https://jacybryla.net Jacy Bryla's Portfolio Wed, 27 Jul 2022 21:19:19 +0000 https://jacybryla.net en https://jacybryla.net/Home Wed, 27 Jul 2022 21:19:15 +0000 Jacy Bryla's Portfolio https://jacybryla.net/Home ANGEL SEDIMENTS &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Writings &amp; Ephemera It wasn’t that I hadn’t been thinking about Los Angeles at all. In many ways, I never stopped ruminating about the city. And not just the mythology of it, or how its myriad reputations stalked my reality. But back then, the truth was that no singular notion of the place existed. Nor was there a chance that city bore any present tense that could be substantially observed by the masses. Certainly not without the collective mourning of my generation’s past and future. Perhaps we still held on to the quiet yearning for our future, our nostalgia... it was the summer of 2020 after all.&nbsp; During this time, I’d been both chewing on it, like a dried-out pit from a plum off a tree in my backyard in K-town. My lease included a provision that specified-- “on one day only” --the matriarch of my landlord’s family would come and pick fruit from all the backyard trees. My roommates and I were to refrain from picking anything until after that day.&nbsp;When she finally arrived in late October, she parked behind the security gate. She moved about the yard with an odd disregard for the nauseating irradiance of heat cast off the cement driveway surrounding her family’s old craftsman. My roommates and I receded into blind spots of the green single story, either flattened against structural beams on the porch or in corners of bedrooms, corners adjacent to built-ins where the cupboards contained solitary shadows, which spilled into drawers where, supposedly, forgotten things were once kept. Once the matriarch left, I jetted out back. The intensity of excitement dulled by the reality that whatever I was to harvest from each branch was because the matriarch had passed it over. . A city that forces you to simultaneously remember and forget what others have already taken; it demands from you an ignorance and intimacy with what has been given and taken from them, too. Just as one must believe there was once a flame just by encountering the ashes. It’s a city whose totality cannot be accounted for alone by summing its parts.&nbsp;And I try to make sense of this strange arithmetic by documenting Los Angeles’ small parcels, superimposing each new plot on top of another until the whole is opaque and dimensional. Something to counter magic hour. Such is this proverbial pit.&nbsp;I’m turning it over with my tongue, endeavoring on an endless walk through its streets. I fear falling in. Is it enough to sense the crevasses in the topology? Or else we'll all be looking and hiding from where the tectonic rip wrings out the light on the horizon.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <img width="524" height="800" width_o="524" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b2f58eb6df076e8889a1fd5e867c3d5b256c08192103a74ad1aee94e2ae76b6/hb9q2nb953-FID4.jpeg" data-mid="148952314" border="0" data-scale="24" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/524/i/5b2f58eb6df076e8889a1fd5e867c3d5b256c08192103a74ad1aee94e2ae76b6/hb9q2nb953-FID4.jpeg" />I<img width="524" height="800" width_o="524" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b2f58eb6df076e8889a1fd5e867c3d5b256c08192103a74ad1aee94e2ae76b6/hb9q2nb953-FID4.jpeg" data-mid="148952314" border="0" data-scale="24" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/524/i/5b2f58eb6df076e8889a1fd5e867c3d5b256c08192103a74ad1aee94e2ae76b6/hb9q2nb953-FID4.jpeg" />&nbsp;<img width="524" height="800" width_o="524" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b2f58eb6df076e8889a1fd5e867c3d5b256c08192103a74ad1aee94e2ae76b6/hb9q2nb953-FID4.jpeg" data-mid="148952314" border="0" data-scale="24" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/524/i/5b2f58eb6df076e8889a1fd5e867c3d5b256c08192103a74ad1aee94e2ae76b6/hb9q2nb953-FID4.jpeg" /> More