Frank - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm a music video, commercial and film director. I've done videos ranging from Eminem, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Duran Duran to Simple Plan and Good Charlotte. Other than that... I'm funny. Goofy. Wacky. Weird. Crazy. Fun. Spontaneous. Dorky (But in that cool dork way). Ironically ambitious. And I rarely smell.
Click here to watch some of my videos and commercials at www.frankborin.com
Favorite quote: Ah! Realize your youth while you have it. Don't squander the gold of your days listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you. Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing..." Oscar Wilde - 1890

My Interests

Movies. Photography. Music videos. Commercials. Travelling/Backpacking in out-of-the-ordinary places, flying, driving aimlessly with the windows rolled down and music cranked up until I drive myself sleepless, Dungeons & Dragons and croquet.

I'd like to meet:

Dan Winters. Mark Seliger. Mert & Marcus. Robert Zemekis. And you. (Besides that I've met everyone else.) Oh yeah... And Oprah.

Music:

Sierra Swan, Dead Kennedys. Interpol. Smashing Pumpkins. Nine Inch Nails. Joy Division. Tears For Fears. Ima Robot. Billy Talent. The Chameleons. Death Cab for Cutie. The Shins. Postal Service. Bauhaus. Sisters of Mercy. Duran Duran. Mazzy Star. Dandy Warhols. Serge Gainsbourg. Fugazi. Minor Threat. Bowling For Soup. Elliot Smith. Refused. Germs. Crass. Conflict. Rudimentary Peni. ACDC. Kinks. Gn'R. Naked Aggression. Cure. Sense Field. Air. 7 Seconds. Misfits. Siouxie & the Banshees. Simple Plan. Morningwood. The Faint. Soul Coughing. Flogging Molly. Johnny Cash. Massive Attack. Portishead. Armor For Sleep. Tenatious D. Motorhead. Fall Out Boy. Ok Go. Bad Religion. Danny Elfman. David Arnold. Smiths. Hives. The Ataris. Lillix. The Academy Is. Good Charlotte. The Bravery. Coldplay. Crash Worship. Le Tigre. Machines of Loving Grace. Peaches. Panic! At the Disco. The Thermals. The Bravery. Depeche Mode. New Order. Pulp. Golgo Bordello. Damone. Afghan Whigs. Travis. Howlin' Wolf. Radiohead. Midtown. Iron Maiden. Holst. John Williams. Robert Johnson. Christopher O'Riley. And nothing else at all!

Movies:

Top 10 Best movies ever!
1. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
2. Goonies
3. Romancing the Stone
4. Aliens
5. Shawshank Redemption
6. English Patient
7. Beetlejuice
8. Lawrence of Arabia
9. City of Lost Children
10. Y Tu Mama TambienOther Favorites:
Time Bandits. Heavenly Creatures. Breakfast Club. Edward Scissorhands. Delicatessen. Dead Alive/Braindead. Pirates of the Carribean (only the 1st one. The others are painfully horrible.) 12 Monkeys. Lost In Translation. Big Fish. Stand By Me. Ghostbusters. Pump Up the Volume. Bad Education. Gummo. Blade Runner. Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Princess Bride. Adventures In Babysitting. Napoleon Dynamite. Sneakers. Back to the Future. Labrynth. Matrix. Home Alone. Garden State. Neverending Story. Clash of the Titans. Little Princess. Terminator 2. La Jetee. True Lies. Conversation. Dark Crystal. Donnie Darko. Se7en. Amadeus. Big Blue. Cinema Paradiso.

Television:

24!!!!!!!!!!!!! Better than any fucking drug! Heroes. Carnival. Six Feet Under. Lost. Rome. Big Love. Weeds.Besides that don't watch TV.

Books:

Anything by Neil Gaiman! Wheel of Time series. Snowcrash. Almost everything by Alan Moore. High Fedelity. Edward Gorey's Amphigorey. Mark Ryden's Wondertoonel. The Clayton Brothers' The Most Special Day of My Life. And of course... the Harry Potter books (how could you not like them?) Oh yeah... and the Da Vinci Code with the rest of the world.

Heroes:

Is there such a thing anymore?

My Blog

Just booked: LIFEHOUSE

Shooting the 2nd single (Whatever It Takes) off of Lifehouse's new album this coming week in downtown Los Angeles. The concept you ask? Blowing shit up!!! :-)
Posted by Frank on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 07:07:00 PST

Off to Australia to shoot Bullet For My Valentine

Off to Australia to shoot the 1st single off of Bullet For My Valentine's new album. The video is a social commentary about the facade of war and the deceitful tactics used to recruit the young men o...
Posted by Frank on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:18:00 PST

Off to London to shoot Shapeshifter!

Just booked a video for Shapeshifter, which shoots in London this coming week. Stay tuned...
Posted by Frank on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:43:00 PST

Just Completed: NATALIE IMBRUGLIA (watch here...)

Natalie Imbruglia "Glorious"
Posted by Frank on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:21:00 PST

Watch MAKING OF THE VIDEO for the Ross Copperman video

Making of the video featurette for the Ross Copperman video
Posted by Frank on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:55:00 PST

Just Completed: New video for ROSS COPPERMAN "Found You"

Ross Copperman "Found You"
Posted by Frank on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:53:00 PST

Just booked: NATALIE IMBRUGLIA

The video is inspired by the movie Y Tu Mama Tambien and will follow Natalie and friends on a roadtrip through Mexico.
Posted by Frank on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:24:00 PST

Completed: Test Your Reflex video. Watch here...

Test Your Reflex "Pieces of the Sun"
Posted by Frank on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:06:00 PST

Article written about my Rocco Deluca video...

Read the article here
Posted by Frank on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 01:37:00 PST

My new video for Ross Copperman is completed and posted here

Ross Copperman "All She Wrote"
Posted by Frank on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 08:32:00 PST