Film, music (jazz, blues, rock, soul and standards), art, architecture and mid century modern design.
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Music
Jazz in all its shapes and forms (i.e. Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Nat "King" Cole, Frank Sinatra ... love the standards, Dave Brubeck, John Coltrane, Miles Davis ... did I mention ...Miles Davis, George Benson, Al Jarreau, Michel Camilo, and Chick Corea to name a few).
DoN't forget the ladies (I love female vocalists like : Patti Austin, Diana Krall, Renee Olstead,
Sade, Sarah Vaughan and many more!)
And for the record ... a little classic rock ... The Eagles, Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, The Doobie Brothers, Led Zepplin ... don't get me started. How about the Clash, Psychedelic Furs and the SeX pIsToLs. New bands ... Maroon 5, Moby and just about every artist on the Ultra Chill CDs. Check out Corinne Bailey Rae.
RECENT READS: Robert Rodriguez's book Rebel Without A Crew, Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting and The Filmmaker's Handbook. I also enjoy books on modern design, architecture and mid 20th century modern designers. I read numerous magazines (i.e. Dwell, Met Home & Stereophile).
Methodist College
Fayetteville,North Carolina
Graduated: 1989
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Communications
Minor: Art
Clubs: ATO Theta Omicron chapter Marshall University 1984-1986
Greek:
Alpha Tau Omega
1986 to 1989
Marshall University
Huntington,West Virginia
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Major: Art
Clubs: ATO Theta Omicron chapter Marshall University 1984-1986
Transferred to Methodist College Fayetteville, NC 1986
Greek:
Alpha Tau Omega
1984 to 1986
Nitro High School
Nitro,West Virginia
Graduated: 1984
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
1981 to 1984
Wayne Slaten - Filmmaker Taking a machete to the intellectual thickets of society.
About me: I am a filmmaker living in Houston, Texas. My film companies are Fire Pig Productions (check it out in My Friends) and Moonlite Filmwerks. We are currently in pre-production on our first feature length film and most ambitious project to date titled "BACKROAD". Check out the BACKROAD MySpace page under our Friend Space below and please add it to your MySpace friends.
In July 2008 we completed shooting for TOAST, a student film project written and directed by Arielle Slaten. Post production will wrap up in September 2008. We wrapped up filming on ONE, our entry in the 48 Hour Film Project, on June 8th. In February, we completed, LAST STAND, a short film that was a semi-finalist in George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead Video Contest on MySpace. My 24 minute science fiction short film, ZombiNatioN, is an official selection in the 2008 Indie Film Festival. We have two films in preproduction for the summer of 2008.
Besides filmmaking, my days are spent managing an internet business. I have a background in art and interior design. I am in to architecture, high end audio, collecting mid 20th century modern art and furniture. I am always interested in anything related to English bulldogs, Mini Coopers, and modern art (meeting artists or collectors).
This short film was made for the Houston 48 Hour Film Project on June 6th through 8th, 2008. We drew "drama" as our genre. The required elements were:
CHARACTER: Frank or Frieda Gilroy
LINE: "He's been around a time or two."
PROP: A light bulb
TAG LINE: One woman. One future. One regret.
SYNOPSIS: In a post apocalyptic future, ONE woman is left with nothing but memories and ONE regret.
This film was conceived, written, filmed and edited in 46 hours.
ONE
Starring DONNA CALLEJA and MATTHEW CARTER
Produced by JAMES T. DENTON
Directed and Photographed by WAYNE SLATEN
copyright 2008 Fire Pig Productions
Who I'd like to meet: I am hoping to connect with people interested in independent filmmaking
NOW FOR THE OTHERS:
(This list also includes souls no longer with us)
The Fellas ..
My father (as a young man .. eh maybe 22 yrs old), John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Frank Sinatra, Andy Warhol, Charles Eames, Isamu Noguchi, Alvar Aalto, Phillip Johnson, Tupac Shakur, Jackson Pollock, Richard Pryor, Miles Davis, Al Pacino, Robert Redford, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Akira Kurosawa, Federico Fellini, Stanley Kubrick, John Carpenter and Sam Raimi (to name a few ... this could take all day).
Now for the ladies ...
My mother (as a young woman (let's say 20), Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Florence Knoll, Diana Krall, Aretha Franklin, Gwyneth Paltrow, Rosa Parks, Frida Kahlo (or even Salma Hayek portraying Frida Kahlo) ... oh let's face it ... SALMA HAYEK TOO, Drew Barrymore, Nicole Kidman, Emily Dickinson, Georgia O'Keeffe, ... and many more.
