It is a pleasure to share Michael Atallah's beautifully written appeal and reminder for the creative spirit in all of us to come out from the cold and tell our stories, all this while artfully asking the eternally poignant question: "What is going on here folks?"

I leaped up like a boy scout and ran down expecting to see a deer playing backgammon with a chipmunk. A solar halo was smack center sky, high noon sun. I ran back to the cabin, threw on a fish eye lens and started filming.

Who does this on a Wednesday night? Go out with a Hasselblad camera and a note-pad to write a story about Hyperrealism.

by Michael Atallah I’ve been working on the post production of a documentary and had to make my way into the sultry post-summer desert to pick up new material. Las Vegas. This wasn’t a Vegas freak out trip, more of the cut along the edge of town stay low-to-the-ground and stick to business kind of [...]

By Michael Atallah Veviter played at the Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock (put on by F Yeah music festival), a post-bucolic pastoral suburb of Los Angeles. The town’s gravity ebbs from the historic Occidental College, which lies hidden amongst oak trees and Bougainvillea bushes scattered every which direction. Eagle Rock is an idyllic [...]