This is a dream come true. I'm actually lighting for Todd Hido.
Move it closer ?
I'm using my brake lights...
- Back up half way ! - Half way.
I'm using the truck to bounce a bit of red on that wall so it'll look good.
I can't believe this is happening. This is unbelievable.
Just being in this neighborhood, I got a little bit of anxiety
'cause I wonder if all these people know that Todd Hido lives here.
Hey, Todd !
Oh, man !
Nice to meet you, man.
Man, it's a pleasure to meet you too, brother.
- Gosh. Your house is beautiful. - Thank you.
- Beautiful outside. - Thank you. Come on in.
I'll take the shoes off.
The first time I saw his photos, that was at least 18 years ago, maybe.
It was just going, who is taking pictures of my memories ?
How did this person get in my mind ?
Walking into his place and seeing those pictures and those colors,
I was just an open heart, I was blasting Mana and Aloha to go,
I truly 100% am moved by your work.
I want to make my movies like you, I want to shoot like you.
- Here it is ! - Yeah.
Okay. So that is my favorite painting that you've ever made...
For me, because it just reminded me the back streets of where I'm at.
That was like, that was the first one that I saw.
Jason and I met because he liked something of mine on Instagram
and I was like, that's Jason Momoa.
I didn't know anything about his love of photography,
I didn't know much about him except he was an actor
and I liked what he did.
I don't think I really understood how much of a true fan he was of my work
and how much he knew about it.
And so, my best friend, him and I used to get post cards,
we'd put them everywhere.
I'd get two copies of your book so I could travel
and I could hang them all over...
Hido, it goes like this, buddy. It goes, Tom Waits...
... and there's Todd Hido.
- You're fucking up there, bro. - That's fucking awesome.
There might be an Ani DiFranco,
like there may be a filmmaker in there somewhere,
but you're fucking top, I might even say, four.
Thank you.
It's insane, like, because the way, how I feel and how I see.
- My god, dude, it's... - It's like a connection.
All that stuff, how that has like... Everything you make, man.
I'm not a big photography fan
in the sense of like I collect photography.
I only have Todd. I only look at this stuff
and even though he has all these books that inspire him,
it's just him. It's so simple for me.
- Yeah. - This is my birthday present.
- That's awesome. - I'm at Todd Hido's house.
- And just before, it's Hido. - Hido. Fucking A.
My name is Marina. My name is Marina Luz,
my name is Marina Luz Hido.
Okay, wait, we gotta start over.
My name is Marina Luz and I am Todd Hido's wife
and I try to help him out by driving him around
so he's free to look at the world.
Based on his artwork, people think he's probably a moody, quiet loner.
He is a talkative goofball and I love that.
Fuck yeah, bro. I got this.
Listen, I don't ride in the backseat for anyone.
That's the biggest compliment I can give you, sir.
Thank you, sir. I appreciate it.
He reminds me a lot of J in a lot of ways,
like, the way their minds work.
I can just see both of them just taking in the entire world.
This is gonna be so exciting.
The fog is rolling in and it's smoky.
So Todd has never had this before, so we brought him the luck.
Yes, you did bring me the luck.
I just want to learn from him. I want to see his process,
just be a fly on the wall and like, watch him work.
We drove 20 minutes, 30 minutes, and all of a sudden,
the fog hits and then, wazang...
There's a freaking Todd Hido painting.
Through the windshield is all the raindrops
and all the mist and all the fog is there and I'm like, holy shit.
I cannot believe what I'm seeing.
I just found this one neighborhood in Pacifica,
it was like way back in 1996
and I've been going there ever since to make pictures.
I'm sure that I was standing right here somewhere,
tripod and stuff and that covered car was right where that white car is
and this is the light.
The wind was moving enough that it was blowing the car cover.
- It's crazy this is the spot here. - But yeah, this is it.
So special, man.
My man. Dude, I'm so stoked.
I'm stoked too, man.
And these lights only get better 'cause everyone's lights...
Look at this peach house, the windows.
Who the fuck makes... Look at this house !
A lot of the houses look just like the houses in the Midwest
because they were built by the same builder of the first suburb of America,
which was Levittown.
They built a neighborhood in Pacifica, which is bizarre, but true.
- Look at that view, dude ! - Great to meet you. It's really fun.
I'm gonna show you guys something else, too.
So, that's what I was doing then, back of this house.
If you turn right right here, we can park, like, right there,
where there's no people.
