Rushmore Snapshots is a continuation of the photo books I've been creating lately to finally display some of the shots I've snapped on my travels. This book features the pictures I took in 2007 on a road trip to Mount Rushmore and the surrounding areas. Footage of that trip can be viewed here. You can also preview this entire book below.
Project:Silent Shoppers Shot: March 2005 Location: Golden Mile Mall - Regina, SK Revisited: March 2009
On a freezing day in March 2005, Silent Shoppers (or what was Yellow Tag Clearance at the time) was shot in this parking lot as part of a film school assignment. Upon revisiting the location in March 2009 not a whole lot had changed. While the mall (which is behind me in this picture) has seen some major stores come and go, this vantage point I used for my movie is pretty much identical. Although, this time the weather was far more bearable.
Story: Whether this series of shorts is complete or on the verge of a final conclusion is unclear. Chico Bandito, the marionette who hangs in the laundry room, is either doomed to remain hanging next to the washer or just a short step from breaking free. The series which began last summer represented both a shooting and editing exercise in which a large amount of staging went in to developing simple plot lines. Episode 4 is a great example of this. Another episode may emerge at some point, but my mind hasn't been made up - hence no official or complete project post yet. If anything, I think I'd like to see Chico make one last stand. He's a one of a kind marionette that my dad got in Mexico in the 1980's.
