Festivals and shout outs!

Burn One is having a busy winter, and a cold one. Let me tell you a little bit about what BOP has been cultivating over in our NoHo kingdom. We are currently submitting our short ‘History of Made Up Things’ to festivals all over the US! I personally can’t wait to travel the states meeting all the awesome indy film makers our country has to offer. Wish us luck! Here is an image straight from our HOMUT press kit! Check back for more HOMUT updates. If you feel like helping us fund our festival plans, check out OUR STORE and pick up some gear! You help make Burn One Productions possible! Also show some love to the team of people that contribute to BOP with their hard work and talents HERE!

Aside from BOP, I have been working on a handful of projects with some very talented people. Above is a behind-the-scenes look at what I’ve been up to this month. I am shooting a new work out video BLOG with Health guru Catherine King. She kicked my butt the other day with cardio yoga! I also produced the Spring 2010 Anchor Blue campaign with the multi-talented photographer/producer Richard Martinez. Check out his stuff at Analigital (an associate producer of HOMUT). I also produced another shoot this month for Kayvon Photos with model Claire Demorest. We earned the great 120 mm shots by hiking into the trees of Fryman Canyon. And lastly I script supervised pick ups for the feature film ‘Super’ starring Liv Tyler, Kevin Bacon, and Rainn Wilson. A little tired, but life is gravy over here. I hope February is treating you well! I will be dropping a new dance video this week, so keep checking in! xxo Ash

“It’s been a long time. I shouldn’t have left you. Without a dope beat to step to.”

It has been a minute since I updated this. I have been laying down some serious ground work for BOP lately. I’m proud and excited to release the fruits of that labor for you now! 2009 was good to me, but this year is mine! If you haven’t already checked out our new TRAILER and my DIRECTOR’S REEL, holler at those right now. I have had the pleasure of working with some very talented individuals for the culmination of these projects. Special thanks to everyone I have worked with thus far! This is a photo of Claire Demorest, our new Burn One dime piece and seriously kick ass performer.

Watch our new BURN ONE DANCE video here and check out our other videos at BURN ONE YOUTUBE. There will be plenty more of Claire coming soon! We are shooting again with her this Sunday and there are two new dance videos on the way! In the mean time check in with this awesome PHOTOGRAPHY site for more cool stuff featuring her.

I am also excited to announce the launch of a project very dear to me. Our DETROIT PROJECT is up on our DTOWN page. I went back to my home state to shoot our new BURN ONE CLOTHING campaign. It only felt right to use the people of Detroit as our models, wearing designs inspired by the city. It was an incredible and inspiring experience. I hope you like the gallery, and there is still more photos to come. Special thanks to photographer Kayvon Esmaili for his beautiful work.

I have a very busy schedule ahead! I am working with director/photographer Richard Martinez of Analigital this month producing a new photo spread for Anchor Blue. On top of that, I’m pushing to finish all the festival stuff for ‘History of Made Up Things’. If you love Burn One and wanna see more, please visit our STORE now! We need your support to continue with new projects! The clothing is comfortable and you’re supporting our newest films! WE NEED YOU! A portion of our profits go to CWC as well as Urban Farming. I’ll talk to you guys later this week. See you soon. xxo Ash

Hit it.

Well hello! Have you guys seen the trailer for our new film ‘History of Made Up Things’ yet?? You better get on it! The film stars Kent Karson, Eli Jane, and Jenny Bahn. I have begun the festival submission process and I’m learning so much about how to market a short film. I have decided to attempt to travel as much as possible with this film and get Burn One’s name out to everyone I meet. Maybe even pick up some feature funding along the way! Thanks to producer Phil Jessen for cutting our amazing trailer! More on HOMUT soon.

Now that post prod. is done on my short film, I am prepping to shoot a new project Nov.15th!!! Burn One has teamed up with a beautiful and talented young lady, Claire Demorest to dance in our new BOP Clothing Commercial. We are rehearsing at Millenium Dance Complex this weekend and I just picked up some dope beats from music master Donny Morrison yesterday (thanks Lucas)! This weekend I’m staying in to storyboard, location scout and style the shoot! Check back yo.

