My First Music Video
A couple weeks ago, I got a call from Macy Gray and her manager, Bobby Collin talking to me about making a a music video for a song off her album. I loved the concept and got started on a treatment and started working out logistics. Before I knew it, I was a producer.

I called my buddy Josh Kameyer, who has been shooting behind the scenes footage and cutting videos for us, and asked him if he would shoot the video, to which he wholeheartedly accepted. We were on our way.

After a few stressful days trying to find money, a quick pre-pro later, the shoot date finally came, where we booked it down to the Santa Monica Promenade and shot. It was intended just to be a simple online video with a viral aspect of video responses to it, but it became much more.

will.i.am ended up coming with Macy to our weekly staff meetings with the head honcho of Interscope Geffen, Jimmy Iovine, to present the video with me. There's nothing like the support of Grammy Award winning artists to excite people. Last week I got an email letting me know it would be added to MTV and VH1. I got an email today saying Rolling Stone would write an article breaking the video.

The first music video I produced ended up being an extremely successful one thus far. I wish life could always turn out like that; first love, first job, firsts. If only.

Well, without further ado, here is:

Macy Gray - Everybody
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