Resonance
When I woke this morning, I knew that Don was already at work in the Bay Area. He had a 6:00 am call, had driven up last night and would have been looking for breakfast at some ridiculous hour. There was no way I could help. But he is never happier than when he is on set, behind a camera, and sometimes puts up with a lot to get there. The deep harmonic between Don Starnes and myself got started over thirty years ago. We discovered it by working together, talking, and getting to know each other. I couldn’t believe it. Everything he said made sense to me. And by this time, I knew a lot of people! Objectively, no one would have put us together. He came out of California’s San Joaquin valley, couldn’t wait to get to the Bay Area, and was already working as a cinematographer while going to San Francisco State. He had had lots of jobs in film, and then at a little tech startup help desk called Computer Hand Holding. I was there because a friend had suggested my thin background in personal...
