Lee and I arrived in Oregon Tuesday where we’ll be spending the next few weeks crewing on a feature film. Lee is working as the Production Coordinator and I have the privledge of working in the camera department as the Second Camera Assistant or AC.

It’s a low budget movie called “The Presence,” which is being Produced by Tom Rice of Eight20Eight Productions. We’ve got a great cast in it and we’re shooting with a Sony Cine Alta F23 from Panavision. So I’m pretty fired up.

I just started a Flickr Set with photos from our trip so far. I’ll add more pics as often as I can. So if you want to keep up with what we’re up to, you can see those photos here:

www.flickr.com/photos/13027226@N03/sets/72157607234500012/

Thought you all might like to take a look around. You know, see where all the magic happens.

(Above) Lee kickin’ it in Edit Suite #1, as in we have one Edit Suite
(Above) My workspace, etc. Featuring a drafting desk my dad made for my
sister in 1983. I rescued The Virgin from the dumpster outside our office.

(Above) Check out the killer big screen where we watch movies
on Monday mornings.

(Above) What’s in the fridge? Nothing good, that’s for sure.

A friend of ours, Travis Currin, out of North Carolina left a comment asking us about the origins of our name. People often assume, for obvious reasons, that eleven72 must be a chapter and verse out of the Bible. The problem is that not many books have 72 verses. The only one I am familiar with is Psalm 119. So… Our name isn’t out of the Bible. The name has really simple origins really. Nothing too clever. Lee and I were both born in November of 1972. 11/72. We threw around a lot of names early on, but ultimately we settled on something simple that has to do with who we are and where we come from. We had to put something on the application we sent in to start the company, right? And so, eleven72.

Really the name fits us well, because the company is just the two of us and our lives have a lot of similarities. Both born in November of 72. Both married. Both have two kids born relatively close together. Both of our firstborns are girls. And both of our youngest are boys. Both of us have a passion for filmmaking and storytelling. And on it goes.