The Almighty Moving Image and All With Which It Carries. The Body Electric. "Adversity's sweet milk." Traveling within, up, and around Fire, Stone, Trees, Wind, and Shallow Water. Spontaneous portraiture. Instant gratification. Free hugs. Random acts of kindness. 4am conversations over coffee and cigarettes. Spreading the love.
Tori, Ani, Sigur Ros, Dead Can Dance, the innocence mission, Jeff Buckley, THE PRIDS, The Smiths, Cocteau Twins, Joy Division, New Order, Depeche Mode, Violent Femmes, Portishead, LOCH LOMOND, Polly Jean Harvey, Bjork, BRYAN FREE, John Lennon, Low, ALELA DIANE, Radiohead, Mira, Zeppelin, Miles, Jimi, Y LA BAMBA, Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen, Iron and Wine, Elliott Smith, Simon & Garfunkel, ADRIAN H. & THE WOUNDS, Tom Waits, Jane's Addiction, Massive Attack, Tricky, SUMERLAND (R.I.P.), Calexico, DeVotchKa, 16 Horsepower, Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Sviridov, Brian Eno, Mogwai, GRAILS, Explosions in the Sky, This Will Destroy You, Shipping News, Sonic Youth, Sex Pistols, bauhaus, Dresden Dolls, Pixies, Trail of Dead, Public Enemy, Floyd, Ramones, Windy and Carl, The Stooges, Janis, THE CANCER FAGS, Tristeza, Rachel's, The Cure, OCELLI, U2 (83-88), Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, SORIAH, Patsy Cline, Beastie Boys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The White Stripes, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, AMOREE LOVELL, Cowboy Junkies, Legendary Pink Dots, John Zorn, Rivulets, Fiona Apple, Philip Glass, George Winston, The Beatles (of course), SYNCHRONICITY FREQUENCY WITH THE NIGHTGAUNT ENSEMBLE.....
The Best Film Montage Ever Made Precious Images by Chuck Workman
Amadeus, Breaking the Waves, Dangerous Liaisons, Angel Heart, Jaws, Dead Poet's Society, Schindler's List, Elephant, Chinatown, There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights, Coming Home, Deer Hunter, Kids, Pixote, Silence of the Lambs, Carrie, Fight Club, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, All That Jazz, French Connection, Henry and June, The Prince of Tides, The Big Chill, A Clockwork Orange, Paths of Glory, Fantasia, Good Morning, Vietnam, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Days of Heaven, The Insider, The Graduate, Harold and Maude, Irreversible, All the President's Men, The English Patient, Traffic, Alien, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Marathon Man, Out of Africa, Rosemary's Baby, Saving Private Ryan, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Salvador, Broadcast News, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Proof (1996), Love and Human Remains, Dream with the Fishes, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Doors, NBK, Platoon, Dressed to Kill, The Hours, Two-Lane Blacktop, Cabaret, Manhattan, Payday, Prime Cut, The Driver, Out of Sight, The Limey, Another Day in Paradise, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Klute, The Hitcher, Blade Runner, Betty Blue, Amelie, Once Upon a Time in America, Day for Night, The Celebration, The Idiots, Undertow, Rumble Fish, A Decade Under the Influence, American Beauty, Braveheart, Casablanca, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, DiG!, Heathers, In the Bedroom, Mask, Lawrence of Arabia, Mean Streets, The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), Meeting People is Easy, A Streetcar Named Desire, Terms of Endearment, Visions of Light, Untitled (Almost Famous Director's Cut), Assault on Precint 13 (1976), Bad Company (1972), Badlands, Baraka, Barry Lyndon, Barton Fink, Beetlejuice, Belle de Jour, Belle Epoque, The Bicycle Thief, The Big Easy, Big Night, Body Heat, The China Syndrome, Cool Hand Luke, Come and See (1985), Deliverance, Do the Right Thing, Get Carter (1971), Frida, Basquiat, New York Stories (Life Lessons), Pollock, Georgia, High Art, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Ghost in the Shell, Girl, Interrupted, The Great Escape, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Ice Storm, The Lion in Winter, The Myth of Fingerprints, Monster's Ball, The War Zone, In the Company of Men, The Indian Runner, LOTR trilogy, Kissing Jessica Stein, The Killing Fields, King of New York, Knife in the Water, Kramer vs. Kramer, The Last Detail, The Last Seduction, Le Maginifique (1973), Little Odessa, The Long Goodbye, Lord of the Flies (1963), Lost