Sometimes I discover a song so good I don’t want to share it, I’m trying to get better at that.

SON OF STAN - CORISICA

in 2013 I made a found footage video for the world class drummer / multi-instrumentalist Jordan Richardson’s solo project Son of Stan. At the time Jordan and I were living with two other best mates in house we called ‘The Mallard’ on the Studio City side of Laurel Canyon. It was the best of times.

Jordan and I ran around the valley filming all of his performance on the iPhone 4 and I edited everything in Final Cut 7 (r.i.p.) - To this day it’s one my favorite things I’ve ever made.

THE LA BILLBOARDS aka DIY television

Right before we went to air for Season 3 we got word that our marketing budget had been cut and the show was being placed on “Permanent Hiatus.” This meant that our contracts were left open and any trace of the show including episodes, commercials, trailers, or otherwise had been wiped as if it never existed - over 100 hard working people lost their jobs and our costumes and sets are all being kept in storage (to this day) so Warner Media can get their tax write offs. Some real Darth Vader type shit.

So with our residuals withheld and show shelved, we designed our own poster and the actors and I paid for our own billboards. We put them up in the cheapest strangest little corners of LA. After KIM GORDON posted the billboard to her Insta one of the marketing folks from [AS] sent me her post and said, “what’s this?” I replied “it’s DIY Television bayyybeeee.”

“IS REALITY RUINING YOUR LIFE?” was a reference to a Bill Waterson quote from DCLLC Season 1, the state of our industry, and the fact that this was peak pandemic just a month before the 2020 election.

S3 Ep01

Some of my favorite animation stills are of Daniella Pineda and Jon Gries from the season 3 opener. Gorgeous work by the Art Belly and Bemo teams.