kicking it in the country

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Wandering around the Vegas old town one day playing and shooting and swiming in a river the next. Shooting campfire jam session was the most creative fun...I got a little break when the director took on a bet for a $1000 for the first person to climb the mountain across the way and wave back at us... and in a flash he ran over the stream...so I finally got a little break for an hour...too bad I had no cell phone service or internet...cause we where in the middle of the sequoria national forest (oh the director came back after seeing 2 rattlesnakes...)

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the first half of the day I felt like I had sea legs... when ever I was off the bus..
I highly recommend to anyone to spend a few days on a tour bus... Nothing like wakeing up in another city.. talking to people about music and writeing, just having fun hanging. Stoping and raiding the local wall mart like pirates. But Vegas... very happy to spend sometimes in sin city. Buffet! Just try hitting the buffet more then twice in 12 hours... I dare you.. We went location scouting in old town Vegas... lots of fun but found nothing right..

where am I?

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I wake up its dark and have to use the restroom...
this is not a new sensation to me I have had
this happen before. being in a bunk bed 5 feet off the ground in a tour bus driving to Vegas that was a New one. and then I herd one of the scariest noises... the Road bumps the ones on the sides of the road to keep you awake... I start hearing that rubbing noise... except I'm no where close to being able to keep the driver awake... the bus lilts to the left. I push up on the ceiling of my little pre-made coffin so I don't fall out... I hear the faint sound of someone singing. which means I know the drivers awake. I also thought I heard something hitting the ground. "where's my cell phone" I wonder.... I look every where can't find it in the bunk... after lots of looking in a black bus with 10 people sleeping and several people snoring. I use my camera as a flash light I find it under a bed in an air vent...I don't know if thats cheese or not next to it I'm just happy I found my phone... I go to the living quarters and I swear living on a tour bus is like living like a pirate on a cruise ship (wow that seemed so much more cleaver where I was sleepy)...I open the window and see sunrise.

useing Hardwhere on the Red

REd Sensor, originally uploaded by vincent pascoe.

Is that the Red? asks a random customer at a
true value store on Ventura... "yes it is"
I reply back as the worker there is trying
to remove the last torx screw from the PL
mount...then in front of my eyes I see the
impossible... Metal of the screwdriver bent
and twisted like taffy and nothing from the
screw..."when you need this done?" asks the
worker... "about an hour ago" I say. we where
running late to the shoot and had to have the Nikon mount on to do the shoot. We where down to the last Screw holding the PL mount on ..SNAP

the second and last bit she had breaks off
into the screw. Funny I didn't swear more
when that happened... but the week of
shooting with kids kept my F-bomb count
low..."So I guess I need a Tap and Die Set" I reply as calmly as possible.
I call the owner of the camera and ask If I
can use a large power drill by one of the
most sensitive parts of his Baby... "It's
your insurance...go ahead" he says kind of
like " Go Ahead, your funeral!"...

the director had moved the car since it was
illegally parked. and was waiting... "great
lets go where late" says the director that
I've never worked with ... and wanted to
work with for a wile... I sadly told him we
where going to be even later...and that we needed
a drill.

"is that sweat?" my roommate asks pointing to
my drenched shirt. My hands clutched on to
the cordless drill dripping in sweat. the
director holding on to the camera right
below it."why Just give me a 435 and a mag
and will shoot this!" jokes the director." I try to explane that
you don't always have to perform a major
Gear surgery every time you shoot with the
red. I use my bisness card to cover up the
sensor to protect it from metal pieces. "lets
scrap this red thing and just shoot on HVX!" he screamed.
Determined to make this work I start up the
Drill. I figure we have wasted all this time if I chicken out just because a peice of gear is getting in the way of what I want to create. I lower the drill very slowly and just as I
make contact the bit flies out of the
screw... theres something that happens upon
relief, like that summer rain that finally breaks
the heat. my eyes relax and open. I am so
happy I don't have to drill a hole in the
camera!

Of course its not over with yet changing
over to Nikon had its own issues. but in the
end we got it working... so we could shoot
Red on a tour bus for 4 nights and 3
concerts...

crazy I am...

VP

looking-back

looking-back, originally uploaded by vincent pascoe.

This is not a race
not a marathon
theres no finish line
no destination
its a fit test
to push you to your breaking point
you just run till the last day
or to the point you can't run any more
and then you see how far you have come

VP

... right after this swim my pull-up bar fell down....

with me on it...I was pulling up and it fell and I thought "what should I (*SMack*)?" It was such a sort flight that my knee hit the ground before I could think about it. It turned quickly before my eyes into a bright strawberry red...I'm sure that bruise will be ripe in a few days...

old town

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Ok very tierd.. after really looking at it... my last day where I wasn;t working going to production meatings or driveing to another state was 2 weeks ago wenday.. and the next 5 days Im liveing out of a tour bus...this would be that point where your running and realize your running a maraton not a sprint. ( someday misspelling will be a novelty and something that will be hard to do cause of all the great spell cheaking... I rue for that dya....zzzzzzzzzz)

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P7230008, originally uploaded by vincent pascoe.

