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Our last leg: we shoot the Pride March, visit a number of non-profits/social justice orgs, eat macro. Loved this project. Will post when it’s live.

I’m in London with Remedial Media, shooting leg two of our MAC AIDS Fund campaign. A whirlwind tour of the city—punctuated by terrific culinary excursions—reveals less trammeled neighborhoods: a poetry slam, a home-cooked African meal, and a tessellation of small non-profit/social justice organizations doing good work.

The OMPHALOS conform continues apace throughout May: s16mm scans are secured via a complicated billing system of high-end tequila and untraceable cash; boxes of film are trucked from mid-town to a storage facility by the East River;  the VFX sequences from Portugal are uploaded; credits are re-hashed and reified; sound mix is screened at Hofstra and tweaked.

DP-ing a promo for the show Growing Up Hip Hop for WE.tv. We foolhardily embrace some parlous rigging to float the Epic over a turntable. Everyone survives . . . barely.

Embarking on the first leg of a multi-tiered shoot with the coruscating power couple that is Remedial Media. DP-ing a series of short films that highlight MAC Cosmetics’ MAC AIDS Fund, a philanthropic extension of MAC that has quietly been deeply invested in the fight against AIDS since the 1980s. Feels good to make a living doing not evil work.

All week is prep, then a relatively vast (for small crew) pre-lighting of a capacious, though sepulchral warehouse in Gowanus, then execution of a 4-camera shoot with 8 speakers and a 75-member audience for the Network for Public Education. Directed by the incisive and dedicated Michael Elliot.

Two days of fastidious beauty, shooting tabletop of a top secret medical device with Dedo lights, Arri Macro 90mm glass on Red Weapon, for visionary director Michael Elliot.

A last long pilgrimage to @mrflannery‘s basement lair, and we nearly extirpate the OMPHALOS sound design with vodka shots and a bacchanalian, celebratory dinner. But completion is evaded, however, as an obscure technical dilemma keeps the last few steps in abeyance. Victory will nonetheless be ours soon.

A tune in 5/4 for the cinema-musical, completed at last after nearly 3 months of tinkering. Listen here.

The alarm pierces the quiescence of sleep at 2:15am, and by 6am crew and I are loading in to an undisclosed corporate headquarters in White Plains, NY, to document the earnest admonitions of a massive and successful company’s message to their plethora of employees, a message you will never see from a messenger you will never know.