My Version of Reality Through Photos and Film
Yep. That's me. The one in the backward hat taking this photo. I'm sure you're wondering how I got there...which is the Washington Capitals Stanley Cup Parade and Rally weeks ago and why it's taken me so long to write this blog. Why it's taken so long to write this is the easy answer, so …
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2017 had to be what felt like the longest year I've ever been through. I was thinking about it the other day and literally, I realized that Sherlock Series 4 premiered at the beginning of 2017...I couldn't believe that when I realized it was true. This year has been a roller coaster in so many ways …
I'm getting ready to leave for the past - 1864 to be exact as I'm a Civil War Re-enactor. I have been since I was 16 and a friend came into class, handed me a permission slip and told me to have my mother sign it and that on Saturday I was going with her …
This blog post was originally written as part of a series for The Welders. It was posted to their blog on July 25, 2017. I am 28 years old. I graduated from high school ten years ago, graduated from undergraduate six years ago, and graduated from graduate school four years ago. When I was 11 …
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Wow. Three years.... That was the last time I wrote anything here and what a wild ride these past three years have been. Let's have a brief recap of the, shall we... In 2014, almost immediately as I wrote my last post here, I started working for Awesome Con (which at the time was just …
I never set out in life to be a stage manager. I started acting, if you could call it that, when I was in high school and the musical came around. I did 12 musicals and 1 Shakespeare from the time I started high school to the end of my freshman year of college; a …
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Six years ago I embarked on a very interesting project. Take 48 hours, a genre drawn from a hat, and a required prop, character and line of dialogue and see what comes out. This is the 48 Hour Film Project, an international competition to see how quickly filmmakers can race against the clock to make …
Last Saturday, which seems like a long time ago now, Geoff and I made our way downtown for Awesome Con. A new convention to the Maryland/DC area, we decided to give it a shot. I mean, I've driven fourteen hours to Georgia for a con in its first year (I'm looking at you 221BCon). I …
My mother has this story that she likes to tell where I'm three years-old and I'm sitting on the front porch of our house in sub-urban Baltimore with suitcase waiting for a cab to come down the street and whisk me away to the airport. When the neighbor asked where I was going, my response …
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