DICKIES: RIDE ON
“Ride on” means to keep going no matter what life throws at you – to choose your own path even if its a path you must create. It symbolizes perseverance through the lens of Biker artists. It opens up the audience to reconsider a previously “hard” and tight-knit community into a group of people that put in the work - just like everyone else.
Director: Ameya
Creative Director: Mike Sunda
Production Manager: Aime Okamoto
Production Coordinator: Joshua Helius
Director of Photography: Sam King
1st AC: Yuji Suzuki
Photographer: Steve Gaudin
Stylist: Dai Ishii
Lighting Chief: Curtis “Ces” Shaw
Sound: Skirmantas “Spider” Ivanauskas
Drone: Steve Gaudin
Editor/ Color-grader: Victor Ivanov
Explore Tokyo With Arlo Parks- For Trippin Magazine
Arlo Parks had quite the year in 2021. Having released her debut album, Collapsed in Sunbeams, to critical acclaim, the poet and singer became one of the youngest winners of the Mercury Prize and was later nominated for Best New Artist at the Grammy's. It was a stratospheric rise for the then 20-year-old, who was praised by artists like Lorde and Ghetts, and touted as the voice of a generation.
The artist is no stranger to travel, and has previously said that some of her most vivid memories are of family road trips from London to the south of France in the summers. However, she'd never been to Tokyo until her tour this year. The journey has been life-changing, and it's documented here in this Trippin on Tour video.
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Photography by Sarah E and JJ Tanaka
Trippin on Tour with Arlo Parks
Directed by Ameya
Director of Photography: Sam King
Stills: JJ Tanaka
Executive Producer: Mike Sunda
Producer: Maya Sause
Editor: Victor Ivanov
Graphics: Bernie Hitachi and Brendan Browne-Adams
Production: Push Japan
Management: Beatnik Creative
Creative Director: Sarah E
TOMORROW IS TODAY
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Director/Writer: Ameya
DoP: Victor Ivanov
AC: Yuji Suzuki, Earl Standerford
AD: Matheus Katayama
Prop stylist: William Baltazar
Photographer: Johnny Nghiem
Editor/Color: Victor IvanovProduction: PUSH MEDIA
EP: Kristian Kvam Hansen
Producer: Effy Qiu
Local Producer: Joshua Helius Noel
Production Assistant: Kenji Baraki
Drivers: Yo, NukutaniSpecial thanks to: Masamune Uematsu (Kyoto Temple)
GOOGLE- Finding Pride
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Finding Pride- Japan Cut
Directed by: Ameya
Talent: Yuma Wakabayashi, Shiori T
anaka- Keuzes
Written By: Ameya
Edited by: Joelle Baudet
APAC Production: VICE
Japan Production: Mt Melvil
Executive Producer: Airi Yamawaki
Producer: Momoko Nishiyama
Production Manager: Hana Nakao
DOP Day 1: Shota Fuiji
DOP Day 2: Keisuke Sato
Sound: Koichi Nakajima
HMUA: Naoto Iwamura
DIT: Shin Aomi
