got in touch with the artists, and they were all for it, and very positive in what they had to say. And from there, the documentary took off.” Celski has said that his connection with the Seattle hip-hop scene started after he suffered a devastating leg injury at the 2010 U.S. Olympic Trials. A razorsharp skate sliced a gash that
www.federalwaymirror.com required 60-plus stitches to close. “The music has such a positive and genuine feel to it and I wanted to share it with as many people as possible,” he said. “A lot of lyrics, especially Macklemore’s, made me question who I was and how I looked at things. More specifically, to challenge the ego that keeps us suppressed and susceptible to weak emotions. I felt like everybody should hear what these artists had to say.”
The filming of “The Otherside” has been an on-again, off-again endeavor for the past two years, but has been steady for the last year. “We went to a whole mix of local shows,” said Dom, who graduated from the University of Washington. “We wanted to first show the diversity of the types of sounds coming from here for those not familiar with the hiphop scenes. We followed Mackl-
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