Friday, November 18, 2011

Busy, Busy! 3

Man o man! This year is perpetually speeding up! I ended up skipping an October post mainly because of my show encompassing a tremendous amount of time.

My last post was September 24th, so I have A LOT to catch everyone up on.

First off: Studio C of Sam Houston is complete! The first all LED University studio!

Dan Rather graced us with his presence in late September. Richard Lacy, Scott Jones, Dad (Craig Loper), and myself worked on getting the lighting and studios just right for Mr. Rather coming to visit his Alma Mater.
We all had the privilege of filming a “no holds barred” Q&A with about 100 MASSCOM students and Mr. Rather. This was an incredibly insightful event with Mr. Rather as he talked about his 56-year career in radio, newspapers, television and now the Internet. I have always had great respect for Dan Rather and now more than ever.
Much was discussed in the Q&A, but what I really got out of it was: work hard, and do what you love, reaffirming what I truly believe in.

Here is a shot BTS clip of Mr. Rather in Studio C.





Next up: Hot rods,

If you know me personally, you know I’m a gearhead. If it moves I’m interested. My passion apart from media/filmmaking is the traditional hot rod/custom scene; I can’t get enough of it!

In the month of October I experienced 2 major events, produced a hot rod art show and had a photo shoot for the Niftee 50ees nostalgic drag race t-shirts and posters.

The first weekend of October was Day of the Drag Races, put on by the Kontinentals of Austin, TX. The event was held at the Little River Raceway in Academy, TX, a literal rocks throw from Temple.
This is an event I look forward to year round! I was VERY lucky to have some great friends come along to experience the event and help document the event with stills, and GoPro/HDSLR/RED footage. What a fantastic event! Dad (Craig Loper) on stills, GoPro camera, HDSLR Camera, RED camera, and BTS stills and video, Scott Jones on the RED ONE camera and BTS footage and stills, Dave Crowder, Matt Vachon and Matt Stevenson, helped out along the way and at the event, and myself working with HDSLRs, GoPro camera, the RED and DIT.

We also had the privilege of pitting for a buddy of mine, along with documenting the event and having a GoPro camera mounted in his truck!

We will be back next year!















Second on the event list was Burnout Houston, noted as the “Best Little Car Show”. I love this event! It’s a great quality car show that’s nestled in the Heights.
It’s like going to a FUN family reunion to you see all of your favorite cousins, and you also get you meet your long lost 3rd removed cousins that you have just as much in common as you favorite cousins!
Dad and I rolled down there to get more ”money” shots, and that’s just what we did!


The third event was “Bop, Boogie, Roll” my photo art show! I really should rename it “The Bop, Boogie, Roll Experience” because it wasn’t just an art show, it was an EVENT.
A TREMENDOUS amount of work went into this project that involved my entire family and many close friends. They say, “it takes a village” well it did for sure in my case!
HPI, and Bayside Printing did all of the printing. Mom, Dad and I did all of the framing. Mom, Dad, Doug Hamilton, Dave Crowder, and myself hung the show. Dad, Matt Stevenson and myself lit the show. Jack Updyke and dad edited the footage from the events we shot. Richard Hoggatt and Claude Smith of Stage Directions provided the AV equipment to show the video projected outside. Pauline handled the business side at the event. And Mom, dad, Pauline, Brody Yother, Amber Yeomans, Matt Stevenson, Rachel Petty, Cory Petty, Zoƫ Kindall, Michael Rodriguez, and Merv Jones stuck it out and helped wrap up the event!

Awesome event! Almost sold out, had 5 hot rods and customs come out to enjoy the event, and I’m having another show in the spring!

Here is the GREAT video that Dad and Jack edited.
Episode 2 of the award winning series "Out in the Garage"

The fourth event was the photo shoot for the Niftee 50ees nostalgia drags and rod run. This was a good time! The photo was shot to emulate the “golden age” of racing. My “brotha from anotha motha” Matthew “Flagman” Stevenson “manned” up and literally jumped all day as the flagman in the photo to get just the right shot!

The t-shirt design is just about wrapped up to send to the silk screener and the poster is going to be a photo of mine, drawn by Jeff Norwell!

The event will be March 3rd, 2012 held at the Lone Star Raceway in Sealy, TX. You don’t want to miss this event, it’s going to be epic!











Well for right now this is the update, MUCH more to come, but my fingers grow weary.  The next post will be catching up for the month of November!