Today we’d like to introduce you to Myles Moore
Hi Myles, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
My passion and ability to make my peers laugh was a gift to me from birth. I love individual personalities. I love for people to be there selfs in their own unique way. As a kid instead of cartoons all the time I would watch Sanford & Son and would mimic Redd Foxx. Can’t lie, I was a class clown, making the whole class laugh. Before I go on, I have to shout out The Hawthorne apartments on Bellaire. At a time where kids were playing outside, those apartments you can go outside and see 50 plus kids playing outside, and I’m a game seeker for charismatic personality. At a young age I observed people and adapted traits from those I admired. Big Myles was formed from humble beginnings in small apartments in Alief, TX and developed in the streets of Houston. Even if they had bad traits, I would take all the good traits from them and form a megatron charismatic personality. I’ve always been a positive guy, turning lemons into lemonade in all situations and everywhere I go. When everyone grows up in the same situation, your whole world is with in the apartments and that’s all you know for a while. I grew up with some of the most creative, athletic, smartest, funniest people around me. With a strong foundation and right resources the sky is the limit with your talent. Unfortunately I witness a lot of talent fade away and not see it’s full potential If those walls could talk. The games that we came up with and made out of nothing, still gets laughs and tears in my memories till this day. Deep down south my thoughts of making it to Hollywood and struggling wasn’t a vision for a Texan who bleeds H-Town. It wasn’t until social media I had the thought of building our own Hollywood in my backyard. Now through other projects I’ve learned when starting your own of anything, there should not be a task that’s holding you up or stopping you that you shouldn’t be able to do. I’ve thought of many ways and tried many things and the feeling you get when you can’t move forward, do to a particular task on the project that’s getting held up because your depending on a particular skill is the worse feeling. I’m pretty they all would’ve went viral. I decided that if I can remember a rap song or play video games, if I give that same effort to the task that’s blocking me from success, I wouldn’t have no one to be disappointed in but myself. Before I created Clowning Down South, in life I started to learn and gain certain skill sets that I thought I would never be able to do, so when I was putting Clowning Down South together, I told myself I would do everything myself until it gets out of hand. From the thought, to the writing, scenery set up, costumes, filming, editing, I learned how to do it all myself and there’s no other feeling like it.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
I always say, if you’re doing something that’s cool, creative, and from the heart, the opportunities will come. Never depend on your friends or people you have already known to support you, only use them for startups. They have spent too much time with you already to give the same energy that someone who doesn’t know you that would look to you as a star.
If you’re able to buy the equipment you need to complete, figure out a way to obtain them. At the end of the day when it’s all said and done, you can lock your self away and get to work.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
@ClowningDownSouth is my baby! It is my Saturday Night Live in my backyard. I’m taking all the laughs from the classroom and the apartments, to the world. Putting a smile on one’s face is priceless. Anything we can think of that’s funny and we can translate it in the screen, we will bring it to life. We don’t follow trends, we set them. We don’t have to be all inappropriate or disrespectful, although it is comedy, our comedy is organic and home grown. As of now, it’s all in house production until I am able to grow to build a studio in Houston that will host many entertaining projects. With having an advantage on the production and editing side, you can pick out videos already from others, with cool effects to funny lines, we don’t just put out videos just to put out videos. Reason why we come out with a new skit every Tuesdays & Thursdays. We know that putting out a video everyday is not ideal for me, it’ll lose quality, so coming out with 2 videos a week give us a chance to really shine and be consistent.
What matters most to you? Why?
God always comes first in my life, then family and friends. I want to leave a legacy behind and leave the world better than I found it. We don’t have many big record labels and movie studios that’s in our everyday environment. I want to have those things in Houston, so it sparks a light in the next generation. We have so much talent in Houston, I feel like with the right structure we can create great opportunities that’ll bring jobs and money to Houston. Last but not least, I respect the craft of comedy. I put my all into this and really take heed on what the final product looks like when finalized. I will never cheat you in comedy, knowing that there are all types of senses of humor, we try to tackle all. So please, follow, like comment on anything concerning Clowning Down South. This is only the beginning, I never went to school or took any program for all of this and I think it’s turning out amazing. As I grow, I will be able to gain better equipment, talent, scenery, and marketing. I will bring life to Houston and we will be able to get everyone involved with your support. Shouts out Clowning Down South, Alief & Houston Tx, BMP, my family & friends, and all that supports whatever Big Myles do. RiP Jackie Price, E, J O, Larry, Anne, K D, and Dj Screw, I do this for y’all. Also special thanks to Voyage Houston Magazine, and everyone who read my story, I love y’all and hope you grow with me in this journey. I went from failing projects in school to getting recognition on them now and that means a lot to me.
Big Myles,
Deuce out the roof,
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clowningdownsouth?igsh=cHA3cng2OGZmMXZm&utm_source=qr
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61561844226756&mibextid=LQQJ4d
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/@clowningdownsouth?si=0IVt5UiUP2OeGikc
