I produced a photo shoot with actor Brendan Sexton several years ago for a feature article in Pavement Magazine about the indie film Hurricane Streets, which won the 1997 Sundance Film Festival audience award for best film. We arranged to meet on a cold winter day in an alley behind the nightclub Arlene Grocery, spending hours crouched in a sinkhole while photographer Tom LeGoff snapped portraits of Brendan, Isidra Vega, David Frank and Carlo Albain (see article in Pavement Magazine). After the photo session was over, we shot a quick roll of 8mm film walking down the Houston Street, and the scans from that roll became some of my favorite images from the day.

A few months later we were standing on a snow-covered street in Park City, Utah during the Sundance Film Festival. Brendan's producer Gill Holland introduced him to a woman reporter who asked to do a television interview for the Sundance Channel. Brendan smirked and said, "Okay, here's the deal: I'll do it, but only if you interview me in your underwear. Oh, and another thing -- I want all my friends there in bed with us, too..." So an hour later, a television crew was set up in Brendan's hotel room with the woman dressed in black lingerie and the Hurricane film crew and a bunch of us crowded onto the bed with Brendan for the interview.