We did an interesting shoot down in the LA subway a couple weeks ago.
Stefan Sagmeister and Hillman Curtis are making a feature length documentary and we worked with their production house Group Theory and contributed some footage.
Stefan is an Austrian graphic designer working out of New York. He's famous in the design world for working on album covers for artists like the Rolling Stones. He also has a practice of taking year long sabbaticals every 7 years. During which, he works only on personal projects and accepts absolutely no client work.
I read his book, Made You Look, last year which offered very intimate insight into how he deals with clients and runs his business - it was pretty amazing.
Hillman Curtis, on the other hand, is a super legit web designer and maker of online films. He literally was one of the first guys to design killer Flash websites in the 90's and then also a pioneer in digital cinema for the web.
I watched his short Roof a few years ago as well as some of his commercial work and it really made me think differently about digital video. Anyway, both Hillman's and Stefan's work have really influenced what we do, so it was cool for us to get the opportunity to film for them.
Matt and I had actually never been on the LA subway before. It wasn't too bad - seemed a bit cleaner than New York although it smelled pretty similar. Anyway, we're really looking forward to The Happy Film.
