Trying To Find The Inbetween

And just like that, the past few months have rolled by, uneven and unexpected. My time in LA the first four weeks of January was the longest I'd stayed in one place since mid-October, but it somehow still tasted of transience. This isn't to say I didn't enjoy my time there along with everything that was accomplished -- on the contrary, it was a welcome reprieve from the cold, and the changes in scenery and seasons have been nothing if not fruitful. All the same, these past few months in general have been an exercise in upheaval.

Bouncing back and forth between New York and Los Angeles isn't unmanageable, but it does grow taxing when done every two weeks for a three month stretch. You lose your anchor to that sense of home you spent so long establishing in a new city. And to return to the city you've called home for almost your entire life, only to find that it's changed in small but innumerable ways (a renovated street here, a closed-down shop there), only adds to the sense of disorientation and displacement. You lose the comfort of old routines, and the looming deadline of another plane ride across the country keeps you always just slightly on edge, unconsciously preparing yourself for another shake up. As a result, you never feel settled, rushing yourself one moment, reluctant to start anything the next. It's an odd position to feel yourself occupying, and it's admittedly exhausting. But at the end of the day, all you can do is shut up and get your shit done.

And so I have, and while I don't have any answers for how these next few months will turn out, at least for now, I am back. And I expect I will be back again. And so on.

As for what was done and what was seen:

This is what Christmas Eve in Southern California looks like. Also, that tree no longer stands in front of my house. The rain took it down.

Once and future home.

The main reason we were home for so long was to do a corporate video for Skechers. This is early on in the month, when we were location scouting in Mt. Baldy. Ruing how hard it was to find snow. In January. Yeah, I know.

Shooting in front of our new bluescreen.

 Final delivery at the Manhattan Beach Marriott, just last week.

Part of why LA is so awesome is that on the same week we went romping through the snow, we also hit the open ocean to do some diving. Sunrise to sunset, two Sundays in a row. I am officially scuba certified (and you can be, too!).

All geared up. At this point I put my phone away until the end of the day, so all I have is a bunch of pictures of sunsets.

It was a good trip home. And now I'm also home.

...Yeah, I haven't quite figured it out either. Just keep rolling.

Motion.