Orlando Diaz

Filmed on location on Royal Caribbean's beautiful Oasis of the Seas while all the guests were chilling out enjoying their perfect day at Coco Cay, Pablo Okubi and I set out in this video to show off this great ship. Featuring everyone's favorite Stowaway Hat and carpet bag, the music video for Maid Across Your Camel is another mostly silly jam with funny facial expressions and weirdo antics. Even though I don't write silly music, generally am incapable of non-serious lyrics, music videos just do not seem the place to be serious. This one starts relatively serious, a man alone at a piano sings about his feelings (albeit in odd attire), but quickly goes exploring and loses track of whatever he was feeling earlier. Maybe one of these days I will make a serious video, but it is not today. 

Filmed on the streets of Ambler, Pennsylvania, by my sister Alexandra Diaz. Created on ClipChamp, definitely clip champing random shots from my various travels throughout this planet, from Mexico to Belgium et al. And no, I didn't actually drink soda from a garbage can. I did sing to a white pumpkin, cuz tis the season and all. 

My sister's directorial debut, here's a video that ideally isn't just a clipchamp of random sillies. We hoped to portray the inevitable downward spiral of the unexamined life, one where the dull and the routine and the cliches of day-to-day lead to one man's desperation. As the man gets to the end of the song and paints his colorful shirt a rough grey, though, he looks at the camera and smiles, reminding/taunting/encouraging the viewer that “you almost fell for it.” 

What is the ‘it?’ The unexamined life, drifting for 40-50 years and never really taking action on who God made you to be, what Christ set you free to do.

How does he know you almost fell for it? Because you are still alive, and every second of your waking life, no matter how deep in your grey shirt you are, you can always snap out of it and do something matrix-shattering

Who doesn't love a react video?

Thank you to friends:

Brian Moore and Andrew Wendt, Allegra Whitting and Malcolm Rieck, Sarah Shellard, Skylar Marks and Kostia Lukyniuk, Aaron Chavers, Nolan and Sofia Melendez. 

And they had some great observations! I'm glad that the message cuts through.