in Translation, Malcolm X, Man Bites Dog, Macbeth (1971), MASH, Masquerade, Medium Cool, Memento, Midnight Cowboy, Miller's Crossing, The Miracle Worker, Night of the Hunter, Norma Rae, On the Waterfront, Paper Moon, The Philadelphia Story, The Piano, Play Misty for Me, Point Blank (1967), Poltergeist, Prizzi's Honor, Purple Rain, Rashomon, The Usual Suspects, Revenge, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Risky Business, Seconds, Shock Corridor, Serpico, Seven, Shampoo, Shanghai Express, Shine, The Shining, Sid and Nancy, Sideways, Sin City, Slam, Some Like it Hot, Straight Time, Stranger Than Paradise, Straw Dogs, Tarnation, The Third Man, Throne of Blood, Three Days of the Condor, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, To Live and Die in L.A., Touch of Evil, Trainspotting, The Treasure of Sierra Madre, True Romance, The Untouchables, Walkabout, Don't Look Now, Don't Look Back, American Werewolf in London, War Photographer, Wit, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Wings of Desire, Winter Sleepers, Witness, The Witches of Eastwick, Working Girl, You Can Count on Me, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Before Sunrise/Before Sunset, Bull Durham, Coal Miner's Daughter, Cowboy Bebop, The Crow, Dead Calm, The Gambler (1974), In the Name of the Father, Philadelphia, Much Ado About Nothing, Mystery Train, The Paper Chase, Skin Deep, Something Wild, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Good Night and Good Luck, The New World, an inconvenient truth, The Proposition, The Departed, Babel, Children of Men, Once, Into the Wild, No Country for Old Men, The Wind That Shakes the Barley, The Wrestler, Let the Right One In, Milk, Tell No One, Dear Zachary, Vision Quest (had to finish with a guilty pleasure). If you want more, give me a holler.
Six Feet Under, Scrubs, anything on IFC, In the Actors Studio, the Oscars.
Books
Lolita, Slaughterhouse-Five, Tropic of Cancer, "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls", Light in My Darkness, Cunt, The Magic Lantern, The Rainbow Goblins... Elmore Leonard, Anais Nin, Henry Rollins, Greek Tragedies (Electra being my favorite); the plays of the Bard, Harold Pinter, Lanford Wilson, Caryl Churchill, the angry young men; the poetry of Rilke, Frost, Crystal Zingsheim... I'm slowly devouring the Russian authors who keep my cerebral glands intensely lubricated.
Heroes
Papa, Lisa Marie Fairbrother, Tank Girl, Bob Ross, Eleanor Roosevelt, Helen Keller, Larry Harvey
Although there are oodles of more qualified photographers out there, I still love to play. I've accumulated a presentable portfolio of spontaneous portraiture over the years:
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Who I'd like to meet: Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Helen Keller, Billie Holiday, Jeff Buckley, Marlene Dietrich, Stanley Kubrick, Hal Ashby, Shakespeare, Rilke, Sophocles, Henry Miller, Robert Altman, Akira Kurosawa, Orson Welles.....
STILL BREATHING: Karen & Don Peris, Leonard Cohen, the Dali Lama, Spielberg, Scorsese, PTA, Inga Musico, Dustin Hoffman, Cameron Crowe, Spike Jonze, Dennis Kucinich.....
REALLY GROOVY PEOPLE I HAVE MET: Tori Amos (many times - god bless), Michael Mann, Ethan Hawke, Low, Mira, Jude, KMFDM, Concrete Blonde, David J, Daniel Ash, Billy Corgan, the cranes, Mario Van Peebles, Ani DiFranco, Cowboy Junkies, Iron+Wine, Gus Van Sant, Martha Plimpton (an absolute beauty), Eric Bogosian, Roger Avary, Bret Easton Ellis, Patti Smith (a fine lady), Keith Carradine, Henry Rollins, Ben Folds, John Lithgow, DeVotchKa, Amanda Palmer, Peter Schaffer.
Atlan has its roots in the ceremonial: ritualism, shamanism, butoh. Master Tuvan throat singer Soriah teams up with prolific soundscaper Ashkelon Sain to create a totally breathtaking album. Soriah conjures up a haunting sonic otherworld, drifting, dreamy, a rumbling, whirring ambient dronescape, thick with natural timbre and dense with subtle overtones. The eleven tracks employ a host of Central Asian ethnic stringed instruments alongside atmospheric synths and hypnotic hand percussion to form a simmering backdrop for Soriah's mesmerizing vocals intoned in the ancient Aztec language of Nahuatl. You can also buy the CD or download it from Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_0_6?url=search-a lias%3Daps&field-keywords=soriah+atlan&sprefix=soriah
