Soundtrack Recording
We went into the studio last week and recorded some songs for the soundtrack. We are humbled that Pokey LaFarge, Mat Wilson were willing to write original songs for our film. Irene Allen was also good enough to contribute one of her originals as well and we all convened on Jupiter Studios to record them last week. We recorded demos of these songs last spring, one of which “Brick By Brick” written by Mat Wilson and performed by him and Pokey can be heard in our Trailer. I gotta say … that it sounds much better with a full band, which is not to say that it sounded bad...
read moreWhat Brick Thieves Do …
St. Louis brick thieves made national news a couple of weeks back when the New York Times published this piece by Malcomb Gay. Of course this story is nothing new to us. Brick thieving is a big part of this project. It would be hard to do a film about St. Louis brick and not touch on this subject. It’s a devastating problem in some parts of the city. We told you earlier in this project that we spoke to Alderman Sam Moore and he is probably one of the few City officials who has long taken this problem seriously. The causes and lack of attention are complicated as most urban...
read moreAbout Brick By Chance and Fortune
St. Louis is a city with a rich heritage of brick architecture. Home to some of the largest and most innovative clay working companies of the nineteenth century, you can still see some of the finest examples of brick work ever produced all over the city and region. Today the city's brick heritage is under threat by neglect, brick theft and urban renewal.
