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.