Behind The Scenes of My Book Promotional Video Shoot : New York City

Shooting in Tribeca my favorite part of NYC with a reminder of country life

• NO PLACE LIKE HOME is coming out in a few short months and my creative team is revving up the flow of getting it out there...Part of that process is shooting a video about the process of what inspires me as a designer and about the journey of bringing the book to life...

• Seems like just yesterday I was starting to write it and was beginning to shoot the first few images for it (which turned out to be about 1500 images in the end - enough for a whole other book - as this one will have about 300 color images when it comes out)...

Shooting on the streets

• The video in New York City will end up being edited together with some footage that we already shot in the Vermont countryside...Being a designer that gets his creative inspiration from various places - I wanted the video piece to have both an urban feel as well as country living style because both places inspire my work...

The vivid contrast to the urban shoot - Vermont

• You can see from the vivid images of the countryside - how they offer up a great visual contrast to the city settings - which is what I wanted to showcase...

Shooting a scene on the busy streets of Tribeca

• These various locations will be intermixed during the editing process of the video to create a visual tapestry that will capture the essence of what NO PLACE LIKE HOME is all about...

An urban moment

Country life - I love how varying environments can inspire

• The images begin to give you a visual idea of how the video will come together...

Sketching a project on the street

• In the final book there will be a mix of black and white, sepia tone and color images...I like how color images can tell one story - but also seeing things in black and white or the warmer tones of sepia can also tell another story...you tend to notice the lines and structure of things more...So I felt it was important to see that in this video as well...

For the video - the Tribeca sequences will be shown in black and white

The country settings will be shown in color

Just like when I was a kid - sketchpad always in hand

The streets of Tribeca looked like a movie set on this day

My camera kept clicking and clicking

A random NYC moment

Almost a wrap for the shoot

Got to have my iced coffee - so it became part of the shoot

Bagels - A staple of NYC living

Amazing details

Love when old buildings are restored

It's a wrap!

A great way to get around NYC

My favorite building in NYC - The Chrysler Building

The crew shooting the interview portion of my video

• The video will also intertwine a sit down interview with me about my approach and creative message for this book...We chose to shoot this portion inside in a "living room" setting at the Baker Showroom at the New York Design Center...

Getting ready to shoot the interview amongst the Barbara Barry Collection

• I'm realizing in the image above that what we are about to shoot really symbolizes that the book is done and is no longer just a concept in my mind...the February 22nd in-store date is just around the corner...I'm excited because I think there is so much that homeowners will be able to do with this book...

Baker Showroom - my hosts for the set of my interview in the New York Design Center

Thanks to the folks at Baker that made us feel  right at home

Taking some time to appreciate all the fun things that are a part of this book coming to life...
Probably also working on my "To Do List" which I'm always updating

Lunch with the team after our shoot in Tribeca - camera still kept clicking

Amazing atmosphere and food at Locanda Verde

A great place to end a creative day

• In the next couple of weeks, I'll share the final edited video on my blog with you...I'm excited to see what is put together in the final piece...

• Note, a positive bit of symbolism - the French metal chairs in the wrap lunch location (above) and those on the cover of my book (below)...It wasn't planned - but I'll take good signs as they come...