This was my first of a series of music video jobs where I was a one man art department. Not that there was much to on this aside from the velvet curtain, renting some lamps you never see, and aiming a fan at the stripper girls that got cut from the final edit because MTv said it was no longer acceptable to feature girls dancing on poles. (Side note: The girl, unaware of my presence lying on the floor aiming the fan at her, kicked her chair off the stage which flew legs-first towards me shattering the fan sending the blades flying across the set and everyone thought I’d been horribly injured.) 

Also the fight you see with the guys was real; this was filmed at Three of Clubs in Hollywood; and the fire was my thing and here’s how you do it: Spray-paint a sheet of plywood flat black and let dry. Squirt it with charcoal lighter fluid (it burns the right speed), flip it over onto two sawhorses and light the fluid on the underside. Film the whole thing by shooting into a mirror placed at an angle under the plywood. This lets you keep the camera a safe distance from the fire. Just watch for drips onto the mirror. After doing this a few times the board will start to burn so you have to watch that. And let it cool before reapplying lighter fluid. When the video ran on Beavis and Butthead they were mostly interested in the fire.

This was a design for another project that didn’t happen but I always liked it and now that I have a fancy iphone I had a reason to make it into my screen wallpaper. All the other wallpapers I found ignored the iphone graphics that get overlaid on the BG image so I wanted to design one that incorporated the clock and slider bar/buttons. DOWNLOAD the wallpaper here.

I’ve also been converting some Disney mp3s into iphone ringtones to go with this theme. Here’s The Haunted Mansion Crow, The Haunted Mansion Coyote, The Haunted Mansion Bells, The Big Thunder Mountain Coyote, The Spinning Teacups, and the one I’m using that’s from the Disneyland Paris 15th anniversary celebration (I guess). When it goes off it’s like ULTRA-MAGICAL!!!, or SUPER GAY!!! which are sort of the same thing.   

When I’m done it should look like this Photoshoped mock-up:

and here is the Monday afternoon reality: