2013 :: The View From Now

Mounted atop a glorious horse, overlooking the Pacific Ocean from a mountain summit in Malibu, I made this mighty discovery: 

HOLY MOLEY, I HAVEN'T BLOGGED AT ALL IN 2013!

Where are my manners? I blame Instagram...it's the social medium that's found a hard line in my veins and kept me hooked! Sorry to keep you waiting, and if in fact you've been in any holding pattern at all to catch up with my life activities via this blog, THANK YOU SO MUCH! I appreciate any and all of you who share your precious time to read my ramblings, so allow me to start you off with a tantalizing appetizer :)

This year's palette has begun covered with all sorts of goodies, one being my soaring around the set of Paramore's latest music video. Their track "Now" reintroduces the music world to Hayley Williams and her band mates and also features the expertise of Stunt Coordinator Robert Alonzo.

Assembling a handful of some of Hollywood's most talented and wittiest stunt guys, Rob coordinated an action team that left no moment dull. It's always much easier to give your best performance when you're in a good place within, and this group brought out the very best. Consequently, it reflects in the end product, as his epic cinematic action sequences - paired with the artistic genius of director Daniel Cloud Campos - elevate the music video production game to a whole other level!

Cloud is actually the reason I gravitated toward this project. As you may remember from a couple entries back, he and I have known and worked with one another for some time now. From the days of catapulting off the spring floors of LA Valley college's open gyms to snake charming in the faux-Saharan deserts of a soundstage in Sylmar for Britney Spears, Cloud, his wife Tamara, and I have shared a friendship colored with creatively imaginative hilarity.

They're fellow dreamers who also began their careers expressing artistry through their physical talents. Cloud is among dancer royalty, Tamara's a dynamic Olympic rhythmic gymnastic legend. Combine that with my US Wushu team kungfu fighting and you've got yourself a dangerous gang of misfits! Truly though, it's a real blessing to witness the growth of our artistic careers together and watch grand ideas manifest into reality.

I think it's best captured in a quote that Tamara posted on Instagram:




"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."