Sunflower Festival

Parrish, Carmen, and I headed north to the sunflower festival. These stalks were so tall. A beautiful drive along the red river. Afterwards, we headed to the Ark-La-Tex boat slip on Cross Lake. We got the VIP out from under the birds' nest and out onto the soon-to-be-my-drinking-water.

A beautiful day!

Municipal Auditorium

Louisiana Hayride was before my time. The history is great. Inside the Municipal Auditorium on Elvis Presley Blvd, pen and ink portraits of the musicians (with their performance dates) line the hallway that lead from the entrance to the green room at the back of the hall. I loved this sign by the stage door. It was talking directly to Patsy Cline, Elvis Presley, Bobby Bare, the legends!

They say there is an old morgue (sp?) at the basement level. Across the street lies the cemetery where a mass grave earths bodies slain by the yellow fever epidemic.

The Great Debaters is directed by Denzel Washington. The movie is based on a true story about an all-black debating team that went on to challenge and succeed Harvard in the 1940s.

The Ramsey barn is a beautiful co-star. Dobson took me out to the farm Friday evening . I had never seen this beautiful, pasture setting by the Red River. Ran into some co-workers, wish I had photographed the Snake Wrangler from Kenya.

I have been living in Shreveport for over a year now. During this time, I worked in New Orleans for several months, traveled to South America, and returned home to Austin over one dozen times. I moved to Shreveport to work in the film industry (my sister-in-law's idea), and have been working in the art department steadily since. Although I did not get on the current movie that is in pre-production, I am looking at this job-less time as an opportunity to pay my bills, visit my nephew, eat beans and rice, finish my South American fair trade wine harvest video, work on getting my next paying project, swim, get a leash-free dog park established at Hamel Memorial Park on the red river, play with my dog, and get down to ArtSpace to see the current exhibit.

A director of one of the movies I was working on told the local paper "Shreveport has interesting nooks and crannies." I love that description. You really have to look for the treasures in Shreveport. It's not all in your face like in Austin. But I have found some! shreveport-blogspot is a great page I visit.

I have my digital camera with me often, esp. at work when I am on-set. Before we roll cameras, I make sure the set is looking how it is supposed to look, move the set around to make room for all of the equipment. I take pics for continuity, try to frame my pictures to match the camerman's frame. I get in the way a lot.

Here is a picture from the set of "The Pardon," an independent movie we wrapped last week.