Media

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

–Benjamin Franklin

Digital Content Creator

I have had the good fortune to work with many wonderful people on a variety of content.

I find great satisfaction in recording pristine audio... capturing the right performance on camera... focusing on the eyes of the actor. I get chills when the depth of field masks the background and focuses the drama tight, and tense. I love seeing atmosphere in sunlight and leaves falling through the shot in unscripted gracefulness. But there is nothing like it when the message is on point and that moment of successful communication jumps out and grabs me! Oh, to set that goal and then strike the target... bravo!

VIDEO

Full Length


Audio

FX UK 30 second Promo

Voiceover Recordist and Mixer

FX UK 10 second LineUp Promo

Voiceover Recordist and Mixer

FX UK 30 second NCIS Promo

Voiceover Recordist and Mixer

Blue Car (2002)

adr editor / foley editor / foley mixer

Bark (2002)

assistant dialogue editor / sound recordist

Heroes Among Us, Miracles Around Us (2006)

assistant dialogue editor / sound design / mixing


Writing

Pure Craft Blog

Tombstone

Are You Ready For the Death of Social Media?

Order a tombstone and buy some flowers! I was recently asked about my thoughts on the evolution of social media and where I predict it could be headed next.

Google just patented a device that is injected into your eyeball! I’m not sure what it’s for, but knowing Google, there is more than meets the eye! Literally. So, trying to predict the future?! I can’t do it! I can venture a guess, just like the great minds of the 1964 World’s Fair, predicting flying cars and trips to Mars… but I would most likely be absolutely wrong.

As it stands now, social media is essential, I’ll admit that. We are social beings and this is the world as it is… as it has always been. Cave paintings, stone & chisel, papyrus, paper and quill, printing press, …telegraph! (Whoa! A give and take device!) Telephone. Radio. TWO-WAY RADIO! TV. Email. Forums. Chat. Online Communities! Cell phones! MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Holy Crap! I made that last one up, but you get the point.

However…

Prepare a six-foot hole for each of them, because they will all be gone… sooner than later. Social media is disposable media.

Seriously, people… we are those old-folks-in-the-making who watched the epic evolution of the communication world. We are seeing it happen! Young people will point at our gray heads, as we gum our oatmeal, and whisper, “That guy was alive before Snapchat. I’ll bet he has some 10 second stories to tell.” And that would be true, if our thumbs still worked. But, will they need too?

I predict things will happen in our lifetimes that will dwarf “social media” as we think of it now. Keyboards? Chuck ‘em. Cell phones? Toss ‘em. Little screens… big screens….. pile ‘em up and burn ‘em. We will laugh at the antiquated binary code system, while stacks of iStuff collect dust in a museum. (1001001Stuff for you ‘80s rock fans who lived ASCII Code and geeked to Geddy, Alex, and Neil.)

We will see things we never dreamed possible. Others will seem obvious in hindsight.

Gary Vaynerchuck will be Jab, Jab, Jabbing a hover-walker into a virtual flash-mob of geriatric Snapchatters, while Carlos Gil‘s hair will go on a solo Snap-binge, touting “3-Hacks to Keeping the Gray at Bay” – in 37 consecutive 10 second snaps.

Flash Forward

Now, let’s flash forward a bit further in time, when the “media” in Social Media is finally tossed out, and the “social” becomes infused in us, much as our blood, water, or oxygen. Will there be an implant? genetic juggling,? or an all powerful “sports” drink? What will bring about this unplugged, device-less connectivity of humans to humans?

Dreamlike imagery direct to the brain.. no screens.. no wires.. no speakers… no batteries, as vibrant and super-real as you can imagine and then some. We will communicate as though telepathically connected, through tech that lives within us and as part of the very fiber of our surroundings.

The challenge will then be how to disconnect, or worse… maintaining any desire to ever be disconnected. WE… will BE… connected. Just as we exist in this atmosphere, in this air we breathe, around us and within us… we will exist in connectivity.

How does Sci-Fi fantasy become non-fiction reality? I remember watching old Star Trek episodes and seeing the flip communicators the crew used. I was fascinated, but surely this craziness could never actually come to be. But, IT DID. And now it is the PAST! What?!! And, we are well beyond it.

I’m looking past 2020 now…. but, not that far past. The future is always upon us and we are at its mercy, even as we breathe it or suffocate under its stampede. So, the answer I have, at least for the moment, is that social media will not exist in the future, because it simply will not be necessary! That’s my prediction.

And, yet, with much disappointment I am still unable to fly my car on a vacation to Mars. Thanks for nothing World’s Fair of 1964.

Therefore, for now, I will use whatever media best relays my stories; whatever best connects me socially. We are social, and we are connected, and that’s enough… for now.

So…

[Cue Star Trek-ish music]

Live in the now, because we must… but know the now is never faithful. We must set our trajectory with a blind eye, and a faith that tomorrow will be along our path. And may our plans for what might be, prove compatible with what comes to be, indeed.