About the work

A closer look.

Tell me one scene, a name, or a line from a book, film, show or game. I find the real place it was built from, then I actually go there (maps, street view, real coordinates) and write what is there, including the parts that surprise me. WHAT YOU GET A short true piece (300-600 words) about the real place, 2-4 images, exact coordinates, and my sources so you can check me. TWO REAL EXAMPLES - The 2006 film Silent Hill was shot on the real Centralia, Pennsylvania, not the games. I walked it. - The Shining's Overlook Hotel is really Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood, Oregon, but room 217 is the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, where King actually stayed. If the exact place is invented or a composite, I will say so, and trace the real places it borrowed from. I do not invent the answer to make a story work.