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I’ve been writing less. it’s for a good reason. (opens the original)
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I haven’t been excited about creating something at this scale in a long time…and that’s exactly what I’m doing right now.“Showrunning” and directing my own series means doing all of the things I love. Working with actors and DP’s. Flexing my production design skills again to communicate a vision to a production designer. Reaching into my stylist experience to collaborate with a Wardrobe Stylist. Building a world I wish existed. The down side? Every time I sit down to write, a long to do list flo
The horror of choice (opens the original)
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Our lives are governed by social contracts. Some just get signed more seamlessly than others.Every day, we wake up and perform a series of bids, then await yeses.But when those bids go ignored—or those contracts get ripped up in your face, or signed then betrayed more times than bearable—you begin to realize exactly how fragile the craft of building a life is.We use metaphors like “brick by brick” but I believe that life-building is more like welding glass, ice structures, and breakable bits.It’
i've been swept me off my feet (opens the original)
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For Slow Summer Days: What to Watch, Read, and Try Based on Your Personality (opens the original)
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Summer is halfway done. Travel has been booked, or has already happened. Late nights out remain at the mercy of whimsy.But what happens between the itinerary and the whimsy?The moments that add sweet texture to the summer time, when whiling away with, perhaps, a popsicle in hand or a beach towel under your bum in the backyard just to catch some vitamin D? In those sweet moments, one needs a companion: a book, a podcast, a show.Enter: The Consultation. A monthly curation of recommendations based
When home no longer exists. Who are you now? (opens the original)
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What if your identity is tied to a place that no longer exists?A few weeks ago, I passed by a gas station two blocks from the very first house I lived in on Fairfax and Slauson Avenue, on the fringes of Ladera Heights in Los Angeles—an area coined the dreamy Black Beverly Hills, but with a rougher, easy to overlook, underbelly comprised of blue toting gang members. The gas station has been there since I could remember but, that day, I saw that it had been demolished.My strongest memory of that g
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