Now

June 2026

I'm the new Speaker Series Coordinator for the Archival Producers Alliance and so excited to be playing a more active role with this community of over 500 independent documentary filmmakers who specialize in archival research and acquistions.

I'm revising a bunch of very old (and bad) poems instead of burning them. We'll see what new perspectives time will bring to the page.

I'm reading Doing Oral History by Donald A. Ritchie. I just finished You Can Never Die: A Graphic Memoir by Harry Bliss which might be one of my favorite books of the year.

I really enjoyed these films: Misha and the Wolves, How Do You Measure a Year, American Godfathers: The Five Families...

I'm working on an oral history project about my old man who served in the US Army at the end of World War Two in France. He passed away in 2014, so it's nice to listen to him tell his stories again. I'm also revisiting an old film that I made in 1991 and experimenting with AI tools to upscale the footage and improve the sound design.

I'm learning how to use Airtable to inventory* archival footage and the DAW Reaper to make bizarre field recording-inspired music (or noise).

I'm listening to a bunch of Negativland, Moby, Kraftwerk, and Matmos.

*My mentor prefers the term inventory and not log.

Inspired by Derek Sivers.