Video: Comin’ In Hot
I made a music video. Not my first one. I’ve done the Fox Music holiday videos, one for my friend Paula’s band Lonnie Starlet and one for Eleanor Dubinsky for a song Dave wrote called “Love Is”. The Fox videos are getting to be bigger and bigger productions every year and they are a lot of […]
Happy Holidays from Fox Music 2012
This is the latest ecard for work. The pressure to top myself every year gets greater every year. I though of this concept two years ago but didn’t do it last year. For this card I had tried a Merlin Steadicam. I bought it on Ebay and did a lot of practicing. […]
Video: Lonnie Starlet “D S G”
I made another music video. This is my second one. My first one was pretty much a spur of the moment thing – at least the shooting of it was. This time I actually planned it and we had two shooting sessions. The whole thing is such a big challenge for me. I really like […]
Lucky!
I am so lucky! Beyond lucky. I have my health, a great job, I live in a great area, have loving family and friends but last night I got a jolt of super luck. I got to go to the Musicares event last night. Ive been to this event many times in the past and […]
NAMM
I have no real business at the NAMM Show but I go almost every year. Our print publisher Hal Leonard gets passes for us. NAMM stands for the National Association of Music Merchants and it puts on a merchandise convention every year in Anaheim. It’s wild. The Anaheim Convention Center is huge and every square […]
Happy Holidays from Fox Music 2011!
So, as I’ve posted here and here and here before I pretty much took it upon myself to create an e-card for the music department every year. Last years was really cool. I rented a tilt shift lens and Emily painted posters to create a stadium card trick. It came out really nice and everyone […]
That Time Again
It’s that time again! The holidays are encroaching! Today was the Fox Holiday card shoot. A lot of work and a lot of fun! Wewere super lucky to get to shoot on the Newman Scoring Stage. So iconic and historic. You could feel the history in the room. It was set up for a session so we […]
Video: Love Is
I shot this quite a while ago when Eleanor was here for an ASCAP event. I kind of forced some of the shoot but wanted to experiment with shooting video. It’s much different than shooting stills. Especially with the Canon 5D mkii. It’s hard to hold the camera steady if doing handheld, it’s hard to […]
Conducting Myself
Last year I was lucky enough to help produce the Fox night at the Hollywood Bowl which I mentioned here. I took some photos of the rehearsal at Warner Bros. Eastwood scoring stage. Well I am honored that David Newman asked to use two of my photos on his new website! David Newman is part […]
Happy Holidays from Fox Music 2010!
I have to keep one-upping myself with these holiday cards at work. It all started in 2003 when I did an “e-card” in Flash, hosted it on a website, and sent out the link. Every year it keeps getting to be more work and more complex. You can see some old one’s here: 2008 and […]
Hollywood Bowl
I was really lucky and honored to be a part of The Big Picture: The Films of Twentieth Century Fox at the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday night. It’s a project I had been working on for months – helping to pick films and music to be featured in the show and shepharding the project through. […]
Dave Merenda & Commuter: Young Hearts
Finally released! Original recordings from the 80’s including a live version of “Young Hearts” from The Karate Kid recorded at The Palace in Hollywood. Spotify Album Review: If you were ever lucky enough to remember this 80’s electropop, New Wave band Commuter, you would love this album. Dave Merenda, the venerable leader of the band, […]
Commuter
Dave has a bunch of recordings from his old band Commuter in the late 80’s. At that time he had a song “Young Hearts” in the movie Karate Kid. We’re going to put them up on iTunes. We don’t have much to go on as far as artwork – just 2 photos. So here are […]
Chocolate Seastorm
Dave, Alanna and I had a band. Dave on guitar and bg vocals, Alanna on bass, trombone and vocals and me on drums. We met at a pumkin carving party and played some gigs. Even better, we recorded a ton of songs and put out 3 albums! Get them on iTunes.
Klover Records
We have a record label! Klover Records. Here are the past six! More here. nine nights /dave merenda iTunes Spotify pan pacifica /dave merenda iTunes Spotify float /chocolate seastorm iTunes Spotify swim /chocolate seastorm iTunes Spotify dive in /chocolate seastorm iTunes Spotify
