Here are a few more free iPhone wallpapers that I've made.
I think my favorite one out of this set is nicholaspatten44.jpg
Download: here (2.3MB) or you can save the below images directly to your iPhone.
Check out my other iPhone wallpaper sets Let me know what you think.
This is one of my favorite jerseys that I still have of when I played soccer in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
I just noticed this post with a lot of great people to follow in the design world. Have a look. It's categorized differently than the usual lists. I appreciate the inclusion in this list.
This is a 2nd version of the song Ias. Feel free to download, sample, and then use for whatever you'd like.
Let me know what you think.
Track: Ias Dos
Software Used:
Final Cut Pro
WavePad
Albeton Live
1. When did you know you wanted to direct videos?
In high school I used to make snowboard videos, and that was basically just editing footage to music, I also had a great digital media teacher by the name of Steve Sitz who taught me a lot! As far as getting into music videos it wasnt until about four years ago when I had a introductory class at NYU film school where my teacher, Darrell Wilson would show us some great music videos to get us inspired. After doing some research, I then learned that it was a key stepping stone in a lot of feature directors careers ie. Brett Ratner, David Fincher, and Spike Jonze among many others. After realizing this could be my path into features as well, I was focused on becoming a music video director.
2. What is your favorite video that you've directed so far?
Do you ask a mother to choose her favorite child? Haha. I get a lot of compliments on my video for The Kid Daytona and Bun B “Air Born”, but I cant pick one video as my favorite, I did have a lot of fun on my most recent video shoot for Warner Music Group’s artist Outasight for his single “Better Late than Never”. We basically threw a party on a rooftop in Brooklyn.
3. How do you prepare your treatments?
I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Last year I had to take an internship for school so I picked a commercial/music video production company here in NYC. After weeks of fruit basket runs, and going to post offices to mail out other directors reels, I decided that none of this was benefiting me and I needed to take matters into my own hands. I got on one of the computers and searched for their directors treatments, found a few and emailed them to myself. When I got back to my dorm later that night I took a look at all of them and picked what I thought were the best attributes of each of them and eventually came up with the format I use today. As far as the process of writing them, I generally listen to the song on repeat all night before I go to bed and I just try to visualize the entire video, if something sticks I write it down. The next morning, if that idea still seems legit I will send it off to the label.
4. What's next that you'd like to accomplish?
There is so much. I don’t even feel like I accomplished anything yet, I've barely even scratched the surface of my to do list. In the very near future I definitely would like to direct bigger music videos with larger budgets, and with the artists that frequent TMZ you know like John Mayer, Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Kanye West, even Justin Bieber ha! I also want to start doing more commercial work, and video work overseas such as London or even Japan. I think a goal of mine this summer is to get some sort of representation in London, that would be great. I also would like to focus on my feature scriptwriting, in school I wrote a lot but now music videos are taking up most of the time I could dedicate to writing features.
Links:
Twitter: @derekpike
Facebook: derekpike
Derekpike.com
The Kid Daytona & Bun B - Air Born (Behind The Scenes, Music Video Shoot)
Below are some screenshots from his previous videos that he's directed.
Step 1: Go to Backupify.com and under the "Basic" signup click "Sign Up Now" - This is free
Step 4: Click the "Connect with Facebook" button and allow Backupify access to your information.
Step 5: It will then give you check box options of the following: - Check the boxes of what you'd like to save/backup, then hit save.
Step 6: Now click on the "Archives" tab at the top and then on the "Select A Service" drop down menu select "Facebook" 
Step 7: It will now show you all of your information that it pulled from Facebook. This includes your metadata (who your friends are, etc)
Now you have all of your information on Backupify.com and you can easily save the files you want to your computer if needed.Keep in mind that now that you have backed up all your images, and friend list you can now go through Facebook and delete the images. But you will need to untag everyone in the pictures and delete the comments so that these images don't show up on your friends accounts if you delete your Facebook account. If you don't do this it will show up as "Your friend" tagged in Annonymous user's picture and the image will still show up even if you've deleted it.I went through my Facebook account and "right-clicked" and "saved image as" for all of the images I wanted to make sure were backed up. At the same time I untagged and deleted all the comments. As said before, I used Facebook because it "was" secure and private, this is not the case anymore. I strongly suggest you either use Facebook as a public site or not use it all. Hope this helps. Let me know if there are other ways of doing this.
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