He is an actor by profession, but most of the time he is Bingwa, the human magnet. Around him, drawn by his radiating warmth and confidence, are the kids he has pulled together in the Venice Dream Team. To channel his energy, he tried a stint in community theater and then moved on to Venice, CA, a noisy, funky place, close enough to Los Angeles to have an LA air. People still go there to have fun.
Tourists wander around.
Body-builders work out on Muscle Beach. And there were kids looking as if they had nothing to do. Kids as young as seven join the Team, and they usually stay into their early teens. Even though each kid develops a personal photographic eye, the Team is what each shoots for and works for. We don't have stars.