something down.  In the end, the song pulls on the unwound heartstrings of a broken person...a broken love.  I wrote all the synth parts, ambient sounds, and the beat.  I also layered the hell out of the guitars, and played a bunch of fuzzed out bass on this.  Although this is in all fairness a Loving You track, it's just as much a part of me as it is of them.  Play it, share it, and live vicariously through it.  Remember a time when you were there.  And it was dark.

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Cover The Roses by HUFF THIS! Cover the Roses Written by Alison Clancy -vocals Recording created in collaboration with Owen O'Mahoney -producer, guitar, synths Allison Jones -vocal and synths Erica Mancini -drums Recorded by Owen O'Mahoney Except for drums which were recorded by Gary Atturio at GaluminumFoil Studios Mixed by Jerome Begin Thanks to Benjamin Ickies for arrangement contributions.

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huff this. check it. 

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you can have it all stripped and ripped and clothed shimmer divine smiling nervous, but I ain't lying but you can have it now I'll fight your fights and shine and cry and shine You told me you were drowning so I swam as far as I could go you called me like you're burning...

Alison Clancy

Alison sent me a recording of herself singing a song called "You Can Have It All" for my time wasted dance. This is the excerpt that I am using in the performance on May 16th, along with music by Austin Mitchell and the voices of several people sharing their own wasted time.