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The "Drive"

My first car was a '71 Plymouth Valient, and I felt pretty cool driving it until the day I wrapped it around a tree. Luckily, I walked away. In fact, I walked everywhere until I saved up enough for the next car, a '72 Nova. A late spring snowstorm took that one out. In short, the cars of my life have a story all their own. 

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I started shooting video of my sports and then began producing edits for friends. In 2016, I produced a multimedia rock show that debuted at the Rochester Fringe Fest.  In 2024, I started shooting footage of my classic Cougar just because I think it looks so damn cool. Fast forward a year and my short film, "NOWHERE" won an award for cinematography. Meeting others with a passion for their ride and being able to produce a cool and meaningful timepiece is what fuels the drive.

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A sense of community is an important part of living a healthy life, and the classic car community is a special one. Everyone has a story. Similar to the music that came out of the 1960's and 1970's, the pony and muscle cars of that era capture an aesthetic and a time that can be revisited with each turn of the key. I imagine the days when racing your car on the street or the track was what everyone did. Spending more time under the hood then just about anywhere else. That era holds, if only in my imagination, a certain ideal and fascination. The opportunity to interact with those that lived in that time is something I cherish, and I'm compelled to experience as much of that as I can through conversation and film. In return, I create a lasting memory through motion pictures. If you aren't of the GoPro generation, maybe having video of yourself isn't quite as second nature as it is for those of us that rarely leave the house without a camera before heading out for a day of fun. We all look at pictures from the past but we have to live it up before it all becomes a memory.

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