Creative
The sandbox side of the site.
Before I worked in product, I spent years making things: videos, edits, music sessions, documentaries, family memorials, and random internet projects. A lot of this lives on Vimeo and YouTube. The rows below are the parts I'm proudest of.
Family videos
Kids, weddings, and the people I love
Tap any card to play. Mixed media from iPhone, GoPro, 5D Mark III, 8mm, and a lot of VHS my wife and I dug up.
DalCortivo home videos · 1949 to 1969
Joe DalCortivo's home movies
My mom's uncle's home videos, found while cleaning out his house. Twenty-seven reels of my Italian-American New Jersey family, 1949 to 1969. Scanned from 8mm and uploaded.
In memoriam
For the ones we lost
Memorial videos cut from scanned photos and home footage, scored carefully.
Live music and music videos
Brooklyn basements, Philly clubs, and a music video for Tennis
Late 2000s and early 2010s. Mostly Panasonic HVX200, mostly with audio routed straight from the board. Long live the small venue.
Documentary
Long-form work
My senior thesis from 2007 and a 2011 day with Occupy Wall Street.
Journy sizzles
The Journy launch and the years that followed
Sizzles I cut at Ovation TV during the Journy AVOD launch and the iteration that followed.
Vertical, short-form
Stories cut for the phone
Built with Firework, the short-form video platform I helped shape, including the product and the CMS that powers it.
The kids
Each of them has their own page
Future homes: lennon.digitalschwartz.com and marley.digitalschwartz.com.
Want the work stuff?
The professional side is over here.
If you're looking for digital video product work and case studies instead of family videos, the Work and About pages are a better starting point.