The Herb

I finally got my hands on a copy of Ciudad's "The Herb," a music video directed by my friend Pancho Esguerra. I got director of photography credit for this one and it was a fun experience. "The Herb" is a love story between a man and a bear (actually a very subtle metaphor for addiction). Our inspiration was Wes Anderson's films, and we pretty much did our own (cheaper version) of the dolly-in/out or left/right two dimensional camera movement which was used in Rushmore and Royal Tenenbaums.

Here we are totally desecrating a church by filming the "wedding" scene. I'm on the dolly:



Some grabbed stills from the video. I think it turned out really well, I'm really proud of Pancho, he did a great job. Last I heard the video isn't getting much airtime because it's an independently produced video. And all along I thought MYX supported indie artists. Guess not.