Kathy Peterson is a beautiful person, I love her and her family.
O.K. this is one of the last projects Tim and I did together. Big thanks for about 10 years of collaboration. It turns out that we are drifting to different parts of the world. Ranch Exit is a refection of the time we spent traveling the world doing documentary work. We are both going strong, but we are not usually in the same country or state. We will still work together for sure just not everyday like we almost did during most of the 2000’s.
Thanks Tim, we did some cool stuff
Get updates of Tim here.
and updates of Steve here.
Peace and thank you all.

In Portland, OR directing a TV show about the The Circus Project.
The Circus Project helps homeless and at risk kids get off the street and help get back on their feet through learning circus arts.
Epic.

Breaking new ground---I had a documentary project that took me to Paris, Budapest and Prague---I took my high school daughter as sound person, she did a great job and we had tons of fun. We were filming ad students and folk dancers.

3 Oakley Spots I shot with Justin S. several weeks back. Our homey Shonka took the editing duties. Jack Blodgett and Paggio Handled the logistics. Nice work everyone.

Just spent 2 and half weeks in China.
Lovely.
Classical music every night, so powerful.
Good People,
and a Jazz club in Shanghai with this cat, Charlie Carr.

Spent an awesome day with Brad and Aunt Bun Bun.
Last night we had a very powerful interview with Brad about life as a pro athlete, hope, peace and cancer.
Check out First Descents here.

In Colorado now, Moab, Utah tomorrow. I am directing and shooting a TV show about folks with cancer that are going to camp, this week rock climbing. I met the guy that started this camp about 8 years ago on a shoot for Subaru and Dagger Kayaks that I directed for OLN. Brad Ludden is a goofball and a wise guy with a big heart. We did a very powerful interview with a beautiful woman from Colorado that was going to camp in the morning. Check out First Descents here.

We didn't have anything to do with this. But it's cool stuff.

OK, a bit of a welcome change. I am directing a 5 part TV series about the College of Fine Arts and Communications at the university I graduated from, byu. It is a behind the scene show about kids doing art and the like. I will be shooting till Christmas. I am shooting the play "The Diary of Anne Frank," going to China with the chamber orchestra, doing a modern dance program that will take us to a Frank Llyod Wright building in Arizona, doing a printmaking exchange with art students at the University of Hawaii, going to New York City with some ad students that may turn into a Paris trip and a handful of other projects yet to be determined. I love exploring the creative process and I like having an artistic view of the world. I believe that being an artist is about what you put out into the world and just as much about how you take the world in. I will be doing other gigs too but this will be my main project for a while. Peace.

I've been shooting with my boy justin stephens for the last 4 days.  3 moto dudes for a 30 second oakley tv spot that will run during supercross races.  Jack blodgett killed it for us by dialing it all in.  we had a high reach at every location.  Super stoked on the shoot!

Shot with bubba stewart yesterday.  His compound was amazing! 

Shooting ryan villopoto mx today

Things change.
I love doing sports stuff but by work has been swinging towards the art world these days.
The Tongan with a bird on his shoulder, the bread girl that writes on her bread... well it was magic day of art that I don't need to explain.
Thanks to all that were there.

I've been in west palm beach shooting Rory McIllroy, Ian Poulter, and Ricky Barnes for Oakley.  We did 11 short videos while i was here.  They will trickle out over the next few days of the Honda Classic PGA tournament.  This is the first one.

So panasonic issued a firmware update for the af100.  It's not a huge change, but it is a big step for panasonic who has not typically put out firmware updates to address customer feedback.  This one was clearly in response to a thread over at dvx user titled AF100 improvement wishlist 

The main thing it does is fix a very slight hue shift in the LCD.  Also,  if you look at the lower left corner of the screen in the photo.  That's A.REC with a red slash through it.  It pops up when you are in VFR mode to remind you that no audio is being recorded.  You still get audio to the headphones and meters still bounce.  So it's still not ideal, but it's a good start.  Kudos to panasonic for stepping up their firmware delivery.  Here's hoping for more in the future.

Panasonic also announced that native avchd editing is coming to FCP through a plugin that they are developing.  This is also a huge step for Panasonic as they have historically been very slow to support anything on the mac platform. 

I spent the last week in Daytona shooting the NASCAR races.  Crazy loud, crazy fast, and crazy crazy!

I'm shooting a bit of PGA golf in Arizona.  I really don't know much about golf, but this is hole 16 at the scottsdale arizona course.  It's famous because it's the only hole on the pga tour where heckling takes place and is in some ways encouraged.  It's pretty funny to hear drunk folks from the top deck yelling things out at top tier golfers in a situation where there is usually dead silence.

Jerry Warren is the mountain director at sundance.  We got to spend a day with him doing another mormon.org spot.  Jerry shreds the mountain on skis and bikes, I hope i'm half as fit as him when i'm 63.

I had a meltdown looking for a cable yesterday and it led me to tear everything out of my drawer and build this organizing rack, something I should of done years ago.  if any of you need any sort of usb or firewire cable please give me a call I've got a whole garbage bag full.

We've been working with some great folks lately for the mormon.org profile videos.  Here's Jeremy Jones in his garage.  Got to spend half a day on the mountain with him, and then a few hours at his place.  This guy is amazing.  check out his entry into the x-games video comp.

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=6009096