Guided Heights
Integrative Bodywork
Ancient healing arts with rehabilitative science.
Joshua Marable, NCTMB
Model: Alisha Kreeger
Music: Kaki King, “Ahuvati”
Guided Heights
Integrative Bodywork
Ancient healing arts with rehabilitative science.
Joshua Marable, NCTMB
Model: Alisha Kreeger
Music: Kaki King, “Ahuvati”
Sometimes being wicked can feel pretty good.
Peace for the Wicked is a comedy about a struggling amateur filmmaker who gets tangled up with a couple of thieves who may make or break his chance at a filmmaking career already hindered by a wet-blanket girlfriend who stands firmly in his path.
HOLDING PATTERN Presents in Association with FERRY BOAT FILMS
JOSHUA MARABLE “PEACE FOR THE WICKED” KELTON REID DANNY FERRY APRIL MACKEY IAN MAXWELL HEATHER PENHALE and NIGEL PENHALE
Sound by BRIAN LOGAN
Edited by DANNY FERRY
Director of Photography KELTON REID
Produced by KELTON REID and DANNY FERRY
Screenplay by KELTON REID and DANNY FERRY
Directed by DANNY FERRY
2011
Newton Running Commercial
Distancia Light Weight Neutral Trainer
Director: Danny Ferry
Talent: Joshua Marable
Formulae: Sir Isaac Newton
Music: Ludwig van Beethoven
Have you seen one these strange, new, pixellated squares yet?
This is a Quick Response or QR Bar Code that will link you directly to the homepage of this very website. You can have one too for your website, phone number or text message. To work you must download a free QR bar code reader app for your phone. Once you have that, you can take a photograph of any of these bar codes when you see them in the world, then your smart phone will bring you to a business website. It can also be used to bring potential customers to a business phone number or to a written text message. This marketing tool is available for free, here, at this website http://qrcode.kaywa.com/. Businesses are going crazy displaying these bar codes on all print media and business cards. So if you want the latest free marketing tool that will make your business card, your website, and your business look cool and tech savvy, give it a shot. Have fun growing your business and please consider Ferry Boat Films for your video needs.
Under the Holding Pattern Productions banner, three men, Adam Skolnick, Kelton Reid, and Danny Ferry, decided to create a comedy web series based on two ne’er-do-well screenwriters, their inept talent agent, and their adventures in Hollywood. The results were Aspiring, with the tagline, Livin’ La Vida Screenwriting. We follow these unlikely heroes as they stumble into the office of a bona fide producer with a stolen script as their calling card.
Aspiring Episode #1: In which Adam and Danny get mixed up with a demanding petitioner while Kelton, their agent, miraculously secures a Hollywood meeting.
Aspiring Episode #2: Adam and Danny, realize they have not written a word of a script, and must resort to thieving from fellow slacker screenwriter pal, Paul.
Aspiring Episode #3: Now armed with Paul’s script, Adam and Danny bring the treasure to Kelton, their agent, who loves it. And they celebrate their triumph with a pair of local beauties.
Aspiring Episode #4: Danny and Adam receive a pregame talk from their agent, Kelton. Armed with the tools for the big meeting with Ronn (with two Ns) Howard, our boys are on the brink of the big time.
Aspiring Episode #5: Awaiting the backlash of the meeting that went very bad, Adam and Danny get hired to watch over their haunt, Flying Saucers Cafe. Kelton finally catches up to them and tells them just how he feels about their self-destructive antics.
Aspiring Episode #6: Their dreams all but dashed, Danny and Adam agree to watch a movie at their ol’ pal Paul’s place. Turns out the movie they watch is from the script they stole, Bull Durham. It was not Paul’s work at all, but an actual famous Hollywood motion picture. But there is hope. Something to do with what the boys blurted out during that botched meeting with producer Ronn Howard’s office. And it might have to do with a picture deal.
Ferry Boat Films and Guided Heights Massage owner and proprietor, Joshua Marable, went location scouting for the video we are intending to shoot for his business website. We first went up Flagstaff Mountain to a lookout onto the Continental Divide. After Joshua carried his heavy massage table to the location where we wanted to shoot, we assembled and set it in place. It was amazing how the massage table, a beautiful hand-crafted thing, fit perfectly in the spot we intended for it, as if this location was meant to be. Here is a photo of its intended position.
