Just got back from Vignanello where we had a wonderful family reunion at the ruspoli castle. Dozens of great photos posted here:
http://www.taoruspoli.com/Photography/RuspoliReunion
Thursday, October 08, 2009
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Behind the Wheel now on Youtube!
Seeing film as art is easy. Remembering that art is about challenging the world can be hard. Putting film art into action? Well, that can be damn near impossible for people... but not the members of the LA Film Co-op. Determined to make their own state of the union address and filled with youthful energy, they bought a bus, fit a modern day editing suite into it and headed out from coast to coast, interviewing notable artists wherever they found them.
Bumping into such luminaries as Dead Prez, director Oliver Stone, guerilla poster artist Robbie Conal, among all those citizens just living day-to-day, the Film Co-op has created a profound record for their time. With a new age of change sweeping into America with 2009, Behind the Wheel is an amazing final summary of the Bush years. It captures with joy and anger the spirit of resistance at a time when the majority of Americans felt disenfranchised from a country and a leader who didn't stand for them.
Enjoy and leave comments. We want to hear from you!
Click here to watch the film in one playlist on youtube. Below are the individual parts. Feel free to share and embed all or individual parts; we want your help promoting the film!
Part 1: Robbie Conal, Francisco Letelier and Oliver Stone. Opening narrated by Olivia Wilde
Part 2: Hualapai Indian Reservation and Santa Fe
Part 3: Santa Fe
Part 4: Oklahoma, Texas, Alexander Cockburn
Part 5: New Orleans
Part 6: New Orleans
Part 7: Atlanta: Home Boys Only, Malachi, Stic.man of Dead Prez
Part 8:Leaving Atlanta, Pierre Sprey of Mapleshade Records, Scott Beibin of the Lost Film Festival
Part 9: New York City/Brooklyn: M1 of Dead Prez
IF YOU ONLY HAVE TIME FOR ONE PART, MAKE IT PART 9!
Behind the Wheel by LAFCO & Tao Ruspoli is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Bumping into such luminaries as Dead Prez, director Oliver Stone, guerilla poster artist Robbie Conal, among all those citizens just living day-to-day, the Film Co-op has created a profound record for their time. With a new age of change sweeping into America with 2009, Behind the Wheel is an amazing final summary of the Bush years. It captures with joy and anger the spirit of resistance at a time when the majority of Americans felt disenfranchised from a country and a leader who didn't stand for them.
Enjoy and leave comments. We want to hear from you!
Click here to watch the film in one playlist on youtube. Below are the individual parts. Feel free to share and embed all or individual parts; we want your help promoting the film!
Part 1: Robbie Conal, Francisco Letelier and Oliver Stone. Opening narrated by Olivia Wilde
Part 2: Hualapai Indian Reservation and Santa Fe
Part 3: Santa Fe
Part 4: Oklahoma, Texas, Alexander Cockburn
Part 5: New Orleans
Part 6: New Orleans
Part 7: Atlanta: Home Boys Only, Malachi, Stic.man of Dead Prez
Part 8:Leaving Atlanta, Pierre Sprey of Mapleshade Records, Scott Beibin of the Lost Film Festival
Part 9: New York City/Brooklyn: M1 of Dead Prez
IF YOU ONLY HAVE TIME FOR ONE PART, MAKE IT PART 9!
Behind the Wheel by LAFCO & Tao Ruspoli is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Monday, June 15, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Prints, Mugs, Tshirts, etc. with my photography now on sale
All my photography now on sale at www.taoruspoli.com
adding images all the time; if you see something here you like that's not there, email me and I'll add it.
Thanks!
adding images all the time; if you see something here you like that's not there, email me and I'll add it.
Thanks!
Friday, August 08, 2008
Friday, May 09, 2008
The LAFCO/FIX RV took a thousand mile journey to the Marfa Film Festival. On the way there, we shot, edited and then screened a short film called Marfa, My Dear. Check it out here
Monday, March 26, 2007
Traveling around the world...
