by deryck | Nov 13, 2018 | creators for change, film, inspirational, life, love, moving image, The Universe
Does a film have the power to change the world? I believe it does.
When you’re making a film and pause, look around the set and see the crew completely quiet, fixated on what we’re shooting, some with tears in their eyes including yours, then you know that this is the one.
There’s a film I’ve been working on with Em Ford of My Pale Skin Blog, Director, blogger, YouTube #CreatorsforChange and influencer.
It’s the film that’s going to break the internet.
If you don’t believe me, see for yourself.
Photo of Aisha by Em Ford
by deryck | Mar 30, 2017 | life, love, music
I’ve loved dance music for as long as I can remember. Actually I’ve loved nearly all music for as long as I can remember.
Dance music played a huge roll in my twenty something too much fun years during which I went to just the right amount of dance music events and underground raves and danced my nuts off for hours with people who spent a lot of time touching each other and telling each other how beautiful they are.
Sometimes I create things just for fun, because I can. Not for any particular purpose other then the challenge and fun of doing it. I love messing around with Garage Band and have come up with a style of music I call #ElectroClassicRockDance, basically an eclectic blend of all the musical styles I learned to play and dance to. I’ve never heard of this genre of music before and doubt that it exists outside of my mucking around that I upload to SoundCloud to mess with music purists with.
‘Homage to Dance’ is a marathon piece I composed on very long train journeys to lighten the load. It’s groovy baby!
by deryck | Mar 30, 2017 | inspirational, life, love, The Universe
There are few things that teach us about life like life itself. I realised a while ago that once you take a stand on something, a belief, philosophy, statement of faith, you will be tested on it. The Universe has a sneaky way of doing this, usually in a subtle way that’s barely noticeable unless you’re aware of it, often with a liberal dash of humour.
My son, David, is an amazing child. He’s also very challenging. He was sent to make me stronger, something that he does on a daily basis. Last night I was cooking supper, freshly made butternut soup, while I was helping him with a school project on leopards. The idea was that he would use my computer for research while I was preparing the soup. For some unfathomable reason women seem to think that men are lying when we say that we cannot multi-task. We can’t. Seriously.
I wasn’t concentrating on cooking properly as I was fielding David’s constant barrage of questions and insistence for help and mistook cayenne pepper for paprika. David doesn’t eat spicy (burny in his words) food. Realising my mistake on tasting the soup I had to make a plan. Pouring off the liquid I managed to salvage some of the chunks of butternut that were still cooking. I placed these in the blender and topped it up with milk, thinking that the milk would knock the edge off the cayenne pepper remnants. Placing the lid on the blender I felt an all too familiar niggle but pressed play anyway. The lid blew off the blender, covering me and immediate surrounds in boiling hot, blended, supposed to be oh so delicious, butternut soup. I’m doing laundry today. With stain remover.
The resulting butternut soup was still too spicy for David who refused to eat it.
The lesson I learnt from this is simple. When you end up in the pressure cooker and feel that niggle, don’t press play. Stop, take a deep breath, exhale slowly. Listen to your Self. It may save you a lot of laundry. And stain remover.
by deryck | Sep 3, 2015 | fashion, fashion film, love, moving image, photography
That feeling when you’re presented with a tough choice. Be present at the Cannes Short Film Festival for the screening of my fashion film ‘Immersion’ or be present at the birth of my identical twin sons. The thing was that we weren’t exactly sure when the boys would be born. We knew that they were likely to be born early being twins, we just weren’t sure how early. I chose not to risk it.
The boys were born on the same day as the film’s debut screening. My wife at the time, the underwater model in this film, was in labour during the time slot the film screened in. The irony has not escaped me.
The creative process is exhilarating, yet daunting. Thrilling yet terrifying. Creative people tend to put their hearts and souls into their work, courageously daring to bare their innermost selves to the world and all those who would look, who would see, who would understand and appreciate the essence of who we are, what life and all its complexities means to us.
Immersion examines the agony and ecstasy of the creative process. The need to perform under pressure with looming deadlines and yet still produce a work of magic, the wow factor that will embed our work into the minds of the people who matter the most to us.
Immersion is a short fashion film by Deryck vS
by deryck | Sep 19, 2014 | fashion, fashion film, life, love, moving image, The Universe
Life is made up of moments. Some lost. Some missed. Some treasured.
During the course of every day we experience these moments, some more significant than others.
Sometimes we connect with a stranger, an unspoken exchange, a knowing that stirs our soul. Sometimes we act on this but most often we don’t. Most often our social conditioning reins us in, losing everything but the memory of the moment, treasured until it too fades.
Moments is a short fashion film by Deryck vS
by deryck | Feb 16, 2014 | environment, inspirational, life, love, The Universe
In the beginning there was light.
People created tools to shape and capture the light.
People expressed themselves through the light.
And the light shaped people.
