The cramps at the Napa State Mental Hospital - Beyond Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Sat, May 8, 2004 8:33 AM On 2004-05-04 13:11, thejab wrote: Bigbro - Did you film Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire" video? I'm not a big Billy Joel fan, but the video was a good one, and my buddy Edmond Piffard ("Christ on a crutch!") did the set design for that one (and other videos and commercials in the 80s). Yeah, that's the one that everybody remembers, it was such an earworm. The director Chris Blum was from San Francisco. I even got an MTV award nomination for it. Billy Joel! Unfortunately one can not pick one's jobs, but in my career as a music video gaffer and DP I got to work with some pretty cool people, from all musical genres and ages, among them Ry Cooder, David Bowie, the Everly Brothers, Butthole Surfers, KD Lang, Devo, and many more no names that never became popular. I lit Madonna's very first hit video "Borderline", when she was just a little New York club slut. Bless the music video heyday of the 80s! The Cramps were some of the funnest people to work with because they were so into their thing. Early Tiki afficionados , too. Yeah Randy, I could "shoot" myself right now for having to shoot in Germany and not being in Palm Springs! The fact that my long term jobs (and as such my main income) are in Europe now is seriously impeeding my Tiki life in my home country of choice! That IMDB bio is pretty scattershot, I shot more than 20 TV Movies over there in the last 8 years, and I am tired of it, so hire me more in LA, folks! (Problem is one meets more LA film workers in CANADA these days than in their own town!)

On 2004-05-04 13:11, thejab wrote:
Bigbro - Did you film Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire" video? I'm not a big Billy Joel fan, but the video was a good one, and my buddy Edmond Piffard ("Christ on a crutch!") did the set design for that one (and other videos and commercials in the 80s).

Yeah, that's the one that everybody remembers, it was such an earworm. The director Chris Blum was from San Francisco. I even got an MTV award nomination for it. Billy Joel! Unfortunately one can not pick one's jobs, but in my career as a music video gaffer and DP I got to work with some pretty cool people, from all musical genres and ages, among them Ry Cooder, David Bowie, the Everly Brothers, Butthole Surfers, KD Lang, Devo, and many more no names that never became popular. I lit Madonna's very first hit video "Borderline", when she was just a little New York club slut. Bless the music video heyday of the 80s!

The Cramps were some of the funnest people to work with because they were so into their thing. Early Tiki afficionados , too.

Yeah Randy, I could "shoot" myself right now for having to shoot in Germany and not being in Palm Springs! The fact that my long term jobs (and as such my main income) are in Europe now is seriously impeeding my Tiki life in my home country of choice!
That IMDB bio is pretty scattershot, I shot more than 20 TV Movies over there in the last 8 years, and I am tired of it, so hire me more in LA, folks! (Problem is one meets more LA film workers in CANADA these days than in their own town!)

Post #90303 by bigbrotiki on Sat, May 8, 2004 8:33 AM