A few years ago I went to the dentist and wrote about meditation practice. The other morning I went again and found myself thinking about meditation in a slightly different manner. About a week ago I saw a post about Sam Harris' meditation app and downloaded it. Well over a decade ago my partners and I shot a series of...
While we were in the late stages of making "All The Rage," my partner Suki was very focused on the edit, and I began to shoot more on a separate project - work related to protest. The short pieces I was making were part of the process of constructing the film we'd finish next, "Working In Protest". As this film...
I am exhausted today; just totally wiped out. I just got back from New York where we premiered our new film "All The Rage (saved by sarno)" at the DocNYC film festival. When I travel I do a lot of photographing- mostly with my phone- and the energy that I expend "noticing" the world is enormous. When I first moved...
On Monday I went to the NC state fair and made a series of images. The following day I headed to New York to do the color correction for our film "All The Rage". I am happy to be living in North Carolina and I don't miss the day to day intensity of living in the city. ...
We came to North Carolina in 2013 and this is the 4th year in a row I have made it to the fair. The first year the whole family went. The last three years it has been just myself and Harper. Today we went with a couple of friends. As I did last year I shot...
For a decade, basically my 20’s, almost all of my creative energy went into playing in a band called sleepyhead*. At the same time I also did a lot of photography and began to make films, but that work was all related to the band and the music scene I was a part of. We never made money as a...
[caption id="attachment_24281" align="aligncenter" width="1432"] a shot out of the window of 224 Ave B- the building I moved into that was heavily featured in Ken Schles' "Invisible City"[/caption] One of the major rules of filmaking is “show, don’t tell”. We are visual people by nature and when we hear facts they stick on one level, but they don’t affect us as...