Ruban Nielson

Hi, how's it going?

I'm good, thanks.

How are you guys going?

I'm in Portland, Oregon.

Yeah, it's pretty famous for music, for a small town.

It's pretty active with creative stuff.

Well, actually, it was more my family because my –

my mom's brother um lives here and uh and all of his kids um who are now all having kids as well so there's like a whole kind of section of my family that lives here and so um that's sort of what initially brought me over here but um then i sort of discovered that the the place itself was really interesting and and so i thought oh it'd be cool to

You know, live here for a while.

And I just thought I would come here for like a year or two.

And now it's been 15 years.

Yeah, it's a pretty rainy place here.

So you have eight months of pretty rainy weather.

It sort of forces you to do creative stuff.

So I actually enjoy it for that.

Is that where Twilight was shot?

It is, yeah, like Oregon, yeah, Portland around here.

It's also like kind of the Twin Peaks part of America as well.

There's a lot of that kind of stuff.

Yeah, they're pretty different.