Poetry becomes my immediate translation of the feeling that I want to evoke in my work. I woke up flat against the floor. Oftentimes the poetry inspires the imagery.I love mood boarding on Keynote everything is very intuitive. The imagery inspires the cast and the setting and the location. And Final Cut Pro allows me to take the work to a whole nother level.I want people to feel a sense of familiarity even if they haven't felt that feeling before. ...

[music] >> I am worried about our national vocabulary. I'm worried about our way of speaking and thinking, which often begins with an idealized us, and then moves swiftly to define and discredit a rigidly conceived them. Language has gone from being a bridge to being a barricade separating us from one another.Words that exacerbate the differences between us have been tasked with sorting us into camps and activating our knee-jerk outrage and mistrust. To a certain extent, this is even true of the ways we som ...