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In the Open presents Young the Giant performing Every Little Thing
As we near the end of the videos with Young the Giant, I have to look back at this past year and be thankful for how much they have helped with the growth of In the Open. In the Open started in the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah while on tour with Young the Giant. We were driving along the highway and I asked if we could stop to take photos. We got out and played some soccer and decided that we should film something. I had done some minor filming work with them before, but I had no real knowledge about diving into live performances especially in terms of recording audio. I remember finishing the video and being excited to look at the footage, and that feeling is still there every time I shoot another band. As I have mentioned before, the guys are like brothers to me and I am extremely thankful for them, for putting up with my requests to shoot in places even when we were all tired and just wanted to do nothing.
Thank you Payam, Sameer, Jake, François, and Eric for all your time and work for In the Open. I consider In the Open just as much yours as it is mine, because without you guys there would be no In the Open.
In the Open presents Milo Greene - 1957
I shot Milo Greene in LA, the day before coming back up to San Francisco. We had met about a month earlier to discuss what we wanted to do for a video, and decided that we wanted to do something in a cave. Normally for all these shoots I find the locations, but in this case they found the cave. The cave had perfect reverb allowing for their voices to carry without becoming too overwhelming. We ended up spending the entire day moving from the caves to jamba juice for a snack followed by a drive on the PCH to a friend’s orchard/vineyard in Malibu. They are currently on tour and will be releasing their first full length sometime this upcoming spring. Enjoy.
