I know that I am doing this late, but I am the type of person who needs a considerable amount of time in order to soak in and take in the bigger picture. Despite the amount of shittiness that 2016 brought with it, it was a pretty amazing year for me. I worked on projects that brought my photography work to an international level, and I also made new friendships that continue to challenge me creatively, not to mention just meeting these really fucking cool people whom I am so grateful to call my friends. A list of listable 2016 things is below.
- Documenting Hawaiʻi Women in Filmmaking’s Making Media That Matters program
- Shooting the Monocle Travel Guide, Honolulu
- Los Angeles trip
- Watching Paulina’s thesis film, The Homecoming, at Chapman University
- Seeing a Groundlings show
- Discovering BROAD CITY and binge watching it on Paulina and Ren’s couch
- Shooting Ivan Cash’s Last Photo Project
- Getting published in Monocle magazine’s June 2016 issue
- Doing improv comedy workshops with Jay and Dan
- Writing and shooting sketch comedy ideas (coming soon)
- Documenting HWF’s Summer Reel Camps programs #wow
- Shooting and documenting the Queen Liliʻuokalani Childrens Center’s Moku Project program
- Exploring a fraction of the greatness that is Colorado
- Quentin & Tiffany’s wedding in Oak Brook
- My 5th trip visiting Kyle and friends in Chicago
- Driving to Cincinnati to see Prophets of Rage
- Seeing the Cubs WIN against the Giants in the playoffs at Wrigley Field
- Mentoring young filmmakers in HWF’s Spooky Reel Camp
- @donaldlovesdonald4ever photoshoot
- Shooting Mike Plein’s music video (coming soon!)
I know that I probably missed some things so I will add them later.