inspiration: sunrise, a song of two humans

The Sundance Film Festival starts shortly (and did I tell you I wrote a poem that will be in The Indie Lounge? Well, I did!). I love the idea that right now, at this very minute, there are brand new unseen-to-us films that will someday be considered masterpieces. So filmmaking and storytelling is on my mind of late...and I'm going back and rewatching some classics. 

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do it differently: ansel adams

The perfect Saturday: a rainy afternoon exploring the halls of a museum. We spent the day at the Ansel Adams: Before and After exhibit at the Booth Museum. The exhibit puts Adams within the context of the history of nature photography. Here's the thing: there were nature photographs before Adams, and there are nature photographs after Adams. But there is only one Ansel Adams.

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