The blog typically goes quiet when things get hectic. Since the last post was from late September, it's fair to say my spare time margin has been tight.
Thankfully, work has been wicked busy. I've been back and forth to Bentonville multiple times on Sam's Club and Walmart shoots. There have been a couple of NYC trips, a trip to very rural Montana to film at cattle ranches, a project in Tulsa, and then out to northeast Texas to film sheep and solar farms. The end of the year is coming in hot and I've already got four scheduled work trips in December. Thank goodness St. Anne the Wife puts up with the nonsense of me being on the road so much.
Family-wise, we've had Fall Break and today is the start of the Thanksgiving break. The boys have both been keeping Anne and me on our toes and destroying us in chess. We've been able to get out to several OU football games and a fancy date night thanks to some good friends who've been incredibly generous. Good grief that OU Alabama game was bonkers.
Most of my work lately has been straight-up bill-payers. That kind of work allows me to keep freelancing, but thankfully I've also been able to sneak in a couple of personal projects as well.
The world-famous Tony Li brought me in to help with the visuals for the 2025 Red Ribbon Gala with Tulsa Cares. I also got to spend a couple of days filming with Carolyn Ray out in Upstate New York. About 15 years ago, she hired me to do a video about her original hand-painted fabrics. She had me back recently to do a follow-up and I'm excited about what'll come of that project.
There's also how I've fallen in love with the fancy Inovativ Voyager cart I picked up recently. Originally I'd thrown some serious shade at those pricy carts, but I've seen the light and wished I'd have picked one up sooner.
Hopefully there won't be another huge gap between now and my next blog post, but again, I'm crazy thankful to be busy, especially considering how dry it's been.