I revisit places a lot because it's always like,
if you're panning for gold and you strike gold,
you don't go and move down the river.
You stick around that area a bit and that's why I revisit places.
Take a right. And things change in so many places.
But also you change and your eye changes...
...and the thing, too, is the environment changes
and that's such a huge crucial point in both of our art forms.
It is that thing of like, constantly being aware
and be in the moment and searching and looking
and enlightenment is, like, being aware.
So, when you're out hunting in those moments
and you're getting inspired by all these things,
that's what fuels me and to be in the passenger seat with him,
in the cockpit going, bro, I can't believe this is happening.
We just rolled up to some supermarket.
I'm like, where are we ? There's a KFC and a fucking Taco Bell.
Then we roll out and he goes behind the grocery store
and it's like, there's a pink house, there's a beige house,
there's a blue house, and there...
I'm in his fucking paintings. It's insane.
- No shit. - And it's all foggy !
It's foggy with smoke and then it just happens
to have water on our windshield right now.
It's insane, bro. My mind...
That's the fucking thing, we just came from like, sun.
At his house there was sun.
- That's insane. - It's unbelievable.
Over the years,
I've learned that all the good stuff is behind something else,
behind a hotel or a supermarket or back around the fence,
that's the part of the world that people aren't paying attention to
and that's where the reality is.
Yeah !
Yeah ! License and registration, sir.
- Excuse me, sir. - Todd Hido.
Okay, sorry. My bad, sorry.
It's amazing, yeah, we'll split it.
What's cool about, this car is perfect 'cause it's just non-descript.
- Yeah. - Nobody knows you, like...
- That's what I gotta do, bro. - You get rid of that pink Cadillac.
Pink Cadillac and the gigantic earth roamer.
Yeah, a little bit more, like, a little bit more low key.
Maybe cut the hair and take off the pink shirt.
Look at me !
It just makes you want to hunt, you know what I mean ?
He has it in him. It's just hunting for places and moments
and what the environment holds and every day is different.
Every day has its little beauty and you just got to have the right set of eyes.
It's all in the back alleyways, side B. It's underneath the table.
I just caught the cyan filter... Remove the cyan filter. Perfect !
Shooting through the window, which is something I do
not all the time, but a lot of the time,
it happened from just like, I was driving down the road
and it started to rain
and there's just all this amazing stuff happened in front of me,
but I couldn't stop the car 'cause I was driving,
so I just took a few photographs that way and then they worked.
There was something about the look that that gave the picture
through the window of the car.
It just has this feeling that works for me.
I think his photographs work in a lot of the same ways as memories
where your memory isn't perfectly sharp.
You remember certain things with perfect clarity or you think you do
and then other things are fuzzy and that's the way his images work.
His eye pierces my heart. Being raised in Iowa,
I knew what it was like to go and sit on the prairies
and drive hours without seeing anything and in that space,
you gotta get creative.
There's this thing in photography about the decisive moment.
I know for a fact there's decisive moments out in the landscape
that have to do with light, the weather and the place
and you coming together all at the same time.
A lifetime of honing his craft has given Todd a kind of control
over his images, that appears effortless.
This is pretty surreal because we're in a ranch market.
It's like, this is a shopping center.
Cue the rain.
And he stops right here.
No, it's not raining outside, but because the condensation,
he waits and he gets...
You can hear it, all the rain getting on the windshield,
in this fog, in this town, obviously we're close to the ocean,
in northern California, and he gets ready
and you go down this back alleyway.
I'm gonna turn this off so you can see.
You see a light come on to the fog inside one of the houses.
You know how we were talking about perfect timing ?
We were exactly where we were supposed to be
and I'm standing behind Todd and I just want to capture him.
It's like he's in his own painting right now
and I'm just looking at Todd and he's in his painting now.
I'm completely in his world.
That's a beauty. I like that.
The perspective and then how the clouds are,
the sky looks purple right now. It's cool.
It's basically Hido's dreamland.
It really is like, fucking cool. I love it here.
I've been coming here for 20 years, man.
Look at that. The maestro.
So often, I go out and shoot
and sometimes I don't get out of the car to take a picture
because I'm like, it's not as good or better than my other pictures...
And that kinda hinders you a little bit, that thinking,
but then I tell myself
like, no, dumb ass, you need to get out of the fucking car.
You just gotta have fun, man.
How did you get all those fucking pictures
is by getting out of the car and doing it with the pictures
and like, that's like as good as it gets for me.