This week I also had the opportunity to travel up to Big Bear, CA to start the planning of an upcoming feature project I will be involved in. Leading the project are the Jessen brothers. I went up to the mountains with my boys from VP, as well as a few new faces. The team of people is incredible and I’m really pumped to work on a feature again! Here’s a pic I took that reminded me a lot of the country towns in Michigan. PS. MI..I’ll see you soon!! Ok, that was Burn One overload…now go get yourself a weekend while I sit here and work! Big bear hug xxo Ash (too cheesy??)

Finishing one and starting another!

(This is a photo of lead actors Eli Jane and Kent Karson, of ‘HOMUT’ )
Alright y’all! My short film ‘History of Made Up Things‘ is done! We have begun submitting it to festivals and I really can’t wait for the world to see it. The movie stars Kent Karson, Eli Jane, and Jenny Bahn. We will be throwing an awesome party and trailer screening in Mid-November. This film has come a long way since starting as a writing exercise years ago. A lot of great people have helped to make it all happen. I have the best cast and crew a person could ask for. I can’t wait to come up together….so Hollywood better make some room for us! Keep checking in with the peeps of BOP as we release TONS of new treats! Dropping new stuff all the time.. from now until Thanksgiving! Hayyy.

Speaking of new, I would like to introduce Miss Claire Demorest. She is our fresh princess of Burn One Productions! Claire will be dancing for our new BOP Clothing commercials starring herself and fellow dancer Anthony Scarano. They are both incredible dancers and I can’t wait to shoot with them very soon! On top of dancing Claire also sings, acts and models! That’s a quadruple threat so watch out Beyonce. More on our new dancers and videos soon so keep creepin’ over to our page! Oh and before you go LOOK AT THIS!

Sup Boo

There are three things I have been concentrating on lately: 1) Be good to those who are good to you. 2) Politely defer from those that aren’t & 3) Work like a dog when you want to sleep. Gotta stay busy so life is always fun! Today, I am scouting dancers, practicing my Spanish, and working on my Detroit grant. Tonight, I am editing my short, photoshopping posters, and seeing a friend that I should have kept in better contact with. It’s important to remember how endless the list can be of things you want for yourself. So I’m ‘funsta use everyday. Can I get a’ amen!!?!!
(Here are pics of my parents when they were on their honeymoon in New Orleans. It looks like my mom made my dad a shirt out of the motel wall paper!)

This is a painting my Great Aunt Sally Swiss painted and sent me a birthday card of. Today is her funeral. RIP. I’ll eat a pork chop for her ;)….well..a bite of one at least! Come back later in the week. My short film ‘History of Made Up Things’ will be wrapped in post on Oct.1st!!! Expect a very drunk Ashley that night, haha!

Getting ready for the take over

Burn One has so many new projects lined up I don’t know where to begin! I am so excited for my newest wave of creativity…all I wanna do is shoot stuff!!! This is a photo from a project this past week with Actress/Drummer Jinny Lee Story. Check out the photographer HERE! More from that shoot very soon. I have several new things planned for BOP this week…one being a new video! Check out our old videos on our YOUTUBE PAGE now! I am also holding castings for a Burn One Booty Dancer, so if you live in the LA area email me your dancing reel at BurnOnePro@Gmail.com I don’t want to give too much away but it involves an item from our STORE. I’ll give you one guess!!!

BOP is also very close to wrapping post production on our short film ‘History of Made Up Things’ I have been at the NEOCLECTIC studio all week working on a pop song for the intro with master musician John Baldivia. Here is a pic of that. Gotta also give love to Lexie Beard and Anthony Barden for their amazing songs in the film! I can’t wait to travel to some festivals with it and start raising funds for my next film. It’s been a lot of work but HOMUT has really come together! Get ready for some new updates all over our site very soon!!

I have also been balancing Burn One work with some other fun productions. I landed two photo shoots this past week, and also shot for fun with my friend Phil Donohue (Director, Photographer) Here is a silly outtake …he made me carry a hammer and walk on a roof in Pasadena. Don’t worry, the ‘Thug Life’ tattoo on my stomach is Henna (thank god) Tomorrow I am working for Analigital on a photo shoot for Anchor Blue! We are shooting on THE PHANTOM!! Tuesday I landed a role on the show ‘Operation Repo’ on TRU TV My first..but not last..crack at acting. I never thought I would say that, but it’s so fun! I’m not gonna lie, it should be hillarious! Thats it for now, but follow us on TWITTER for more daily treats. I finally learned how to use it today! xxo Ash