to come:&nbsp;https://jacy-la.starstar.website/ https://jacybryla.net/Writing Wed, 27 Jul 2022 21:19:16 +0000 Jacy Bryla's Portfolio https://jacybryla.net/Writing Creative: “Charlie’s Eulogy” ANGEL SEDIMENTS <img width="1179" height="1962" width_o="1179" height_o="1962" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d327395e78c6d74e9d71d3dad57860f448fbb44bad3c05058220405fc197eeb/original_1d2a083276561f328b0a637cc116ed42.jpg" data-mid="235002142" border="0" data-scale="60" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7d327395e78c6d74e9d71d3dad57860f448fbb44bad3c05058220405fc197eeb/original_1d2a083276561f328b0a637cc116ed42.jpg" /> Journalism: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;“Charles Booker, Rand Paul Challenger” Profile on “Nevada Incumbant: Catherine Cortez Castro”Brief Biography, “Chris Van Hollen” <img width="632" height="357" width_o="632" height_o="357" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bf956f0851c7066f94137b801e0b186d6dd96bb5c6876a89ea1b45ce0b8abb7a/tws-logo-lg2x.png" data-mid="199877468" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/632/i/bf956f0851c7066f94137b801e0b186d6dd96bb5c6876a89ea1b45ce0b8abb7a/tws-logo-lg2x.png" /> Non-Profit: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Lesson Plan,&nbsp;“Persona Poetry and Mask-making: Unit for Middle School Students”&nbsp; Article, “The Poetry of Masks: Middle School Persona Poems” <img width="768" height="359" width_o="768" height_o="359" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fa60bde1684bccaf5c97cde87efe52bb4e7948933ef95a2369343a39e8f99e91/Logo_Magazine_Transparent-Background-768x359.png" data-mid="199878039" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/fa60bde1684bccaf5c97cde87efe52bb4e7948933ef95a2369343a39e8f99e91/Logo_Magazine_Transparent-Background-768x359.png" /> Business: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Industry Case Study, “Avoiding the Traps of Consumer Driven Health Strategies - Cummins &amp; Kraft” Executive Summary, “IBI &amp; Amazon Present: Innovation in Integration” Regional Report, “A School District Links Teacher Health to Cost Savings and Academic Achievement“ <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ef38138b040c63638eebc8cdd7822804a77ccf67ed0c9711abccea5fbb95d04d/ibi_logo_vert_SMALL_400x400.jpeg" data-mid="199878349" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/ef38138b040c63638eebc8cdd7822804a77ccf67ed0c9711abccea5fbb95d04d/ibi_logo_vert_SMALL_400x400.jpeg" /> https://jacybryla.net/Editing Wed, 27 Jul 2022 21:19:17 +0000 Jacy Bryla's Portfolio https://jacybryla.net/Editing Below represent a handful of&nbsp;recent published works,&nbsp;which I edited or served as an editorial advisor. My contribution on these projects included editorial services I offer, such as: &nbsp; &nbsp; creative direction&nbsp; &nbsp; digital/artbook layout and design&nbsp; &nbsp; information archeticture&nbsp; &nbsp; story composition&nbsp; &nbsp; structural/content editing&nbsp; &nbsp; copy/line editing&nbsp; &nbsp; historical research&nbsp; &nbsp; binding and production&nbsp; &nbsp; audio/script editing&nbsp; &nbsp; fact-checking&nbsp; &nbsp; fiction sensitivie reading &nbsp;<img width="888" height="1148" width_o="888" height_o="1148" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2268c5ff8c967ba80801c1f4ef36b6d09086420ceb59eff03946c6f6a567b70b/Screen-Shot-2022-11-15-at-7.20.59-PM.png" data-mid="199872571" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/888/i/2268c5ff8c967ba80801c1f4ef36b6d09086420ceb59eff03946c6f6a567b70b/Screen-Shot-2022-11-15-at-7.20.59-PM.png" /> <img width="630" height="834" width_o="630" height_o="834" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2d6c81db4ad849d5d63a1902dfe0abc3a267506d93b419bc60d12d1bf7f3f73e/Screen-Shot-2023-12-20-at-2.07.41-PM.png" data-mid="199872795" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/630/i/2d6c81db4ad849d5d63a1902dfe0abc3a267506d93b419bc60d12d1bf7f3f73e/Screen-Shot-2023-12-20-at-2.07.41-PM.png" /> <img