Category: Video + Audio

I was in New Orleans for a week working on a set of interviews for a project at Loyola University… while simultaneously working on my web series, The Angle, when I met a fascinating gentleman. Peter Scharf was a nonstop train of ideas and insights […]

This “Spaces” segment is dedicated to the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) in New York City. I spent several weeks documenting and witnessing first hand the critical work this non-profit organization performs, touching the lives of those returning from prison, their families and society at […]

I had an idea. I always have ideas, so that’s nothing remarkable. Very few of my ideas are remarkable, but I often attempt them anyway. We had so much fun in what we’d call, season one, of The Angle. I wanted to consider all work […]

Grateful that the great Paradise Gray stopped by our studio set-up in Pittsburgh in 2011 to share some of his words of wisdom, insight and reflections. Here’s his thoughts on love.

Steps of PittsburghExplore Pittsburgh’s Many Steps & Staircases By Albrecht Powell, About.com Guide (pittsburgh.about.com/od/about_pittsburgh/a/steps.htm) While located at the point of three intersecting rivers, the city of Pittsburgh is also uniquely surrounded by hills – and lots of them. The city, in the words of newspaper […]

Busboys and Poets is a community gathering place. First established in 2005 Busboys and Poets was created by owner Anas “Andy” Shallal, an Iraqi-American artist, activist and restaurateur. After opening, the flagship location at 14th and V Streets, NW (Washington DC), the neighboring residents and […]

Paige Hernandez-Funn is one of the most talented people I have ever met. She is a renaissance woman of the highest degree. While she was at the studio doing a recordings for The Angle, I thought it might be nice to deliver a poem and […]

Spent a few days in Pittsburgh with a production partner and we filmed a whole lot of wonder folks. Spending a few hours with Vanessa German seemed like the culminating production of that journey. She is an amazing creative and multidisciplinary originally from California who […]

DC’s own hip hop theater duo Hueman Prophets (Baye Harrell and Jabari Exum) team up with director Psalmayene 24 to re-envision their story of a white-collar author struggling to write a book about a blue-collar ex-con. Through hypnotic rhythyms, theplay raises a lingering point about the disconnect within social classes […]

Carolyn Matachi stopped by the studio in 2010 and delivered several spoken-word pieces.