We stayed the night right at the Badlands - which was extremely eerie waking to the morning light.

Badlands in the morning

We decided to do Notch Trail - which is not a hard trail - just with some very intense stairs. It's a total of 1.5 miles roundtrip. In which we saw a stunning view of the White River Valley. 

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After the trail - we started heading towards Sundance, Wyoming for our rest stop. But no before we took a quick detour to go see Mount Rushmore - which is pretty impressive that there are four faces carved out of a mountain.

Mount Rushmore in the flesh (or stone I should say...)

On the way to Wyoming we hit a huge storm that had some tornado warnings. We should totally be fine in our tent, right?? (Yes we were... made for an entertaining night)

Actually the storm looks quite beautiful

Ok... never mind about it being pretty...

Left Chicago in the wee hours of the morning to start heading over to the Badlands in South Dakota. It was about an 17 hour drive... with many stops that included Blue Earth, MN and a tourist trapped called Wall Drug. 

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And there is a strange last minute shoot which was originally supposed to be a camera test for the Digital Bolex and then kinda turned a little weird - here are a couple stills from the shoot.

Here are some of the stills from the shoot for Deep Dark Fears "If I Die..." It was a great shoot and now in the editing process...

Below are a couple shots from behind the scenes. 

Here are some of the stills of the rehearsal shoot for Deep Dark Dears "If I Die...". Pre-production is almost done... and soon production will start.

Created this piece for CIMMFest and also for the screening at Chicago Art Department.  The theme was music and I wanted to treat my body like an instrument and that we all play different tunes on our body.

So some exciting news! A couple of my experimental films will be shown at the Chicago Filmmakers. This is all work that I have done with Group 312 Films, here in Chicago. Windy City represent!!

You can grab tickets here.
June 6th, 2015 @ 8pm
 

Here is the video that really shows what #Chiberia is really all about. The day after the Chicago blizzard and the trees stay frozen in several inch thick ice. Enjoy!

This is the trailer that I cut together for the short film Reversal which is directed by Michael Lippert. Take a moment to enjoy this awesome trailer!

It's that time of year that everything is cold. Early February there was a blizzard that I took a short trip to the lake to see, but more then anything I felt the cold.

For young girls, confidence plummets during puberty and many never fully recover. Always is on an epic battle to end that by changing the meaning of the phrase #LikeAGirl from an insult to mean downright amazing things. It's inspiring to us, knowing that our original film started to change perceptions.

Very happy to share a spot that I assisted edited, Kathryn Hempel cut the spot together to create this moving piece about young women. Its a shorten :60 version of the longer three minute version. Another excited thing about this spot is that it will air at the 2015 Superbowl!

It really did have a village work on this spot and I'm glad that I was able to be part and help out on it. To see the full version of the spot to the right.

It's an amazing message to young women or anyone to any age. It was definitely an inspiration to work on them.

Some good news here! The Appalachian Tale which I edited last year has selected and has awarded it Internationally Renowned Film as well as second place at the Gray's Reef Film Fest in Georgia.

Excited that it was able to be shown on the big screen!

Here is a video that I filmed and cut together for the Cutter's Holiday Party. I filmed around Chicago - but mostly the Lincoln Park Zoo Lights and Navy Pier. Enjoy!

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