width="1500" height="2250" width_o="1500" height_o="2250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d08f25bc2226bdd4c05138e4b006b2075caeb56d437fb933ccf8406b63398413/BAR-AT-TWILIGHT-9781954276031-outline.jpeg" data-mid="199872572" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d08f25bc2226bdd4c05138e4b006b2075caeb56d437fb933ccf8406b63398413/BAR-AT-TWILIGHT-9781954276031-outline.jpeg" /> <img width="1268" height="1056" width_o="1268" height_o="1056" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/53651937a2f87585bed722df085e4641d0d6121eee3e4e45590a4326b5f3640f/Screen-Shot-2023-12-20-at-2.05.04-PM.png" data-mid="199872645" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/53651937a2f87585bed722df085e4641d0d6121eee3e4e45590a4326b5f3640f/Screen-Shot-2023-12-20-at-2.05.04-PM.png" /> https://jacybryla.net/Archiving Wed, 27 Jul 2022 21:19:17 +0000 Jacy Bryla's Portfolio https://jacybryla.net/Archiving Frederic Tuten Papers at Ohio State University&nbsp; Assitant to the author Archival Organizer and Researcher Ephemera Preparor, 2017 - 2020 Project Description and Scope &nbsp; &nbsp; “The Frederic Tuten Papers contain correspondence, drafts, notes, publicity, computer files, and recordings related to Tuten’s career as a fiction writer, film and art critic, essayist, and educator. The collection also holds materials related to Tuten’s personal life, including his education, his social life, his family, and artwork created by him. Some material, including reviews of Tuten's work are in languages other than English, including French, German, Spanish, Catalan Swedish, and Danish. The materials in the collection are dated 1920-2014. The bulk of the materials date from circa 1958-1998.”&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Yes, that’s me next to those boxes.&nbsp; <img width="1160" height="594" width_o="1160" height_o="594" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/71d342c00dcc5909ea287902b4a5ee0713c514c960533168ab568d508f04548a/Screen-Shot-2023-12-20-at-4.33.26-PM.png" data-mid="199881219" border="0" data-scale="73" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/71d342c00dcc5909ea287902b4a5ee0713c514c960533168ab568d508f04548a/Screen-Shot-2023-12-20-at-4.33.26-PM.png" /> The New School Student Oral History Project, Passion for Fashion Oral Historian Transcriptionist Custodian of Audio Materials, 2017 - 2018Project Description and Scope&nbsp; &nbsp; “Prospective Passion is a project that aims to use the oral history method as a basi to explore two narratives about the same topic: the passion for fashion. The project positions the narrative of a young, fashion merchandizer, Ming Cong, against an archival interview of her favored fashion icon, the late Alexander McQueen. In both interviews, the narrators describe their first memories of fashion and their attitudinal shifts toward the industry overtime. They also discuss the feeling of adjacency to their peers, the perversion of the self in their work, as well as their greatest accomplishments. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; When positioned next to each other, the audience will sense the tonal differences between the two speakers as they contemplate their futures. Ming expresses hope and ambition, whereas McQueen exhibits ghostly disappointment and fatal nihilism.&nbsp; &nbsp; The outcome of this project takes two forms. The first is an experimental AudioDoc that intercuts the two interviews atop musically ambient sounds. These sounds are distortions of backgroun noise from the original audios, where a woman can be heard singing somewhere outsid of the interview space. Because it was important to collaborate and create an outcome that could be used, potentially, as an audiotrack for one of Ming’s future fashion shows Ming curated the utterance arrangement.