He would love to use words like “hybrid” and “multi-hyphenate” to any professional statement about himself, but artificial intelligence reminded him these concepts sound “vague and slightly shopworn.”
He maintains a personal filmmaking habit from bits and ends.
His work in his various roles have led to at the Tribeca Film Festival, Berlin Fashion Film Festival, Cannes Lions, the Ciclope Festival, Santa Barbara Film Festival, New York Film Festival, La Jolla International Fashion Film Festival, Byron Bay Film Festival, New York Surf Film Festival, Canadian Surf Film Festival, London Surf Film Festival and Surfilm Festibal San Sebastián, Festival Maribor among others.
He was named a Small Business Administration Small Business Person of the Year and a Made In New York/Brooklyn Workforce Innovations Outstanding Employer. He has spoken at SXSW about how to make the advertising industry more inclusive and at Advertising Week New York about how to optimize for an evolving digital world and has participated in round tables at the NYC Mayor's Office of Media & Entertainment about professional training programs.
And his handiwork as an editor has been presented at the Whitney Museum, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, The Brooklyn Museum, the World Trade Center Oculus and at the Barclay’s Center Brooklyn Oculus (Marilyn Minter), Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (Roe Ethridge), Wembley Stadium (Umbro & the English FA), and Times Square.
In 2021 he worked with the photographer/artist/director Justin French to bring Alice Coltrane’s Kirtan: Turiya Sings to visual life as a meditative album film.
In 2008 he made a paean to the rigors of a surfing life that holds enduring relevance and from 2007 to 2019 he wrote the New York-based surf blog, TheEndlessBummerNY and he still often experiments with writing on Substack and on his personal Instagram account.
Here is a picture of him “on the job”:
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And I’m pretty sure this is his favorite quote:
"Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. It is an orientation of the spirit and orientation of the heart; it transcends the world that is immediately experienced and is anchored somewhere beyond its horizons. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. The more propitious the situation in which we demonstrate hope, the deeper the hope is. Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."
- Václav Havel, Letters to Olga