alright, now, what you just saw was a music video (Lie To Me by Tom Waits) directed/shot by Danny Clinch. it was brilliant, no? a relatively simple idea, but not quite as easy to do i'm sure, and wonderfully executed (despite the fact that you can see by the numbers on the film that a little bit of understandable cheating is going on) and definitely inspiring to me, hence my mentioning it here.
(i found this while watching Tom Waits music videos on youtube -he picks GOOD directors, let me tell you. the videos for his songs are all rather strange but very artistic -and thus quite suiting to his musical style and character. another good one worth watching is God's Away on Business, directed by Jesse Dylan. this one is my personal favorite of Waits'; jittery camera work, emus, bubbles, how could they go wrong?)
anyway, Danny Clinch is a photographer worth checking out. his style is very commercial (he does mostly musician portraits/promo work) but he has an outstanding concept of light and color. he started off interning for famed photographer Annie Leibovitz, and has since been published in magazines such as vanity fair and rolling stone, and has photographed greats such as Johnny Cash and Tupac. Clinch also started the film company Three on the Tree Productions (under which Lie To Me was filmed).
Clinch's website (with portfolio of his photography)
Three on the Tree Productions (with more of his videos)
photos: http://www.dannyclinch.com
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