ERIC MOSELEY KEEPS HIS EYE (AND CAMERA) ON HOMELESSNESS >>>

Let's begin with a seemingly out-of-the-blue stereotype about the homeless: They don't have their own websites. Another: They lack both the means and drive to engage in artistic pursuits.

Well, Eric "Protein" Moseley has set out to trump all the naysayers.

Crisscrossing the country for close to 17 years without a home hasn't deterred this man from updating his online calling card, www.provistafilms.org. There you'll find, among other things, trailers for documentary projects either completed or in the works, all made under Moseley's Skid Row Journey Productions.

Currently residing at the St. Martin de Porres shelter in Seattle, Moseley visited Tacoma a few weeks back, camera in hand. An engaging onscreen host, he invites those he interviews to speak their minds on homelessness in our city and local government's response. Moseley is using filmed testimonials to support and promote his newest piece, A 24-Hour Challenge to Mayor Mike McGinn. His cinéma vérité shoot around the Emerald City commences next Saturday, May 7.

Moseley looks back on years he spent wandering, in the throws of drug abuse, saying, "Basically I was running from my problems...thinking that if I move to another city, everything would be all right. But every city I went to, I was there. I can't get away from myself."

Now with cleaner sight he stands and faces himself, his situation and the situations of millions like him - doing it all with the camera's steady and fearless gaze.