This is like, a picture that I love right now,
like, look at that glowing window
and the people came into this other bedroom
and the curtains are slit a little bit.
So we had house lights on, they turned off.
The neighbors light, turned off
and I was like, I'm gonna pull the truck around, we'll light it.
This is gonna be the one.
The thing about Jason and I that I figured it out,
like, why does he like me ? What's he interested in ?
Or why does he like my work ? And then he told me he was from Iowa
and I was like, of course, he just loves the landscapes that I make
because Iowa is just like Ohio.
There's something about understanding of that space in the wintertime
and the openness that living in a place like that brings.
That is this one thing that brought us together,
which I think is fascinating.
- Thank you, sir. - Welcome.
That one slayed me.
- That fucking slayed me. - I love that one.
This one slayed me, that one slayed me
and the goddamn crosses in Iceland slayed me.
- I have them under here. Yes. - Goddamn it !
That's awesome. I'm glad you liked that.
I've been doing photography in some shape or form
every day since I was like, you know, 18 years old.
When I was a teenager, I used to race B-M-X.
Where I grew up in Kent, Ohio,
we had dirt tracks that we would make in the woods.
Just like any kid with an iPhone and a skateboard,
you want to record what you're doing and what your friends are doing
and so, I learned how to take pictures of my friends.
Photography really actually sort of saved me
'cause I was the classic Midwestern boy,
wasn't maybe so sure what I was doing in life.
Once I started making pictures
and I started realizing how much I liked it,
it changed the way I looked at everything.
The worst thing for me is like, it's sunny and everything is perfect.
Like, I always like the mood of like, atmosphere and like...
I was wondering that, like, if you drive out to a place
and you're just kind of depressed...
You're heavily depressed because it's a beautiful day.
Yes.
I have become really adept at looking at weather reports
and I secretly, like, harbor a desire to be an actual storm chaser.
It's like out in Elko, Nevada. I heard that there's frozen fogs.
- I went out there for a few days. - That's what I want to talk about.
I was like, do you have to study weather patterns ?
I totally know all about... I am like all over that shit.
You're like, tornado watch. Bombing the tornadoes going to get shit.
I would love to be in a fucking tornado.
The thing about Jason that's incredible is he has a million ideas
and he's a mile a minute and I'm like that, too.
I'm excited to see who inspires you because I, after I got to you,
I was really disappointed with the world.
- Really ? - Yeah, I'm like, now what ?
He came at a time when people weren't out about doing a bunch of things
and it was amazing to have this big lovable man,
kind of descend upon your world and be in awe of every inch of it.
I'll be your assistant, Mister Hido.
- Can you type fast ? - Nope.
- Well, we have a problem. - How do we get into this thing ?
It's just nice to have somebody appreciate all the little things
that you've created in your world.
I love this one. Like, this is when I started to realize
these are about relationships.
Two people watching TV with the lights off at the same time
in different rooms and I'm like, what the fuck...
What's the relationship like ? Like why aren't they together ?
And I started to realize it's about what happens in the house,
and it's about showing these things
without actually showing the people that are involved in it all.
Looking at my books with him, page by page,
that's not something you get to do with many people.
That's my dad at his fucking college graduation,
holding up my brother and like, the empty keg.
This one is crazy. It's like, his diploma and my brother,
his two accomplishments, you know ?
And my dad was a football player.
My dad grew up in like this crazy fucking household,
like, it was so bad, him and his brother
would go sleep in the trunk wrapped in a fucking rug,
sometimes at night and he grew up in this crazy household.
I understand where he comes from,
he raised hell in our house too, and there's a lot of that in my work.
That's like the thing that like, kinda fuels a lot of it.
To personally sit and go through work with him,
I'll always remember that. It was really something like, wow.
There's a true appreciation of my work and that was really special for me.
- Beautiful. - Thank you.
After that time with Todd, I was just buzzed with creativity.
I worked all over the world, but Todd and I, we stayed in touch.
It was just the beginning.
- What time is it ? - Seven forty five.
- It's seven forty five ? - Yeah.
I thought it was four in the morning.
I just woke up in Todd's studio.
- I feel like I'm in his paintings. - You are in his paintings.
We got in super late last night,
but I'm pumped because today, we're going hunting with Todd,
taking out some new cameras to a place called Eames Ranch.
Something about, like, things that are destroyed
and that aren't as interesting as things are that's left.
This is the new me.
The last time that we filmed, I just had a gastric bypass surgery
and so I was the same person that I had been
for probably most of my adult life, overweight,
and not as healthy as I should be.
