Adidas

Constant Content, Commercials, and Athlete & Product Videos for Adidas Boxing.

Comedy

Wether it’s a Tim Robinson or Nikki Glazer sketch or something Adam McKay Produced/Wrote I’m not sure what’s more fun to DOP.

Brazilian Jui Jitsu

Very cool to create commercials and videos for the original family and best school in BJJ, Gracie Barra. As well as Vanguard which blends fashion with tactical fabrication to make some of the best gi’s in the world.

Television

Not sure what constitutes “Television” anymore, but I’ve shot, dop’d, produced a fair amount of packaged shows for television including projects with MTV, ESPN, Nickelodeon, Fox… This is a small collection of some of those projects.

And some much older collections.

Music

Working on music videos with artists like Daddy Yankee and the Black Eyed Peas is pretty fun, as is interviewing the biggest dj’s in a moving golf cart at america’s biggest music festival, but so are doing individual streams with some of the same DJ’s. Key take away, music is pretty fun.

EDC - Insomniac

The Insomniac workflow covers a lot of ground from show trailers, tv shows, announcements, documentary, wild one off ideas, humanitarian efforts, an interview series shot in a golf cart and everything in between. It’s often hard work, usually long hours and sometimes difficult conditions but it’s worth it to work with such a talented, devoted, and cool group of people. Below are just a few examples of the kind of projects we do, for the full breadth of content check out Insomniac Events on the YouTube.

Brand Stories

Below is a small portion of the brand work I’ve done. Wish corporate stuffs didn’t have soo many NDA’s.

Live Shows

At this point I’ve DOP’d, TD’d, Op’d, Lit, and produced hundreds of live music shows including; Music Festivals, DJ/Artist Sets, Concerts, shot in studio as well as some amazing locations w/ Insomniac. Outside of music we’ve done a lot of Events and Red Carpets like the Golden Globes and movie premieres, E-Sports, numerous countdowns streams, and a number of broadcasts using Virtual Production like Netflix’s Tudum and Geeked Week global events. Having done so many live shows in different environments has now lead to building studios for Apple at their WWDC and Product launch events.

ESPN

I’ve done a lot of work with ESPN from creating packages for Sports Center to creating our own shows ESPN and ABC as well as creating A LOT of series and content for their digital branches. A majority of our focus was on building the X-Games brand by bridging the gap between broadcast and digital content.

Above is a highlight reel from 2018? Below are some of the series we did. When I have time I’ll start uploading some of the actual episodes and content

Skaters In Cars

Probably the most successful show for X-Games as we did 8 Seasons including episodes airing on ABC’s World Of X. Bluntly w/ Chris Nieratko we just did our version of Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee but with the biggest names in skateboarding going to famous skate spots.

Episodes included: Tony Hawk, Stevie Williams, Ryan Sheckler, Mike Vallely, Chris Cole, Kyle Walker, Leo Romero, Don Nguyen, Rowan Zorilla, Daniel Lutheran, Tory Pudwill, Dustin Dollin, Ryan Decnenzo, Louie Lopez, Chris Russel, Jamie Foy, Aaron “Jaws” Homoki, Ron Diely, Chris Joslin, Alec Majerus, Zered Bassett, Jagger Eaton, Mike Anderson, Mason Silva, Marty Murawski, Julian Davidson, Nick Garcia, Corey Glick, Dsvid Reyes, Curren Caples, Andrew Allen, Lizzie Armanto, Chima Ferguson, Elijah Berle, and more than a few lost episodes… X-GAMES added a handful of the episodes to it’s youtube after they aired!

Remembering X

Simple idea; talk to athletes about their experiences at the X-Games. Featuring athletes from skate, snow, and bmx Remebering-X has the most episodes of any series on X-Games dot com.

BTS

Full dive documentary into some of BMX’s most influential people. The most work of any series we did for ESPN. The reason I haven’t got back into long form documentary until recently.

Getting Serious

Pretty popular show, multiple episodes, fans, etc… Personally mostly an excuse travel with good friend Ben Hucke and document riding in places like Hawaii, UK, Seattle, Austin…

My Spot

Exploring top athletes favorite places to ride. The TV production people seemed to like this more than the digital audience.

Take The Ride

Very much another excuse to travel; going to places like China, Chile, Hong Kong, Malaysia in order to “document” different aspects of bmx around the world.

ABD

Self indulgent way to do a version of Skaters In Cars in BMX, much harder without Nieratko. Went to various Never Been Done spots and discussed what made them special.

Catching Up With

Checking in with numerous top athletes before, after, or during big events.

Out Of Focus

Another self indulgent show focused on having good times riding w/ good people.

Legal

Law commercials used to be pretty blah lacking personality and connection to actual people. I’ve enjoyed changing that with Blake Reigle and a few great clients.

Tylt - Untethered

Telly Award winning "Branded Content" series directed by Aaron Nardi produced w/ Butcher Bird Studios for Tylt Products.

Documentary

We work on a lot of documentary work from feature length/long form episodic to pretty short versions. Each has it’s own unique challenges but either way it’s always a lot of fun hearing and sharing great stories.

Foundation Fighting Blindness

Insomniac - Hurricane Dorian Relief Effort

PurePharma - Athlete Docs

Smile Train - India Cleft Palete 360 Videos

Hennessy

Hennessy w/ Optomist LA shot in Manila, Los Angeles, New York City.

Virtual Production

Real time green screen keying, lens data tracking, real & virtual camera moves, unreal engine, scene matched lighting all with the ability to broadcast live. Butcher Bird Studios is really at the forefront of Virtual Production coming up with custom solves and systems.

PurePharma

Working with PurePharma is pretty fun. We created a HUGE variety of content including instructional fitness videos, nutrition videos, athlete profiles, and really kind of created a completely new style of mini documentaries by telling bigger stories using a day in the life style.

Nexon - The Bone Zone

The Bone Zone was a short web series created to promote Dungeon Fighter Online and an upcoming DFO event.  The concept was to a ridiculous low budget mock Jim Rome: Rome is Burning show focused on video games instead of sports,  and I think we pulled it off. While the content all surrounds video games the real fun was going over the top and amplifying every cliche we could think off. I still don’t know if most of the audience got most of the production humor but it’s ridiculousness still entertains me.