My Version of Reality Through Photos and Film
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 …
Continue reading "Coming Full Circle, Or How 28 Feels Really Similar To 13"
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 …
Continue reading "The Moment You’ve Fallen in Love with a Show"
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 …
Continue reading "“You Know, Your Cousin Works on CSI”, Or How I Finally Made it to California"
Two and a half months. That's how far we are into 2014 and all I've done so far is write about how I'm going to write more content that's actually worth something. I've done well I see. It's not that I haven't been doing anything interesting for the last two and a half months. Quite …
We're nearly one month into the new year and I'm already behind in my goal to blog more. I've been remiss in watching the awards shows, and horrid in catching up on the current films that are nominated. That said, I do have some things that should be posted within the next few days. That's …
This last year is what I am calling the year of lost adventures. It's not that there weren't adventures. There definitely were as this post will prove, but rather that my blogging skills this year were rather lost. I had ideas of photography projects and writing projects that didn't pan out for various reasons. So …