My mom did it three years ago and it worked for her, you know ?
And, and I was like, well damn, my mom is my inspiration,
if she did it, I can do this.
This light is amazing, right ?
It is the most important thing I've probably done in my adult life
was to become healthy.
I got to restart my life and it's really amazing
that you guys have been able to see the before and after part of that.
He shared so much with me, so I wanted to buy him something special.
Todd shoots medium format and I love Leica.
Put it together, you got the Leica S-3, one of my favorite digital cameras.
I don't change equipment very much
because I've known that like, how do you get really good at something
is by having some things be constant that you know and master
and then the things that change are what you're bringing to it.
When somebody can introduce you to something and you grow from it,
that's the best scenario for everybody.
To be able to be taught by your idol, your master, your teacher
and like, there will be no one bigger
and to be able to buy him this medium format Leica camera,
which I believe is, like, I love Leica, right ?
I wanted to get him the medium format,
they just don't have that many of them and they're expensive.
What better thing to do is buy your idol this new paintbrush
and go, hey, let's go shoot this together and I'm gonna learn from you.
It's crazy 'cause there's this house that's preserved at the Eames institute
and it looks like it's just out of a Hido painting.
It's so surreal, like, you walk in, this place is just held in time.
You wish we wouldn't take these things away.
I almost want to turn them into museum pieces
and keep it the way it was and how history was.
It's like, man, just not too far back in the fifties, out in Petaluma,
it's pretty crazy that neon green goes with this
and you get to see what fashion was back then and how time has passed
and it never changed and it had this dust and time on it.
Once again, I was in one of those paintings and it's phenomenal.
I love this stuff, like, left behind, like those hangers in the closet.
- I know, right ? - Yeah.
Yeah. There we go. That's awesome.
- Beautiful, right ? - Epic.
Thank you.
Never in a million years did I ever think
I would be shooting side by side with Todd.
I didn't even think I could be friends on this level with him.
The thing I'm most attracted to is like, the light.
I just kinda follow the light around a lot of times...
... and I kinda shoot into it and like, it gets me started.
I don't want to blow out those highlights,
but this is kind of about that color and that gold.
When you move your camera, just in incremental ways,
it really slows you down and shows you what it is that's possible.
He's more Aloha than I am. He is truly, wants people to know,
there's no great mystery, it's just putting in the work and doing it
and getting out there and he shares it.
It's not like he takes one picture and like...
He really is still searching, trying to master his craft.
- Fucking great, bro. - Thank you.
When you start to go into the room,
you realize there's a lot more than just one picture in this room.
And then, a lot of times, it's just a different point of view,
coming over here and then changing the light
with the blinds, there is like, perfect light control.
There's something about the space, like a home and the surfaces.
The surfaces tell the story.
My family had a carpet like this in our house.
It was orange, we had curtains like that with that light coming through
and I remember that kind of stuff.
There's something about the spaces that you remember from your childhood
they're just embedded in your memory and then you just respond.
It's a time capsule...
I've never had this much fun taking pictures in my life.
That's awesome.
You just walk in and you're like, my god and then you're right,
just like a little bit of an angle, a little bit here,
inch this way, inch that way.
A little more ceiling, the shadows are changing, light is changing.
Right now I'm having kind of anxiety
'cause we should be in the other room shooting more.
'Cause of the lighting, but it's like...
Amazing to be shot by you, I've never even seen...
We're both from the Midwest, but I've never seen carpet like this
and I've never seen a chair like this.
It's something about like this era that I think it just tells a story.
How do you find that thing that you do,
that groove that you're making for yourself ?
That comes from time.
You don't even know enough to even look for that when you start,
but as you go on into it, you start to navigate your way
into making pictures that become more distinctly yours.
I want to train my eye like that and really understand
the technology the way he does and the craft that he does,
so it was huge for me.
- You fucking guy ! - Pretty fucking nice, right ?
Is this what my heaven looks like ? A fucking, this is like...
Seriously, can we do this for the rest of my life ?
Yeah, totally. Like, yeah, I'm down.
- I'm like, this is it, bro. - Fuck yeah. This is fun.
I wear my heart on my sleeve and it couldn't be more passion
coming out of this guy, 'cause this is the top for me.
It's really cool to have Todd and his wife, Marina, be like,
we're totally pumped because it's a little rejuvenation.
They've been doing it for thirty years or something like that.
