Simply put, I’m blown away by those who backed our campaign. Going into it, we had no idea how this would turn out. None of us had experience with crowdfunding, and frankly it was terrifying at first. What if people get annoyed? What if I look desperate? What will people … Continue reading “THANK YOU!!!”
As we’re closing in on the end of our crowdfunding campaign, it’s been quite a whirlwind and a learning experience, which I’ll get to in more detail in a future blog post. All I will say for now is that it’s a lot of hard work. You can’t just sit … Continue reading “A BIGGER PURPOSE”
“Follow your dreams.” To me, this sentiment is misguided because it’s still rooted in a desire for some external thing “out there” in the future and oftentimes it’s a mentality that comes at the expense of what is already in front of us. For me now, it’s not about searching … Continue reading “FOR WHAT?”
We are all storytellers. We form a narrative in our minds of what had happened, in order to structure, justify, and make sense of what we’ve experienced, particularly those big moments, good or bad. How we first met, why they left me, why I got the award, why I got … Continue reading “STORIES WE TELL OURSELVES”
Shooting some of the scenes in FOR IZZY throughout San Francisco was for me not only a revisiting of my past, but also a rediscovery of a city that I was previously unfamiliar with. When I lived in San Francisco in the early 2000’s, I’m embarrassed to admit that I … Continue reading “YOU GOTTA GIVE ‘EM HOPE!”
When I was in high school, I listened to Cat Steven’s Greatest Hits (http://www.allmusic.com/album/greatest-hits-mw0000191886) so much that I practically wore out the tape cassette – the sound degrading until it sounded like AM radio (to anyone born after 1990, what I just wrote might as well be in Chinese). At … Continue reading “THE LENS OF AGE”