72 COLORS COJO MINI-DOC
FILMED ON LOCATION IN NYC - NYC, BKLYN, QNS
My Nashville, Tennessee friends Joseph Trukovich and Jeff Stiver packed their wives Tiffany and Kelly along with a truck full of kick-ass HD cameras and film gear to hit the open road for NYC. The goal of this 17 hour trek? To camp out in my studio and follow me around for one week in my year of Fine Art Projects. I now know what it probably feels like to be a cast member of The Real World.
My studio looks like a film set to begin with (when it's cleaned up that is), so the only real issues were the lighting, and how to position all the tripods so they wouldn't be in my way while I was painting.
Truk, Jeff, and Jeff's wife Kelly, pictured above in front of the world's longest M train, reluctantly pulled an all nighter with me one night during the week in a three camera shoot. I wanted them to film me painting in my studio during my normal business hours- AKA the graveyard shift.
After a week of solid filming, art crawling, setting up for a party, and painting my sleeping patterns had flipped. I started drinking coffee again to be alert in the daytime. By the end of the week I was zonked. 
Jeff filming me outside of Storefront gallery.
Truk setting up a two camera shoot in my living room. - Photo by Jeff Stiver
The equipment Jeff alone packed to bring to NY. - Photo by Jeff Stiver
Truk films me down the hallway of Sugar Gallery. - Photos by Andru Eron.
Truk shoots a self portrait after setting up lighting for me painting in my studio.
These guys really know what they are doing, so I can't wait to see the finished product. At the moment the documentary has a working title of "72 Colors" in reference to my oddly over-organized color palate. It will chronicle a week of my process, an art crawl in Brooklyn, a party at my studio, as well as some artistic backstory. The doc is scheduled to run 20 minutes after intense editing, and should an interesting watch.
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