art... of all types... cg, traditional, you name it; movies, leather, macabre anything, photography, rockin' music, tattoos, drawing, fun piercings, crazy hairstyles, chillin' w/ friends, deep conversations, cooking and baking, THE BEACH, people watching, sushi, physical strength, video games, animals (all of them!), six-packs (the abdominal kind), rainy days, orchids, ... um, more drawing... your mom...
Music
Opeth, NIN, Smashing Pumpkins, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Cake, Celldweller, Depeche Mode, Front Line Assembly, The Union Underground, Rammstein, Prodigy, Slipknot, Audioslave, Chevelle, Breaking Benjamin, Garbage, Aerosmith, System of a Down, Stone Sour, Rob Zombie, Static X, Bush, Chili Peppers, Skinny Puppy, Sound Garden, Nirvana, STP, Foo Fighters, Soil, Radiohead, Tenacious D, Mars Volta, Godhead, Marilyn Manson, Dark New Day, Traverser, Daft Punk, Massive Attack, Ring of Scars, Ashes Divide, Bassnectar, Girltalk, the Cranberries, any good mashups... (pretty eclectic mix, eh?)
Movies
the Matrix series (I have the 10-DVD boxed set, if that tells you anything...), Zoolander, the Cell, almost anything by Hayao Miyazaki or Tim Burton, Akira, the Ring, Requiem for a Dream, Snatch, Blade, Clerks, Saw, Kill Bill, FF Advent Children, Donnie Darko, Pirates of the Caribbean, Pan's Labyrinth, 300, The Fall, Religilous, Children of Men, V for Vendetta, Shaun of the Dead, the Cremaster series... there are so many... mostly any movie that has action, comedy, or is really dark, gory and fucks w/ your mind.
Television
I try not to watch too much tv... but when I do I'm usually tuned in to Comedy Central, Discovery, Animal Planet, Cartoon Network, the Food Network (yum!), Spike TV or Sci Fi. Metalocolypse, CSI and the Venture Brothers are my new favorite addictions. Ooh, and Miami/LA Ink!!
Books
Tolkien, Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child, "Art & Fear" by David Bayles and Ted Orland
Heroes
Tim Burton, Gerald Brom, Michael Hussar, Alphonse Mucha, Frank Frazzeta, Leonardo Da Vinci, Edgar Degas... I'll add to this list periodically.
University Of Central Florida
Orlando, FLORIDA
Graduated: 2005
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Art - Computer Animation
Clubs: UCF Women's Rowing Team all 4 years, Student chapter of SIGGRAPH '03-'05, Sushi Club '01-'03
2001 to 2005
Pasco High School
Dade City, FLORIDA
Graduated: 2001
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Clubs: Swim team, Track team, Sr. Art Editor of the Crimson Blade
Janae an 2010 Issue of SLAM Magazine: w Gen X from the Genitorturers, Raven Reda, and I'm one of the artists of the month!! Thanks Lady Grace! ♥ Posted at 10:36 PM Nov 24 view more
I'm endearingly nerdy, abnormally patient, brutally honest and extremely sarcastic. My sense of humor is typically dry and off color. I'm a bone collector. I believe in Karma... but above all, I'm an Artist.
My dreamlike and surreal work is a fusion of personal experience and influence created though a partially intuitive process which mines my subconscious and the human collective memory. Amorphous wash applications and the sinuous grain of the wood panels I often paint upon combine to provide an open field for viewer cloudreading. However, my process of nearly automatic drawing gently focuses meaning in her pieces. My work is rich with timeless visual elements, moody atmospheres, and the romantic narrative subtext of a 19th century Symbolist expressed uniquely in the diverse international context of contemporary art.
To the gents: sorry kids, I'm not available... I've already found my rockstar. ;)
Who I'd like to meet: Those who are challenging intellectually and not intellectually challenged. Anyone with similar interests, or an appreciation for the arts, music, photography, etc. Anyone who isn't afraid to be brutally honest. Those who are not intentionally condescending. Someone who can make me laugh. Anyone who would die for those they care for. No fair-weather friends.
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Oh, and I'm not huge on people who are *pathological liars*, *full of themselves* or *riddled with drama* ... so please leave your self-centeredness and bullshit at home. K thanks. :)
But for real... I'd love to pick the brains of Damien Hurst, Michael Hussar, Mark Ryden, Ray Caesar, Tim Burton, Matthew Barney... there are oodles more...
I'm also constantly looking for models to paint... if you live in the Orlando area, or don't mind emailing photos, I'd probably love to paint you! ;)
hey! thanks for the comment. :) Those 3 "nature" paintings were from last semester (so the oil paintings are finally dry, lol) and i really enjoyed doing them. I think I have come to enjoy smaller oil paintings. I'm not too into the larger scale ones. I think it's because I like detail.
So anyway, I'm also thinking about transfering to UCF next year. I still have to talk to an academic counselor at UNF, but Justin and I really want to move back to the central Florida area, so I would need to finish up at UCF. I hope I can.
I haven't talked to you in forever, how is everything? I was looking at your art photos yesterday and I didn't see anything new! You must be really, really busy if there are no new paintings on there! lol.
Hey girly! TY so much for coming to visit us in the hospital. We're gonna plan a after-baby shower for sometime after the first of the year (since it's so last minute with the holidays coming up)....so will let you know when that's going to be :-)
he is just so happy he can do all of these new things (like standing) that he has to do it all the time! yesterday he stood up while eating so he could watch matt play video games! : )
