Hoarding....

So I thought I'd try my hand at a little update. After a month at my new job I just returned from my first Hoarding shoot. Met a very nice man who has a very big problem with his house full of stuff. We spent 5 days shooting in Oakland in a home full of a lot of clothing and vhs tapes. Most of the electricity doesn’t work (only two lights in the whole house), the only water in the house is a trickle of from the kitchen sink, the toilets don’t work and he is sleeping on the ground in front of the front door. It’s really heartbreaking.

More often then not I could touch the ceiling the hoard was so high (and we're now estimating that there were 12 foot ceilings). It’s both emotionally and physically demanding work – frankly I wore Josie’s social working hat about as much as a producing hat while I was there but I think in the end we’re going to have a great show. Bennie (the home owner) has actually started parting with quite a lot. He has a large (50-60) collection of leather jackets that are headed out the door including two identical coats he explains look like Michael Jackson’s coat from Beat It. I think by this weekend he’s going to have a bed. (He had two mattress sets but they were standing on their end and there was no place to put them down.) Seems like we’re making a difference.

Since the show doesn’t air until September I thought I’d share a couple photos. One shows you the dining room, one the livingroom and there’s a shot of the cameraman and me maneuvering in the living room.

Love,

Matilda