#Phil cook pitchfork professional
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But I fell in love with the process: lighting things and shooting. My first music video I shot was called вЂњSharted,вЂќ and it was a video about shitting your pants at a party. Well I was a musician my whole life, kind of on and off. What were you doing before shooting City of Music for MPLS.TV and videos for Bon Iver?

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Ten years ago you had to have a big budget if you wanted to shoot a music video, but now you can have a camera thatвЂ™s between $1,000 and $2,000 and go make a music video that looks every bit as professional as anything else, as long as you have the skills and light things correctly. But along with demand, the other factor is that these DSLR cameras we shoot on are so cheap. ItвЂ™s basically the way a label can promote their artists. ThatвЂ™s driven a demand for music videos and live performance videos and interviews. Yeah, the big part of it is the iPads and the phones-most people are connected to some device that can always be on the Internet. But now with the iPad, video is coming back. So video killed the radio star and then the reality star killed the video star. And IвЂ™m like, вЂњThatвЂ™s super weird because IвЂ™m a big fan and this is like The Twilight Zone.вЂќ So he knew about me and had photos of me already. His girlfriend at the time went to Jazz Camp with me, too, and she had these photos of me in this photo album in his den. Then when I went to the Gayngs shoot, I showed up and they were freaking out. Phil Cook was my roommate at Shell Lake Jazz Camp. I heard that you met Justin Vernon of Bon Iver years ago at a jazz camp.

#Phil cook pitchfork series

Schreiber said we were on his radar already so why donвЂ™t we do a series together? I was like, вЂњHell, yes.вЂќ I was out in New York with Bon Iver at Jimmy Fallon, and I was chatting with Ryan Schreiber, the president of Pitchfork, about how hard it was getting national bands on City of Music. It would take some serious extenuating circumstances for me to ever leave. Now that City of Music is on Pitchfork, why do you stay here? Why not shoot national bands somewhere else? He has a new day job as director of photography of Twin Cities Public TelevisionвЂ™s Minnesota Original program last summer he co-directed a video for folk-pop sensation Bon Iver and City of Music, the show that originated on MPLS.TV, got picked up by national music website Pitchfork. Now Huiting is poised to become more successful than many of the bands he shoots.

вЂњIt was literally like I hated every second of every minute of my life,вЂќ he says. Before launching City of Music, the best-looking local music video show of all time, Dan Huiting was a guitarist without a band, spinning вЂ™za in the kitchen of Galactic Pizza.