We descended the mountain, ate tacos at Chipotle, and stopped at the driving range at Gateway Park. Joshua, the generous producer, treated me to a bucket of balls and even let me use his driver. Afterward, we went looking for a barn for the middle segment of his video where the characters are intended to pass through in a dreamlike birth of joy and freedom. We found nothing there at the edge of town so we drove toward the Boulder Reservoir and found the open grassy field for our characters to frolic through. Here is my favorite shot of the grassy field.
Joshua spoke of a barn he had seen further down the road. We went there and there were no openings to the mostly boarded up and condemned structures. But upon turning the car around, a heavy wind picked up and we spotted a shed. It was spooky how the shed door was suddenly thrown open as if to invite us. We stopped the car, stepped out and ninja hopped over a a chain, onto the ghostly property. The landscape was just beautiful, wild yellow flowers and dried wild wheat belw furiously back and forth. The wind howled through the power lines above. It was all something out of a dream one suddenly wakes up from and a sense of longing and passing time stirs the soul. Joshua stood there and took this photograph of the shed.
On the way out, we discussed further what talent we would bring to this small production. Who would be willing to be adventurous with us, maybe trespass a little. We have yet to find the woman who will get the massage in the video and we have yet to find the interior location of the large living room at the beginning and end of the piece. But at the rate we are going, we will have both soon.
MUSIC VIDEO of a road trip to the Great Sand Dunes in the San Luis Valley, Colorado. Featuring Markus Guentner’s 2006 ambient track, “Altocomulus Opacus”. Music courtesy of Kompakt recordings.
Guided Heights Massage, a Boulder masseuse and healer by the name of Joshua Marable, has hired me to do a video for his website. We met for dinner at Chez Thuy a Vietnamese restaurant in North Boulder. He said he transports the people he massages to another world. With my close relationship to the dream world, we came up with the following story boards. Good God they are messy, but the beginning of every project often is.
We open on a woman alone, supine on a massage table wrapped in white sheets. A panoramic shot. A well-lit, windowed room. Suddenly, a strapping body worker, with satin black skin, appears, dressed in flowing Qigong robes. An Ascetic Healer Nurturer, she is gently rubbed and transported from this land to…
A mountain top with the Continental Divide in the background. She gets the holy treatment here, rubbed in ways never before rubbed. Another panoramic image, a few close-up of this genius magi’s technique, another moment of orgasmic delight and fade to…
A dark room and suddenly two barn doors burs open, our masseuse is a steward, escorting his lucky client out into an open prairie field. In a flowing sundress she throws late summer daisies to him. “Catch up to me.” She seems to say. He smiles, humbly. “Ah. I only obey.” He bows in reverence. He is her loyal servant, meant to bring her mind and body long needed peace, and nothing more. She frolics on, the screen fades to white and suddenly…
The massage table is before a waterfall and our loyal massage therapist continues to work his magic over this blessed woman’s body. Long hand pressure waves and firm fingers down the Latissimus Dorsi and back followed by an expert elbow flourish that only a seasoned practitioner such as this could pull off. Thereby the woman, defeated, completely in the assured hands of the Guided Heights therapist, drops her arms off the table. A powerful shot displays the strong man holding her swaddled form wrapped in crisp, clean white sheets while standing barefoot in the middle of a river. He is the trusted protector before the roaring mist of the waterfall.
The last page reveals the return from the Land of the Extraordinary back to the living room and massage table where we began. Did this person actually travel to these places to get this massage? Were the feelings and sensations so exquisite that she only dreamed she went to there? Such is the journey one might take at Guided Heights. But now a close up on a crystal shard, a de-ionizer of the divine order, cleanses the room hovering over the client’s happy body. She is still and our masseuse disappears, was he a ghost? A magician of Earthly delight, a fantasm. And what of our woman? Our lucky client? Well her eyes open, a smile spreads across her face. She is transformed. Another lucky customer.
A music video of the Denver March Pow Wow. This Pow Wow comes once a year for three days where Southwestern Native American tribes arrive to dance. It was a feast for the eyes and for the soul.
Peter Seamens, better known as the Iron Yogi, has kicked my ass twice in two weeks. Once while doing an accelerated Yoga class so hot and sweaty it dripped into my eyes and my abs felt like they were on fire. And then again this morning with a very enthusiastic group climbing his Fit Wall. I felt sore in places I never knew I had. I have never felt so alive and I will definitely be doing it again. If you want an amazing place to exert yourself, where when you are done, you feel like you can accomplish anything, go see Peter Seamans, the Iron Yogi in North Boulder. You have to try the Fit Wall, it’s fun, it’s different and you’ll feel great. Here is his website: http://www.ironyogistudios.com/