We could go up on the tracks? is one of my favorite texts to send. Last year, I made a short film about what happens next. Today, here’s episode two, produced by Ryan Blaske.
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A couple of weeks ago, I met up with Ryan Blaske and Nik Guiney for a Saturday morning stroll in Miami Village, a neighborhood on South Bend’s southeast side anchored by a string of storefronts, churches, homes, and a cemetery along Miami Street.
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In 1919, Busse Baking company built a new, modern bakery in the heart of South Bend's Near Northwest neighborhood. Today, a team of incremental developers is reimagining the building as a collaborator village.
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On Christmas morning, after coffee and monkey bread with my wife Kristen and friend Ryan Blaske, we bundled up, grabbed a couple of film cameras, and set out for a snowy stroll down Prairie Avenue.
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Last night, South Bend City Church released a new film called A South Bend Christmas Eve. The 38-minute film intends to offer a sense of communal participation on Christmas Eve since the church has not gathered indoors since March.
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Around 4:00 in the afternoon on the day we filmed Ms. Adeline—two hours after the shop was supposed to close—things slowed down enough for us to ask Ms. Adeline some questions about her life, faith, and business.
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Today, we’re releasing a selection of behind the scenes photographs from our short film Ms. Adeline, and for West.SB members, 28 Minutes with Ms. Adeline, an extended interview with a wealth of memories and wisdom, as well as some of the film's most memorable quotes.
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Nimoy Vaidya is a b-boy, originally from Kathmandu, Nepal, who moved to the U.S. in 2015. He breakdances as an avenue for personal growth and a way to help kids in South Bend.
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Ms. Adeline Wigfall-Jones has been cutting hair at 1131 West Washington Street in South Bend since 1976. She is 91 years old. We spent a typical Saturday, from 6:57 am to 4:49 pm, at the barbershop with Ms. Adeline and asked: “when are you going to stop?”
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