For many more pictures, updated daily, please visit www.netspacelive.com
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Moving Photos: Olivia Wilde 1
Moving Photographs by Tao Ruspoli
www.ruspoli.com
Embed this video on your site or myspace!
go to: http://blip.tv/file/159842
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Grimy World by Malachi (Dungeon Family) New Music video from LAFCO
Click To Play
Grimy World
Malachi (Dungeon Family)
Directed by Tao Ruspoli
Shot by Tao Ruspoli and Cody Lucich
Edited by Cody Lucich James Wade and Tao Ruspoli
Produced by James Wade
Album: Workaholic Mixtape Vol. 2
More videos at www.lafco.tv
www.hustlnboy.com
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Weekend with Olivia in NY
Still on tour with the LAFCO Bus, but got away for the weekend and made these images at a room at 60 Thompson in New York...
Saturday, August 19, 2006
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Leaving on our cross country tour!!!
The LAFCO Bus leaves today on an incredible journey from Venice to Brooklyn.
On our trip we will be exploring the following question:
How do the politically disenfranchised use the arts to give themselves a voice and effect change. More broadly, what is the relationship between art and politics in America today.
I will be focussing more on video work than photography.
We have a wonderful photojournalist documenting the whole trip.
Visit lafcobus.blogspot.com to see his work.
Here is an interview I did with Oliver Stone as we left LA:
On our trip we will be exploring the following question:
How do the politically disenfranchised use the arts to give themselves a voice and effect change. More broadly, what is the relationship between art and politics in America today.
I will be focussing more on video work than photography.
We have a wonderful photojournalist documenting the whole trip.
Visit lafcobus.blogspot.com to see his work.
Here is an interview I did with Oliver Stone as we left LA:
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Monday, July 31, 2006
Sunday
I'm back in LA for a week, preparing for the 2006 LAFCO Cross Country tour (we will be driving the bus from Venice to Brooklyn.) Today I took these pictures of our great friend Diana:
Lola, justifiably jealous of Paco's sudden celebrity status, insisted on having her picture taken as well:
Later in the evening, I found myself at a small party at Beau Garrett's house. The theme was "watermellon, underwear, and sandwiches."
more photos from this wonderful day can be found on my life blog.
Lola, justifiably jealous of Paco's sudden celebrity status, insisted on having her picture taken as well:
Later in the evening, I found myself at a small party at Beau Garrett's house. The theme was "watermellon, underwear, and sandwiches."
more photos from this wonderful day can be found on my life blog.
Friday, July 28, 2006
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Friday, July 14, 2006
Sunday, July 09, 2006
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
VOTE FOR PACO!!!!
Hello friends, today my dog is up for election to be the next Old Navy
Spokesdog!
He is in the last 6, after beating out 120,000 other really cute dogs.
He is a rescue mutt who was found starving in the back of a Uhaul truck,
after his mother was killed by animal control. Now, 2 years later, he
is kindest, coolest dog I've ever known.
Please log on to the site below and vote for Paco, the white shaggy pup (the free spirit.)
www.oldnavy.com/magic
If he wins the prize money ($10,000) we are giving half of it to dog
rescues here in L.A, and the other half to training his "special"
little sister, Lola the Bulldog, who really demonstrates the benefits
of NOT buying from a breeder.
Tell your friends! Paco is the underdog, and he needs you!
Spokesdog!
He is in the last 6, after beating out 120,000 other really cute dogs.
He is a rescue mutt who was found starving in the back of a Uhaul truck,
after his mother was killed by animal control. Now, 2 years later, he
is kindest, coolest dog I've ever known.
Please log on to the site below and vote for Paco, the white shaggy pup (the free spirit.)
www.oldnavy.com/magic
If he wins the prize money ($10,000) we are giving half of it to dog
rescues here in L.A, and the other half to training his "special"
little sister, Lola the Bulldog, who really demonstrates the benefits
of NOT buying from a breeder.
Tell your friends! Paco is the underdog, and he needs you!
Sunday, June 11, 2006
LA from the sky again...
