Man vs. Bear – Dave Bess’s new solo album

Public Property lead singer Dave Bess works on his new solo album Man vs. Bear in Iowa City, Iowa. Bess collaborated with Toots Hibbert at Anchor Studios in Kingston Jamacia on the album and spent well over a year working on it.  Read More

Besspresso Coffee Company

Not only is Public Property ‘s Dave Bess recording a new solo album this summer, he is also hitting the road with his girlfriend Anna Jo Erickson to vend coffee and fruit-smoothies out of their new mobile coffee van. You can find out about Besspresso and see where they can be found on their website, http://besspresso.com  Read More

Irving B. Weber AutoTune – Iowa City’s Greatest Historian – Remixed to R.Kelly

The month of May is National Historic Preservation Month, and in Iowa City we celebrate Irving B. Weber Days in honor of the town’s official historian. Weber wrote more than 800 articles in The Iowa City Press-Citizen about events big and small. With help from the Lions Club, he also helped produce a series of videos to highlight some of his stories. As an aspiring history-buff, I have been making my way through this collection (which... Read More

Perhaps, Gilead; A Musical Response to the work of Marilynne Robinson

This weekend, I shot and edited together this teaser video for a work-in-progress about an original composition for flute, guitar and string quartet by Iowa composer Harvey Sollberger to be performed by Red Cedar Chamber Music. This is an excerpt from the third movement of Perhaps, Gilead, performed by Red Cedar Chamber Music at the Grinnell College’s Bucksbaum Center for the Arts. Shot and edited by Bocce Ball Multimedia with additional... Read More

Dave Zollo at Flat Black Studio

Today I spent part of the afternoon at Flat Black Studios photographing musician Dave Zollo lay down some tracks for an upcoming album. (click any photo to enlarge, click again to advance) #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 25%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left:... Read More

I Wish I Was in New Orleans

Iowa City, Iowa. Collage and Xeroxed by Glen Epstein from the work of Egon Schiele and music of Tom Waits, this animation is meant to evoke a New Orleans that the protagonist will never return to. I attempt to communicate this with the style of a traditional slide show presentation. Glen calligraphed and made the original book from which these images were made in the 1970‘s. In 2005, we were introduced and spent many months assembling... Read More