Charles Sanderson

About me:

*** No More WEBCAM Girls! *** If you are only looking to add to your customer base, leave me off your friends list.

Let's see, I'm a musician, computer geek, photographer, Rennie, and generally a really nice guy. That's the one liner. Perhaps something a bit more descriptive?

As a land loving rouge, I frequent the Michigan Renaissance Festival, Mayfaire, Silverleaf, and what other renaissance faire I can afford to make it too. Looking to do more out of state faires in the near future. MiRF is my home faire and I peddle huge half gallon hip flasks at Christian Michael Arms as a guest artist. Hopefully they will continue to allow me to guest at their booth for years to come. Although I have been wandering the faire more as of late, you will often find me at the Guinness pub with the other rowdy sort. Look me up if you make it to the faire. Oh, and being an Ordained Wizard, you may find me dressed in more mythical garb from time to time.

I have a percussion background from way back, but mostly do Celtic and folk hand percussion now. I used to have an acoustic open jam music party that eventually spawned my music company, Music In The Yard, and a power vocal group, Big Green X, which I was percussion and low harmonies. Sadly the fun of running such an event has fizzled out for me. Maybe some day in the future I'll bring Music In The Yard, the open jam, back, but for now I just don't have the energy. For now I am sticking with Irish Session's and what ever music projects I can pick up along the way.

On the computer front, I did a stint of 12 years consulting for Compuware until I was on the wrong side of a balance sheet in 2002 (hope I never meet on the street the salesman who was not recording my project hours toward the contract). Since then the Detroit economy has made getting back into the business very difficult. I am finally giving up on Corporate America all together and doing the independent thing with WEB sites and what ever I can pick up. I've been the WEB support person for DJS Pro Audio and Lighting (aka DJSupply.com) for a few years now and hopefully I can stick with music related clients!

I mentioned photography. I did cable TV production in the 80's for pay and apply my experience there in my photography. We were pretty hot back then burying the cable companies best efforts and matching the networks in all but picture quality (the cameras couldn't do it). Bringing over an understanding of lighting and framing helps me when shooting and I tend to have better than the usual 10-15% usable shots of traditional film photography. I still shoot as if I am only keeping that many because it is the right way to do it, but I get lucky because my TV background forces me to consider framing and perspective as live instead of something to fix in the dark room. Most people really like my work, but most of it has been with a relatively low end consumer digital camera. I just moved up to a digital SLR, and still need to add lenses to my inventory. Keep your eyes open for more professional shooting in my photos section. As of late I have been doing a lot of photos in fetish clubs and video with Draconian Production. We'll see where that takes me. Should be fun.

My TOP what ever is not a top friends list anymore. I have too many good friends to say who is at the top of the list. So, the top X (I have no idea what count I'll keep it at) will be for my convenience or who I want to promote (ie. Draconian Productions).

Party on!