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"Life in the Fridge" Tequila

2012-09-01T16:19:54.474Z

This was one of many episodes of "Life in the Fridge" created for the first season of CBS Inc.'s Saturday morning, hit TV show, "Pee Wee's Playhouse" produced by Broadcast Arts in NYC during the summer of 1986. I worked as the DP (director of photography) with director: Rob Niosi, animator: Spencer Cook & producer Eric Herrmann. We shot all the episodes of Fridge on 35MM film with Mitchell cameras. In addition to doing the lighting and camera work I also did motion control and occasionally animated a shot or two. In this episode the freezer food is having a dance party and the ice cube mimics Pee Wee Herman's famous tippy toe tequila dance steps. I animated the ice cube close up shot with the spinning bow tie. Note: The live action character Cowboy Curtis is played by Lawrence Fishburne.

"Ikea, Manhattan" (Cardboard Jungle)

2012-03-20T17:47:30.667Z

This footage was shot with my video lunchbox during the production for one of two spots produced by Humble Films in NYC for the new Ikea mega-store which was then soon to be opened in Red Hook Brooklyn. Peter Wallach was the director of special effects and hired me to assist in the shooting of 35mm time-lapse of the deconstruction of the lower Manhattan model fabricated out of Ikea boxes. The time-lapse was played in reverse to give the appearance of the city constructing itself. The footage was designed to work as a match dissolve to actual time-lapse of the real lower Manhattan which we also shot on 35mm film from the same camera angle which was shot before the miniature stop motion/time-lapse could begin. We also shot the time lapse of the Ikea store facade.
Music is "The Kingdom of Nye" by The Woggles.
Here is a link to the finished spot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1noMT7aeYpg&feature=related

"Life in the Fridge" Opera

2011-09-14T00:10:39.734Z

This was one of many episodes of "Life in the Fridge" created for the first season of CBS Inc.'s "Pee Wee's Playhouse" produced by Broadcast Arts in NYC. I worked as the DP (director of photography) with director: Rob Niosi, animator: Spencer Cook & producer Eric Herman. This is what occupied most of my summer in 1986. In addition to doing the lighting and camera work I also did motion control and occasionally animated a shot or two. The pixilated hand picking the grape is not actually Pee Wee Herman, but a woman from the stop motion fabrication dept.

"It's Cold Inside" The Crinkle Cuts

2011-06-06T16:44:27.297Z

This was one of many episodes of "Life in the Fridge" created for the first season of CBS Inc.'s "Pee Wee's Playhouse" produced by Broadcast Arts in NYC. I worked as the DP (director of photography) with director: Rob Niosi, animator: Spencer Cook & producer Eric Herman. This is what occupied most of my summer in 1986. In addition to doing the lighting and camera work I also did motion control and occasionally animated a shot or two. The Joshua Light-show seen behind The Crinkle Cuts band was footage my father shot at a Jeff Beck concert at the Filmore East in NYC circa 1968 and was rear projected one frame at a time into the stop motion set. The song "It's Cold Inside" was written and performed by Mark Mothersbough of Devo.