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Bio

A chocolate peanut 🟤🥜

Co-host of the Understanding Movies weekly exploration of cinemagic. Check out our replays and Letterboxd page to see and hear about what we’ve been watching at the Understanding Movies house 👇🏾.

Born in West Virginia, raised in Central Pennsylvania, emigre to Harlem.
New Yorker 🍎

US Army Veteran 🪖
BA Philosophy + Computer Science 📚🖥
IT professional x 30+ years 🖥

Harlem affordable homeownership advocate 💲 🏢
High-quality education advocate 🎓

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Philosophical Investigations
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Good grief…
Charlie Brown

I 💊 cinematherapy
2001: A Space Odyssey
Alex Haley’s Roots (TV mini-series)
Michelangelo Antonioni’s
Trilogy of Decadence
Akira
Ben Hur
Brazil
Blade Runner
Casablanca
Claudine
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
Crooklyn
Devil in a Blue Dress
Imitation of Life
It’s a Wonderful Life
Jackie Brown
Krzysztof Kieslowski
The Decalogue
Three Colors: Blue, White, Red
My Neighbor Totoro
Smoke
Too Kill a Mockingbird
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
The West Wing (TV series)
The Wire (TV series)
Y Tu Mama Tambien

Photobook collector 📷 📚
Richard Avedon
Dawoud Bey
Roy DeCarava
Walker Evans
Farm Security Administration (FSA)
Paul Graham
Lewis Hine
Jacques Henri Latrigue
Helen Levitt
Magnum Photographers
Vivian Maier
Gordon Parks
Eugene Richards
W. Eugene Smith
James Van Der Zee
Jeff Wall

Most influential books 📚🧨🔮🕳💊
The Bible
Calvin + Hobbes Complete Works
(Bill Watterson)
Cerebus (Dave Sim & Gerhard)
Don Quixote (Cervantes)
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
James Baldwin Collected Essays
On Photography (Susan Sontag)
Peanuts (Charles M. Schulz)
Philosophical Investigations
(Ludwig Wittgenstein)
The Photobook: A History
(Martin Parr & George Badger)
The Power of Positive Thinking
(Norman Vincent Peale)
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
Toni Morrison Collected Works
Understanding Comics (Scott McCloud)
Vladmir Nabokov Collected Works

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