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About Me

Come see the WORLD PREMEIRE of our documentary film "How I Get Down... (The True Story of Grandpa Bill)" this September 28th - 30th downtown Birmingham. GPB is an official selection in this year's 9th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival ! Click the poster for more info!
More of Josh's photos on Flickr!
Check out the locals too:
Check out my online portfolio (models and headshots) here:
Help Josh complete his Johari Window... please? (click here)
I'm an Independent Film Maker and Photographer from Birmingham, AL and founder of Suction Horse Productions .
Check out our latest short films here:
Suction Horse Productions' MySpace Page
This is our official site for the latest info and updates. Check it out and add us to your friends list!
Announcing:
Suction Horse Studios
and
Joshua Self Photography
This is our new audio and video production studio offering digital audio recording, digital video editing and conversion, fine art and portrait photography, graphic design and whatever else you might need in between.
Check out my new project Alien Orthodoxy .
AO is a mixture of ambient soundtracks and full length acoustic and rock music for your listening pleasure!
Audio Suite Specs:
- Beringer Eurorack 10 Channel Mixer
- AKG Perception 400 condenser mics
- Shure SM58 and SM57 mics
- Alesis 3630 Dual Channel Comprssor
- Boss SP-202 Sampler
- KRK Rokit Studio Monitors
- 1 Takamine Acoustic/Electric Guitar
- 1 Fender Telecaster Guitar
- 1 Fender Super Reverb (70s Silverface all tube)
- 1 M-Audio Axiom 61 Key MIDI Controller
- Alienware Area 51 m5500, 2GHZ processor, 1gig RAM, 100gig 7200 RPM Hard Drive, computers
Software:
- Digidesign ProTools LE 7
- Cakewalk Pro Audio 9
- Propellerheads REASON 3.0
- Ableton Live Lite 4
Video Suite:
- Sony Vegas 6.0 w/ Magic Bullet Color Correction
- Pinnacle Studio 10 A/D conversion and DVD menu creation
- Dazzle Video Creator Platinum A/D Converter
- External NTSC monitor
So if you need any of the above done, please give us a ring! (or just send me a message here on MySpace!)
Suction Horse Featured Video!
38mm
We are working on a new batch of Documentaries and other shorts this year.
Josh
Buy Suction Horse T-shirts and other cool merchandise here:
Also check out my cell phone camera BLOG . Its where I compile info, news and things that I'm interested in in one place. Also, candid pictures of friends in compromising positions straight from my camera phone.
As of 3/1/07 I'm actually actively blogging here (at least one or two posts per day) so please check it out to see the latest and greatest from my world to you. I also post some weird news, and new pictures uploaded from my phone almost daily...
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My Interests

Music, Guitar, Keyboards, Recording MIDI and Digital Audio, Film, Photography, Directing Movies, Editing Movies, Writing Screenplays, Reading Books, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Medeival Studies, Manga, Art, Computers, Photography, Song Writing, Movie Score Writing, Short Story Writing, Biblical Archeology, Christian Apologetics and Eschatology (the study of the end times), Etymology (the study of word origins), meeting intelligent artsy people.

I'd like to meet:

Jesus Christ (The ONE and ONLY), George Lucas (director), M. Night Shyamalan (director), Bruce Campbell (actor and author), Ray Kurzweil (Futurist and inventor), Glenn Beck (commedian and radio talk show host), Peter Jackson (director), C.S. Lewis (author), David Gilmour (guitarist and song writer of Pink Floyd), Vangelis (composor, keyboard and synth innovator and multi-instrumentalist)

Music:

Coldplay, Collective Soul, Guster, Incubus, Our Lady Peace, Tonic, Train, Matchbox 20, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Counting Crows, John Mayer, U2, Radiohead, Chevelle, A Perfect Circle, Tool, POD, Stabbing Westward, System of a Down, Evanescence, Phish, Dave Matthews, Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Enya, Loreena McKennit, Michael Hedges, Steve Roach, Sheila Chandra, Vangelis, Mike Oldfield, Fluke, Keoki, Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Enigma, Deep Forest, Baby Mammoth,Dream Theater, Kings X, Devin Townsend, Pink Floyd, Rush, Yes, Bach, Chopin, Mozart, Dvorak, Early Music, The Gorillaz, Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service, Thom Yorke, Sufjan Stevens, Imogen Heap, Nora Jones, Alison Krauss, Tears For Fears, XTC, Ben Folds, Flyleaf, Bjork, Derek Webb, Caedmon's Call, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Regina Spector, Mew, Movie Score Composers (Alan Silvestri, Thomas Newman, John Williams, Danny Elfman, Howard Shore, Michael Andrews, Carter Burwell, Vangelis)

