I had a jones for Industrial Light and Magic. They were my grail, because at that tender age, and in the field I was in there was no name more cool or more hip. Industrial Light & Magic is a name thought up by a writer of sorts. It's there. You know what I mean? It's dripping imagery. The initials are cool. If they were local they would have received a resume from me once a week.

So that's where Pacific Dream & Electric comes from.

24 Frame Video and Computer Playback pays my bills. It is a specialized field in the cinematography industry. 24 Frame operators sychronize video or computers images to the shutter of a professional film cameras. This applies to 30 Frame video too. The question is" What does this mean?"

Film in the United States, under most circumstances, is exposed at 24 frames per second. Video, under most circumstances, is recorded at 30 frames per second. When a 24 frame film camera attempts to film a 30 frame video monitor (television, computer screen) the differences in frame rates causes a visual artifact to be filmed. This artifact is a bar or line that rolls through the image.

They pay me to keep the bar out of the image. This is accomplished through special hardware that creates special video that runs at 24 frames per second rather than the normal 30 frames per second.

It's not glamorous but it pays the bills. And often they send to me to exotic places like Omaha or Kansas City, and on occassion to Chico or Chino Hills. Mostly I work in and around Los Angeles keeping the big, bad bar out of television shows like Lois & Clark, Chicago Hope, Pretender, Star Trek, The Visitor, Beverly Hills 90210, SeaQuest, Timecop, Burning Zone and the list goes on. At this moment (11-21-97) I have a film credit on a movie called Switchback. Go see it. Cheer when you see my name.