Ralphy Boy – Get It!
New video from the charismatic storyteller Ralphy Boy for his track “Get It!”
.Artist – Ralphy Boy
.Directed By – Trevz
.D.P. – Marc Miller
.Stylist – Contessa
.Makeup – Contessa
.Edited by – Trevz
.Actress – Javana Mundy
.Actor – Buzz
.Jewelry by Javana
GTKU – Malik & KoKo “Newlyweds”
Yesterday I happened to be walking downtown Manhattan when I saw a young couple who just got hitched at city hall. I never met anyone who had a city hall ceremony so of course I stopped them and did an interview.
Life is like a box of chocolates, so are people. This is the inspiration behind the Getting to Know You project.
Trevz
GTKU – Lilly “Left Coast”
Life is like a box of chocolates, so are people. This is the inspiration behind the Getting to Know You project. Meet Lilly from LA who I met in the East Village.
New Pop Vintage 2007 – Pop Life
As time passes it becomes more apparent how special the early days at thenewpop were. Back in 2006 there were only a handful of photo bloggers, and no other videographers I knew covering the scene. Tone, Texas and I were doing something new and everyone wanted us at their events. For those who couldn’t be at the events we covered the comments we heard most was, ‘you made us feel like we were there.’ For those who were at those events especially the promoters the comment we heard most was, ‘If we weren’t there it’s like it didn’t happen.’
And to the three T’s, the triple threats, the original New Pop crew; Tone, Texas & Trevz. We may now work seperatly in this downtown photo/video world we helped create together, but we will always have the memories of countless late nights spent capturing precious moments, discovering new artist, or just bullshitting on the way to a shoot. Moments we often shared with ourselves before we shared them with you the audience. This makes those memories extra special. The video below is a montage of a small portion of the photos and videos we published from those first three years. This montage titled Pop Life was first published in 2007 and re-edited in 2008 with updated photo and video footage.
Trevz
GTKU – Dan “Interesting Man”
Life is like a box of chocolates, so are people. This is the inspiration behind the Getting to Know You project. Meet Dan an interesting man I met at Astor Place.
Black Atlas – The Hamptons
Recently I have been editing an American Airlines series of travel videos for BlackAtlas.com. The series is hosted by renowned writer, traveler and filmmaker Nelson George. Nelson takes us from Paris to Beijing, from New Orleans to Alaska. As the title suggests Black Atlas is a travel guide with an African American slant, but there is something in there for everyone. I have been learning so much from editing these videos that I thought why not share it with my jet-setting audience.
In this episode Nelson heads out to the Hamptons/Montauk/Sag Harbor and meets up with his friends Russel Simmons and Anthony Anderson. I also learned allot about the Sag Harbor African American legacy.
Enjoy
TrevZ
John Legend – Interview
Check out this interview with Pop Star John Legend that I edited and did 2nd Camera for. It is for an American Airlines travel series called Black Atlas that I have been working on. I totally used the Q & A editing style I have been using on the GTKU project in this edit. It’s great being able to implement techniques from my creative projects into my commercial gigs.
Enjoy
Trevz
GTKU – Jonna & Olivia “Phobic”
Life is like a box of chocolates, so are people. This is the inspiration behind the Getting to Know You project. Meet Jonna & Olivia, two friends I met on Houston & Chrystie.
GTKU – Kevin
Life is like a box of chocolates, so are people. This is the inspiration behind the Getting to Know You project. Meet Kevin an aspiring comedian I met at Union Square Park.
GTKU – Angela “Daydreamer”
Life is like a box of chocolates, so are people. This is the inspiration behind the Getting to Know You project. Meet Angela from Australia who I met on Great Jones street Manhattan.
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GTKU – Vindavana Lila
Life is like a box of chocolates, so are people. This is the inspiration for the Getting to Know You project. Meet Vindavana Lila from Florida. I met her on 1st Avenue in Manhattan.
