Music Video: Drowning in Ocean (Thank goodness I didn’t)!

So we just filmed the 1st of 2 new music videos this Saturday—we filmed “mantra” at a hidden secret beach in Long Island, that we found by lucky accident.

Imagine: Sunset, deep pink grapefruit gold sky, a beautiful wind kicking your hair up.

For our final dramatic scene of “mantra”, Alana (the fabulous Swedish film maker), was to shoot me walking into the ocean until I disappeared underwater. We had 1 shot, 1 chance, to capture this on film, and I was scared s**tless I’d either a) drown b) stumble from the waves and mess up the take c) get eaten by a shark, as this was Long Island, dear friends, and Montauk is where Jaws took place!!

I conjured up a zen like superhero focus, and just kept walking with my eyes wide open into the ocean-- further into the ocean-- deeper into the ocean-- now up to my eyeballs-- then-- swimming, swimming, swimming at sunset dusk underwater. It was so clear, so free under there!

Needless to say, I think we got a gorgeous take. Very dramatic. Almost reminded me of a poem by Edgar Allan Poe or Virginia Woolf; a girl walking, disappearing into the ocean.

Here are some photos…stay tuned for the video!

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