QUICKSAND
It was evening, the lights low, the room packed with tables and heavy chairs, booths in the back. Like most party rooms in restaurants located smack on interstate access roads, […]
Austin
MASKS
We’re all sitting around my dining room table working on masks together. I’ve got room, so my living room-dining room became studio space. I looked up for a moment at […]
REPRESENTIN’ AT TX FILM LOBBY DAY
Standing up! Off I went to Texas Moving Image Industry Lobby Day this past Thursday at the Texas Capitol in Austin. To meet with Texas Representatives or rather, their assistants […]
DEJA YOU RIQUE
Funny how the Universe works. And I need to start believing in it more. Because you never know what amazing thing will manifest, as long as you have faith. I […]
POPPIN’
Things are poppin’ for me in Austin. I don’t know what’s happening between the planets and the stars right now. Maybe they’re doing the rumba, but whatever it is, I’m […]
GWTF – GOING WITH THE FLOW
Sometimes you get a little revelation. You can’t force it. Can’t plan it and it only comes through the doing. This time it came while being a pranking cellie in […]
REAL NOT REAL
Something’s missing with this couple. Something’s not right. They appear loving toward each other and aggrieved of their daughter’s recent death. The father even sheds tears as he learns they […]
1st PICNIC
My first Willie Nelson 4th of July Picnic was a lifetime ago. The heat was sizzling and the crowd, a mere 60,000, thick and wild. Girlfriend road trip and all […]
WALKING TALL
A can of corn goes flying straight across the convenience store, sailing above the aisles of food toward the front counter. Unarmed Kevin Sorbo, crouching behind an aisle, has thrown […]
SMILE DON’T SMILE
Frankly, getting the right headshot is a bitch. But, then, it can be fun. First there’s the journey. You spend years second guessing what the market needs. If you’re lucky, […]