Matt's First Post ("Time Again," Music Video Shoot)

This past weekend Nathan and I shot two music videos back to back for the LA punk band Time Again (www.myspace.com/timeagain). Max had the chance to spend the whole day with me at the shoot. The band had a lot of fun with Max. Ryan, the drummer, taught Max some basic drum skills, while Elijah the guitarist showed Max some sweet skateboarding moves. Our good friend Chris Saul joined in and taught him some really old school tricks. Max was a little star struck from watching the band do the video. He thought it was cool that the band enjoyed having him there. He brought a back pack that mom packed for entertainment purposes. His Nintendo DS and all his games were in it. Well, we were in West Hollywood (not the nicest part of town) and he left his back pack outside and it was stolen. On the way home from the video shoot, Max started to cry a little and was upset about all his stuff getting stolen. He bucked up a little and asked Niki who would have taken his back pack. She told him in was probably a bum. Then Max said, "well, I guess some bum is playing Mario Brothers right now." Lucky for Max and his newly formed friendship with the lead singer Daniel. He heard about Max's stuff getting stolen and had a friend who was getting a new DS and told me that Max could have the old one. The next day after shooting Daniel drove all the way down to Pasadena and gave us the DS. So Max losses his DS and magically the next day he has a new one...lucky kid. It was a lot of fun for me to have Max there to see what I do and just to have him hanging out. The shoot went really well, we didn't have any money to really work with. The band gave a couple hundred and Nathan paid a few hundred. The two videos will end up costing around $750 to make, which is awesome because in all actuality, they would have been around $15,000 to make. We pulled a lot of strings, but didn't compromise the look of the video. The band is signed to Hellcat Records and Epitaph, and the labels will be pushing the videos to show on MTV2 and Fuse. Anyway, enjoy the photos, we had a lot of fun, and Max will be coming to many more shoots in the future.