&nbsp; &nbsp; The second form of this project, the textual essay, uses the same utterances and redistributes them in visual form. The AudioDoc has a palpable aesthetic and disorienting effect. The experience of listening is intended to mimic the overarching narrative themes present in both interviews.” <img width="439" height="162" width_o="439" height_o="162" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f3eceb4c50f3be92b1f410d08a63e7425926c4db85bf70b9b023eda58b6cca60/Lang_Logo3_Large_RGB.jpeg" data-mid="199881359" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/439/i/f3eceb4c50f3be92b1f410d08a63e7425926c4db85bf70b9b023eda58b6cca60/Lang_Logo3_Large_RGB.jpeg" /> https://jacybryla.net/Filmography Wed, 27 Jul 2022 21:19:18 +0000 Jacy Bryla's Portfolio https://jacybryla.net/Filmography A short, little film I wrote with a few great friends during my MFA graduate program. Hustlers of New York from Jacy Bryla on Vimeo. https://jacybryla.net/Photography Wed, 27 Jul 2022 21:19:18 +0000 Jacy Bryla's Portfolio https://jacybryla.net/Photography <img width="3506" height="2256" width_o="3506" height_o="2256" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a75c9dece453c9fc9bf9a8925135a5aa686cbb130bcdb7b5ff0dedfa5295334a/sex1.jpeg" data-mid="199882178" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a75c9dece453c9fc9bf9a8925135a5aa686cbb130bcdb7b5ff0dedfa5295334a/sex1.jpeg" /> <img width="3840" height="2448" width_o="3840" height_o="2448" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b744f61cdb07152b052ead09ba7a45e138f726dc8357ed50b65f384a1354cfca/img_72661.jpeg" data-mid="199882063" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b744f61cdb07152b052ead09ba7a45e138f726dc8357ed50b65f384a1354cfca/img_72661.jpeg" /> <img width="3624" height="2448" width_o="3624" height_o="2448" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b7425ec204b4c13ad21a77b3e782b6b4be53cb231869bda92a680b4da681ea0/img_0208.jpeg" data-mid="199882064" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5b7425ec204b4c13ad21a77b3e782b6b4be53cb231869bda92a680b4da681ea0/img_0208.jpeg" /> <img width="2048" height="1536" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b44bf79b67a470ff22739615701fb21f9977463f410173fb9c8e1d1ccebeb066/abw0ab.jpeg" data-mid="199882252" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b44bf79b67a470ff22739615701fb21f9977463f410173fb9c8e1d1ccebeb066/abw0ab.jpeg" /> <img width="3264" height="2448" width_o="3264" height_o="2448" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6720b325e7378fb93fd0eeb44e300bc287090e4207c23ebf030ba1f11e5785af/img_0205.jpeg" data-mid="199882066" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6720b325e7378fb93fd0eeb44e300bc287090e4207c23ebf030ba1f11e5785af/img_0205.jpeg" /> Downtown San Francisco, 2013 - 2016 https://jacybryla.net/About Wed, 27 Jul 2022 21:19:19 +0000 Jacy Bryla's Portfolio https://jacybryla.net/About I’m a writer, editor, researcher, and educator currently living in Los Angeles. My written work specializes in print and film media for cultural programming. I’ve gained additional expertise in corporate communications, product design, advertising, and social media marketing. Since working with various publications and cultural institutions, I’m now seeking out projects with greater creative scope, medium, and subject matter. I’m always thinking about place and spatial poetics.In the last decade, I picked up an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School, audio training in Oral History protocol, a habit of trail running, and an orange, street cat named Gian Carlo (whom I love very much). <img width="1137" height="905" width_o="1137" height_o="905" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b0b2cfaa93033f91557f2bb2eab2c420f98836e1d191bd3a48b26db7e8070f5/IMG_4088.jpeg" data-mid="199884307" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5b0b2cfaa93033f91557f2bb2eab2c420f98836e1d191bd3a48b26db7e8070f5/IMG_4088.jpeg" />