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TIME

Originally designed as a Christmas gift for my friends TIME has gone onto really surprise me selling close to 2000 units and gaining a revue in Europe’s largest distributed skateboard magazine. Edited down from over ten years of standard definition footage I felt the need to produce something from before taking the jump to moving to HD and starting my next production project.

 

Email me if you are interested in a little piece of Edinburgh Skate history.

 

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ThreeSidedSquare

Still in the pipeline and expected to finish post production around July 2010 ThreeSidedSquare is my take on the twenty year battle to build a skate park in the city centre of Scotland’s capital city Edinburgh. With interviews, new skate footage and archived material this has been a real test of time management and research. Even though this production is being produced in HD all equipment has been sourced and all funding is my own so I can feel free to tell the story how I see it and not worry about upsetting investors.

 

Look out for ThreeSidedSquare in the summer of 2010.

 

I put together a small sample story that can be found here.

 

 

Scooter Dragging

This is a four minute short film I made when my wife and a close friend Louis discovered a child’s scooter in the waters of Leith. With Music by Joe Seal I really liked the feel good nature of this idea and the result was a smile-fest that I hope resulted in making some kids day.

 

Watch the full short here.

 

 

Culling of the Dead

Conceived from a short story I wrote at the age of 16, this script has grown and grown and I am happy to say close to being ready to cross the desks of production companies. Based months after zombies have overrun the world two brothers survive in the core of the city living of the scraps of unspoiled civilization. Fearing the reprisal or culling the brothers decide they can no longer sit still and have to make there way north to the strong hold man has made for himself, separating himself from his flesh hungry cousins. The film slowly turns into a action packed almost weapon-less road move where the two brothers survive on wits, intelligence and luck alone.

 

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Busta Vs Bullitt

I was approached at a club night I was working at by a local music producer going by the name Vigilante, he proposed I make a video to go with a track he had produced for a promotional album called Busta Vs Bullitt. The concept was Busta Rhymes mixed with the score from Bullitt, I have always been a big Steve McQueen and Lalo Schifrin fan so the idea seemed like something I would love to be involved with. I felt like Hunter S Thompson copying The Great Gatsby word for word re-editing this master piece of cinema to his track. I also feel I gained a rare insight to what the director wanted to convey to his audience picking the edits apart frame by frame and taking this 15 minute scene down to 4 minute with as much of the important content left in I could.

 

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Club VJ Sample

As some will know I have been working as Scotland’s number one VJ for over ten years now. Working with some of the biggest names in club culture I have been projecting fast edits and dark content behind such names as DJ Craze, Grooverider, Chase & Status and Pendulum to name a few. Since there are a few copyright issues with recording one of my shows and sticking it on my site I opted to make a short video of what you could expect if you came to one of my shows to a track provided by my pal BZ.

 

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Edge Of Chaos

One of my first productions was filmed in North Berwick at an illegal outdoor party/rave I helped put together. This copy was ripped from a VHS tape of which one of my friends still had kicking around. The hard drive the project was on failed a long time ago so I am lucky we made so many copies and gave them out to party goers and people who participated. It’s not the best thing I ever made but it’s nice to look back at my early stuff and not really feel too embarrassed. I have great memories of this night and the people involved so for those of you who were there or helped out enjoy.

 

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British Council

I was called at the last minute by my friend Bryan Jones asking if I could help out at Cabaret Voltaire with a power point presentation that they were having problems displaying for the 2009 British Council Awards. After providing a solution to the display problem I offered the man in charge my services to film and edit together a small video of the awards for what little cash he had in his pocket since I was there for the evening. Not really my style but its not often you work producing work for the British Council so here it is.

 

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Lords Of Bastard - King Size Karma

I always talked with Mike from Lords Of Bastard about doing a video with them but never found the time to get it together. With zero budget and some borrowed equipment one Sunday we got together and spent the day shooting at a studio to see what we could come up with. I'm really happy with the results and hope you enjoy

King size Karma off their first album.

 

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Cool Hand Luke vs Kweli

This is my second video for Vigilante if you have not seen the first one check out Bullitt vs Busta video on my channel. This video is along the same theme too a track off the up and coming Cool Hand Luke Vs Talib Kweli CD.

 

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Gone - Profisee CXD

I was approached by Profisee to cut together a little video to one of his new tracks featuring scenes from the classic Looney Tunes cartoon Road Runner. Now this project is over we have talked about making a true video and are now working towards storyboarding for a featured video for some of his up and coming material. Watch this space.

 

http://www.myspace.com/profisee

Enter The Dragon vs Nas

This is the third in the series of videos I made for Vigilante and Spytech. This one is a mix of the Lalo Scheflin score to Enter the Dragon The Monk and Nas Illmatic Life's a Bitch.

 

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