New Zine March 2023 19 years ago I started a project to get better at telling stories. My original goal was to make a short, fictional film every week. That was unrealistic — at least for me. What I learned right away was that if I was going to get a lot of practice, I had to improvise. So I started shooting everything around me and telling stories about what was happening in my life. I found a little group of people also doing this. We practiced and figured things out together. We invented vlogging and it became a whole thing. And it worked for me! I made a couple of hundred little films over a few years and I got a whole lot better at telling stories. Then, for a decade or so, making any kind of art faded away. This coincided with my beginning to work at Mozilla. The part of my brain that designs software has a large overlap with the part that makes art and at the end of the day, I was out of creative energy. That was part of it for sure. Also, I guess my priorities had shifted. But
