Going to school in Boulder and working at Installation all my co-workers were skaters, I was the sneaker head actor/host and they were skaters. At that shop I really was introduced to skate culture, that being films, professional skaters,and one of my favorite websites, THE BERRICS (we went in on watching Battle at the Berrics!). [...]
I have a friend, his name is Tyson Johnston, he is 22 years young, and is bad ass director. After years of knowing of each other in Boulder, we finally met in Los Angeles and right away talked of working together and made that happen in less than a year. He directed the video for [...]
Recently my friend and talented film maker, writer, and Director Tyson Johnston posted a link to his Facebook highlighting a documentary piece he shot and created with his partners at Level4 productions. It features former NBA Rookie of the Year and Sacramento Kings guard Tyreke Evans. A story of what it took to make an NBA [...]
In 1947 a man named Jackie Robinson would change baseball forever being the first black man to play in the major leagues signing to the then Brooklyn Dodgers and breaking the racial segregation that confined so many talented black players to negro leagues for 60 years. This story comes to the big screen in April [...]
Seed is an upcoming Sci-Fi film done by some of the most talented individuals I know. It is written and directed by Tyson Wade Johnston, stars Justin Zachary who also was a writer, and is co-executive produced by Barron Boedecker. These three are the types that see projects through, from conceptualization to finish product they [...]
I love documentaries and I love sports. The combination of the two bring one very inspiring film entitled Undefeated . Sport in America has always brought us uplifting stories, Rudy, Seabiscuit, Hoosiers, Rocky, Hoop Dreams and the list goes on and on. Whether you are fan, an athlete, or the weekend warrior, sport uplifts us, it [...]
In June of 2011 I moved to New York City with my closest friend and film partner to make a documentary at a school in Harlem, New York. Over the next year I will be documenting “The Turnaround” at the new Harlem Prep Charter School. Mandated to close after failing its students for a decade, [...]
I’m in LA working on my latest project. I’m shooting a national commercial on the Paramount lot, the commercial airs on November 1st. Larger post with more pictures and info to come! My thanks to my friend Elizabeth Brissenden for taking the Green Screen Photo!
I know the posting of this video is little late, but my site is a celebration of all the cool shit my friends do, so I had to post, although I am a little late. My friend Asher Roth put the video for his recent single “Last Man Standing” featuring Akon out in September. [...]
I find something so powerful with documentary films. I have always been more drawn to imagery when being told a story, and documentaries do this, they don’t just tell you the story they show it to you. “Documentary producer Jay Shapiro tells the story of Uganda’s Little League team, which qualified for the Little World [...]