These are the friends who helped keep me safe while I was doing some underwater location scouting last month. Thanks guys!
Clockwise from top-left: Andy in wetsuit preparing to descend a rope ladder down a cliff, Christian posing at the bottom of a kelp forest, Tim hanging out at the surface, and Steve making a dive [...]
This is the remains of a Toyota dealership in Oakland that was never opened. I think it was scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2009 but the 40% slump in car sales might have delayed that.
Getting to these orchards before dawn meant I had to wake up around 5 in the morning. It was cold and I should have brought gloves. The orchards were pretty, with the flower petals carpeting the ground but I kept waiting to get the sense that I had definitively gotten what I wanted. I found [...]
Lately, I’ve been exploring more urban waterways. One of these takes water from Alameda County down to Los Angeles, the other takes run off water from the Oakland Coliseum parking lot and brings it to the San Francisco Bay.
Recently, I went out to do some location scouting for a car shoot. There are some salt flats in the bay area that are a lot closer than Bonneville or Black Rock. Unfortunately these salt flats are part of the bay’s tidal marsh and when I got there they were submerged under a foot or [...]
When I was in Louisiana for work this week, I had an extra two days to explore New Orleans. The downtown financial district has been rebuilt, Bourbon St has it’s frat party experience back in swing but there are other spots like The Lower Ninth Ward and St. Bernard’s Parish that still look like the [...]
The unexpected spot of destruction that my friend James and I found was the abandoned Six Flags New Orleans.
