HeyJaredNot Like In The Movies: Filmmaking as a Spiritual Practice
Heartfelt reflections of the process of making independent film.
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An Unwanted Daily Ritual (opens the original)
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Hey. I’m trying a new thing here. Instead of biweekly updates about stuff I’m making, I’m using this space to write creatively for fun and play. This essay was actually really special to write and made me start to envision some version of it as a solo performance project. But for now, it’s here in prose form and is yours to read The past few months I’ve been in a very specific kind of hell, which is the kind of hell where — no matter what I do — my phone runs out of storage. And I can’t add more
The second hardest decision I've ever had to make (opens the original)
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Hi, welcome! If you’ve been here for a while, I’m trying something new and playing with longer form essays. This one’s about performance. And some other stuff too.I want to tell you about the second hardest decision I’ve had to make. (The first hardest decision was quitting the soccer team on the eve of 11th grade, a story for another time.) The second hardest decision was leaving New York to move to Chicago. I first moved to New York in 2012 as a newly minted college graduate. I fell hard for N
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