Category: The Story

So, our studio resides in a large building with offices, an outlooking rooftop, a gallery, and so much more. We are located in a block of the building that is dedicated to artists and art related work. Because of this, our neighbors are creatives as […]

Last week we did a “family style” shoot and streaming at the UDC Law School’s 2022 hooding ceremony. Several things went awry at the worst possible time and I almost broke down trying to put things back together again. The plan was to stream the […]

I decided to drive my daughter Truth and her close friend Kevin to New York to visit NYU and Columbia University yesterday. The pair both are in the same early college program at George Washington so they are pretty serious about the possibilities of attending […]

This quarantine has transformed the way we have meetings and I’m not sure I like it… completely. I do like having the ability to stage shots and play with lighting a little. That’s more of a performance than actually connecting with people, shaking hands and […]

Truth and Erica decided to stop for a couple selfies on their way up to the studio. Erica’s hair is in twists which has been a recent go to style for her. I love ’em. Truth’s got her signature style going with the afro. Of […]

For a time, we have been staying in some airbnbs around D.C. in hopes to start renovating our house in near Fort Totten. We have not yet started on that process which is disappointing however we have taken the opportunity to use some of these […]

I enjoyed filming this one. Excel and I have been working on shooting some monologues, to build up his media on the internet. One monologue that he picked out was from a scene in Breakfast Club where the character Andrew is telling the rest of […]

My daughter Truth and her friend Erin wanted to do a video recording for their school’s Black History Month program so naturally I offered to shoot it and do a full-out production. The day they were ready to record, I set up the set at […]

Excel picked out a popular monologue from the movie, Silver Linings Playbook to film right outside of the studio in a random alley. We used a football as a prop to match the original scene. Instead of closely studying just how Bradley Cooper (the original […]

The Intratec TEC-9, is a semi-automatic pistol. It was developed by Intratec, an American subsidiary of the Swedish firearms manufacturer Interdynamic AB. Introduced in 1984, the TEC-9 was made of inexpensive molded polymers and a mixture of stamped and milled steel parts. The simple design […]