The other day I went to have some Chinese food and my fortune cookie read "its time to treat yourself to something special"
Well... you know what I did next!

Austin Scoops

A couple of weeks ago I attended The Austin Ice Cream Festival to gather some footage on how people "celebrate" ice cream in the US.
The festival was great, I'd say that about 12.000 people of all ages attended, not minding the extreme heat that Austin boasts.
There I was, filming contests, bands playing, ice cream inspired games and small ice cream tents of local vendors selling more ice cream that you can imagine. In one of these tents I met Tim, owner of Austin Scoops, he was extremely busy, but still he took a few seconds to talk to me. I briefly explained to him what I was doing when he asked me "can you take a picture of us?"
When I set up to take the picture I thought it won't be possible because everyone was soooo busy attending customers, and then Tim yelled "Hey everyone, turn around for a picture!", they turned around and SNAP!, I took the picture.

Last week, I received an email from Tim thanking me for taking the picture and sharing some information about his ice cream shop. It turns out that Austin Scoops is owned and operated by Tim and his family, many of the people working at the tent wasTim's family. What a beautiful business!
Thank you Tim for contacting me, next time I am in Austin I will go visit my friends at Austin Scoops!

Ice Cream brings people together

The day was sunny, clear and warm. We where at an ice cream parlor in downtown Atlanta filming for the documentary. There was a great feeling in the air of happiness and laughter.
My subject was Brooke, a girl who at 27 had a taste of ice cream for the first time in her life.

When we where done filming a group of us stayed there talking about the city, ice cream and ourselves. There we where Andrew, Marcela, Stan and me, each one of us from a different country, different ages and different experiences.
Andrew is from Florida and has many things in common with me because I lived in Florida for many years. Marcela is from Mexico and works in the health-care industry, her perspective on things is different than ours. Stan is a professional Judo wrestler who is competing for the World Championship and happened to be having some ice cream when he stumbled upon us.

There we where, having a great conversation, all together thanks to ice cream.