One year!
A year ago, I started this journal and called it “eighteen,” to simply document my adventures as an eighteen year old with dreams of pursing photography and filmmaking. If you have kept up with my blog, you’d know I started off quickly with a full time job at Warner Bros. Records. Though this gave me the opportunity to work with outstanding artists, it also allowed me to build unbreakable relationships with my Warner Bros. family. They immediately brought me to the MVPAs (Music Video Production Awards) where Lydia and Devin Sarno (two creative geniuses …and my bosses!) accepted lifetime achievement awards. This was so exciting to be part of the “Sarno Collective.”
My adventure continued with many great artists: The Flaming Lips, The White Stripes, Sheryl Crow, Daniel Powter, Hot Hot Heat, Melee and Josh Groban. I was invited to go to Sundance to help out at Warner Bros’ Where Music Meets Film extravaganza, which was definitely a highlight of the year. Dinner and wine with Andrew McMahon and lunch with Josh Groban were memories that won’t be forgotten.
I continued to keep my dancing shoes on as I partied hard with my fellow eighteen-year-olds. Warner Bros. by day, Club Genre and Moscow by night. What adventures! I also started working with music industry icons at Shangri-La Music, a start-up label headed by Jeff Ayeroff. The Duke Spirit, their first signing, has already sold out two Los Angeles venues, toured with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and performed on Conan O’Brien.
Eighteen successfully concluded with an eight day road trip from Tennessee to Los Angeles with outstanding artist, and now friend, Josiah Leming. This opened me up to an entirely different world and allowed me to experience much more than I have ever seen. I’m looking forward to a great summer editing the documentary that we shot. I can’t wait. It looks incredible!
Eighteen took me further then I could have ever imagined. I recently got accepted to Emerson College in Boston to study Media and Culture. I’m not sure where this is going to take me, but I’m definitely not holding back. As cliche as it is, this is just the beginning. Simply called: Nineteen.
May 13, 2008