If you guys have never been in the bourbon trail, I cannot recommend it enough. A short time ago I found myself on a bus with a host of beer brewers from all over the world stepping into the touristy practice

In an attempt to lose weight, and get more energy throughout the day, I’ve switched my morning coffee to a variation on the bulletproof recipe. For those of you who have nerve heard of it, it’s based on

Today I’m remembering my trip to study abroad and our visit to Asisi. It’s the perfect old Italian town, built out of rock, marble and limestone. The craftsmanship is amazing.

You guys I found a white wine that I just love, and I don’t say that easily. I usually find whites to be too sweet. So imagine my surprise when I found a dry, complex white from South Africa. This is a

As I left my home city, Los Angeles, looking down on the sprawl and smog, I wondere what it would be like to spend three months in Atlanta working on a movie. I’d heard of this new project called “The

Those of you who have been following me and my documentary projects know that I keep coming back to one central question: what constitutes a healthy and thriving community? The more research I do, and

At Sundance this year, one documentary stood out for me in terms of style, craft and heart. I picked Minding the Gap as my favorite 2018 Sundance documentary, and it ended up winning the jury award for

The quality of documentary film in festival line-ups all over the country is incredible right now. For example, take a look at the list of interesting and inspiring films at this year’s Nantucket Film

Transpositions is a great online magazine publication that comes out of St. Andrews University in Scotland. I have had the privilege of visiting there several times, to take part in conferences and as

“…a teenager heads off to college, and is surprised to find that everyone at his new home seems to know him, but they know him by another name. So who do they think he is?” One of the award winning Sundance

Today I want to celebrate some of the coffees I’ve had near celebrities. This one was on the set of Central Intelligence. Down below we were filming a shootout scene between some goons and Dwayne Johnson

I’m doing an experiment with my co-worker: which of us will get more followers on Instagram. I post nothing but coffees while he posts pictures of celebrities. I have a head start of about 100 followers.

I’ve been taking pictures of my morning coffee as I travel the world since 2014, not every day, but whenever I feel like I’m in an interesting place and want to remember the coffee I’ve had. I always place

My last post was about Mark Rothko and his ideas about the purpose of modern art. Here’s his son, Christopher on his father’s legacy. Art, he says, can be a gift that allows us to think more deeply about

“I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions—tragedy, ecstasy, doom and so on,” Rothko said in 1957. “The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when

Tonight the country will come together, gathered around televisions in living rooms across the states, to celebrate cinema. I've long thought about the significance of this annual ritual, and asked questions

Perhaps the earliest example of this phenomenon [the movement from copying to interpreting] comes from 1890’s in France where the Lumiere Brothers had successfully built a hand-cranked motion picture camera

Sergei Eisenstein "In the early 1920’s the historic Russian filmmaker and film theorist Sergei Eisenstein was working as a theater director in search of realism in his plays. He liked to blur the

I’m taking David Mamet’s “Master Class” right now and he had an interesting point: for him, it was always easier to perfect his written dramas when he was doing theater, because he could tell whether or

If you have ever been to Amsterdam, you know that the Dutch LOVE their bicycles! There are endless bike trails and paths, and everyone seems to take the bike by default. I was there in September shooting