filmmaker & designer, designing tools for filmmakers. based in california 🌁🌴

Horsin' Around

Remixing Muybridge's horse in Motion until I loose my mind

Seeing is Believing 🎚️🔉

The Design & Engineering Behind Sequence's Audio Meters

good dark mode shadows & elevation

dark mode is hard. take these, they'll make the journey easier.

so i'm obsessed with filmcraft animation now

the workshop that promised to teach me to stop worrying and destroy celluloid

when did it all get so real?

turned 27, had an existential crisis at the company retreat :)

showing up to sundance film festival without a plan

a guide on distracting yourself with back to back movies

the perfect daily video kit doesn't exi—

thoughts on camera form and what the cameras in my pocket enable

wtf is Editor Advocacy?

diving into sequence's secret master plan and why we had to create a new kind of job position

What's in a Website?

One must imagine Sisyphus happy rebuilding his website yet again...

a diy editing bootcamp through videographic exercises

AKA learning editing by massacring existing media

Behind-the-Scenes of a Major Motion Picture Trailer... for an app

On the emergence of "The Sequence Method" and making marketing ~cinematic~

Waterfalls, Wheels, & The Editorial Process

It's time to expand the scope of editorial beyond post-production

Experiments in generative video with image prompting

what if the 'puter could dream memories from images?

Experiments in generative audio for temp sound mixing

What if AI could help you fill up your temp audio faster?

Reimagining Video Editing @ Sequence

A Blue Sky Vision of what the editorial process could be

bay area for movie lovers

A map of movie magic in the in the city by the bay

Ryan McIlraith on editing for rapid VFX at SNL

Ryan McIlraith of the SNL digital shorts team on producing a VFX edit during the already chaotic and exciting process of getting a short to air within rapid constraints.

Zen & The Art of Recipe Development

Cooking experiments as a form of COVID escapism

SNL's Sean McIlraith on editing 'Three Sad Virgins'

Sean is a director and editor from Northern New Jersey who, along with his brother Ryan, is working as an editor at Saturday Night Live cutting pre-taped digital shorts.

sticky notes for Premiere Pro's freeform media view

nothing says an editor knows what they're doing like ✨STICKY NOTES✨

EDC-ED (Every-Day-Carry Editing Drive)

Showing up to the edit with that secret sauce

There's something going on with YouTubers...

Have you noticed this?

Spatial Compositions in Columbus

ughhhhhhhhhh it's SO PRETTY

San Francisco as depicted in the limited series Devs

Beautiful views of the Bay hidden among a dark drama

Eyes Wide Shut is a GREAT Christmas Movie

what's your favorite christmas movie? i'll start

The Green Knight be like HEADS WILL ROLLLLL

it had to be done and i'm not sorry

The Year of Liminal Time + Space

Reminder to self, life is what happens in-between

Endless Stream of Fuzzy Edges

On the liminal horror of the latent space

Dataism & Dadaists

When identity fluidity escapes biology

placeholder media template for Premiere Pro

this is the most useful MOGRT i've ever used by a long shot

design theory vs. editing theory

where these differing fields could learn from each other

Exploring the Kuleshov Effect through meme edits

Shitposting through Soviet Montage Theory

Creating "The Open Letter"

Using film to fight back against Trump's immigration policies

RESOLVE 2016

New Years Resolutions, solidified and externalized

demo - code

here's some styled code

demo - custom components

here's some tailor-made notes components to spice up this site

demo - video

turns out video players on the web are a pain in the ass

demo

playground of markdown elements for prose formatting