It's just like a nice feeling to go,
this guy is really stoked on me and what I've done.
There's a lot of overlap between him and J.
They never stop learning, they never want to stop learning.
They think everything is interesting
and that's exhilarating to stand next to and be part of
and I just feel so lucky to be along for the ride with him.
Jason and I have been communicating back and forth often,
when he comes into your life, like, he's in your life,
in his large way and that's a wonderful thing.
He's so damn excited about things, which is awesome, you know ?
There's not many people in the world that have that exuberance.
I really appreciate the willingness you guys have to learn
and the questions that you ask and you draw all this stuff out of me
that reminds me of being a teacher, like twenty years ago.
A lot of times, like, the students these days are not so engaged,
but you guys are so hungry for info and, like, that's a gift and I like it.
- That's awesome. - Those are amazing.
That's amazing. And look at what happens with the fog.
It makes the whole entire picture lighter
because what happens is it suspends itself in the air
and that catches the light that you don't even know is there.
I love these ones of me and you. Isn't that great ?
That's fucking great, man. I love it.
I mean, look at that. You've got to send me that.
Like who would ever think that we twinsies ?
So, J, I know you don't really usually get hand me downs, but...
Dude, I love your hand me downs, are you kidding me ?
I'm gonna hand this down to you. This is like your rig
and this thing is like fucking monster...
It's weird because people get excited, they see me and they're like,
I want a sign your trident and sign this
and it's like, yeah, of course and it's beautiful.
You do it for kids and now I understand it,
it's literally his tripod.
It's crazy. It's just the most fan weird thing that I have,
but it means the world to me that he cared enough
and could see that I was passionate enough to deserve something like that.
They made a tripod, this is definitely the tripod, bro.
- It's fucking meant for you, right ? - I love it.
- From you it means everything. - I'm so happy that you like it.
I never had the opportunity to see Todd's work in a museum.
I've only experienced it through books.
So it was a pretty big honor to go see it for the first time with him.
This is, I would say, one of the best photography museums in the world.
Yeah, and that's the bay bridge.
When I was kid, I don't think I had ever been to a museum.
The culture was not, like, my parent's cup of tea, you know ?
And 'cause they were busy working. My mom was a cashier at a drug store
and my dad was a plumber and they worked all the time
and so they didn't have time to know about that stuff.
I'll do it. Okay. All right.
So, this is the first time I'm also seeing this work framed,
which is something that was made for...
This is my body of work, Bright Black World.
It's not been seen in this context, and the pandemic slowed everything down
and so this was on hold and I haven't even seen these framed,
which I'm blown away by.
- Right ? Thank you, man. - They're amazing.
I never ever would have imagined
that my work would be collected by a museum,
that somebody thinks enough of what you do
that they want to save it and show it to somebody else,
that's about as good as it gets in life.
Working with Todd inspired me
to learn more about the tools that we use to make pictures.
It showed me how much I didn't know and how much I wanted to know.
This looks like an old Macintosh. Why isn't my Facetime working ?
1977, Ralph has been here. You made all my lenses, bro.
You son of a bitch.
To have an invitation to be able to go to Leica
was a once in a lifetime opportunity.
Bro.
Yeah ! Keep it up !
So I had this chance to pick up some historic cameras.
So of course, I invited Todd to take a look at what I got.
- Look what I got today. - It's incredible.
Being on this journey with Todd has introduced me to other artists.
Apocalypse Now is my favorite movie in the world.
This came out the year I was born.
My god, bro, look at that !
It's all the photos that the set photographer took...
Ten of thirty, look at that.
These are all the photos he took on set, Apocalypse Now.
Hopper was wearing these... Bro !
These are his, this is the fucking set, man. Where's the bag ?
This is the bag.
I can't believe you have... That's Walker Evans' camera.
That's incredible.
Walker Evans was a depression era photographer.
He took pictures of the mundane and made the ordinary into art.
- I'm blown away. - I am too.
I remember learning about this in the history of photography,
like, Walker Evans, Many Are Called and it's all these candid photographs
of people on the subway that, in order to achieve this level
of like, not being aware of the camera,
what Walker Evans did was, he blacked out the camera
and he painted the camera black and he put it in his coat
and he had a cable release, not a little one, a long one,
it was up his sleeve and he could take the photographs
and that's how these people, these pictures are so...
- Inconspicuous. - Inconspicuous, exactly.
- That's exactly what they are. - How amazing was that ?
It's amazing and I can't believe this is Walker Evans' camera.
