Yesterday I crewed something a little different! It was a live streaming event for Zumiez Inc — the multinational specialty retailer of apparel, footwear, accessories and hardgoods for young men and women headquartered in Lynwood, WA — featuring guest host Blake Webber at a very cool place called The House Studios in Seattle. We had […]
My New NFL & MLB Broadcast TV Crew Gigs
If you’d told 9 year old me (who collected MLB baseball caps and miniature NFL football helmets for each team) that, one day, I’d work in such close proximity to major league professional sports, I would have flipped out. And if you’d told teenage me, who had lost interest in sports entirely in lieu of […]
Shooting the 2018 Special Olympics
The 2018 USA Special Olympic Games took place in Seattle July 1-6, 2018, and I was there to shoot them. More than 4,000 athletes and coaches from all 50 states and the District of Columbia competed in 14 different sports across the best facilities in the greater Seattle region. This year’s Games celebrated the 50th […]
The Hollywood Masters Season 2 on NETFLIX !
Season 2 of The Hollywood Masters will be available for streaming on Netflix, starting on March 15th! Once again moderated by Hollywood Reporter executive features editor, Stephen Galloway, Season 2 brings the audience up close and personal with industry superstars — including Sir Kenneth Branagh, Jerry Bruckheimer, Ken Burns, the Farrelly Brothers, Jane Fonda, William Friedkin, […]
Film Mini-Reviews
In 2016, I began writing mini-reviews of every feature film I watched and, this year I decided I’d post them on my website. You can find these reviews by clicking here or by clicking on Film Reviews on the menu at the top of any page on the site. These reviews are all short, sweet, and […]
The Hollywood Masters Comes to NETFLIX !
Starting on August 1st, three seasons of The Hollywood Masters will be available for streaming on Netflix! “Personal. Provocative. Hollywood’s greatest successes reveal the secrets behind their careers,” teases IMDB. Alfonso Cuaron, David O. Russell, Sherry Lansing, Judd Apatow, John Singleton, William Friedkin, Michael Mann, James L. Brooks, Billy Bob Thornton, Hans Zimmer, Hilary Swank, Sean […]
MORE PAWSome Experiences
In addition to my volunteer work at PAWS, I was also contracted to create several promotional and marketing videos for them that I thought I’d share with you here. Last summer I attended the 25th annual PAWSwalk at Marymoor Park to shoot promotional footage of the event. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many […]
Shooting UW Athletics LIVE – Go Huskies!
Last year my work at UWTV got even more interesting, because in addition to working on the national PBS television show Well READ (which I really enjoy), I had the opportunity to be a part of the TV crew for UW Huskies Football home games at Husky Stadium. Being on the field was exciting because I got to […]
Too Busy to Blog!
Sorry it’s been so long since I’ve added anything to my blog or updated my website, but I’ve been CRAZY busy all year. #NOTcomplaining. I’ve been working regularly as part of the UWTV crew, adding camera operator to my list of jobs there. My ongoing gig with Well READ — seen on over 250 public television stations, covering 84 percent […]
PAWSome Experiences
Volunteering at PAWS is a great way for me to spend more time doing what I love most — shooting and editing video — while getting my furry animal fix at the same time. It’s also a way to help animals in need, and what could be better than that? Through my picture-taking at PAWS, I’ve learned the hard way […]
Are YOU Well Read? … or, “The Best Part of Crewing My 1st National TV Show”
This summer I signed on to be a member of the production crew at UW Video. UW Video, located on the University of Washington Seattle campus, is a complete video production studio with state of the art equipment, professional staff (including me) and technical expertise. When I joined UW Video, my first gig was working […]
Choice Cuts: My New Editing Reel
Now that I’ve graduated from LMU and have begun to add professional projects to my portfolio, I decided it was a perfect time to update my editing reel. The reel begins with a clip from a Cloud Atlas trailer I created during my early-2015 internship at Mark Woollen & Associates in Los Angeles. The challenge with that project was that […]
IT’S LIKE POETRY: The Saga of Darth Lucas
Mashups and fan videos have always fascinated me, particularly ones relating to Star Wars. So, as both a Star Wars fan and an editor, I guess it’s kind of a no-brainer for me to create one myself. I wanted to take George Lucas’s often mocked quote which compares the parallels between the original and prequel trilogies […]
Memorial Tribute to a Legend
Just about every guitarist, from bedroom noodler to stadium shredder, knows Jimi Hendrix. The man may just be the greatest guitar player to ever live and one of the most creative and original musicians in history. That’s why I was honored and thrilled to visit the Hendrix Memorial in Renton, Washington. Like many other great […]
STAR WARS Comes to Seattle’s EMP Museum
It’s really no secret that I’m a massive Star Wars fan. So when I heard that there was an exhibit filled with original Star Wars costumes at the EMP (Experience Music Project) Museum at the Seattle Center, making time to get over there was a no-brainer. Rebel, Jedi, Princess, Queen: Star Wars and The Power of Costume […]
Jackson Pollock at SAM (Seattle Art Museum)
In my never ending quest to see all the Jackson Pollock paintings that I can, I made a visit to the Seattle Art Museum where Sea Change is displayed, in all its glory. Sea Change, was created in 1947 at the beginning of Jackson Pollock’s “drip-period” and was previously owned by art patron Peggy Guggenheim […]
That’s a Wrap!
I’ve graduated cum laude from Loyola Marymount University with a major in Film & Television Production and a minor in Theatre Arts. I knew that the School of Film & Television was the college that was scheduled to be the first one to confirm degrees to their graduates, but I had no idea that by […]
PRIEST 2.0 (Short) Wins First Honors: LAIFF “Best Student Documentary,” NOFI Selection
UPDATE: NOVEMBER 20, 2015 The Official Trailer for the feature-length cut of Priest 2.0 is available NOW on YouTube! Priest 2.0 — Official Trailer (Copyright © 2015–Tyler Nicholas) I just learned that Priest 2.0, the short version of my new feature-length documentary film about the life and times of Father William James Fulco, is an Official Selection at both the […]
The Art of Movie Trailers (aka Learning How They Make Magic @ Mark Woollen & Associates)
Fifty Shades of Grey. Gone Girl. Birdman. The Theory of Everything. Boyhood. CitizenFour. The Social Network. Black Swan. The Tree of Life. ALL of these wildly diverse Hollywood hits share a wonderful common connection. Have you watched a movie trailer that really drew you in? And, when it was over, you knew you just HAD to see the film? […]
The Hollywood Masters: Season 3
A new season of The Hollywood Masters began last month, moderated again by The Hollywood Reporter’s Stephen Galloway. First to come to LMU was one of my personal favorite actors, Ethan Hawke, followed by producer Gale Anne Hurd of The Walking Dead and Terminator trilogy, Sir Kenneth Branagh, and this week Sean Penn was our […]
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