11.11.11

Once a century, the stars align and one date is in complete synchronicity with itself.

11.11.11

It's also the day I release the first music video for Tear Out The Heart, "Come At Me, Bro!"

I tend to have a real nack for release videos on special dates.

Mashable.com - "Super Bass" video challenge?

Okay, Imma few days late with this.

But Mashable.com has chosen my latest work: CeCe and Kyle Jordan Mueller 's cover of Nicki Minaj's "Super Bass" as one of their YouTube Cover Songs of the week.

And all this in just 3 days of being released!

So anyway, they are voting for the best version of the song on the world wide internets and I need YOU to go vote:

YouTube Cover Song Face-Off: Nicki Minaj’s “Super Bass”

Put one in for CeCe and KJM and vote as many times as you want! (you can do it multiple times, or atleast once a day).

Also, Kyle is so passionate about this contest (and so amped to release a new video) that he made a special request for all his fans... notice I didn't direct this... where was my call Kyle?

Anyway check out his message below: 

The NEW Kyle Jordan Mueller Swag Shop

I promise, I'm not secretly behind the release of the new Kyle Jordan Mueller swag shop in order to further generate more cash flow for myself off of the success of our drum cover videos.

Actually, Kyle's popularity has begun to spread worldwide with fans writing him and imitating him from Brazil to Spain to Latvia. Seriously, this dude told me just today that he has kids on Facebook that are using his photo as their default pic! I shit you not.

So naturally, it has come time to release an online shop of KJM merchandise. And right off the bat, you can purchase (for only $20) his red "#KJM" shirt from "Love On Top," the iconic "Sorry I'm Not Sorry" from the mega successful "Super Bass" vid and the black "Come At Me Bro" top from "Hold It Against Me." Also for sale are autographed drumsticks and drum heads, not to mention - all shirts come autographed as well.

Visit the KJM Swag Shop HERE: KyleJordanMuellerSWAG.bigcartel.com

Happy buying and support you local arts program.

-P

We ain't getting home, till the liquor's all gone.

Had my second weekend in a row of absolute craziness.

Last weekend, I tackled two days of filming Tear Out The Heart's music video for "Come At Me, Bro!," Releasing OPTION//CONTROL's "Falling Star" music video, as well as completing editing and releasing Kyle Jordan Mueller's cover of "Love on Top" (All of which you can read about below). This weekend was much of the same with a two day shoot for up and rising singer CeCe Frey and the music video shoot for comedy rap act, Chocolate Mylk and Scrambled Eggz.

In the last month, I have been expanding my interests into new genres, outside of pop and have found myself faced with having to make videos for both metal and rap acts. Honestly, if you know me at all, you would know that I have a very extensive musical history that includes over 10 years of playing in the St. Louis music scenes and almost 5 years working in music retail (you know those stores that you used to go to to BUY music?). So, needless to say, I am very familiar with multiple musical styles and can adapt easily to film any facet, but that doesn't make it any less intimidating when doing it for the first time. The hecticness of filming the Tear Out the Heart video at OZ Nightclub last week was surprisingless balanced by the smoothness of filming Choco Mylk at Gettemeier's Bar last night. The crowd was cooperative (thanks to a 12-3 Cardinals victory in the NLCS) and ready to drink all night and dance to the same song over and over. Where as the usual crowd at The Party at the OZ seemed unwilling to be on camera and just happy to be apart of the happening of the night. 

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate you showing up, but if you are gonna be at a video shoot... at least do what the director asks you to. Fuck!

Of course both videos have not been edited down yet, so I won't go into detail about their productions... I'll save that for their respective "Behind the Video" blogs (shameless plug). But on the flip side, I did film two simultaneous videos for CeCe Frey on Friday and Saturday for her vocal covers of Nicki Minaj's "Super Bass" and Christina Aguilera's "Fighter." I'm like the Peter Jackson of YouTube. CeCe has previously been seen performing with the electro hip hop act Volholla! and has decided to start making her own cover vids. Naturally, I am flattered that she went with me, so let's hope that I can knock two out of the park for her and get that career off to a jump start!

That's it for now, I have a lot to edit and more shit to talk about in upcoming blogs... I've been meaning to finish my thoughts on Teen Wolf, but haven't gotten around to it... maybe tomorrow.

Have fun,

-P 

A Lament for Steve.

I first learned how to use a computer on a Macintosh. 

I was in third grade (1993) and we had a period in school that allowed us to play old floppy disk games on an Apple IIe (or was it III?). Anyway, I got dysentery and died from playing that computer, but I always looked forward to going back each week to cross the Oregon Trail on it some more. Things changed after that... everyone I know got a PC with Windows 3.1 and that became the standard way of computing in my life, up until college. It was there, that I was forced to learn how to use the Apple platform and I have to admit, at first I was a little intimidated. It was like learning an Alien language to me, there was no “Right-Click,” no “Recycle Bin,” Colors to close windows instead of plain as day “X’s.” But as they say, “Once you go Mac, You never go back.” By 2004, I had my very own eMac and I still have it today (and it had never once broken down on me, ask anyone with a PC if they have had the same luck). In the years since, Apple has exploded into the mainstream with iTunes, iPods, iPhones, iPads and I’m sure more to come. Hell, my whole career as a Director and Editor is based around programs that Apple has released and now, as of yesterday, its great creator is gone.

On Wednesday, October 6th, the world lost one of the greatest visionaries of the human race, Steven Paul Jobs. No one else in this generation has had such a major impact on the way human beings live day to day, short of Bill Gates, but I think his products are lackluster compared to the advances made by Mr. Jobs and Apple Corp. When you watch a film like “Back to the Future 2” and see stuff that was science fiction in the late 80’s that is now everyday technology, you can thank Jobs and his team for taking leaps where others wouldn’t and creating household products that were once thought impossible. 

There really isn’t anything that I (Patrick Lawrence) can say about this man that hasn’t already been said in the last 24 hours, so I’m not gonna even try. But take a second, if you haven’t already, to silently thank the man that allowed you to make that video call, or read your newspaper digitally or take your entire CD collection on a jog with you. His influence is everywhere and will continue to be for the rest of our existence.

Thank you Steve, you will be missed.

 -P