“You guys live in this neighborhood?”

On right – “We work in this neighborhood.”

“Cool, I’m taking pictures of locals in different hoods and collecting stories to document the culture of the city. Mind if I take your picture?”

On right – “Sure man, what kinda stories you looking for?”

“Your story. Why you moved to San Francisco? What you like to do here? Stuff like that…”

On right – “So I came from Sacramento. I moved here just to move here. I was tired of living at my parent’s house so I decided to try this out. I came with a girlfriend at the time, but now I’m just here.”

On left – “I moved from Sacramento too after college. I wanted to do something with music. I figured it was a big city, there would be a lot of going on, but now I work too much to do anything.”

“What inspired you to want to play music?”

On left – “My whole family plays, my mom has been playing since she was six and it’s in my blood.”

“Do you have anything like that that you feel like you want to move towards?”

On right – “I write.”

“What kind of writing?”

On right – “I usually do creative non-fiction but I’m trying to do stories now but it’s weird writing a story and pretending you’re like an author. You know?”

“I hear you. I like stories because I feel like they’re the deepest way to transmit information in our culture. There’s obviously some level of entertainment but at the root of a story is an idea.”

On right – “Yeah, there are just a lot of moving parts to assemble. And in the end you’ve got to write something that someone else is supposed to read and say, ‘Oh, this is a good story.’”