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New Pop Vintage 2008 – New Design High
One of my all-time favorite stories featured the kids at New Design High School. ND High is located on the Lower East Side and has this amazing rooftop painted with all of these graffiti murals. The iron canopy and sheer size combined with the amazing pieces make it one of the most breathtaking sites in the city. In 2008 Tone & I spent the day with them documenting the art and talking to the kids for the old Tone & Trevz series. Check out the video, it’s allot of fun and so New York.
Trevz
New Pop Vintage 2008 – President Wyclef?
Wyclef Jean intends to announce he will run for president of Haiti on Larry King tonight. I thought it would be cool to pull out a vintage New Pop episode from the old Tone & Trevz series featuring the future presidential candidate. It’s always funny to see political figures use bad language.
Enjoy
Trevz
Locked
Very cool short someone sent me this morning. The twist at the end makes it worth reading 9 minutes of subtitles.
Enjoy
Trevz
GTKU – Natalie
Life is like a box of Chocolates, so are people. That is the inspiration behind the Getting to Know You project. Meet Natalie who I met walking across the Williamsburg bridge, Natalie’s mission is to fold a thousand cranes and document it on her tumblr.
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GTKU – J.R. Melanie & Basquiat
Life is like a box of Chocolates, so are people. That is the inspiration behind the Getting to Know You project.
This past Monday I finally got around to seeing The Jean-Michel Basquiat documentary Radiant Child. Director Tamra Davis did a great job presenting a more disarming and thoughtful side of the talented but tormented artist. The commentary from Nelson George about the artist struggle with being a black man in a mostly white scene is fresh and insightful. And if you are a fan of the Julian Schnabel bio pic Basquiat you’re going to love seeing much of it play out through photos, video and interviews. One major critique I have is the poor camera and audio on some of the interviews. Nelson’s being the worst. Still I would higly recommend seeing this film.
After the film I thought it would be great to get a review from a fellow theatre goer. Say hello to J.R. and Melanie. They seemed like a great duo and I just had to approach them as a part of my Getting to Know You series.
BTW the film only runs through August 3rd. For more info log onto the film forum website.
Enjoy
Trevz
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GTKU – Sarah
When I first started TheNewPop in 2005, I use to love touring NY documenting the colorful mosaic that makes up this city. Back then I use to rent my camera and wanted to get as much milage out of that rental as I could. So after a full day of shooting a video I would travel the city through the night shooting anything and everything that caught my eye. Mostly simple things that normally go unnoticed. I used my video camera in very much the way a photographer would use a still camera. Those early days were pure magic.
Since those early days I have tried many times to return to that free spirited approach without much luck. However thanks in part to owning a smaller DSLR camera (which for me also satisfies a long time desire to shoot photos), lately I have been more inspired to document city life again. This week I started doing a series of street interviews which I titled Getting to Know You. The title originally came from Theophilus London who guest hosted an episode on The New Pop that he titled, you guessed it “Getting to Know You.” They say life is like a box of chocolates, I say people are too. This is the inspiration behind this project.
This first episode features Sarah who works in a little Ice Cream Truck you may have seen around town called heartschallenger.com. Sarah was more than happy to tell us about the company and how she got involved with it. There will be more folks to meet this week.
Enjoy the series
Trevz
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New Orleans Bounce – Big Freedia
Check out this cool piece I found on The New York Times website about Bounce music featuring Big Freedia who was featured on New Pop not too long ago. It is really well shot, and well done.
Go Freedia!!!
Our 2009 Piece on Big Freedia shot at Glasslands
A Cold Splash of MiMA
A much needed cold front is headed to the city, and its coming from the Caribbean. MiMA (Yarimir Cabán) lived on and off in New York until five years ago, when she released her folk-bossa self-titled debut at a packed Joe’s Pub and then headed off to the Basque Country, Texas, and elsewhere. When she landed back home in Puerto Rico, she pretty much tossed all of her beautiful, singer-songwriter crowd- pleasing material and started from scratch. And off she went, on to a winding road of her own, turning down countless record deals along the way and becoming a powerful voice, always stubborn in her DIY approach. MiMA has been constantly playing and experimenting live, but a proper second coming has not released or even finished due to evolving ideas, lack of funds, and her trademark perfectionism when it comes to recording.