It's like, incredible.
I'm very interested in the history of photography.
I live in a house that has 7 000 books of photographs.
That's just the number one thing that you can do,
just sort of advance yourself visually is just to take in a lot of things.
I never understood people that were afraid of being influenced.
That's what you want.
This is the first release, the first commercial Leica.
It's a piece of history. Like the Walker Evans camera,
this invention has changed the way we see the world,
because they were able to travel the world,
without having to carry a wooden camera and glass plates.
When we speak about these kind of things,
we are not the owners, we are only the people
that transfer them in time for someone else to come after us
and I think this is the secret of Leica
and of a lot of other things that people love in life.
We transport them.
- First off, welcome to my home. - Thank you.
It's my dream come true to have like a little blues shack. Nat's here.
- This gentlemen. - This gentlemen is here.
Well, last time we were together, we were in Germany, right ?
I got the... Come over here. I got the Apocalypse Now cameras.
Does Jason even know what the fuck these cameras are ?
I said, does he even know what the fuck these cameras are ?
- He knew because I told him. - Seriously, what the fuck ?
I know what they are, but what I didn't know is I didn't know Robert Walker.
- No, Walker Evans. - Walker Evans.
Robert Walker is a nobody.
Robert Johnson and Johnny Walker, they're buddies.
Walker Evans, like I was saying...
- So this is his camera. - A little lens for it.
It's the exact camera that Walker Evans used.
And I wanted to open it with Todd...
He's a huge inspiration of mine.
Walker Evans is one of my favorite photographers.
These cameras and machines that we use,
like these bikes that you all make, all these things have a history
and it's really important, that lineage I think is curious
and it means a lot to me.
Finally. I got something that Todd Hido wants.
'Cause he doesn't want old rusty cars,
he doesn't want dirty clothes, he doesn't want Harley's,
he doesn't want guitars.
He just wants cameras and I'm like what am I gonna do ?
And he's my best bro, my idol,
so I'm like, I'm gonna buy this fucking camera for him.
And that I did not know when you were bidding on it.
And I'm gonna buy this fucking camera for him.
I was not encouraging any... I was just telling him how...
Serious, brother. My god !
This came to fruition because I travel with all of Todd's paintings
and put them in my houses around the world.
I just like, want to travel with my favorite stuff,
reminds my kids of home.
We're trying to make it a little bit more portable and vagabond style.
So we thought about, we want to make something together.
This is the portfolio box that my agent used in New York City
for like twenty years, this is designed so you can fuck it up a little bit.
This is like, library cloth. This is dead stock library cloth.
- Marina designed this. - It's amazing.
Shit, dude !
Jeremiah. Look at this, I'm blasting through...
I'm in a fucking Hido painting, bro !
You are in it.
That is so cool, man.
I made a rubber stamp and this collection will grow.
Beautiful.
And some of these are pictures that are new
that I haven't even shared with anybody, but I love this one.
It's amazing.
This is my Leica. You helped me... That clarity, man.
- That's the S-3 ? - This is it. Yeah.
And then that's camera and the F-L-2, those are the ones...
I got rid of all the other cameras.
We've been there, bro.
- And look at the colors. - It's so good.
I love this one so much.
Fuck ! I'm sorry, beep !
Look at it. Bro, I was there.
- My god. It's so good, Todd. - Isn't it amazing ? Thank you.
This is that camera that you gave me.
I love that like, you asked me to like, make something for you.
Everything keeps evolving going, this will be our shots.
- The time together and then... - It's our freaking diary, man.
So cool.
I am so up for all this and I am so excited
and it like, makes me so happy.
- I love you. - I love you, man.
- God. Thank you so much. - Thank you.
Being an artist, you give up a lot. It's not for everybody.
A young woman wrote on the internet,
Todd Hido is making pictures of my memories,
but we've never met.
That's it, right there.
That is what it is, that's what you hope for.
It's somebody that is able to understand you
or have a better understanding of another person through an image.
That's the kind of thing that you trade for a nine to five job.
I wouldn't trade all the uncertainty that I've had for anything.
In life, I think, one door opens, another opens, another opens,
and if you truly put it out there, you're gonna meet those people
that are your inspirations, that are gonna inspire you even further
and if you do it right, you're gonna inspire them.
Round one and know your mark and know your lines, bro.
That's right. I gotta learn.
Ready ? And, action.
That was the best one we got.
Gotta get a fucking pro actor in there, man,
I'm just letting you know.
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