LA: yesturday shot 68 pages in one day...as camera op.in 15 hours... .crazy starting to wish I got a day off...

broken peace

broken peace, originally uploaded by vincent pascoe.

Alone in the darkness
bellow the surface
I hear your voice in the light

think the fish will mind if I take a picture of them? I ask the Petsmart Employe "no go ahead wont bother them" he responds.... I then take my CAmera into the tank...to say the least he was suprised... ... I was suprised that the fish where so used to the Paparizi....


the Black side of Black mountian at midnight where I grew up.........(ok it wasn't midnight but it was dark.......)


Jul 17 2008, 09:17 PM

So this is my 3rd "date" with red... I really want to like the girl, I could see myself falling for her easily. Shes got great potential, she looks great and shes a cheap date! but shes a bit temperamental and flakes out on me every time we go out. I'm just wondering is it just me or is she like this with everybody?

http://www.cinematography.com/forum2004/index.php?showtopic=32399

the sun also rises

the sun also rises, originally uploaded by vincent pascoe.

Phx: 8 hours sleep in 3 days? funny how alien the sun seems to me at this moment.

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P7140013, originally uploaded by vincent pascoe.

shot 3 1/2 pages of short, recorded a hour and a half pod cast and this is all I can show of it... runing on 3 hours sleep.. must wake in 5 hours ....night. (of course I didn't go to sleep till 12:57)

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P7130038, originally uploaded by vincent pascoe.

only in px can you get Sun burnt and then flooded in the same day...Visibility on 101.... 5 feet.

Remember the archer

Loren Battle - Remember The Archer from Loren Battle on Vimeo.

Directed by Jay Todd Cut by Dan stern Shot by me...

Behind the sceens

Calling You Version #2

The Making Of Calling You


back in november last year I shot 2nd Unit for the 2nd version of Blue October's Calling you music video...I just found this Behind the sceens video... heres some good stuff of Jay Todd, Lee Lezbos, and me.. working with director Jeff Richter.

Intense

Intence, originally uploaded by vincent pascoe.

Driveing to phx, supriseing what you can do in the car for 6 hours..wiie Hydroplaneing in the rain... playing with Flash and long exposure...

Cutting away offline edit

So spent today cutting with my roommate Steve the spec I directed. Here it is in its infancy. No Music, No Sound Design, No graphics and a Temp Voice over. long way to go, so realize its a work in progress. Learning lots, Communication, just cause the editor has the footage doesn't mean he can read your mind and put it together the way you have it in your head. And sometimes the footage isn't there to make the version thats in your head so get ready to make compromises. telling a story in 30sec is really hard. gona re-shoot the Close ups on camera.

striped

striped, originally uploaded by vincent pascoe.

Had a great day today, Lunch with Filmakers, then Directed and acted in a spec comercail...which was a huge learning experience for all of us. Jay shot for the first time, wile it was my first speaking role. and the Boom girl was a virgin also...lots of fun and when finished I'll post it... finished the day with more underwater fun...heres a self portrait, love the camera but even at Iso 200 really noisey...

Baptism

praying to the surface, originally uploaded by vincent pascoe.

experimenting with lighting underwater. tallent Jay Tod. Lesons learned... the photographer needs googles and a snorkel...but haveing fun and learning.

last week

I was chating with someone and saying how I was creativly keeping myself busy so
heres a coletion of stuff I created last 7 days...


Monday June 30th. Sat down at Jinkeys with steves freinds grabed the cryans and made some place mat art.


July 1st... me and my roomate Jay had some fun.

http://media.switchpod.com//users/vincentpascoe/IwishIcouldcryver2.mp3

july 2nd. I walk downstairs and my roomate Ravi is playing guitar, I start singing he starts playing around on the Computer. Next thing you know my Composer neigbor Aaron comes over and lays down some tracks. More fun then should be alowed.

See more funny videos at Funny or Die

July 3rd I walk into the kitchen and Ravi my roomate recuts me into acting in a short....(ok I secretly wanted to.)




July 4th had a fun easy Photo shoot.



July 5th Got my Underwater camera and had a blast.


July 6th swiming alone reaching out.

What this is... and what this is not...

I am NOt normal, when I was much younger (like 9 years old) I thought what I wanted most out of life was money. I started street corner stand that sold Rocks in the middle of the desert which never got off the ground. Next a middle school Loan shark bissness that never made a profit. By 10 I had lost the stock market game and decided that my life goal had to change. I realized that what I really love to do is create. thats what this is manily about the fact that every day I'm creating something and wanted to share.

not everyday will be good. In fact somethings I crate will be aposoloutly horrible.

I may skip somedays, and somethings I wont be able to share.

Bloging is creative so somedays a review might be all thats up here...

This is personal not bissness

This is for those of you who ask, "what you up to?" and mean it.

I Can't spell and I can't drive... If you want to fix eether of thoughs go ahead, but don't expect them from me.