Category: Writing

Chrystylez Bacon and Truth at the Studio (10/10/2021)

Tonight, Truth came into the studio while me and Christylez were conversatin’ after a superb dinner at Busboys and Poets. Because Christylez is a musician he often asks Truth about her progress on the guitar when we bring her up in conversation. The two sat […]

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The Gravity at Freedom Plaza

I have been scooting around on my Segway to places near the studio where I can lay on my back and stare off into the sky – a ledge at Freedom Plaza will do today. In between my random rounds of thoughts, I sit up […]

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Sketch: String Theory (1/5/2021)

I’ve been thinking about string theory quite a bit lately. That’s kinda all one could do, “seeing” how we’ll never “see” any physical evidence of such. It also seems like such a waste of time, but wasting time is greater part of what I do. […]

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Notebook Sketch: The Virus (1/5/2021)

Going a bit stir-crazy, being confined to a short list of places to go and things to do. With the colder weather compounding the isolation (can’t sit outside in a field or the empty stands of the nearby park for hours) of world responding to […]

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Georgia Avenue Snapping Turtle (9/2009)

I was driving up Arkansas Avenue, in Northwest DC, about to turn onto Georgia Avenue, so that I could return to the studio on Illinois Avenue, just a few blocks north. I was talking to myself… more like yelling, as I was dealing with some […]

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Notebook Sketch: Other Beings (1/4/2021)

I try and imagine what other “intelligent” life would look like. I often “theorize” they’d be less organic and possibly highly amalgamated with whatever technological breakthroughs their intelligence engendered. The forces of nature do a spectacular job, but when the mind develops it starts to […]

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Am I A Cinematographer?

I have a bunch of equipment, from several cameras, lots of lenses, every type of light, reflectors, stands, a gimbal, a motorized slider, jib and an assortment of grip. I also shoot a ton of things, from scripted material, interviews, b-roll of all kinds and […]

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Short Screenplay: Delusion of Power

I began writing this short script about 13 years prior to actually creating what I called a first draft. This has been a difficult script to write mostly because of life pulling me in many directions… along with writing 20 other scripts that were more […]

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Getting Some Fresh Air During the Pandemic (4/2020)

The struggle most of us face during this pandemic is losing the freedom to be anywhere other than one’s home (if one is fortunate to have one). We are a family that is more often everywhere else except home, so we struggle to sit still […]

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Close Ties: Tying on a New Tradition (Update)

It’s been nine years since I released Close Ties: Tying on a New Tradition and just this year one half of the duo profiled in the doc, Wilbur “Chill” Wilson has passed away from pancreatic cancer. He wasn’t given much time to live by the […]

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