lots of crazy shit being captured or reported on camera these days! you think you've seen it all, and then all hell breaks lose... to name a few: Mubarak got the message & was deposed... PBS sadly lost funding... Charlie Sheen & Galliano completely lost their marbles & their jobs... Qaddafi had already lost his mind & won't leave his job... Arcade Fire won a Grammy & Bieber fans got angry... Melissa Leo dropped the F-bomb at the Oscars... Lindsay Lohan stole some shit or became a lesbian again or something... meanwhile, i just shot my first digital video in over a decade. i warn you, this is deep! ladies & gentlemen, caught on Harinezumi, i present the Tintinettes in full dorky glory:Matt Amato of The Masses has championed the Harinezumi camera ever since it came out. back from Tokyo where he spent time at the Harinezumi company to work on upcoming technologies & projects, Mr. Amato kindly gave me one of the latest Harinezumi cameras he brought home. i used it that very same evening! this Harinezumi 2+++ fits in the palm of my hand, and makes digital films & still frame pictures as weirdly lo-rez & awesome as the venerable Holga does for film. what it lacks for in fidelity, it more than makes up for it in aesthetics...
you see, i was part of the last generation of USC Film School students to have the privilege of being introduced to the craft withSuper 8 film, before moving on to 16mm & video. my friend Saul & i were the very first 2 USC film students to shoot our projects on digital, before the school even had digital cameras. i had gotten my hands on what was then the brand new Sony VX1000 from a porn star friend, the amazing Annabel Chong , whom i cast in the film - fuck yeah!
somewhere along the way, i stopped making movies as my career helping those who make them got more interesting & my free time got too "busy" for personal films... so it's such a delight to have this minuscule digital camera that isn't designed to be perfect. it brings me back to the super 8 days. in fact, it's as close as super 8 as anyone can get with a digital camera... WIN WIN!
last night after dinner, i pulled the camera out of my pocket & captured a very silly "celebrity" moment with close friends - posted above. my LA gurrrls kick ass, like totally... fo sho!!!
you see, i was part of the last generation of USC Film School students to have the privilege of being introduced to the craft with
somewhere along the way, i stopped making movies as my career helping those who make them got more interesting & my free time got too "busy" for personal films... so it's such a delight to have this minuscule digital camera that isn't designed to be perfect. it brings me back to the super 8 days. in fact, it's as close as super 8 as anyone can get with a digital camera... WIN WIN!
last night after dinner, i pulled the camera out of my pocket & captured a very silly "celebrity" moment with close friends - posted above. my LA gurrrls kick ass, like totally... fo sho!!!
back to Matt Amato & an outstanding Harinezumi team of artists i.e. Bruce LaBruce, Mark Borthwick, Agnès B, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Claire Denis, Miranda July, Harmony Korine, Errol Morris, Chan Wook-Park & Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon who always collaborates on cool projects... each artist directed & shot Harinezumi short films for IMPERFECT AS THEY ARE. this fun gathering traveled last year from New York to Paris, Tokyo & Los Angeles - here's Matt's harinezumi movie... Matt is curating a follow-up series as the Harinezumi technology advances & other established artists pick it up... his most recent video for Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros is epic, crisp & cinematic, while the one he directed & shot 6 months ago on the Harinezumi for a band i dig - Quadron - is magically lo-fi:
Matt Amato will continue to shoot some projects on the Harinezumi. i will shoot all mine with it... i took my usual set of super lo-fi mobile phone pics through dinner, leading up to the Harinezumi parking lot moment...
