This is a digital photo that I took of my friend, Jordan Miller, in 2008... Maybe 2009? I edited it in Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop, then added the color graphic design in Adobe Illustrator and dropped a poem that I wrote on top of it. The poem doesn't really have anything directly to do with Jordan, but I really like the combination of photos with graphics and words, and I think they all deem appropriate together. Jordan has a creative eye, creative vision, creative soul, and obviously a knack for filmmaking/producing. Thank goodness for creative friends.
I've had this photo in my library for a long time and just finally had time to look at it and edit it over the past few days. It was actually a snapshot, taken just for fun, and in the moment at his old house in Oakland, CA -- where he and several other friends shared a creative house together. Jordan Miller is a filmmaker and works with/for his family's film production company. Along with a large group of friends, family, and other talented creative geniuses, the Miller family + Regenerate Films recently came out with a very inspirational, comedic, dramatic, modern, and realistic independent feature film titled, "My Suicide." Don't let the title throw you off -- the movie has won several awards globally and is just generally a really great, well-written story, made with incredible care, thought, and hope. It is not your typical indie film and it definitely blew my mind with its combination of animation + real life, relatable plot, intense topic, and overall execution. Check it out: http://www.mysuicide.net/
