No Film School

First:

Rather than serve as an argument for or against film school, this site is instead an ongoing narrative of what happens when you try to make it on your own, sans connections and institutions. And by “you,” I mean “me.”

Now:

Co-creator/writer/director of the internet video serial, The West Side;
Winner of the 2008 Webby Award for Best Drama Series;
Senior Designer on the MTV/RealNetworks joint-venture music service, Rhapsody.

Then:

2008 Fellowship Finalist of the Urban Artist Initiative/New York City;
Features writer for the retired Weblogs, Inc. film/video blog, DVguru;
2006 Emerging Artist Grant recipient from the National Endowment for the Arts and Durham Arts Council;
Producer, videographer, editor, and animator of corporate schlock for two years at RTI International;
Middlebury College graduate;
Director of the award-winning music video Wicked Harmonies;
Director of the multiple-officially-selected short Fanfare for Higher Education;
Born.

Also:

I’m including my Webby Award-winning cohorts Damian Washington and Zachary Lieberman in this obligatory author photo, in an effort to make this page seem less self-centered. Although… I chose a photo with myself in the center, so draw your own conclusions about the earnestness of that attempt.

Winners

Finally:

There is much more information about me than you’d ever want to know, collectively contained on the Story so far page.