Now, MiMA’s second coming will manifest itself in the flesh in Brooklyn, at Public Assembly on Sunday, July 25th. She brings along Macha Colón y Los Okapi, for their first foray outside the island. MiMA will also open for Bomba Estéreo at SOB’s on Tuesday, July 27th. Expect other shows and subway jamming sessions to be announced as well. She says the new album is in the works, due out this fall (for real!). Even if it is, one thing is certain: it won’t be the same as the magic we’ll be fortunate to witness this week.
Let these moving images telltale a glimpse of her potential.
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Full Bleed
Here is a piece from VBStv featuring some of the people involved with the new book Full Bleed. It documents 30 plus years of Skateboard culture in NYC. What I really like about this piece is the barebone focus on the storyline. It is an approach many filmmakers present company included are intimidated by. No soundtrack, no cute editing, no cool camera angles, just a damn good story. VBStv strikes again.
Enjoy
TrevZ
The Hardest Working Taxi Driver In America
Mitchum recently held a video contest called The Hardest Working Person in America. I decided to do a video on Clyde Bayack who also happens to be my Dad. He has been driving a NYC Taxi cab 12 – 15 hours a day 6 to 7 days a week for 35 years. The video failed to make the final round but thought I would publish the video here anyway. Booo to Mitchum, hooray to my Pop’s.
Enjoy
Trevz
Need For Speed Hot Pursuit – Video
Here is the video from the EA Sports gamer event that took place at the Classic Car Club NY this past Wednesday. It was a hands on VIP sneak peak at the yet to be released game Need For Speed Hot Pursuit which looked pretty cool. The last game console I owned was ColecoVision, so take whatever praises I give out with a grain of salt. If you missed this event there is going to be a 7 city tour, next stop Lollapalooza (Chicago).
Enjoy
Trevz
The Roots Webisodes – Episode 4
So this is the final installment of The Roots series. This final video in a nutshell is everything the label wanted and pretty much what every corporate client wants, a happy upbeat montage of people living fabulously. If you have been following the series you know I wanted more. I wanted to capture the human side, the relationships, a portrait of artists at work. In the end it wasn’t worth the energy needed to fight the corporate beast and I gave in. The label was happy with this final video, but less so with the first three. This taught me a valuable lesson that is helping me maintain my artistic integrity in a corporate world. My friend Luca who owns the Atlas cafe on Havemeyer put it best. He said ‘Do one for them, do one for yourself.” A simple elegant solution. No more fights over artistic merit. If they are paying you the best you can do is make suggestions and move on. Leave the bold artistic statements to the projects you can control.
That being said it’s not all bad working for the corporate beast, especially when it involves getting paid to hangout backstage and onstage with The Roots, Kanye West, Lykke Li, and lots of beautiful and talented people.
Enjoy
TrevZ
The Roots Webisodes: Episode 3
In Episode 2 you witnessed a compromise in visions. I wanted to present a behind the scenes candid portrait of The Roots and the world they occupy. The label wasn’t on board with my vision and the videos started to evolve into a carefully controlled montage of all that is cool about The Roots. Clearly I was a bit naive thinking that I could tell it my way when the label was paying the bill. I had to fight for every inch of creative freedom and at some point all the re-edits just aren’t worth it. At this point it felt like I lost the trust I needed from the label and the group. There seemed to be tension every time I turned on the camera. Not having sufficient trust is a documentarians worst enemy.
What you see in the video below is a montage piece, highlights, which I can do in my sleep. What you don’t see is the story I really wanted to tell. The creative process, the brotherhood of the band. I wanted to show the human side of The Roots. A story of a bunch of guys who happen to be really good at what they do. I think thier audience would have appreciated that. This video takes place at The Roots picnic 2009.
Enjoy
Trevz