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  • Smoking is Joyous

    Somehow I thought it might be difficult to slip this one by 🙁 Our Smoking Girl Gets Censored; from an email received by SuperArtMedia: I have some bad news about your commercial. Our Traffic Manager viewed the spot and told me that we cannot air it because it features someone smoking. There wouldn’t be an issue if…

  • Happy Birthday

    Last week I was jumped on K Street mall by five guys, for no reason other than the sport of it. Oh yeah, today is my birthday.

  • The Death of Film

    SALON.COM has a nice article on film and it’s alleged death here.

  • Cinegear!

    Finally posted some really crazy photos from my trip to Cinegear with my 1st Assistant Cameraman Ken Hilmer. I shot these with a four-lens Sports 35 camera. This event was on a Universal Studios backlot.

  • Shooting

    Photos from the shooting of our 0:10 spot for Fleet Feet Sports.

  • Addy Award Take Two

    Our PSA for the California Youth Crisis Line has won a second ADDY at the District Level. As a result of this, it has been entered in the national ADDY competition.

  • Garbage

    You know you’ve made it when you find your own work lying among bits of trash in the middle of a downtown intersection. Yay!

  • Yet Again!

    EMRL wins another television industry award! This time it’s a Telly Award, in the documentary category. The winning project is The Story of Rural Health, a 26 minute program we made for the California State Rural Health Association.

  • Hands in the Bucket…

    Cool hand-processed 16mm footage of Ground Chuck, old school downtown Sacramento punk rock icon.

  • Forgot About This Film Shoot

    Found some old images from a shoot. This project was cool because it was almost entirely handheld, but I still haven’t seen this footage yet!

  • …but not forgotten.

    My lovely cat, Fatima.

  • Crazy Advertising

    Check out this crazy web advertisement I found.

  • It’s True

    I fell asleep in front of the web cam (again.) I hate it when that happens.

  • Life in Baghdad

    Found an interesting blog written by a guy living in Baghdad. Read it.

  • Party!

    We had an impromptu party. Aunt Viv told stories, chain smoked, demanded to have her friends put in a commercial, and then passed out on the casting couch.

  • Casting Call

    Last night we held a casting call for an upcoming commercial. Check out the resulting array of photos, shot with heinously grainy black and white film.

  • Technicolor

    Kind of neat to read stuff like this in retrospect. What? Color in the Movies Again? Reprinted from FORTUNE Magazine, October 1934 TECHNICOLOR is the Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf and all the Silly Symphonies that Walt Disney has released since November, 1932. It is also the next big thing in pictures,…

  • Downtown Sacramento

    Took some neat photos in the hood again, all using the same eye-level camera angle. These photos were shot with my Yashica Electro 35, the coolest camera ever! I wish they made rangefinder 35mm movie cameras.

  • Fisheye!

    Crazy fisheye photos, shot at New Helvetia with a Peleng 8mm lens bolted to my old Nikon F.

  • Technical Information

    Placed an archive of camera and film information online, available here.

  • Welcome 2003

    Happy new Year! News from 2002 is available here.

  • Mopey Photos

    I took some more mopey hyper-grainy photos around Downtown Sacramento. I always forget how much I hate Ilford film, but everybody else likes it, so it must be me. Or something. Yeah.

  • Funny Photos

    Found a roll of Plus-X, so went out in the rain and took a few pictures of the area around our studio.

  • We Had a Party

    Here’s some pictures.

  • Camera Test

    Last night I tested our new camera body – this is what happened.

  • The Story of Rural Health

    Our documentary on health care in California’s rural areas premiered at the lovely Crest Theater in Sacramento. We travelled all over California, and shot over 40 hours of footage for this project. The end result is a 30 minute program intended for television broadcast. For more information, check out the California State Rural Health Association.

  • Service Outage

    EMRL.COM may be experiencing minor service outages in the next few days. We are setting up a new T1 connection, and there may be a window of downtime while the DNS records propagate.

  • Funny Quotes from the internet

    Funny quotes from the net: emrl is superior because the physical models require a lot of time and expense emrl is to promote an atmosphere of academic research consistent with university goals emrl is a group of sacramento noise musicians and they were the hosts for this event emrl is temporary emrl is depends on…

  • Press Coverage

    Bob Shallit’s Business Column in the Sacramento Bee features a mention of our recent smartvoter.org commercial. Business By Bob Shallit — Bee Staff Writer Published October 30, 2002 […] Breakout ads: The League of Women Voters isn’t exactly known for its edgy advertising. But it’s breaking new ground with a public-service spot now running across…

  • News Coverage

    EMRL coverage on TV! Our PSA shoot for the California Youth Crisis Line is featured prominently on local news channel KCRA 3. Check out more photos from the shoot below.