What REALLY makes a great bartender? – Minutes with Maybee

DISCLOSURE: The author is currently a business partner with Ryan Maybee in the Paris of the Plains Cocktail Festival. If someone asks me how I got into the profession of bartending – or even how I got to where I am today in video production – I can’t tell my story without mentioning Ryan Maybee’s [...]
Mar 18, 2013 | Categories: Blog, FeatRoll, General | Tags: Bartender of the Year, Bartending, bartending qualities, Brandon Cummins, Cocktail, From Sip to Drink, hospitality, Imbibe Magazine, Kansas City, Minutes with Maybee, Mixology, philosophy of bartending, Ryan Maybee, service, what to look for in a bartender, why to bartend | Leave A Comment »
Sippin’: Coffee – With Caitlin Corcoran

Last month I introduced “Music Mixed: a pairing of cocktail and song” with a pretty dark and serious tone. This month, I’m stoked to introduce “Sippin’.” These shorts will dive into brief topics pertaining to the bartending / hospitality industry and will usually profile an individual that’s doing something (in my humble opinion) that’s unique [...]
Feb 14, 2013 | Categories: Blog, FeatRoll, General | Tags: barista, bartender, Caitlin Corcoran, Cocktail, Coffee, Dave Arnold, From Sip to Drink, ISI Infusion, Kansas City, Oddly Correct, Single Origin Coffee, Sippin, Tyler Rovenstine, United States Barista Competition - Big Central, USBG, Using coffee in drinks | Leave A Comment »
Music Mixed: A Pairing of Cocktail & Song

Featuring “The Pendergast” & Mark Lowrey’s “133w” In this industry we’re constantly pairing things together… the right drink with the right meal, the right drink with the right person, the right drink with… well you get the picture. I’d even argue that we as human beings are constantly trying to pair things together; perhaps part [...]
Jan 21, 2013 | Categories: Blog, FeatRoll, General | Tags: 133w, Bartending, Boss Tom, Cocktail, From Sip to Drink, Jazz, Kansas City, Manifesto, Mark Lowrey, Mixology, Music Mixed, Rieger Hotel, Ryan Maybee, Tangos for 18th Street, The Pendergast | 1 Comment »
Snowpocalypse / Snowmaggedon / Snowfall Timelapse = Snowlapse

Many people have referred to the winter storm that hit the U.S. just a week ago as “Snowmaggedon” / “Snowpocalypse” etc… The local news stations mentioned that it will be a storm that will be talked about for years to come… the Winter Blizzard of 2011… My backyard reached 9″ (in Kansas City), and being [...]
Feb 07, 2011 | Categories: Blog, General | Tags: 2011, Beer, Boulevard Brewery, brando5, Brandon, Brandon Cummins, canon 5d mark ii, February, intervalometer, Kansas City, Manfrotto, MultiMax, Pocket Wizard, Rye on Rye, Smokestack series, Snowfall, Snowlapse, Snowmaggedon, Snowpocalypse, timelapse, Unfiltered Wheat | 1 Comment »
The Musician Network – TMNtv.com / NAMM 2011

2011 is off with a bang, and I’m already reeling trying to catch up. I just returned home last week from NAMM 2011, and am thoroughly inundated with new content / experiences / ideas and more… I promise one of these days to make a legitimate blog entry… but for now… here’s a selection of [...]
Jan 22, 2011 | Categories: Blog, General, Media Related | Tags: Andy James, Blackstar Amps, C&C Drums, Canon 5D, Concert Video, ESP Guitars, Gladstone Shells, Metal, Music, NAMM 2011, Reclaimed Wood, Schoen Guitars, Shred, The Musician Network, TMNtv | Leave A Comment »
Quick Updates & Exciting stuff…

If you’re curious what’s taking up most of my time now-a-days… just follow along here: http://www.tmntv.com Here’s some other stuff: This video of the local group Diverse, was recently featured on Common’s blog… yeah… THE Common. Pretty exciting stuff: Diverse – Common – Time Travelin’ (FULL) from Brandon Cummins on Vimeo. Here’s some jazzy goodness… [...]
Nov 10, 2010 | Categories: Blog, Concert Photography, General, Media Related | Tags: canon 5d mark ii, Common, Diverse, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Kansas City, Nathan Lang, The Musician Network, TMNtv, Tribute | Leave A Comment »
When the blog stops… the images roll…

So I’ve definitely come to the conclusion that I don’t post NEARLY often enough. That being said… Here’s a bunch of stuff I’ve done / worked on over the last couple months. July: Tales of the Cocktail (with Lush Life Productions), Here are the short, “Preview” versions, edited amazingly by Britt King & Lush Life. [...]
Sep 03, 2010 | Categories: Blog, General, Media Related | Tags: 2010, Benedictine, Bombay Sapphire, canon 5d mark ii, Common, Diverse, Greater Kansas City Bartending Competition, Grey Goose, Iconoclast, Le Barman Universel, Live Music, Lush Life Productions, Mark Lowrey, Pig & Punch, Radiohead, Tales of the Cocktail | Leave A Comment »




