Galway Girl

Now I finally get to share the reason I've been MIA the last month. I've been hanging out in Ireland with some friends :)... OK, well actually, it was a lot of work and not a lot of sleep leading up to the shoot, but the finished product is pretty fun. Enjoy!

Shape of You

Super proud of Jason for his latest video! He directed "Shape of You" for our friend Ed Sheeran. This project took over our life for a chunk of December, and it's so hard when I don't get to talk about things when they are happening! I'm excited for the world to finally get to see this today.

Bonus points for whoever spots my brief cameo :)

You can watch the video here. 

BTS photo by @zoerainphoto

New Video

Jason directed Macklemore's latest video for the song "Drug Dealer" which came out today! This video production came in the middle of a crazy couple of months of projects, but it was super important for Jason (and myself) to fit it into our schedule because of the powerful message behind it.

Earlier this month, MTV debuted a documentary featuring Macklemore and President Obama, talking about opioid addiction and how huge of a problem this has become in the US. 

Dance Off!

Heres Jason's latest project. Check it out! Teresa and I both LOVE Idris, so that makes this even better! 

New Video!

I'm excited for the world to finally get to see this project. I love the message of the song and of course, the music video's director, Jason!

New Video...

The project that's taken over our summer is finally out! I'm thrilled to be able to share it! Co-directed by Jason, along with Ryan Lewis and Macklemore. It was a beast of a production, but tons of fun to be a part of...watch the video here!

Music Video #tbt

Teresa's still sick. I've been fighting a cold all week too. Let me just say, it sucks to be sick when you're an adult. You can't just stay home from school and chill on the couch switching between music videos and Dr. Quinn reruns. Here's a video I would have been excited to have caught while flipping channels...

Behind the Scenes...

Here's a quick look at part of the making of Arrows… A week of shooting condensed into 2 minutes. I have to say, this makes it look fun and happy, which it was, but it was also long and exhausting. It wasn't all just fun and games and riding the tandem bike around set. In the photo above, You'll see the sun has just set outside of the warehouse we'd been cooped up in for over 12 hours at that point.  

One of the longest days was the pool shoot, Ben was SUCH a trooper and was swimming in his clothes (including shoes!) for long chunks of time, which is not easy to do. After a few hours of shooting, Jason jumped in as well, to better direct from the pool, which I think was a move of solidarity as much as it was to shoot. 

Arrows

This is what has consumed my life since May... Jason directed this, along with John Keatley. I helped out a bit as an associate producer, and am immensely proud of the final results.

Whenever we're working on video projects, there's usually a lot of secrecy involved, and it makes blogging hard! Where I'd normally want to post, "I spent the day watching Jason be a merman!" instead I only get to say, "Cool project that I can't name coming soon!"

At least now, it's a relief to get to say, this is why I was silent for days at a time and this is why I haven't had any "Craft & Create" posts for awhile, THIS WAS my craft project for the summer! 

So hopefully as the behind the scenes for this rolls out, I'll be able to share a bit more about the adventure that this has been and more photos like this. And this. For now, I'll say it's amazingly cool to see something go from ideas- arrows on a train, a high dive, a tiger- to watching these things be created, to now, where I'm glued to my computer reading reactions from friends, family and major news outlets.

I hope you like it! 

Music Video Throwback Thursday

This is a somewhat obscure one that I dedicate to Teresa...Who else remembers this song and corresponding dance? 

Music Video Throwback Thursday

In preparation for Valentines Day, lets watch Mariah's "Always Be My Baby". I LOVED this song and video when it came out. Thanks to VH1's Pop-Up Video I remember that the majority of it was filmed at Camp Mariah, a camp that she had funded, in upstate New York (wikipedia confirms it). I still love the innocent camp romance!  

What's you're favorite throwback love song?