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My Little
Life
I
am Graydon James Moore of San Francisco, CA. Most call me Jamie. I grew
up in Wichita and graduated from Berklee
College of Music in Boston in '95. For another year or so after college
I drummed in a bunch of bands around town. Then I met a girl named Alice,
moved to New York City and began persuing a long time interest in filmmaking.
My desire to learn and proclivity towards sound guided me to become a
boom operator. And over the following 3 years I boomed on about 20 independent
films, lots of MTV and VH1
promos, and 2 Comedy
Central shows—Upright
Citizens Brigade and Strangers
With Candy.
In
1998 I married Alice and wanted to change jobs so I could be home more.
So I learned Photoshop
& Illustrator on our tangerine
iMac and landed a graphics
job in '99 at Igicom,
a web-shop in Soho. For another 2.5 years I continued to learn the wonders
of the Internet and worked my way up from graphic production to Designer.
During
that time I played mostly in a funky-old-soul band, Yes
Virginia, and put together a compilation CD to benefit World
Hunger Year featuring a bunch of cool friends, Brooklyn
Above Ground: BAG 1. I also enjoyed shooting video for a monthly production
of short plays called Little
Theater at Tonic on the Lower East Side. Then in early '02, the sagging
economy forced Igicom to change direction and the graphics team was let
go. After a taste of the regular paycheck the thought of unemployment
was kind of beat, but it soon became clear as an opportunity to reinvest
in my dreams of fame and fortune in entertainment.
My
first video project was to make an entry for the Clearview
Cinemas Policy Trailer Contest, and I'm very proud to say that I WON!
Woohoo! That's right, from summer '02 to summer '03 every movie shown
at any Clearview
Cinema—a NY area chain—will be preceded by my entry which
features 23 New Yorkers telling movie goers not to smoke, talk, make a
mess, etc. in 6 languages. I'm also very proud of the music
that was written and produced for it with a fellow band-mate who also
happens to be my landlord.
In 2003 I participated in MoveOn.org's
Bush in 30 Seconds
ad contest. With the help of my good friend Susanna Melendez and a whole
bunch of kids from ages 5 to 10, I was able to submit this
entry which I'm very proud of. It ranked
57th out of over 1500 entrants.
Another cool project was working with Rebecca Feldman documenting the
original version of what is now the Spelling
Bee Musical, which has now won a few Toni awards and still plays to
sold out houses on Broadway! See
the original trailer here. I've also contributed video to a really
cool multi-media theater piece called The
Blue Flower, and shot some funny stuff for Blurred
Entertainment, a comedy shorts project run by writer/director Will
Petzel.
In November of 2004, Alice and I moved to San Francisco, CA from Brooklyn. For awhile I was bouncing back and forth between the coasts playing with NY bands Ceramic, Neil
Howard, Representative
Ball, Teddy Geiger, Drazy Hoops,
and occasionally Organic!.
In 2005 I was presented with the opportunity to work as an onsite contractor in the Audio Visual Dept at Genentech in South San Francisco, and in 6 months I was promoted to manager of the team. It's a great place to work, and I'm still at it today.
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