ON THE 54 - Music Video

HAPPY Holidays to the world. I've been in the road. In my creative cave and spending some time with family. 

Heres a shot from a new Music Video I have been working on for Artist Eric Redd. 

Song: ON THE 54

More grit, a lil more back in the day club grime. I shot this in Compton Los Angeles and in Hollywood.

MORE BEHIND THE SCENES coming soon.

KIDS

Just wanted to share my pics of Kids. 

At  the Park with My Lil Nephew

I remember being 3 years old, vividly and looking out across through the bridge down at the Koi fish in the water and being mesmerized by their swirl, their swim, their water ballet, colors. This is still me, I still love it all, stop to see, and wonder, and be pleasantly awed.

 

DANCE TILL YOU CAN'T DANCE NO MORE THEN DANCE SOME MORE

Director / Photographer: rOMAN gABRIEL

Artist: Eric Redd , Carrillo Music Group, Billboard artist, Indie Label

If you don't dance, is the first sign I can't trust one. SO even more I like Creating Dance Music Videos. Expressive energetic, zest for life explosion of raw joy. I just need people that will dance " biblical" get naked in the streets as they say, recreate ZION of the MATRIX. This is a sneak peak behind the scenes of the productions stills from the music video. Letcha know when full version is ready

Locations: Hollywood & Inglewood. Ciao' for now.

Colorado LIVING!

 

Living, this is how you do it. 

Colorado

 

Riding Through Colorado back to Los Angeles

DOING FINE ART, rOMAN gABRIEL

 

Fire and Ice, Oil Pastel, rOMAN gABRIEL

 

LOVERS MILK, Conte' Crayon on Board By: ©Denard-Roman: Gabriel™

Inside her breast is her face, inside his lips his face and a tear of joy.

 

THE GODDESS NUTURES, Conte' Crayon on Board By: ©Denard-Roman: Gabriel™

 

THE TRIADIC, Conte' Crayon on Board By: ©Denard-Roman: Gabriel™

I went from drawing graphic novels that my dad would take to work and "DITO" copy for me to Doing Television and FILM. Yeahh "DITO" you would write or draw on this black piece of paper that had this ink back on it that you would tear from it's porferated line and neatly place on a "DITO" machine, this small mini printing press that would print as many copies of from the carbon ink sheet as it could spinning round and round. This was before photo copiers were everywhere. I would write and draw these stories and pictures that my dad would copy and staple for me and I would sell limited edition Photo Novella's / Comic Graphic novels to the kids in the neighborhood. LOL my first publisheing gig.

I went from that to fine art  to photography to film, video, music video, and tv. But all from doing super duper realism to cubist abstraction. Cubism, being able to see and show all sides at once, less the way I paint, and more the way I see. I still see this way, from all sides, all angles, multiple persepctives and it bringing me back to FINE ART again, to painting again, to just me, alone in a room, from dusk till dawn, sometimes hours at at time with out a sound before realizing the music was all in my head. 

Enjoy the silence, break the silence and have a sip of Merlot, some good warm soup, some fresh brewed iced sun tea I had brewing outside in the sunny light since Ra rose this morning. SMell chalk dust, conte crayon colors that dont exsist any more on my fingers from blending colors. Washing the bristle hair brushed in my hands with lavender soap. 

Here's a re introduction a sneak peak of even more pieces to come, and a grand show i seem to be creating for. I cant wait to see what else pours out the eye.

Bollywood Film Press Conference and Music Premier, 9 Eleven - Production Designer rOMAN gABRIEL

International Bollywood thriller, 9 ELEVEN, (Production Design, Art Direction Set design by rOMAN gABRIEL ...) Music Launch/Press Conference for movie in Mumbai, India. Tomorrow.

A Bollywood film a was Production Designer, Art Director, and Set decorator on will be premiering in Mumbia India tomorrow. The Film, titled 9 Eleven, or Nine E, or Nine Eleven, I do not know how they are saying it in India, is a first of it's kind, as huge stylized thriller and completely shot on location in Washington, D.C. 

Being the Production Designer on this film was HUGE and amazing undertaking. While every one on films has stories and accounts of having to create under pressure and under budgetary constraints and time constraints, mine felt like the movie the Abyss.  In one night, I literally had to design, and budget an entire feature film, and one that called for physically building the sets out. Sets had to designed and every single last piece of wood and nail used to construct the sets put into budge while having to convince a brand new Executive Producer why a 2 dollar piece of wood, actually cost d dollars.

 

After the design of the structure, myself and a crew of only 2 set constructors set to build this massive underground bomb shelter bunker complete with cement floors, stuccoed walls and a working torture dungeon chamber and with working pull away walls that crew, lighting and grip techs could be able to climb, and indeed they did. 

 

(Empty Office, Before)

Suddenly one day, there needed to be a Police scene the next day, schedules were chaning daily, hourly actually, and there was not a single location available to create this MUMBAI Police Cheif's office, to be filled out with Mugshots, real creime maps, real police reports, ( all created on site ) and in this empty office location that I found on line that used to be a call center a business owner was advertising to rent for a new business space.

 

(Finished Police Chief Office, After set design and art direction)  

 

There are sooo many details in the frame of the film that are created that may never be seen. The police reports on the Police chiefs desk, the lovely adorned framed photo of Ghandi and the Prime minister, The Chiefs Diplomas and Graduation certificates from the Mumbai Police Academy,  along with his favorite candy. These are the things a Production designer puts in the frame to create character before a single word is spoken.

The film was fashioned after an American thriller that the rights were purchased from. And through research I came to find out that crew, had the luxury of just set dressing an already supplied bunker. But I would not have changed a thing, or the fun of designing, building and painting the full working set.

As an artist, Production design is an amazing job. You Design, create, construct and direct every single artistic facet of a film, costumes and wardrobe, make up, lighting and archetecture and painting. I get in there and fine tune all the cracks and crevices of the set, painting in every spec of dust. Making sure the soap dish in the scene is placed just right. It's painting with moving pictures in the grandest canvass you can imagine. I love it. It's going to be a good looking film I can personally guarantee that.

Roman Gabriel, Director, Producer Production Designer, Art Director.

What a Production Designer , Art Director Does