Muscle Milk

Upwork

Stand up to Cancer

Xbox featuring Kanye!

Dish Network

Xfinity Voice Remote

Pandora: Featuring Gorillaz, Big Sean, and Miranda

Also check out the other spots featuring Big Sean and Miranda.

Crunchy Roll

Duraflame: Adulting!

We made a ton of these funny little clips! My favorite is probably "Vol. 5: Toilet Paper", but there are plenty:

Mind City Terror: Epic short kaiju film! Monster vs Robot.

Mind City Terror has been a long time coming! The Kickstarter began almost 3 years ago and the film has finally had its debut and is finding its way around the indie festival circuit! It was a real thrill to see and hear this epic battle projected in 5.1 surround sound at the Castro Theater in San Francisco last year. I spent a long time designing sounds for the robot and the monster, recording a good deal of new foley and combining it with special SFX packs director Curtis Jaeger had purchased for me to use exclusively on the project. You can follow announcements about the film, read recent reviews (they're positive!) and more at the MCT Facebook Page.

Orchard Supply Hardware: 85th Anniversary Train Video

Here's a really touching story about a company that has persisted through many generations, told with the metaphor of a train moving through time. I love trains! This spot was shot with a real working antique locomotive and automobiles. Costumes progress through 60's and 70's to today. It was a lot of fun to work on this with director Lisbon Okafor, who is always very articulate about sound design and detail in the audio. We had lots of actual train and car sounds to work with, so it was a real joy to put this piece together.

1,000 Days: A brilliant little baby has a wild adventure!

Mafia 3: 2k Games exciting gangster drama!

PineSol: Soldiers and Ballerinas make the best cleaner!

FitBit "Dualities" - aired during the Super Bowl!

This spot was originally produced by SF Agency Argonaut for the 2016 CES show to reveal a new product, the FitBit Blaze. The challenge for this video was to show people as two characters: regular life and "beast mode" -- when they are exercising. We used sound design to make the cuts hard and exciting, with the music carrying the spot along. Eventually FitBit decided to air the spot during the Super Bowl!

eBay Motors: Short spots, all foley

Here's a series of short spots for eBay Motors I sound designed for local agency Digitas. This is one of those stories where the audio captured on set wasn't usable, they thought they were going to roll with music only, then decided sound design would be better. So I jumped in the booth with a socket wrench and took a chair apart in front of the microphone. My client asked me if I was able to put the chair back together after the recording and I said "Why? Do you need the sound of someone building a chair for a different spot? Eh, I'll just leave the parts here until we do." Check out the other spot in this series: Bottle Opener

Heroes Charge: Augmented reality spots with sound design

I designed the sound and mix for this trio of funny, fantastic spots for Caruso Company and their client, uCool. They have a very amusing concept of "The man on the street" combined with over-the-top special effects that mimic the excitement of the game. These are actual real people in the ads, walking by the mystery control-box that triggers epic magical attacks on the streets of San Francisco and Oakland! I still don't know how they got such great reactions from these people... maybe the lightning and ice-meteors aren't CG effects after all!
Watch the "Lightning Master" spot below, and check out the other two equally cool spots: "Ice Mage," and "Admiral."

MINI: The Beigeman

As a MINI driver myself (2011 Countryman), it was fun to work with their agency Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners on this fully computer animated promotional spot. Sound design was key without any location recording, and we had a library of the actual MINI engines, sorted by model, to work with. We added extra sound design to finish off the story and, of course, to complete the joke about the "boring" Beigeman.

Bitcoin for the Intelligent Layperson

After a few years of enthusiasm, obsession and participation in the Bitcoin network and community, I finally had the opportunity to work on an animated introduction video about the topic! I produced the sound design for the video and also composed and performed some heart-warming acoustic guitar music to play in to and out of the piece. It's an important history lesson about how the digital currency was born. I would normally accept Bitcoin as compensation for this kind of work but in this case, ironically, it is not how we settled.

Sensitive 70s Turtleneck Tough Guys! Amazing short action/comedy film

Writer/director team Jose Montesinos and Brett Stillo put together this hilarious 70's exploitation satire based on the cliché of the tough cop. Imagine Charles Bronson or Shaft with a crippling sensitive side. I participated in multiple departments of this effort: I played guitar on the score (edited and composed by Brian Rodvien), designed the sound and mix, and even played a role! Yes... that's me getting blasted into the swimming pool. Watch the FULL SHORT FILM below, and follow the movie (and possibly the SERIES!) on their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SensitiveTurtleneckmovie