Watch my chat with twixtor prodigy Rickard Bengtsson

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Swedish Twixtor Prodigy

Have you seen this video? It’s beautiful, and not easy to do. The slow motion effects were done in After Effects with a plugin called Twixtor. Twixtor is powerful but temperamental, and I’ve never been able to execute such gorgeous slow motion as this. I set out to find the artist and interview him. I’d […]

Directing “Suckers”

[qt:/Suckers/SuckersAud600x338a.mov /Suckers/suckers.jpg 600 338] It’s 1:40am and I’m home, about to watch “Suckers” on my DVR. I’ve watched this piece, mind you, more than hundred times in the past two weeks. I’ve watched this piece so many more than one hundred times that I am ashamed to admit I’ll sit here again when I’ve finished […]

Ukulele Music

A short scene starring the Late Night writers and a ukulele.

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Questlove Buying A Soda

From a comedy standpoint, my favorite thing to do is take a small action within in a larger scene and build it out to ridiculous proportions. I was an editor on the VH1 reality show The Surreal Life and I was cutting the last episode of the season that had Vanilla Ice, Traci Bingham, Dr. […]

Making of a Late Night bit

This is a short behind the scenes piece I shot last Wednesday. It shows a little bit of the process a comedy bit goes through, and some of the staff involved in the mechanics of getting it ready for air.

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