Lisa Hannigan

The next film resume builder... She's an AMAZING musician! If you've heard Damien Rice you've heard her.

The Straylight Run shoot went well (for the 2 people that care)

The set we built. It was fun.
John Nolan flying.
Neil trying to direct.
17 hour shoots can take a lot out of you. But we made it through! We'd say we're about 75% done with post production and should be ready in a couple of weeks.

JOHN NOLAN- STRAYLIGHT RUN

Our little Larson family business is proud to announce the next music video project........ John Nolan from Straylight Run!- you may know him as one of the originals from Taking Back Sunday all you Rockers out there. One week from today will be shooting day, so with little time to prepare Neil is busting his bum to get those ducks in a row. I'll post pictures later!

PUPPY LOVE!

Announcing the newest LARSON!!! We are so head over heels for this lil' pooch! I told Neil one day that I needed a puppy to keep me company while he was gone on movie shoots and I deserve it cuz he always comes home with expensive computers, motorcycles and camera stuff. He couldn't dispute that so here we are with a pup! It's turned out to be a really fun experience so far. We've had him for a week and potty training is coming along great! He's 8 weeks now and still having accidents but he knows to go potty in the back yard now in stead of just playing with the weeds.

I would have never guessed we would be pet people but now we're the weirdos that are obsessed.We call each other mommy and daddy now.. how annoying is that? haha! OH! and we named him Jimmy. It was the only thing he answered to... and Kayley, yes that was you who came up with that.

These pictures are from our hike to elephant rock on Saturday. He hiked all the way up and he slept the whole way down while Neil held him like a baby. So cute! We love our spunky puppy!

Final thoughts on Ace Enders project and the Premiere

Neil's last music video for Ace Enders', "When I HIT the GROUND" premiered about a week ago on Shockhound.com. It's been an interesting experience to be a part of this project. I was involved with pre-production and the actual filming days and that was the easy part! This whole project came about because of Neil's long term fanaticism with the band, The Early November. The Early November has since broken up and the lead singer and bass guitarist along with a new guitarist and drummer have become ACE ENDERS AND A MILLION DIFFERENT PEOPLE. Neil wanted to do their music video and established a relationship with band's manager and one thing lead to another.. blah blah blah. Neil wrote up a treatment (script for music videos) that was rejected by the band, but I LOVED the treatment, it was so creative, artistic, and intriguing. The band had a different agenda. Their vision was more about sending a message to their audience and relevance was their priority, so of course the world's economic crisis was the subject. Kudos to Ace! Trying to make a difference in the world and send his message. Poor Neil had to work with a complex story that HAD to be split screen and HAD to be and easily followed story. Freaking IMPOSSIBLE task! He spent every waking moment of every day, stayed up way LATE every night and edited the crap out of this video. After all the pain and horror I think he came out on top. After it premiered on shockhound.com, we quickly realized this video was under public scrutiny! Blogs and forums filled with people's opinions and honest they were! It's been fun and a great learning experience to see people's good and bad comments about it. We think for the most part people liked it, and the bad comments? haha! they're kinda funny and definitely make us think.

Posted here is the shockhound link and then one of the forums we enjoyed called absolutepunk.com. Feel free to leave comments :).

Click here for the Shockhound.com premiere of Neil's video

Click here for absolutepunk.com's forum for Neil's video

We both really enjoyed this project and the crew, cast and band were just a dream to work with. We're grateful for what we learned and the friendships we gained! Now moving forward to the next project that's awaiting us (and when I say "us" I mean Neil)!

B-RyCe

The last time we saw this guy was on our wedding day a couple years ago. Neil's little bro Bryce comes home from his mission on Tuesday! We're so excited!

I think it's time again...

I have the bug to travel again! I think it's about time we go on a trip. The past 10 days or so Neil's been gone on a movie shoot and I haven't seen him at all. That might be part of the reason why I want to go on vacation. I love vacations cuz I get to spend every moment with Neil! and I love seeing new places. I watch this little clip to remember how bad it sucks to get up and go to work every morning. I want to sleep late in this room.....