Louis talks about his life in Corona del Mar

(an apology: I had great visuals that I found online to post but for some reason blogger won't upload any of the photographs)

Rachel and I were able to set up an interview in Corona Del Mar with Louis this past Saturday. We have been doing our best to listen to Steven's criticisms concerning the storyline of our film and its lack of depth. Our time with Louis definitely got to a level of depth (or preciousness?) we were hoping for.

We listened to Louis as he defined success, shared his philosophy as an artist and how that translates to the rest of his life, how his artistic and scientific parts of his life clash or enhance one another, and he even shared his desire to find a special someone.

Louis discussed the part of his life when shell-collecting was an unhealthy addiction for him, his road to recovery, and all that he learned because of his obsession. Louis pinpointed isolation from relationships with friends and family as the most unhealthy part of his shell-collecting behavior. As Louis became self aware (and seems to continue to be self aware), he has transformed his hobby into something that invites people to be apart of his experience (i.e. shell club, Dad coming with him, not spending so many hours in his bedroom looking through a microscope).

Great words were spoken. I interviewed Louis while Rachel filmed and we haven't yet talked as a group about how that worked out for us. I am curious. We had about an hour worth of sound troubles as we were setting up the equipment. Eventually we got the levels on the camera in the right place and it sounded great in the headphones. We will be doing an interview at the Shell Shop this Sunday and will be doing another interview with Louis painting at the warehouse art studio he uses.