The Final Cookout

Tonight we happily gave in to the oakwood undertow and enjoyed our last night watching the sun set over the hills beond our palm-tree lined pool at the North Clubhouse at Oakwood Apartments. It was a perfect, breezey summer night so my wonderful room mate and better half, Rachael, and I followed our noses around the corner to find the grills sizzling [...]

Qualms of a Hyphenate

…Trying to be an Actor-Director before I’m really either. HA! At the beginning of the summer, despite my interest I wasn’t convinced I could ever direct stories for film because I didn’t believe I had a mental storyboard or image-based imagination that could be trained to fit in the confines of a 2-D screen. Having grown up in [...]

Tea and Blood Diamonds

At Disney Studios one day, I met a wonderfully caring woman from New Zealand who works as a producer in the entertainment industry. I was at her house having tea this weekend discussing a book she let me borrow when we started talking about films that have changed our lives. She sighted Blood Diamonds as having opened her mind [...]

rockin’ collaboration!

This weekend was one of the best this summer. I had the honor of working alongside the fun and thoughtful Sam Gyllenhaall on his screenplay Switching Teams. When he offered me the opportunity to co-direct with him, I working with the actors and he with the camera, I was elated. The perfect opportunity for me to get my [...]

The 9 to 5

The 9 to 5 out here is more like 10 to 7 (plus an additional hour on either end for the traffic you travel in and the bane of finding a parking spot). I’m catching a morose glimpse of life post-college and it is a bit oh how shall I describe this…frightening! The only time you [...]

Morning Reflections:

The Thrill of the Risk makes the Road Less Traveled worth Traveling for this Mountain Biker!

Here in LA it is easy to lose yourself to the overwhelming media and pop culture that show you The Way. I’d venture to say The Way is none shy of an admittedly illustrious but never-the-less, incandescent veil revealing all [...]