Coming at you from the Burbank Library :)

(KayvonPhotos.com)
I was told by a good friend and fellow writer/director Phil Donohue that the best place to go when you can’t stand your home office any longer is the public library. You can’t use your cell phone. You can’t eat or drink. You can’t talk. Congrats to him for finishing a feature script thanks to the Pasadena library. It’s working for me too as we speak! I read a nice quote to sum up my feelings lately…”The best relationship is give and take where you are inspiring each other.”( Daniel Pearl, cinematographer) Film is a tough business and it takes a lot of refocusing and back-to-square-one tactics. The one thing I know always works for me is to surround myself with people doing amazing things of their own. The longer I live out here, the more I realize that directing a good movie means years of learning EVERYTHING you can from people you admire. This is a new pic of one of the hardest working actresses I have ever met, Miss Eli Jane.

I was part of a project not too far back for a fun new advertisement from Avatar Labs. This is a picture of the great group of ladies I worked with that day. Shout out to Casey Peters, a BOP alum for setting up that gig for me. Now go kill us with tire irons at THIS SITE (scroll to the bottom and click on THETA PI OR DIE game) It is for the new movie ‘Sorority Row’ starring Rumor Willis. Casey and I are working on a new web series that should start filming next year!!!

In between all the job hunting, editing, and hustling, I did sneak away this past weekend to two cool events. I went back to be in a wedding for one of my oldest friends in MI on Friday. We had such a blast and it’s always cool to be around two people that are whole heartedly in love. Then I hopped on a plane back to Cali for an awesome charity event for the California Wildlife Center. This animal center is dear to me, and if you have any spare change laying around, throw it their way! This is a pic of myself and Jeff Hall at the event. Jeff works so hard at CWC and is the reason Burn One ever got involved with the center. That is it for now. I have to get back to work. Something big is about to happen I just sense it because I can’t sleep again!!! xxo Ash

Getcha damn hands up!

Alright everybody…the party has officially begun! I have a lot of projects super close to being wrapped and it feels sooo good! Last night Burn One shot the movie poster for our short film, ‘History of Made Up Things’. It was great to work with lead actors Kent Karson and Eli Jane again after a few months have past since shooting. We partied on a roof in down town LA till 1am and got some great stuff thanks to This Guy! Also, props to makeup artist Genie Skemp for coming back for round two with the HOMUT crew. Here’s a little behind-the-scenes lovin’ above…but yah gotta check back for the real stuff! …and while you’re looking around check THIS out too! Some teasers from our Detroit Project!

Here is another little peek into what went on at last nights shoot before the sun went down. I have so much on the short film coming soon so stay close. But now it’s time to blast some very talented friends of mine who are working hard as we speak on the music for my new movie! Stop what you’re reading and click below for some smooth jams to take yah into the weekend! Our BOP music fam gets down!
Lexie Beard (Space Radio)
Anthony Barden (Serenity Now Music)
John Baldiva (Neoclectic Productions)
Burn One will be flooding you with dope new pics and updates on the daily. Keep it ganster y’all! xxo Ash

And the beat goes on

Did yah miss me? Well, I missed you either way! Burn One is back in affect in LA after an amazing trip to Detroit. BOP went back to the city of our chief inspiration to photograph the beautiful madness, and shoot our new clothing campaign! Je t’aime DAY-TWAH! My love for this city is thick, y’all. I brought a fantastic photographer, Kayvon Esmaili along to infiltrate the urban landscape with me. We came back with some stuff I’m seriously proud of. Here is a taste of the Detroit project above! This is Odell Cunningham, Detroit resident and Burn One fam.

Here is a behind-the-scenes look from our trip to MI. Burn One Clothing has chosen the people of Detroit as our models! So much more to show you, so check back to stay up! Things have been intense in LA since l landed. I was able to shoot at Avatar Labs recently for an Ipod Application. Actress, Casey Peters (of Burn One’s ‘Shotgun Chaza‘) and myself will be available for a download very soon on your iphone or itouch! You can kill us with a tire iron! I’ll post the link asap! Yesterday I did some voice over work for a new movie my friends are producing. Now it’s on to editing HOMUT for sound, and sorting through Detroit photos! I’ll see you tomorrow, ‘aight?! Wait until you see what else I’ve been up to! It involves booty shorts, 8mm film and some seriously hood moves! xxo Ashley