Kool Shen "C'est Bouillant" Music Vid

Today I started a week long gig assisting director Arthur Boujenah on the music video for french rap pioneers Kool Shen and Salif. Right now, we're in the pre-production phase for their song C'est Bouillant so it's just a lot of crazy work that you don't think about when actually watching the finished video. The production company behind the video (and the company I'm technically working for) is VicArt Entertainment.

In any case, we started early in the morning by heading over to Jersey with the DP Scott Beardslee (a great, talented guy) to check out Rollercoaster Studios. After we got back, I did some wild casting out on the SoHo streets of Manhattan. Pretty fun stuff. More craziness to ensue tomorrow.

Also, little known fact: roughly half of all women in SoHo are in fact models, such as this successful street casting below.

GS Shoot w/ Horacio Marquinez

I'm helping out Director of Photography Horacio Marquinez on a greenscreen shoot at 8 AM tomorrow. He's just come off of shooting World's Greatest Dad with Robin Williams (which was released a few days ago to pretty solid reviews). It looks great visually, so I'm pretty excited at the opportunity to glean any sort of information from him :)

Check out his work by clicking on this screencap of World's Greatest Dad:

Update on Tuesday, August 25, 2009 at 10:52PM by Ryan Velasquez

Well the shoot went really well and more than that, Horacio was a great guy! I learned a lot from him, mostly just about his outlook on the profession and how to stay humble in order to keep your nose to the grindstone and not get complacent. Most of all... when things get tough, just "keep shooting"!

Website is a Go/Live/Awesome?

Hello World!

This site is a go! It still needs a few tweaks here and there, but I thought it was about time to let the world see this beautiful piece of work... namean?

Good talk. Thumbs up all around!