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🗣️ Sapi = “Suppy”
🎥 Film + TV-maker
🎧 DJ
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We found ourselves present for a rare and gentle alignment of time: Jon Batiste performing at Dick Van Dyke’s 100th birthday party, offering “When You’re Smiling” to a quiet circle of family and friends. In this moment, the song didn’t just play — it transcended. Dick and his wife Arlene received it not as performance, but as feeling, as memory unfolding in real time. Around them, generations of the Van Dyke family cheered, voices and hands joining in, the moment glowing softly to celebrate 100 years of a national treasure and a beautiful human being.

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Featuring: Dick Van Dyke @official_dick_van_dyke
Arlene Silver @bijoubox
Jon Batiste @jonbatiste
Matt Von Roderick @vonrockstar
Marquis @mrhowellmusic

Directed and Edited by: Vice Cooler @vicecooler
Producer: Sapna Chhabra @sapisonic
Director of Photography: Dalton Blanco @daltoncamera
A Video by: @heliumvision
Event Creatives: Chris Isaacson @chrisisaacsonpresents & Arlene Silver @bijoubox
Live Sound: @nsfilou
Event Rentals: @townandcountry_eventrentals

#DVD100 taken in Malibu, California by @sapisonic

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Proud to have been a writer on this film.✏️ CYPHER will be out in select theaters and streaming on Hulu Nov 24. #tierrawhack
#cypher #cypheronhulu #cypherhulu by @sapisonic

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LOS ANGELES 🪩 Join us July 22nd @zebulonla as we celebrate the release of @catherinemoan_ new album “CM Ultra” 🪩 Tix available on dice.fm taken in Zebulon Café Concert by @sapisonic

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Come take a ride with these best friends at @justineswinebar this Friday. We’ll be playing records and celebrating our 22nd Friendversary together! 👯‍♀️ Join us! by @sapisonic

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Bday Desert Getaway🌵with my bestie @yutaro.okamiya . Felt really special to see Mark Robinson of @teenbeat / Unrest and @weddingpresent play at @pappyandharriets 💕, dine at Gram Parsons’ old haunt @thecopperroom1957 🍸and soak in the hot springs @thespringresort . 💆🏻‍♀️ Wish we were still there!

📸 1, 2, 7: @yutaro.okamiya by @sapisonic

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5 months ago

DJing for friends @cup.id.xps.yche and @actually_new_life Wednesday Feb 4 @airlinerbar ! Really love both of these bands. Come check them out!

Ticket link in bio. by @sapisonic

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Join us on @dublab today from 10am-Noon PST (1pm-3pm EST) for a special DJ set from @yutaro.okamiya and @sapisonic with selections from @monamierecords as we go on a journey together through the evolution of synth-pop.

Thanks to @jokohomo for giving us the opportunity to be guests on his show. taken in dublab by @sapisonic

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I feel so honored to have attended Dick Van Dyke’s 100th Birthday celebration. Thank you Arlene Silver for inviting the Helium Vision team to such a special occasion. 💛 It’s one I’ll never forget.

From Helium Vision:

We found ourselves present for a rare and gentle alignment of time: Jon Batiste performing at Dick Van Dyke’s 100th birthday party, offering “When You’re Smiling” to a quiet circle of family and friends. In this moment, the song didn’t just play — it transcended. Dick and his wife Arlene received it not as performance, but as feeling, as memory unfolding in real time. Around them, generations of the Van Dyke family cheered, voices and hands joining in, the moment glowing softly to celebrate 100 years of a national treasure and a beautiful human being.

Starring:
@official_dick_van_dyke
@bijoubox
@jonbatiste
@vonrockstar
@mrhowellmusic

Directed and Edited by:
@vicecooler

Video Producer:
@sapisonic

Director of Photography:
@daltoncamera

A Video by:
@heliumvision

Event Creatives:
@chrisisaacsonpresents & @bijoubox

Live Sound:
@nsfilou

Rentals:
@townandcountry_eventrentals

@vandymanor #DVD100 by @sapisonic

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Our second @heliumvision episode, on the Vintage Synthesizer Museum, is available now on YouTube! (Link in bio).

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In this second episode of Helium Vision, we invite you into a world that hums with the strange and the beautiful—the Vintage Synthesizer Museum (VSM). Founded in 2013 by avid synthesizer historian Lance Hill, this “living museum” exists in a space where the past and present come together to offer an immersive experience into the magical world of sound. It’s not just a museum—it’s a place where visitors and artists can disappear into their work, perform in a unique atmosphere, or learn the art of synthesis.

