Ride On

February 20th, 2010

Speaking of the Angeles National Forest, in ‘08 I shot a music video up there for the artist Ben Wise.  The song, called “Ride On“, was the last track on Ben’s debut record Beside the Dial.  It’s a fairly straight-forward track, with a beautiful Beach Boys-esque harmony, and so I thought it would be nice to shoot something equally simplistic against the beautiful landscape of the Angeles National Forest.

Dear lord though, was it cold out to start the day at sunrise when we got our first shot off, which happens to be the last shot in the video.  I felt so bad for Ben having to ride that bike all day, truly suffering for his art.  I do think it was worth the pain though, and I’m still really happy with what we were able to achieve.  Especially when you consider there were only four of us out there (Ben included), and we didn’t have a permit for anything!

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