The Amazing Rolo

Movies

Penalty Shootout

On the 28th of January 2009, Dundee United and Glasgow Celtic battled to a 0-0 tie in the semi-final of the CIS Scottish League Cup. The game thus went to penalty kicks.

Celtic won, but not before every player on both teams (including the goalies) took shots in what must have been one of the most epic penalty shootouts in Scottish (if not world) football history.

Watching the coverage I was struck by how the camera angles were always very similar for each penalty. I edited the footage and layered each of these similar camera angles on top of one another to create a composite version of the shootout, compressing the 24 shots into one. The angles were all different lengths, so sometimes you only see one or two layers, and occasionally you see many. I did a similar process with the sound, although I wasn’t quite as rigid, as you will hear.

Darkness

A short story I wrote about living on another planet.

A story about techno

A short story about the first time my friend Jon Brodsky heard techno music. Aurelia Friedland and I built a whole world in the basement with trees and mountains and then drove a little car around it! Story by Jon, sound design by me (also available as an audio file under “Stories”)

Soaked Downtown

This is the music video for a song written in 2003 (and included on the “That happened to me once” album). It was made in Avignon, France, using hundreds of photographs put together in iMovie.

I had the nicest dream

Another music video for a song from my album.

Rainy day at the Farm

I was working near the truck one day and it started to rain. The sound on the roof was so wonderful I decided to record it. Please watch this one on headphones if you can.