Arctic Beach

I haven't spent enough time posting about my friends' stuff- Priscilla Rodriguez, who shot my Girls in Black video made this lovely ambient film Arctic Beach/Reverse Siberia with her man Dakota using his music. I really love her style she has a special kind of patience with a camera that I deeply admire. I really like this video because it has a droning visual quality, its emotively dark yet unequivocally Southern californian. Its affective while being completely non-narrative and all of her compositions are beautiful. Uhhhh we are going to collaborate on more stuff soon. (I posted a bunch of Ed Ruscha stuff up there because I think he shares the California aesthetic but is darkly symbolic and unsettling in a way I think they share and I find aesthetically pleasing)…. 

Girls In Black

I made this video with my friends its based off of an video of  incense and peppermints live performance by strawberry alarm clock done in the 60s but I messed with some aspects it matches shot for shot though! The images above are either preproduction references or unfiltered stills from the video. It was actually shot in HD but Rick from the band wanted it to look more "gritty" so I added a few filters and lowered the resolution. It ended up looking pretty good anyways. My sister Amanda did the makeup and styling on the lovely Avalon who did me the favor of sitting in for the video. Most of the footage was shot by my friend Priscilla in her apartment.