who am I?

Brigham Young’s body guard adopted my great great grandfather. A Paiute boy. He then brought him back to Salt Lake City and raised him with Brigham Young’s Daughter. I am a life-long artist. Gen X, Born in Hawaii to 2 artist parents. Some say I got a bit of each in me. Mom said I was great with proportions until I started kindergarten and began drawing like the other kids. I grew up in Hollywood when mom was on Laugh In. Then we lived in San Clemente, San Juan Capistrano, Newport Beach and Huntington Beach. At 19 I went to South Carolina to be a missionary for 2 years. I later became a commercial artist, was married and became a dad, designed and built some rocking chairs before moving on to Studio City and making independent films with an artsy eye, or so I was told. Cinematography was always interesting to me. I shot and edited about 5 feature films and hundreds of short films and commercials. One thing always remained consistent in my life, Art. How to experience something inside of a rectangle. By the way, I’m the guy in the cowboy hat. Sometimes I direct from inside the frame.