Also, I have a new blog with random pictures from my life taoruspolilife.blogspot.com...not focusing on photography, just on experience:)
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Help produce my next film!
fixthemovie.blogspot.com
Make a contribution, even if it's $1, and get a credit on the film! Tell all your friends!
More info, including the treatment, on fixthemovie.blogspot.com (please email this link to everyone you know, post a bulletin on myspace and anywhere else you can think of.)
Make a contribution, even if it's $1, and get a credit on the film! Tell all your friends!
More info, including the treatment, on fixthemovie.blogspot.com (please email this link to everyone you know, post a bulletin on myspace and anywhere else you can think of.)
Monday, April 24, 2006
A sign?
When I first drove by this sign, I loved what it said. I assumed I had halucinated that it said Tao at the top. The next day, I went looking for it, and, to my utter amazement, found that it was directed specifically to me!
Sunday, April 23, 2006
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Sunday, April 16, 2006
New Blog for Costa Rica pics
Since I will have dozens of photos from the show I am shooting here (I am the director of photography on an upcoming series called 30 Days 'til I'm Famous,) I will post most new pictures on 30daystilimfamous.blogspot.com
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Back in Costa Rica
I've been spending a lot of time on planes lately, so here are 4 new "window seat" shots. I'm here in San Jose working as a director of photography on a pilot tv show, and I'll be here until the 30th of April. Hopefully I'll be posting some cool stuff from here, so check back!
Monday, March 27, 2006
Camjackers wins best editing at Ann Arbor Film Festival!
Please go to the camjackers imdb page, and if you saw it and liked it, rate it and comment on it! Thanks...
Monday, March 20, 2006
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Monday, March 13, 2006
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Patrick Fugit and Olivia Wilde, Venice, CA
Patrick and Olivia's film "Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas" premieres at HBO's US Comedy Film Festival in Aspen on March 10th.
Sunday, February 26, 2006
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Camjackers World Premier coming soon!
LAFCO's first feature, Camjackers, which I produced and play a role in, is premiering at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, March 26th. Starring:
Phoenix Orion
Cody Lucich
Shante Reese
Olinda Fonseca
Tao Ruspoli
Jeremy Fels
Olivia Wilde
Megalyn Echikunwoke
and legends of the LA hip hop underground.
Visit http://www.camjackers.com for more info, including trailer.
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Friday, February 10, 2006
Welcome Counterpunchers!
Here is a portrait I did of Alexander Cockburn...Jeffrey St. Clair's, "more Pynchon-like", will cost a lot more, as will Becky Grant's and Deva Wheeler's.
All photos are for sale: large (13x19), signed archival prints. Email taoruspoli [at] gmail.com for details.
Everyone else, make sure to visit www.counterpunch.org. It tells the facts and names the names!
Thursday, February 02, 2006
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Dominique Swain
More at kinomadic.com/dominique
These are two images from a photo shoot I did yesterday with my friend Dominique Swain (Lolita, Face Off. Alpha Dog)
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Saturday, December 31, 2005
Friday, December 16, 2005
Monday, December 05, 2005
Friday, December 02, 2005
self[own]
taken with my new cell phone camera (a sony 800i)
also taken with the cell phone this morning at 7am on the Venice Beach boardwalk
Sunday, November 27, 2005
Thursday, November 17, 2005
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Monday, October 24, 2005
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
LAFCO
This is a graphic I made from 2 photos of the "walk" stick figures one encounters at a crosswalk, with photos of some of our members. LAFCO is The Los Angeles Filmmakers Cooperative, a collective I started in 2000 which brings together filmmakers and musicians. All of our work is made out of a converted school bus in Venice, California. More info can be found at www.lafco.tv
Sunday, October 09, 2005
Monday, October 03, 2005
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Friday, September 23, 2005
Thursday, September 22, 2005
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Sunday, September 18, 2005
Monday, September 12, 2005
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Monday, August 29, 2005
Flying from LA to Oakland
I love taking pictures from the window seat of airplanes. In fact, I am making a blog of only those pictures at idlikeawindowseat.blogspot.com
Sunday, August 28, 2005
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
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