SeeingEyeBlog

When I was in North Carolina last October working on a film, the 6-day weeks were almost unbearably stressful. Luckily we were in a beautiful landscape of mountains and rivers, and lots of waterfalls. In fact, our base-camp town of Brevard, NC, is called the land of waterfalls.

One of these waterfalls is actually a smooth rock at a slope, forming a natural water slide. Keep in mind that we were in the mountains and it was October, so the water was quite cold. On one of our days off, I slid down the rock and instantly my stress, frustrations, and physical exhaustion were gone. It was the most amazing 3-second transformation that doesn’t have a parallel that I can imagine.

There needs to be a sliding rock in Los Angeles, because God knows there are many stressful situations here too. Although, somehow I think that part of the charm of Sliding Rock comes from the fact that it’s there naturally, and could have entertained centuries of settlers and Native Americans well before I took the plunge. Any recreation in Los Angeles would lack character, like the rest of the city.