1. Seeesters
2. Brides maids arriving for photos
3. Complete disregard for the safety of the wedding dress
4. My cool teen cousins
5. Mr. & Mrs. Hofman
6. My mom and her hot son-in-laws
7. My brother-in-law and his hot moms
8. My hot parents
9. Dance floor moments
10. I made everyone sing to the bride and groom
11. I love this couple so much
12. Party girl
Another year at the Huntington Beach kite party with the legendary Jose Sainz. As kind as he is skilled, Jose is one of the premier kite fabricators in the world. Like a Johnny Appleseed of the wind, he drives around North America in his red Silverado, spreading joy and kindness to all he encounters.
Something amazing happened in December. My sisters and I worked together to organize a 13 person camping trip on a desert island with the 5 of us, some husbands, a finacee, two toddlers, and a few brothers-in-law. It felt like we had arrived into adulthood as we fostered our own adventures, provided for our guests, and nurtured the next generation.
1. @huntermatson steals the show in this fit but @hofmannreece was the hero that morning. Because getting the boat into the water was a mission and he handled it like a real man!!!
2. Soon to be the most eligible bachelor in Boulder, CO. And ladies, he’s a good listener.
3. Sponsored by Ford.
4. I won.
5. Ladies and gentlemen, the one and only Julian Zig.
6. The sweetest boys.
7. Morgan and Reece handled the boat so well, made this trip happen, and genuinely set a new standard for « couple goals ».
8. The Miss Lillie II surrounded by blushes of sunset.
9. Infinite joy.
Long distance relationships with your family are really hard. People don’t talk about this enough. Sometimes, at the end of a long day, all I want is to go to my sister’s house and just sit with her while she does her laundry. But that’s the compromise you make when your career and your craft are tied to a location. Last month, I got to spend 3 solid weeks with all of my sisters and my parents in Miami. It wasn’t planned and I don’t know when that will ever happen again. Because planning to get together with a family of 13 people is almost impossible. And as tight as it was to squeeze me, Hallery, Hunter, Hunter’s cat Goose and her husband Julian into my parent’s house (with its paper thin walls), I actually got to live with my family again for the first time in decades. And every time I got pissed that someone had eaten my food or annoyed at my dad for being so loud in the morning or frustrated that I had to clean out someone else’s mess from the car, I’d remind myself “You’re gonna miss this some day.” And here I am, in the city of angels, missing my family dearly.
It’s been a year of risk taking- financially, creatively, & emotionally. Some risks paid off, some didn’t. But only time will tell where it all takes me. So far, I’ve been pretty lucky✨
Postcards from the swamp.
1.) A late season bouquet
2.) Spying on my neighbor
3.) Sunset from the prairies
4.) Close up of my favorite puzzle
5.) I call this photo “Sexy Gator Moon” and its dedicated to all the sexy gator moon people out there (you know who you are)
6.) Good night, swamp cabin
BOOTSY GOES TO HEAVEN is a ten minute short film (and proof of concept for a feature) about a woman who owns a funeral parlor for pets and helps her clients process their grief in unusual ways. Think EDWARD SCISSOR HANDS or BABE with a touch of Emery Matson. We shoot September 12, 13, & 14th and we’re still looking for financial support! Kickstarter link in bio.
Visual References:
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, 2005
HACHI, 2009
MELANCHOLIA, 2011
WOODSHOCK, 2017
QUEEN OF EARTH, 2015
WAVES, 2019
MILO AND OTIS, 1986
ASURAN, 2024
Music Reference:
“What’s This?,” THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, 1993
On our way to Austin!!! So excited to take THE CHASTITY SWEATER on the road. Thank you @fantastic.fest and @drafthouse for having us! This film started out as a fun project between Ben Buxton and myself and just kept growing (especially once we got @betsyholt4 involved). We shot it all around Echo Park. Many of my neighbors and friends are in it, including one of the best librarians from the LAPL.
This one’s for all the horny girls out there just lookin for a little tlc 💋
Cute moments from @wtfestival … we saw 8 pieces in 3 days. My heart is full, my mind is well fed. Bravo to @jeremyoharris and the entire WTF team for some really elevated curation that left me reflecting on the performance of gender and the powerful outcome of blending mediums in a really understated way. And I was guided by @jeremyhersh whose encyclopedic knowledge of theater made the entire trip feel like a masterclass.
Last Resort is a contemporary dance performance set in a post-apocalyptic resort town where inhabitants struggle to maintain their vacation aesthetic amidst denial of the crumbling capitalist regime. It’s beautiful, funny, smart, and surprisingly flirty.
Conceived of by choreographer @mayabillig , Last Resort began as her masters thesis at UCLA but has since grown into something bigger. I first met Maya in Miami in 2021 when she choreographed a poetry film I was commissioned to make by @svwriters conference. For Last Resort, we got to switch roles and I had the immense pleasure of supporting Maya as the dramaturgist. A dramaturgist in this context means I helped guide the dancers on the dramatic delivery of their dialogue (the piece has a lot of narration) and smooth out the energetic and emotional shifts between dance performances.
I love, love, love working with dancers because they are hardworking, tough, perfectionists. @qu1nnt1ssent1al and @marcellathile are no exception to that. Maya and I were floored by the professionalism and diligence of these undergraduate students. We can’t wait to see where Last Resort goes next. Oh and big shout out to @collindruz who took so many of these photos and made the amazing film that opened the show.
