Notes from the Road

Sorting through hard drives of old footage, some finished projects, some unfinished, and in both cases many shots that never made it out. These are a few frames from a camera test in 2018, repurposed and edited into something new, so they too can finally see the light of day.

Saturday Nov. 30 2019

As hometowns fill-up, Los Angeles empties. It sits, quiet, waiting for the holidays to pass, the anxious flow of cars to return, bringing life back to the city. But for a brief moment everything is still, the mountains are snowcapped, and even the sun has taken the day off.

City of Stars (Humming) Justin Hurwitz Featuring Emma Stone

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The Unfortunate story of the lorraine motel

Once a sanctuary for black travelers, athletes, and musicians recording in Memphis, things took a dark turn on April 4 1968. On that day, while standing on the balcony just outside room 306, Martin Luther King Jr was shot. Hearing the shot the motel owner, Loree Bailey, had a stroke and died a few days later. Her husband, Walter, continued to run the motel though never rented out room 306, preserving it as it was left. In 1982, after declaring bankruptcy, Walter was forced to sell the motel and watch as the once whites-only hotel he and his wife had bought and transformed was turned into a brothel. He died a few years later.
Now the site of the Civil Rights Museum it stands suspended in time, the remains of a tragic story.