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If you have a dog, walk them! If not, walk anyway! I have found my whole life that walking is the best way to feed my mind, body, and soul simultaneously⊠and to see and discover any new city. I travel a lot with my films, and sometimes I clock in 13 miles in a day⊠On any day at home, itâs a sacred time, as the sun sets and we walk our dogs. But if I can take care of phone calls, listen to podcasts, do Zooms and catch up with my partner and friends while moving my feet down the street, waving at neighbors and taking in the natural beauty that is waiting to be discovered around every corner - I will choose that any day. Wandering around a city is also our favorite way to experience any city in the world.
Jan 16, 2025
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a super unique and cool rec for u all...
but i just moved from the Oakland hills to a more walkable area and !breaking news! it is completely changing my life for the better. at first i found it difficult to motivate myself but setting out my clothes shoes and headphones the night before so i can just slip into the fit and goooo has helped a ton.
i also like to give myself little, informal quests to complete on each walk just 2 spice things up so here are some from the past week:
- listen to a new episode of POOG or Seek Treatment (the only 2 pods i listen to)
- find a blue box and finally mail that damn letter to Laura
- re-fill bag of coffee from Ain't Normal cafe
- call my BFF in Copenhagen bc time zones align at 7 in the morning
- buy q-tips at Walgreen's
some ideas for next week to pay more attention to my surroundings and connect:
- bring my film camera and take 5 pictures
- notice 5 birds, trees, flowers, plants, etc
- smile at 5 strangers!!!
- call my parents bc they're probably on a walk too
- call my grandparents in India bc time zones also align...
anyway. i love 2 walk now
Feb 29, 2024
Iâve taken a 45 min walk everyday for the past 2 months and itâs fixed something. Donât know what the science is. Donât really care. Bring a notebook with you. Listen to music or just your surroundings. My favorite thing has been catching 6 seconds of the funniest conversation, youâll never know the rest of. Just noticing more things that you might overlook in a car, or a train, or on a bike. If youâre stressed, angry, sad, confused etc., a walk might not fix you but it will change something!
Mar 18, 2025
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Turning off my phone and just walking around by intuition has led to some of the most memorable moments and organic interactions in my life. It helps to bring a camera to make you look busy.
Jan 24, 2024
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This is a book by Austrian psychologist, Viktor Frankl, about his observations of the human condition, recorded while surviving the Holocaust. He identified work, love and suffering as the three ways we can find meaning in life - while suffering is how we can reach our highest potential, because it tests us the most. He observed how vital hope was for survival, and how some people were profoundly graceful and generous in their suffering⊠like those who gave away their meager piece of bread, or even how a starving woman made the last days on this earth count by appreciating a single track against a blue sky she was able to see through a slit in the wood⊠It is really the best guide to living I have found.
A few years after reading it, I was approached to direct a documentary about the writers of Netflixâs Oscar-winning âAll Quiet on the Western Frontâ as they adapt Manâs Search for Meaning into a screenplay. They are a power couple facing the biggest challenge of a lifetime: After 22 years of marriage and partnership, sports psychologist Simon Marshall, and 5X World Champion Triathlete, Lesley Paterson, get their dream job to adapt their favorite book Manâs Search for Meaning, but the same day they get the job, Simon receives a call from his doctor telling him that he has Stage 3 Pancreatic Cancer. The film weâve been shooting follows their journey across the world, retracing Franklâs life journey while pursuing cures for this deadly form of cancer. Our documentary is shaping up to be a modern Manâs Search of Meaning, because it is all about turning something devastating into a triumph by making it meaningful - and it has changed my life forever to take on the challenge of telling this essential story. Â
Jan 16, 2025
Staying at the Roxy in NY (formerly the Tribeca Grand) is akin to being on an elegant cruise in Manhattan. Itâs my home away from home in the city. Everything is there: from live jazz in the massive atrium lobby with the glass elevator zipping up and down and the divine food and drinks (I recommend the lobster roll and a mescal cocktail) in recessed leather booths shaped like teacups, to the gorgeous red velvet theater below - which offers the best films on screen in Manhattan - curated by the brilliant Illyse Singer. After attending a killer film and fascinating Q&A, retreat to the Django, the speakeasy next door, which stays open til 4AM and is often where the hottest underground music acts play⊠What else could you ask for?Â
Jan 16, 2025
People ask me how Iâve completed and released six films in the last two years. The only true answer is, I married my composer. As we tumble through life together, we discuss the feeling of the scenes in our films and what instruments would best bring those home; we find the shape of the film and identify the sound of its overall themes; and then we separate - and I edit while Morgan writes and records the score - and we come back together to share the results. We also shoot together, so her music is all the better from having been there meeting the subjects and experiencing the locations we are portraying. Itâs an endless collaboration, and collaboration is the greatest aphrodisiac.
Jan 16, 2025