storyATL

storyATL is a platform where Atlanta residents record, preserve, and explore stories about community, place, and their lives in the city. Personal memories, family histories, everyday routines, local change, local lore. People contribute through in-person booths at events or through a web app anywhere. Every story enters a structured repository with transcripts, location data, and tags. A lightweight knowledge base connects stories to landmarks, neighborhoods, corridors, and key dates.

From that archive, the system generates new outputs. Story cards on top of animations. Audio documentary pages. Curated map walks. Projection-mapped visuals. Every output links back to its source stories with attribution, timecoded excerpts, and traceable citations. Consent, privacy, and visibility controls are built into every step.

The primary output for ATL DTN is screens and projection-mapped installations using generative visuals drawn from the story archive. The MAP Rover serves double duty as a mobile story booth and a projection surface for downtown public spaces. An augmented reality layer lets people point a phone at a downtown location and see stories from that place. Atlanta residents, workers, and visitors see their stories reflected back on the surfaces they walk past every day.

Atlanta is rich in history, culture, and community. Our public spaces reflect that vibrancy. The stories are already there. They live in conversations on Peachtree, dinner crowds in East Atlanta Village, taking friends to the Beltline, along the Chattahoochee, in the barbershops, churches, and parks. They circulate, shift, and then might disappear because there is no system to hold them.

storyATL makes that vibrancy visible. Not as a mural or a sculpture, but as infrastructure that collects, preserves, and resurfaces community knowledge in the spaces where people already are. Downtown plazas. Building facades. The MAP Rover parked at a community event. The stories get captured, transcribed, tagged to their locations, and projected back onto downtown surfaces the same day.

The corridors tell you where the knowledge moves. Peachtree Street is one long argument about what “Atlanta” means. Sweet Auburn, Vine City, Summerhill, Old Fourth Ward: each has a version of its own history that no single archive holds. The BeltLine now connects communities that used to be separated by rail infrastructure. storyATL gives those stories a persistent, findable home and a way to show up in the physical spaces where they happened.

This is not decoration added afterward. It is part of the public space that reflects and grows with the people who use it.

Identity runs through Better Auth. Public attribution defaults to first name only. Invited contributors can opt into “verified storyteller” tags with identity known internally but display controlled by the contributor.

I have been producing brand and network content for two decades. Making films and television, managing budgets, delivering work on contracted deadlines. The scale has ranged from small branded pieces on my own to multi-month productions with large teams across multiple locations across the globe.

Scope management is my job. Every production has the same constraints: time, money, people, locations, equipment. The work always ships.

I’ve been creating and building working systems using LLMs from Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini along with custom toolchains. Working software that real people can use. Full-stack technical capability across the tools listed in this application.

I love Atlanta. I grew up here. Atlanta taught me how to be an artist.

The creative technology through-line is simple. Each wave of technology enables new work. The medium changes. The creation stays the same: turn creative ideas into something real, tangible, and executable.