Just a quick DVR reminder! Two weekends from now on Saturday, February 4th, ‘Ultimate Factories Ford F-150’ airs for the first time on The National Geographic Channel at 8 PM ET/PT.

Watching a Raptor do it’s thing is pretty awesome

Hope everyone enjoys!

ULTIMATE FACTORIES: FORD F150
Saturday, February 4th, 2012, at 8 PM ET/PT

more info can be found here.

It’s been a long time since I last had a chance to post on the ‘ol blog — I was simply terrible about writing stuff last year… But one of my new years resolutions is to endeavor to write more this coming year about what’s been going on…

And there’s never a better reason to post something then when you’ve got a new show that’s set to premiere…

Suffice to say tomorrow evening ‘Ultimate Factories Porsche Panamera’ airs for the first time on The National Geographic Channel at 8 PM ET/PT.

Hope everyone enjoys!

ULTIMATE FACTORIES: PORSCHE PANAMERA
Saturday, January 7th, 2012, at 8 PM ET/PT

more info can be found here.

There’s an ache in the side and a kink in the neck, a twinge in the knee and a soreness that won’t escape me. My body feels decrepit, my mind strung out on a million different to-do lists. Physically I feel well past beat and yet as the sun rises there’s a desperate pull coming off the keys on the nightstand. A throbbing image of movement and motion blazing through the latest mental images of the day. I keep asking myself insidiously what lies just over that hill? Where does that rise off of 41 lead? Or that cross street just past 46? Slowly the desire rises, a heat that’s surely greater than whatever effect will come off the deck later today. That sense that tomorrow can’t wait but should. And a feeling of fire to turn the bike over and roll on out the door… To escape, if only for a little bit.

It’s both quite early in the morning and remarkably late for me. The body clock feeling so confused that whether I’m watching sunsets or sunrises matters little. The overall feeling is simply one of total physical exhaustion.

Yet it’s a grand type of total exhaustion.

Because it comes from the work & the knowledge that at this particular moment in time, on this particular shoot, everything coalesced in about as good a manor as it possibly could.

Their were the usual trials and an assortment of problem solving on a day in and day out basis, but when I take a giant step back and survey the landscape that surrounds me, I can’t help but think that this was one of the best, most painless, most perfect shoots in recent memory… And over the years there have been some good ones…

In all honesty that great sense of specialty comes from the guys I had the pleasure of working with on this gig — The crew who worked their asses off to capture pure and total visual magic — Stephen Harrison, Dan Hickey & Terren Lin kicked some serious special ops-like ass and they’re a special bunch — both in the field and personally as people.

What they recorded on disc or card is magnificent.

To say I’m excited is an understatement.

The images are some of the best, most exciting and most emotive we’ve ever had… Oh, what images indeed… And watching them playback makes me smile on the inside and laugh on the outside – because they are there, sitting on screen, waiting to be cut together… Perhaps no part of the process of creating a television documentary feels so filled with awesome possibility or potential creativity and I’m also curious to see how it unfolds… It’s the story that never quite resolves itself and yet hinges on the fear of finding inspiration just one more time, in some tiny corner, you can’t quite describe.

Selfishly, I’ll admit that I think over the years I’ve become more and more of an pure imagine snob – not ‘image’ as in personal ego but rather ‘image’ as in what lies on the screen – The picture that is captured and imprinted on our consciousness when we see it roll by… What used to be just a part of the process for me is now the currency I believe we trade daily and to be in a position to be able to see the process of capturing visual liquid magic unfold is both shocking in its power and awesome to behold, and a feeling of wonder that I hope I never lose.

Sometimes it’s nice to marvel at the feeling that comes from being a kid in a candy store.

Until the next, next…

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