you won't find it here

it was a good 4 years

Mike Piscitelli — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:36:54 +0000

In keeping up with internet trends I have now moved this blog to tumblr… So long wordpress.

GHOST IN BRASILIA

Mike Piscitelli — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:15:22 +0000

A couple weeks ago I went to the Amazon to work on this project. On my way to Macapa I spent a day in Brasilia so I could check out all of the city’s architecture. It was amazing.

Dom Bosco Sanctuary

Memorial JK

National Congress Building

World Heritage Site

National Museum

Cathedral of Brasília

1,210 DAYS LATER

Mike Piscitelli — Mon, 02 May 2011 03:30:24 +0000

3 years and 4 months after the first day of shooting, my film premiered at the tribeca film festival. It was quite a surreal experience from the red carpet stuff and press conference to the reality of it really being over. It was the first time I’d seen Ozzy since we finished shooting and it was fun to hang out with him without a camera in hand and hear what he liked and disliked about the film.

i guess this makes it official.

waiting for ozzy to show up.

the weirdest part of the night.

reverse angles.

full house.

we did a q&a after the screening.

somehow my brother was sat next to an ozzy look alike. (nick is the guy on the left)

the view from on stage.

next day we had a press conference and photo shoot. the pr people said i was too shiny and needed to be powdered. i know…

ozzy speaking the truth.

the green room was literally green.

horn trails.

i guess this is the end.

sweetheart of the rodeo

Mike Piscitelli — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:41:16 +0000

I went to Joshua tree with the girl from perth back in January. This has to be my 3rd or 4th post about this place but do desert photos with pretty girls ever get old? usually i would add some sort of commentary about the girl in the photos but she hates blogs and would kill me if i got too sentimental.

a little late on this one

Mike Piscitelli — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 21:09:59 +0000

Last October I spent 3 weeks shooting insight’s new campaign on location in LA, Bali, Jamaica and Sydney. Here are just a few of the ads from the job and a behind the scenes video.

thanks to tyler kindred for editing the video.

here is a link to an interview between insight’s art director and myself.

i said nothing

Mike Piscitelli — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 22:29:14 +0000

i saw wavves play in perth so i ended up taking some photos and writing a review for oyster magazine.

thanks cali!

ODD FUTURE WOLF GANG KILL THEM ALL

Mike Piscitelli — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 06:45:16 +0000

About 6 months ago I was on Fairfax when this kid comes up to me telling me that he was a rapper and that I should make him a custom pink fucking awesome hoody. When I asked him why he tells me he’s going to be on the cover of XXL someday soon.

I write him off as just another skate kid trying to get some free gear, tell him good luck and to twitter me knowing I would never follow up. Not 3 weeks later someone sends me a link to a video for Tyler the Creator and besides being really good, dark and entirely fucked up he’s wearing fucking awesome in it. Oh Shit! I can’t believe this kid is actually good… Cut to 6 months later and everyone from Kanye to Justin Beiber is in love with OFWGKTA. So cool to watch them blow up more everyday.

Where bastard was recorded.

watching them live made me think that this is the closest thing kids have to black flag these days.

dill and taco

I went by their studio today and Tyler guaranteed me that he would be winning a VMA this year. You heard it here first.

radio silence

Mike Piscitelli — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 01:36:42 +0000

Back in October I spent 2 weeks living outdoors in Bolder Utah. I pretty much only had the clothes on my back, a knife, a poncho, a canteen and a blanket. The trip ended up being one of the greatest experiences of my life that I’m still processing almost 2 months later.

first morning

drinking water

my fire set

day 12

topo maps

shelter

slaughter

rainbows

poncho shelter

the final hours

You started with nothing but you ended up with less

Mike Piscitelli — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:48:52 +0000

this is going to be really fun.

A LOT CAN HAPPEN IN 21 MONTHS

Mike Piscitelli — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 19:21:07 +0000

Almost 2 years after the last site launched today we see the birth of mikepiscitelli.com 3.0. Thanks to all that helped especially Todd @ Hollow Trees for building it and Tracey for putting up with me while we edited it.

all this technology and we still edited on paper first.

its way harder than it seems to do this.