Movies:

Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, (Episodes I- VI), The Matrix, Matrix Reloaded, Matrix Revolutions, Animatrix, Lord of the Rings (all 3 directors cuts), The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, The Village, Lady In The Water,(M. Night Shyamalan) The Ring, The Ring 2, AI, Lost In Translation, Big Fish, American Beauty, Memento, Adaptation, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, Kill Bill 1&2, Magnolia, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Chronicles of Narnia (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe), THX 1138, Blade Runner, Blow, The Mothman Prophecies, Blair Witch, Pi, The Others, Evil Dead, Army of Darkness, The Hudsucker Proxy, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Ed Wood, Amalie, City of Lost Children, A Very Long Engagement (Jean Pierre Junet), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Ghostbusters 1 and 2, Arlington Road, Sideways, About Schmidt, The Game, Lemeny Snickets A Series of Unfortunate Events, Spiderman, Spiderman 2, Sneakers, Road to Perdition, Catch Me If You Can, Resevoir Dogs, What Dreams May Come, Ã†eon Flux (animated series and the movie), Man on the Moon, Matchstick Men, The Score, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Akira, Howl's Moving Castle, King Kong, The Frighteners, Garden State, The Aviator, Kingdom of Heaven, National Treasure, Grizzly Man, Murderball, Supersize Me, Stir of Echos, Mazes and Monsters, Constantine, North By Northwest, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Office Space, What About Bob?, Groundhog Day, Talladega Nights, Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre, Superman Returns, Cube, White Noise, Crash, Wedding Crashers, Da Vinci Code, Seven, X-Men (1,2, and 3), The Departed, Pan's Labyrinth
my frazy music , movies and books !

Television:

King of the Hill, The Office (US), Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, South Park, Seinfeld, King of Queens, Heroes, Entourage, The Glenn Beck Show (on CNN Headline News)

Books:

my frazy music , movies and books !

Heroes:

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My Blog

Grandpa Bill is an official selection!

We got great news yesterday! After waiting all weekend for the email it finally came in... How I Get Down... (The True Story of Grandpa Bill)" has been accepted as an official selection in Birmingham'...
Posted by Viceroy to the Hoi Polloi on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:54:00 PST

My Photo on Internet Travel Site!

I've just been informed that a great travel site called "Schmap" has picked up one of my photos from Flickr to use on their site! Its a picture I took of the Cheesecake Factory in Dulles, VA! Check it...
Posted by Viceroy to the Hoi Polloi on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:43:00 PST

Birmingham Magazine!

I just happened to pick up the April issue of "Birmingham" magazine today at Joe Muggs and lo and behold on the cover is a group of my friends! Mongo, Bear, and Lindley along with a few other great pe...
Posted by Viceroy to the Hoi Polloi on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:50:00 PST

My photo in Bham Weekly!

I was just informed by one of the editors that one of my photos will be used in the upcoming issue of Birmingham Weekly! It is a picture of an R2D2 mailbox that i just happened to pass on Hwy 31 ...
Posted by Viceroy to the Hoi Polloi on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:05:00 PST

Promotion!

Well, I finally got the "promotion" that I was hoping for for the past year! I'm pretty stoked. I guess after opening 2 new Cheesecake stores, they finally trust me. ..-) So, I'm going to be a "Lead T...
Posted by Viceroy to the Hoi Polloi on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 09:33:00 PST

Finally!

For those of you who haven't heard, Team Suction Horse pretty much swept the awards last night at the screening and awards show for our film "38mm"! We won: - Best Cinematography- Best Directing- Best...
Posted by Viceroy to the Hoi Polloi on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:41:00 PST

pretty people

A (really) good friend of mine was saying that pretty people always win in her blog. So, I had to comment back... "Pretty people don't always win, they just get to the top quicker. They skip a few run...
Posted by Viceroy to the Hoi Polloi on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:32:00 PST

Wild Schweet Orange!

Just got back from Wild Sweet Orange tonight at Workplay. Wow, great show. These guys are about to explode! I snapped some pics on my F4, then when I ran out of film I got these on my cell p...
Posted by Viceroy to the Hoi Polloi on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:16:00 PST

New Online Photography Portfolio

Hi guys,Just wanted to let everyone know that I just put my digital photography portfolio online last night at a really cool new site. Check it out if you wanna see some examples of my stuff: http://w...
Posted by Viceroy to the Hoi Polloi on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:38:00 PST

Script Scramble!

Well, we just got finished with the Sidewalk Scramble today. Super fun and it went really smoothly. We got finished with most of the filming Saturday and I did editing last night and wrote some music ...
Posted by Viceroy to the Hoi Polloi on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:48:00 PST