Prior to becoming a noted and award-winning editor David Blackburn attended art school in the UK. David later moved to Los Angeles where he has cut dozens of high profile and iconic music videos for artists like Moby, Britney Spears, Pharrell Williams, Eminem, Gwen Stefani, Ladytron, Will Smith, Katy Perry. David won the MVPA’s Best Editing Award in 2005 for Blink 182’s "Always-" The video for the song was shot in Sydney, Australia with director Joseph Kahn and featured a ground-breaking technique where the screen is spilt into three equal horizontal strips, but with similar action taking place at different times in different parts of one room staggered to simulate three continuous camera takes which perfectly sync up in a complimentary narrative.