in the middle of rob’s interview for connect gallery’s piece,

he took a moment to reflect. he had been speaking openly to me for over 45 minutes and it hit him. he hates doing this. hates being on camera, and here he is doing it so openly and naturally.

and he wanted to reflect on what made that possible.

for rob’s shoot specifically, it started with a gift. he’s working on some music programming and i had some speakers lying around taking up space. these are massive, old school jbl. ideal for loud dj sets and some listening with thump.

so we brought them. and steve being the engineer that he is, went into rob’s stash to macgyver together a working setup.

natasha noticed the flow of his back studio was off. rob picked up on that. together, they rearranged the room.

i took my camera out and filmed most of it. a lot of the b-roll in the connect gallery film comes from that four-hour block of time where we didn’t do the work we came to do. we just worked together on something that was meaningful for rob.

and in doing that, he found himself connected to each of us. the connection was there before, owing to the decade of work that we had done together before. but rob was dreading the interview and we did anything but talk about the interview.

in fact, we were prepared to not shoot an interview that day. four hours into our project, rob turned to me and said “ok, i’m ready” and i told him to sit down. steve got the mic ready and we began. super quick setup.

and then 45 minutes of talking later, rob realized what had happened. and talked about it. i left it unedited. warts and all. because we wanted you to see how he felt about it in real time. to let you know the method is real. and it’s spectacular.