Welcome back to The Ground Up Show. My name's Matt Diavella and I'm your host.

Daniel DeArco is an experimental photographer, filmmaker, and fabricator that makes creative

camera rigs for his projects, like a slider that moves 24 miles per hour in a split second.

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and how to cultivate new passions.

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We're starting out with a little bit of background noise, which is totally fine.

People might hear the light hum of landscaping next door, which is, this is the second time

it's happened on the podcast. But fingers crossed it, it goes away soon. But a noise never hurt no one.

It never hurt no one. This is like the things that you go through as filmmakers and photographers

where there's always something that comes up. There's always something that will disrupt your

shoot, problems that arise, and you either can fix them or you just deal with them and live with them.

Uh-huh. Usually the latter. Yeah, for me, the biggest thing is wind. Wind has been my

biggest thing because it'll knock over light stands or props or it'll bother, you know,

models or something or like people do hair

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