
Origins: Elko, Nevada
I was still living in San Francisco when my friend Christopher Coppola called me to see if I would script supervise his first feature film,

Origins: Professor Sergey Ponomorev
I was a student at Cornell at the time. This is by far the most glamorous I have ever looked in a photo although I’m

Origins: Apricot Part Two
Patrick had already made his way halfway across the arts quad by the time I caught up with him. I invited him for dinner at

Origins: Apricot Part One
It was day one of my sophomore year at Cornell University. The day my life was to be forever altered, blessed beyond my wildest dreams.

Origins: Cornell University
This photo was taken during my first year at Cornell University. I had wanted to go to a college that had a strong performing arts

Origins: Zen Buddhism
Another blast from the past. A time jump from my last post about my childhood. I will go back, but for now, here I am

Origins: Dance
I’ve always loved to dance. Just before the pandemic hit, I started to look into local dance classes. I experience filmmaking as a form of

Origins: First Love
This photo was taken in San Francisco by a lovely friend named Gardiner Hempel. I stayed at his house for the tail end of my

Origins: Chemistry
According to the Encyclopedia, Britannica chemistry is “the science that deals with the properties, composition, and structure of substances, the transformations they undergo, and the