August

So we are back from Mexico, it was great... just what we needed to get away from the city for a while. We checked out some Mayan ruins, chilled on beaches, and went spelunking in some cenotes (underwater caves). Luke is now off in Alaska shooting some spots with our friend Derek Cianfrance, and I am in NYC prepping our film for Rayban.

Just before we left we made this short film called "A Stones Throw" as a part of Tommy Hilfiger's Fall/Winter 2008 collection. It's a simple little film about the art of skipping stones put to "Slip Into Your Skin" by Patrick Watson. You can see it on the Tommy site in Flash or right here in QuickTime:

a mid-summer's update

Just a quick update.

First and foremost... this guy was apparently at the San Diego Comic Con... I laughed so hard sitting alone in my apartment that I thought I must share it. It's pretty disgusting. Rule of thumb, wear underwear when dressed in a spandex body suit. Who the hell is he even suppose to be?


Image courtesy of Gizmodo

We just shot a fun and almost experimental short film for Tommy Hilfiger that is to be released in a few weeks. We finally get to put those art school educations to some good use.

Then we are off to Tulum, Mexico next week to do some research for a possible upcoming AMAZING project... but mostly for vacation. Jealous?


As soon as we get back we are shooting another short film/commercial for Rayban with a really cool agency called Cutwater from SF. We are super psyched about this one, it's going to be a lot of work, but the film is gonna be off the hook!

And finally, we are going back to our roots... as it looks like we may do a video for our good friends Matt & Kim... and we couldn't be more excited about the possible theme for that video. It has to do with one of our favorite movie genres... and it's gonna be great for when we show up at Hollywood's door wanting to make one.

So lots of stuff coming... check back soon.

Reading & Leeds Music Festival

I was contacted by MarBelle at Director's Notes asking if I wanted to screen a really old short film I did at the cinema tent of the Reading & Leeds Music Festival.

Of course I said sure! It's from somewhere around 2003, even pre-wormseye, and it stars Juyeon (Jun) Lee (a.k.a Shiny Juna) my girlfriend at the time and I concieved, shot, edited it all in one day. It's so old I don't have it posted on the site, but here it is if you want to check it out:

One June Morning:






So if you happen to be in the UK August 22-24 go check it out. The lineup for the music festival is great... it's pretty much every new band out there.

We won a Bronze Lion at Cannes!

We just found out we won a Bronze Lion at the 2008 Cannes Lion Advertising Awards for the MTV series we shot and directed "The Gamekillers".

Unfortunately, someone screwed up the credit for Director of Photography and listed Emmanuel Lubeski as the DP. Even though, it may have been cool for us to work with the guy that shot Children of Men and The New World, the beautiful photography in the show was courtesy of Luke McCoubrey! We heard the credit mistake is currently being remedied.

Time to call Mom and tell her sons are officially "Award Winning Directors"!

Well I bought GTA4 for my PS3 yesterday...

...if none of the jobs we are bidding on book anytime soon, then it looks like no work is getting done by me, for at least a month or so. 

Adidas: Left Right Project High REZ

Click the shoe for The Adidas: Left Right Project in glorious QuickTime

The actual adidas site went live as well, it's looks good and big on the site, but it was choking heavily on my 4 year old laptop:

adidas.com/superstar

Oh yeah, we are on Boards as well.

The Adidas film is the WEEKLY HOTSHOT at shots magazine

We're on the front page of Shots Website

and in the news section they have a little feature on our film.

Here's what they said about the project:

HOTSHOT HERE'S LOOKING AT SHOE 16 April 2008

This week's Hotshot is the latest instalment in 180's adidas Originals campaign from The McCoubrey Brothers through Radical Media. Super-sized superstar sneakers do bi-coastal battle as two art collectives face off in an urban stylewar.

They say you can tell a lot by the size of a man's shoes. Like the size of his feet. And his height. Amongst other things. But in this week's Hotshot the McCoubrey Brothers show that size isn't everything, as they pit East Coast art crew Surface2Air against the West Coast's Upper Playground, challenging both collectives to tag up a pair of gigantic superstar sneakers in just three days.

Rather than setting the two groups of artists a very specific brief, 180LA decided to keep things as loose as possible, as art director Erwin Federizo explains. "We set a very loose brief for the teams to work off. Basically, the artists from both coasts were told to create artwork that celebrates their very own originality and so we let them run free on colour palette, medium, and theme."

From the start, the idea was to create a film that would feel more like a music promo than a commercial spot, and Pete and Luke McCoubrey seemed a perfect fit to the team at 180LA. "We brought in The McCoubrey Bros. because they had a vision and fresh aesthetic for the film that ran parallel to ours," say Federizo of the collaboration. "What really mattered was working with these two true sneaker-phile directors to bring a lot of genuine energy and enthusiasm to the project. The McCoubrey Bros. proved to be a very strong one-two punch and they've created a piece of film we are all stoked about."

The colossal 15-foot superstar replicas were created at The Character Shop in California, and took almost a month to complete. "A lot of planning went into the creation of the gigantic shoes to ensure that they would be mobile, lightweight, durable, paintable and most important- exact to spec," reveals Federizo.

"In addition to all sorts of epoxy resins and shaping foam, there was a lot of meticulous counting and matching the placement of "x's" (found on the pattern of the rubber shell toe). Fire hose was used to replicate the shoelaces. And tiny wheel casters were placed under the shoes to make them mobile."

Click here to view this week's Hotshot - Left Right Project.