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When people ask me where I’m from I’ve started saying “the Amtrak Northeast Regional.” And if that gets a laugh then I tag it with “Train 154.” This Fall brought me to Newark, New Jersey, where I walked through Branch Brook Park nearly every day for a couple months during my fellowship at NJIT. Walking […]
Produced in collaboration with the photographer Jon Lopez, this short documentary profiles Rah Wiggins, coach of New York City’s most prolific street basketball team, The Sean Bell All-Stars. After the NYPD’s infamous killing of Sean Bell in 2006, Coach Wiggins renamed his team after his fallen friend. Sean Bell, as the team is now known, […]
This year I spent 6 months working on an 8-part docuseries about the NBA Playoffs that just released on ESPN and ESPN+. (Wrote a pretty extensive post about it over on social media). What I’ll say here on the personal dot-com is that it felt great one night a couple weeks ago to sit in […]
EXCERPT I’ve posted several pieces of writing about this film elsewhere covering the process, the namesake, its significance to Unarmed. There’s even a dedicated website with more details and behind-the-scenes photos. And there are a million things I’m proud of about it, most notably the film itself, the collaboration with Jon Lopez, and also the trailer, the design, the poster, the reception.
A few years ago I went to Morocco, my first trip to Africa. On my second flight to the Continent – a year ago – the man sitting a row in front of me said, “yeah, but that’s not really Africa.” The sentiment is so common that even I, a foreigner, shrugged when I said […]
Th heartbreaking story of Tyre Nichols led to another jersey design and with it the release of what I call the “soft” language of Unarmed.