film making

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9
Jan 12

do something. anything.

As an artist, I often think I’m not good enough — yet.
Still build­ing to what I could be,
but not quite there.
Want­ing to embrace what might be,
but feel­ing too unpol­ished and exper­i­men­tal to try.
What if it isn’t about art,
but the art of let­ting it go–
Into the wild
to pur­sue it’s own life.
Do some­thing. Any­thing.
Then let it go.

 

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11
Oct 11

Mountain Spirit

Ear­lier this year I had the amaz­ing oppor­tu­nity to visit Peru to explore a story about moun­tain guides. How­ever, when I arrived there and started work­ing on it, I real­ized there was an even deeper story.

Being in the Andes reminded me about what I love the moun­tains. The Andes are mag­nif­i­cent, not only in their beauty, but also in the peo­ple that live & work there. I was inspired not only by the com­pany of our group but sim­ply by the energy that exists there. In the moun­tains, daily tasks are ori­ented toward food, shel­ter, sleep, and com­mu­nity. There is more space to reflect & appre­ci­ate. It is in that space, change can happen.

When I asked Julio why he was guid­ing, he talked about a change he saw in peo­ple after vis­it­ing the Andes and I instantly under­stood. Being a guide myself, I’ve seen it as well. It is one of the most amaz­ing expe­ri­ences to be a part of. I was intrigued how this drew him into guid­ing. The story that unfolded was of fam­ily, strug­gle, and inspi­ra­tion. I found it a lit­tle dif­fi­cult to con­vey in a 5 minute spot, but you can watch it here.

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climbing / film making — 1 Comment
10
Sep 11

Courtney Sanders & the Summer Backlog

Sum­mer is wind­ing down and I’m back spend­ing hours behind the desk catch­ing up on all the back log. Man, what a great sum­mer! I’ve been on a project tour of Vir­ginia, Wash­ing­ton DC, Aspen,Co, Boul­der, CO, Peru, and of course some climb­ing in between. I’ve met some incred­i­ble peo­ple, been inspired by their tal­ents, and stories.

One lucky oppor­tu­nity this sum­mer was work­ing with pro climbers Court­ney Sanders and Daniel Woods at Domin­ion River Rock ear­lier this year. I was doing my first film project and did a short on Court­ney. After only climb­ing for about 6 months, Court­ney met Daniel Woods and was imme­di­ately thrust into the pro­fes­sional climb­ing world. Can you imag­ine? Six months in, I don’t think I even knew what half the climb­ing terms were! The sim­plest prob­lem seemed so impos­si­ble, even when some­one showed me the moves.

This story intrigued me.

I recently pub­lished the short on Vimeo and shared it with Court­ney. I was com­pletely ner­vous that she might not like it.… But for­tu­nately she not only loved it, she shared it on her blog. I was so very hon­ored by that!

This being my first short doc­u­men­tary piece, I was a bit shy to post it. There is so much of the story yet to be told, so it feels a bit unfin­ished & rough. But, I’m try­ing to let that go and embrace the learning/adventure that is film mak­ing. :D

Either way, Court­ney & Daniel are amaz­ingly tal­ented climbers and gen­uinely sweet peo­ple. Court­ney has been able to accom­plish in a few short years what many top climbers have spent a good por­tion of their life on. So, please check it out and let me know what you think!