It's a Man's Man's Man's World

Here's a music video I just finished making for James Brown's classic tune, "It's a Man's Man's Man's World."

All the footage used here is from the Prelinger Archives at archive.org, and is clear of copyright restrictions. I sampled a number of different 1930s - 1940s educational and amateur films fromt he archive to make the music video, trying to capture the spirit of the era in which James Brown wrote the song:

It's a Man's Man's Man's World

Maximize Your Life

Is your life on the skids? Call Max Millians, the Life Maximizer:

A Street Segment I Used to Know

It's been awhile. I've been busy, so I'm just sharing two videos that I'm in love with right now:

Party Like it's 1986

I just made this promo for the Center for Democracy & Technology. The organization is advocating for an update to our nation's digital privacy laws, which were drafted in 1986. They wanted a video for their big publicity push that underscored how far technology has come since then. The law was written back when "Top Gun" was rocking the box office. A lot has changed:

Flush the Filmmaker

The stellar magazine Flush the Fashion just posted an interview with yours truly. They have great articles and reviews, dig into their website if you have a minute. Here's a link to the piece:

Flush the Fashion: Torrey Meeks

Everybody Sees the Ants

Check it out, here's an animation I just finished making to help promote my friend A.S. King's new book, Everybody Sees the Ants:

Endless Road

Well, I can't embed this one unfortunately but check it out if you have a minute. Here's a music video I produced and co-directed with Christopher Owings for a contest over at Genero.tv:

Endless Road

The Think Tank

This is hilarious:

Wildfire

If no one uses this in something soon, I will:

Keep On Walkin'

This was just posted as a response to my Hallway Scenes video, and I'm stunned by it's brilliance so I have to post it.

You anonymous editor, you are awesome.

Keep on walking, and try to keep up:

This Must Be The Place

I'm not sure how to classify this music video. Is it parody? Sure, but that's not all it is. Does it have acting genius? Yes, but that alone wouldn't carry it. Is it a great cover? Absolutely.

My hat's off to the director Dave Green and the actor Miles Fisher, and the editor David Surmi made it pop.

I laughed hard:

Pop Culture

This is incredible. That is all:



Alright that's not quite all. After I posted the original above I couldn't get the song or performance out of my head, so I cut a video to it syncing all the original music videos to the samples as a weekend project. It took just over 24-hours from start to finish:



(I just noticed that my music video edit to Madeon's live performance is on the front page of Reddit! Wow. It's one of my all time favorite websites. The video is going insane on YouTube now. Thank you Reddit. I love you all.)

Hallways

Here's my latest video. The idea developed like this: There's no such thing as a boring location, only boring films. Let's take a location that blends into the background of our everyday lives and see how many cool scenes I can find.

I found way more than I thought I would.

Thanks to Robert Richards, who gave the the initial idea and let me run with it from there.

Here it is. Hallways:

Honeymoon

I shot this while my wife and I were on our honeymoon in Barcelona. We finally got to take one after being married for six years, and we had a hell of a time.

This short was shot entirely handheld using one zoom lens:

Be The One

My friend Sheridan O'Donnell and I worked up this music video for the Moby, Saatchi & Saatchi and Vimeo "Hello, Future" challenge. The contest organizers gave it an intentionally tight deadline, and we made it from pre-production to post in less than a week and a half. The short turnaround really drove our creativity, and I feel like it's one of our best films to date. Enjoy: