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My Bio
Current Residence: Boone, NC, USA
Favourite genre of music: Post Punk, Synth Pop, Indie Rock, Jazz, Electronica, Glam Rock, Abstract Hip-Hop, New Wave
Favourite photographer: David Hilliard, Joel-Peter Witkins
Operating System: Ubuntu 8.04
MP3 player of choice: iPod 4G 20Gb, Amarok

Favourite Visual Artist
Stanley Donwood, Terry Gilliam, Chip Kidd, Jan Svankmajer, Mel Chin, Yves Tanguy
Favourite Movies
Bicycle Thief, Brazil, Empire of the Sun, Fight Club, Return of the Living Dead, Stalag 17, Titus
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Cure, Devin Davis, Dismemberment Plan, Nada Surf, Radiohead, Sonic Sum
Favourite Writers
Ian Banks, Italo Calvino, Stephen King, Chuck Palahniuk, Karl Schroeder, Kurt Vonnegut
Tools of the Trade
Canon AE-1 Program SLR, Photoshop 7, oil, acrylic, pens, canvas

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Eh, I haven't submitted anything to my DA account in three years. It's not that I haven't been working. I dropped out of school for three years. It was supposed to be a semester off, but I landed a good job waiting tables, made good money, and had no inclination to work on anything art related. Then I lost the job, found another one with terrible hours (1700-0600), but I loved they guys I worked with. And I had to pay bills. Fast-forward a year. I'm back in school, passing portfolio reviews doing shit I was doing almost a decade ago and being compensated monetarily. I'm not going back as much for the degree (degrees are a given these days),
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My iPod died. This is a major blow. I don't have a car, so I listened to it several hours a day. Whether it was blasting my co-workers with my musical taste, the hour-long walk home after a fourteen-hour shift at work, waiting thirty minutes for the next bus to show up, or using it to drown out the ramblings from the crackhead next to me on the bus, my iPod was my constant companion. My ally against boredom, bad taste, and the insane denizens of Charlotte. Its death is especially frustrating when you consider that there isn't a mark on its body; it was always protected by a case, and I only dropped it once. And that was two years ago. I spe
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The past few months, I've been working exclusively with color film. I use the word "working" loosely, as I've been in a creative rut and haven't had many fresh ideas. Color brings another dimension to photography, but you loose something, too: the emphasis on form, lines, and composition. I work better  in with black, white, and shades of silver. Maybe that's the wall I've been hitting. Or maybe it's genetic.
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you're going to think i'm insane.
but we used to be friends on livejournal - which you let rest.

and, hi.
Yeah, I kinda put it out to pasture... the things I'd say now wouldn't really fit, anyway. I mean, I started it when I was eighteen and I'm turning twenty-five in a month. Perhaps I'll revive it, but take it a completely different direction...

Anyway, I occasionally go back to the site to read my friends' posts . What was your screenname on LJ?

- ben
Thanks for the :+fav: :ahoy: