Walking.
Kindness.
Hope.
Reading.
Sleep.
Observation+Camera.
Participation+Camera.
I'm a pirate.
I don't have a car.
I'm constantly looking for people who are looking for me.
Music
Down Beat. Dorian Mode. Minor Key. Capo III. Break Beat. Bass Cleft. DS al Coda. Fortissimo. Tutti Band. Allegro. Accelerando. Refrain. Crucial Bridge. Boogie-Woogie. Swiss Triplet. Double Flat. Double Bass. C above high C. Perfect Third. Major Fifth. Vamp. Vamp. Vamp.
Movies
Tower this is Ghose Rider, Requesting Fly-by. Negative Ghost Rider the Pattern is full.
... I challenge you to a battle of wits? For the Princess? To the death? I accept.
That kid is STILL on the escalator?!
Hello, Money Penny. Hello, James.
Television
Please destroy your Tele and buy a good camera. I want you to show me something beautiful. I don't trust them at with the responsibility at all. I have found, because I am not a regular TV watcher, that I don't have much to speak about with people who ARE regular watchers.
Books
I read alot. Alot alot. Thousands of pages a month.
I wish I had more time to do it.
I think the written word, the printed idea, is the most beautiful thing our species can do. Every original idea and thought passed from eye to eye and brain to brain is holy and sacred.
Heroes
Mama. Papa. Carla. Alexis. Corrie. Addriene Adams. Andrew Pants. Jessica George. Lauren Hill. Sally Ride. Max Roach. Chuck Yeager.
About me: ... I live while I photograph. I do not Photograph to live.
... When I was younger, I dreamed of flying. I fell in love with the big blue sky above our heads. But not at all like Jenny, from Forrest Gump, the poor girl. So I learned how to fly. I went to Florida and earned my wings.Just like the Little Prince. Like Arthur Dent. Like Luke Skywalker. Like the Flying Tigers. Like Pete "Maverick" Mitchell. Like the Blue Angels.
... My name is Alan-Maurice Valdellon Kayanan and I like my name. It's very long and I can say it with a ridiculous filipino accent. I love nerds. I wish there were more of us. I encourage all nerds to find each other and Breed. I come from a large family of nerds. I have an extra helping of Dork too. As in, I'm probably dorkier than you are.
*1469 photographs in my Photo Section. Lots to see.
*324 enteries in my Blog. Enough to read.
... I know lots about all kinds of smiles. I have to. I am an apt student of human facial expression. I know there's a birth of a smile and a death of a smile. I know that for different people a smile fully blossoms at different times. I know a smile looks different when you exhale, inhale, or hold a breath. I know when a genuine smile starts in your eyes and ends up on your lips. I've seen so many smiles that look almost right, but end before they ever get close to your eyes. I love how a smile can be the most welcome and universal form of communication. I love how you can 'hear' a smile over the phone when talking to an old friend who lives thousands of miles away. I love your smile. I think smiles and laughter are the best ingredients to a life well lived.
... I am also as versed in frowns and tears as I am with smiles and joy...
... I am constantly having an affair with color.
(click photo for my Flickr)
...I have such a strange sense of humor. I feel isolated in my horridly dirty taste in jokes. I always win gross-out competitions. Don't even try me I'll make you throw up a little in your mouth.
Some photographers take reality...and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
~Ansel Adams
Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.
~George S. Patton
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
~Douglas Adams
Who I'd like to meet:
Teachers.
Explorers.
Team Mates.
A Best Friend.
MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.
~Eddie Izzard
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
~Carl Sagan
There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.
~Colonel Graff to Ender Wiggen
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken
joy in creative expression and knowledge.
~Albert Einstein
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
~Ansel Adams
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
~General George S. Patton
Music is an addiction.
~ Miles Davis
One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm;
Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
~Isaac Asimov
Which death is preferably to every other? "The unexpected".
~Julius Caesar
Any great work of art... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
~Leonard Bernstein
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?
~John Lennon
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SOOO good to see u surprise the other night at o'faolain's...sorry no goodbye but very tanked and needed a hand out the door by the joeyster...how'd your pubquiz go? we sucked. hope you're well
you've cracked? i thought you were already crazy, jk. but lay low on the crack, or just share with me.haha.we should chill sometime,seriously. you said you would buy me drinks when im 21 and im going on 22, april 22.im still holding you to it,if thats cool?
i like how u said " ...i do not photograph to live" ... i was just explaining that concept to somone just recently. ... tricky part is finding that damn balance. lol.
HI stranger! Your scrolling images are absolutely breathtaking. They are gorgeous! T's got vacation coming up and he'd love to get together with you. I know he misses you. Sounds like y'all been playing phone tag. I have to work--it's starting to become my catch phrase. But if you're ever in our area stop by any time, you're always welcome. In the meantime, I hope you two can connect while he's on break.
