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“I Wanted Motion.”

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🎥 Filmed after the journal — same night, same motion.

Sometimes the story doesn’t end with words.



📓 Tuesday, October 28, 2025 — 5:25 p.m.

Driving through the industrial heart of Los Angeles — Central Avenue and 14th Street.

To my right, a Shell station. To my left, brick buildings dressed in graffiti like layered memories.

I pass the Coca-Cola Bottling Company — a building shaped like a damn Navy ship. You’d think jets could launch off the roof. On the corner, a giant glass Coke bottle stands fifteen, maybe twenty feet tall, like a monument to sugar and survival.

A few blocks down, a rooftop garden catches my eye — a hidden little oasis above the smog.

The sign on the building reads Wolf Studio — Photo Studio and Event Space.

Feels poetic somehow: an event space in a place where life already feels like one long event.

I dropped three cases today. Not much, but enough. Brick placed.

Now I’m headed home to box, sweat, and draw.

That’s the plan — morning prompt, daily journal, one honest post at a time.

No perfection. Just motion.

Just ideas — nothing final.

Proof that the work doesn’t have to be perfect.

📓 Later that night — 11:49 p.m.

I went out for a drive around L.A. because I needed to get out of my small studio.

I wanted motion.

Stopped by Starbucks on the way back — matcha chai latte with oat milk.

Earlier tonight, I sat down and sketched — just ideas, nothing final. But that’s okay.

The work doesn’t have to be perfect. It just has to exist.

Then I worked out for the first time in two months —

boxed a few rounds with the heavy bag out back. Felt rusty, but it felt right.

Another brick placed.



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