A web series after my own heart, Pop Pilgrims travels to locations made famous by movies, music, books, and television. Featured on the A.V. Club YouTube channel, I stumbled across their videos completely by accident. Combining the love of road tripping and movies, it was easy to get sucked into a concept that reflects what most fans do when visiting these familiar sites.
Below I've posted a few of my favorite episodes featuring movie locations, including the fire house used in Ghostbusters, the mansion used in The Royal Tenenbaums, and the church used in The Graduate. This series is still relatively new and they've been adding content fairly regularly, so it's a great time to start watching. It's also a great pop culture cookbook for some of those future road trip recipes I've yet to prepare.
Inspired by video installation walls, I got to playing around with my promo reels and syncing them up to see what they looked like. While this is a simple exercise, the result makes it really easy to not only see my progress over the last few years, but to get a better idea of my editing style and structure. From the colours used to the way I cut on the action or emphasize motion, it's cool for me to be able to explore some of my particular approaches. Because my promo reels are often so intensively edited, the result is a visual smorgasbord.
After arriving at the ranch following our boat ride up the South Saskatchewan river, we could hear a faint mewing coming from a thick patch of trees and shrubs. Sure enough, after close inspection, we spotted a kitten stuck in one of the trees. My sister climbed up to save him. Here's a quick video of the rescue, and my first ever cat video. Anyone who's anyone these days has one, right?
