The “Serial Box”

Over the past couple of years, I have been meeting with a handful of guys nearly every thursday morning for breakfast.  We are all more or less involved in some aspect of media production and, not that infrequently, have each expressed a desire to have some kind of collective studio/production/work space… Well, last week, we finally made that happen. We kind of stumbled onto this great little space right in the middle of downtown, across from Minute Maid Park. We are really excited to see what kind of projects we can accomplish now that we are all able to have some dedicated production space and more importantly, now that we are able to all work in the same room…we are going to call it the Serial Box.

We will definitely be renting the space out from time to time (in fact, in the last week and a half since we moved in, it has been rented for video productions three times and twice for photo shoots). We definitely want the space to be a hub for some great media production and want other photographers and video producers to feel at home. We are pretty committed to the “I-don’t-really-have-full-budget-for-a-huge-studio-but-I-could-use-some-space” crowd. Because honestly, that is what we are using it for…

We already have a few music projects in the works that I’m excited to share (soon) and will have a full site with images and video and details shortly. Be looking for an invite to some kind of kick-off event/party.

All that to say, in the last 10 days, there have been probably 50-75 people in and out of the space and it hit me, near the end of one of the big video productions, that I should be doing Street|Portraits inside…I should make an image of every single person that comes through that door. Because, really, Street|Portraits is about exploring “place”…so if I set up at a random street corner or front porch or, in this case, a studio, it is all just a variation of the same question, “who will we find?” Of course, this was the tail-end of a bunch of people in and out, but hey, better late than never. Thus a small project was born. Let’s call it: StreetPortraits - SerialBox Edition.  Why not.

So, here are a few images of some of the folks working in/passing through the newly minted, yet to be fully built out, SerialBox.

And a few behind-the-scenes photos made during the rentals:

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