Initially opening its doors in Oakland, the VSM is now nestled in the heart of Los Angeles. This space has since witnessed the presence of many modern visionaries—Damon Albarn, Egyptian Lover and Neurosis, to name a few—each leaving behind their own distinctive imprints.

Come with us as we step into the Vintage Synthesizer Museum and uncover the tales of the instruments within.

Please subscribe, join our Patreon & follow our socials in order to support future documentaries like this:
Patreon.com/heliumvision
Instagram.com/heliumvision
Heliumvision.com

///Credits///

Featuring:
Lance Hill @vintagesynthmuseum
Kareem Karam @k.joseph.karam

Director, Editor, Writer: Vice Cooler @vicecooler
Producer, Writer: Sapi Chhabra @sapisonic
Director of Photography: Dalton Blanco @daltoncamera
Camera Op: Adam Franklin @adamscottfranklin
Camera Op: Vice Cooler @vicecooler
Audio Engineer: Scott Cornish @actuallyadog
Music: Lance Hill, Kareem Karam
Original Score: Vice Cooler

Find out more about the VSM here: Vintagesynthesizermuseum.com by @sapisonic

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TUESDAY SEPT 30! Join us @zebulonla for a FREE screening of our upcoming documentary on the @vintagesynthmuseum (VSM)!

The evening, curated by VSM, will be hosted by @georgethechen and feature a live trio performance by:

@vintagesynthmuseum
@k.joseph.karam
@vicecooler

With DJ sets by:
@danz_cm
@pearlandtheoystersband

There will also be a short panel discussion following the doc between George Chen, Lance Hill (VSM), Vice Cooler and myself.

The VSM doc is a production of @heliumvision :
Director, Editor, Writer @vicecooler
Producer, Writer @sapisonic
DP @daltoncamera
OP @adamscottfranklin
Audio @actuallyadog taken in Zebulon Café Concert by @sapisonic

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TODAY we’re launching @heliumvision on YouTube! Helium Vision is a documentary series that explores the creative minds and spaces behind some of the most inspiring underground art and music. Throughout the next six months, we’ll be releasing documentaries on Ghostwood Manor, the Vintage Synthesizer Museum, Hunx & His Punx and Deborah Iyall of Romeo Void!

We have a soft Patreon set up to help fund it, which will have paid tiers announced in the coming weeks. If you’d like to support us, please follow, like, share, and subscribe!

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In this inaugural episode of Helium Vision, we invite you to drift to the bottom of the ocean where one of Pasadena’s greatest haunted houses dwells among the monsters of the deep….in a place called Ghostwood Manor. Conceived in 2020 by Stephen Taylor — a resident of Pasadena CA — this homemade haunt emerges once a year to the delight of everyone from neighbors to the most seasoned haunters. Ghostwood Manor exists at the threshold between the worlds of haunted houses and elaborate Halloween displays, creating an entirely new experience of spectral fantasy constructed within the space of a driveway.

We step behind the curtain as Stephen Taylor reveals the making of The Wreck of the Crimson Dagger — a life-size, sunken pirate ship maze that he built by hand. Enter the haunted shipwreck as it rests at the bottom of the Caribbean Sea beneath the moonlit tides, forgotten by time, haunted by the ghosts of sailors whose names have long since drifted away into the whispers of the ocean’s currents.
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Helium Vision @heliumvision : Please subscribe, join our Patreon & follow our socials in order to support future films like this - Link in bio to help and support!

///Credits///

Featuring:
Stephen Taylor @ghostwood.manor
Chris Mathews
Brent Weinbach @brentweinbachcomedy

Director, Editor, Writer: Vice Cooler @vicecooler
Producer, Writer: Sapi Chhabra @sapisonic
Director of Photography: Dalton Blanco
@daltoncamera
Audio Engineer: Vice Cooler
Original Score: Vice Cooler by @sapisonic

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My first @midsummerscream was such a great experience! The documentary I’ve been working on for the past year with @vicecooler and @daltoncamera on Stephen Taylor’s haunt @ghostwood.manor premiered on the Frankenstage and there was a fun panel discussion afterwards with Stephen, Vice and myself moderated by @rickwest999 !

Not only that, I got to walk through so many wildly creative and scary haunts - my favorite being @fearfarmhaunt - see the one and only John Carpenter in person, dance with a Krampus and meet Freddy! 😜 Can’t wait for next time!

We’ll be launching our documentary online very soon and we have a few others already in the works! Follow @heliumvision for updates!

📸 Pix 1, 6 by @yutaro.okamiya
📸 Pix 2, 7, 10 by @mayapeterpaulart taken in Midsummer Scream by @sapisonic

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