After 34 years in Los Angeles, Louis is back in Sacramento. He arrived on September 11, 2025.

He isn’t quite a native, but Sacramento became a part of his family story when they settled in the area after being stationed at Mather Air Force Base. His family had moved the from base-to-base —Panama, Alabama, Texas, Beale A.F.B. in California — then it was Spain. Those teenage years in Madrid, from 13 to 17, left an indelible impression on Louis.

His family lived in the heart of the city, where Louis commuted during the school year to Torrejon Air Force Base for high school. By his senior year, his family had moved back to California where Louis graduated from Cordova High and began college at Sacramento State as a Political Science major.

Though interested in the possibility of politics, Louis became more interested in developing himself as a storyteller. At USC, where he entered as a freshman, he made his first commitment to become a storyteller when he chose Creative Writing and Literary Theory as his Major. Between semesters, he picked up copywriting work for advertising agencies that did campaigns for Nike, Honda, Smith’s Food and Drug, California Pizza Kitchen & Suzuki. His agency experience taught him how to communicate complex messages in a simple manner; he learned branding, market research, media strategy and full on campaign development. His first job out of college, he was hired by UCLA as a research assistant where he dove into homeless populations in Hollywood and South Los Angeles; after two years, he got an offer to work for Nissan North America, where he worked on a team that developed the next generation of vehicles for the company, including the Nissan Xterra, a Mini Van, Infiniti G35 and the Titan Truck. It was during this time where he launched an herbal soda, Sun Cola, and sold it to an investor.

The corporate world had taught him a great deal about marketing and product development, but the complex process of developing a vehicle caused him to lose interest in the car industry. As a result, he began teaching English and Filmmaking for the Los Angeles Unified School District. After fifteen years of teaching and thirty short films, he decided to enter the Global Learning XPRIZE where the challenge was to build an interface for a device that could teach any child, anywhere, anything. The Xprize project took him to places of deep poverty - South LA, East LA, India and New Orleans. He did deep research to gain an understanding of how education actually works in under-served commununites.

It would be the combination of his insights that convinced him that he could develop an interactive story that could inspire all learners. He named the story "OptomystiK", which means to "Decide to Create".

With the right training, support, and resources - OptomystiK would become a blue-print designed to guide along a plot - a path called the "Yello Bit Road".

So, what exactly is OptomystiK?

Louis did what few have been able to do: he infiltrated the Death Star.

In this case, the Death Star is the Los Angeles Unified School District—an empire-sized bureaucracy limiting the way the children of Los Angeles define themselves in the game of actual reality.

Louis infiltrated LAUSD's upper echelons through the executive iPad tech committee, which votes on major vendor contracts for learning management systems and hardware, such as iPads.

After reading the news, Louis decided to observe first-hand how elite-run “non-profit” organizations operated within the school board and executive management to secure lucrative contracts. He witnessed corrupt behavior directly—actions in meetings that were openly deceptive to the trained eye. To Louis, this explained why LAUSD performed so poorly: corporations were at the heart of how LAUSD managed its organization. He realized this is how democracy is quietly being dismantled inside California’s public schools. The Constitution and the Declaration of Independence—our founding blueprints—were being secretly ignored through a school judicial system that makes unfair decisions, giving the district’s corruption an edge in its battle against whistleblowers.

Though the district offered him a settlement, Louis escaped LAUSD with a fully documented story of its behavior. He sent this evidence to the California Teaching Commission and the California Attorney General for further investigation.

Louis engaged LAUSD with an approach designed to reveal how the system actually works. He documented the district’s tactics, triangulated its strategies, and interviewed over thirty teachers to gather qualitative evidence. He linked the district’s actions to a fact-based analysis using a literary-theory approach. Drawing on research techniques he developed at Nissan and UCLA, he collected direct evidence and documentation, itemizing fabricated evidence, staged events, and conclusively showing how underserved children in Los Angeles were being exploited—such as at Van Nuys High School (once attended by Marilyn Monroe and Robert Redford), where administrators allegedly coached students to make false statements.

Louis mapped out the actual events inside a tax-funded school district with a $20 billion annual budget, 60% of which, he found, was taken by law firms and private consultants behind closed doors.

But Louis did more than expose wrongdoing—he began developing an alternative system that voters could one day choose to replace the outdated school system, transforming local neighborhoods from within.

The Project: OptomystiK

The first chapter culminates in a feature film entitled The Los Angeles Dystopia, a thriller detailing Louis’s experience and his discovery of the ultimate truth: that democracy is an illusion simulated by elites through the media. But the real question remains—what is reality actually doing?

The answer: We are living in a dystopia—but we can still go back to the future we want.

Phase 1: Instagram | @losangelesmayor

A transmission from inside the system—always under surveillance, always at risk of censorship inside Zuckerberg’s empire.

Phase 2: Substack | OptomystiK.Substack.com

The hidden archive. Documentation. Observations. Decoded meaning. A rebel logbook of what the mainstream won’t say.

Phase 3: YouTube | Yello Bit Road

The first public education video transmissions designed to awaken the population.

Phase 4: Local Newspaper — (Coming Soon)

Printed truth, smuggled back into neighborhoods. A newspaper as rebellion—delivering culture hand-to-hand, unfiltered and undeniable.

Phase 5: OptomystiX.org (Decentralized Community Website)

Each OptomystiK community begins as a local “Pirate Ship.” OptomystiX is the first Pirate Ship, led by Louis A. De Barraicua playing the character of “Louis XX.”

Phase 6: Feature Film — Los Angeles Dystopia (Pre-Production)

The origin story of the resistance. The first interactive political film in history.

The audience doesn’t just watch—they decide the outcome.