The Art Of The Streets

“You don't take a photograph, you make it.”

- Ansel Adams


"Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow."
—Isaiah 1:17 (NIV)

“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge… is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world.”
—Bill Bullard

"Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe."
—Galileo Galilei

EXPERTISE
Experience Designer—Creating experiences that engage, inspire, empower.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS
▪ Awarded exclusive responsibility to support the President of Walt Disney Attractions in developing the initial Euro Disney Resort concept recommendations.

▪ Strategically increased sales 20% for Warner Bros. Studio Stores by redesigning aesthetics, features and marketing for “CelSearch,” the division's art gallery interactive catalog system.

▪ Originated new concepts and philosophies that facilitated an aggressive, long-term, five-level master plan for Disneyland Park and Disneyland Hotel.

▪ Improved morale and fostered job satisfaction by revitalizing Disneyland Park cast member orientations with new media, historical material, post-training forums.

INTERESTS
Public Radio, Swimming, Cycling, Spelunking, Kites, Drawing, Foreign Films, Silent Films, Wanderlust, The Moon, Clouds, Rain, Lightning, Thunder, Thai Food, Humor, Compassion, Kindness, Crows, Egyptian Geese, Squirrels.

FILM
4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, A Canterbury Tale, Araya, Au Hasard Balthazar, Bagdad Cafe, City Girl (1930), Closely Watched Trains, Corpus Christi, L'Eclisse, The Firemen's Ball, The Florida Project, The Gods Must Be Crazy, The Gold Rush (1925), I See a Dark Stranger, Il Posto, Jupiter's Wife, Kes, Local Hero, Modern Times, The Night My Number Came Up, Paper Moon, Partie de campagne, Shadow of a Doubt (1943), The Shop on Main Street, Show People, Simon of the Desert, Smile (1975), Soy Cuba, Sunrise (1927), Turtle Diary, Welcome Back Mr. McDonald, Welcome to the Dollhouse, The White Balloon, The White Sheik, Young and Innocent (1937).

MUSIC
William Alwyn, Buddy Baker, Eighth Blackbird, George Bruns, Gerry Butler, Aaron Copeland, Elvis Costello, Nickel Creek, Edward Elgar, Gerald Finzi, Dominic Frontiere, Steve Gray, Bernard Herrmann, Gustav Holst, Charles Ives, Laurie Johnson, Jan Kimberly, Mark Knopfler, Morten Lauridsen, Harry Lubin, Elisabeth Lutyens, Pat Metheny, Vic Mizzy, John Kaizan Neptune, Alfred Newman, Punch Brothers, Eldon Rathburn, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Keali'i Reichel, Leonard Rosenman, Camille Saint-Saëns, Humphrey Searle, Fred Steiner, Yma Sumac, Toru Takemitsu, Chris Thile, Nathan Van Cleave, Kenneth Wanberg, John Williams.

ART
George Caleb Bingham, Victoria Borges, Marc Davis, Maynard Dixon, Eyvind Earle, Seymour Fogel, Stan Galli, Henry Gasser, Marion Griese, Bern Hill, Eline Isaksen, Chuck Jones, Rockwell Kent, André Kertész, Jon Klassen, Paul Klee, David Klein, Dong Kingman, Erik Knitsche, Emil Kosa, Jr., Martin Lewis, Sam McKim, Ed Mell, Joan Miro, John Pike, Rex Ray, Dorothea Redmond, Frederic Remington, Norman Rockwell, Herb Ryman, Mike Schick, Charles Schulz, Millard Sheets, Matte Stephens, John Edward Svenson, Grant Wood, N. C. Wyeth, Clare Youngs.

LITERATURE
The Good Book, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, Bartlett's Quotations, BFI Film Classics, Chariots for Apollo: The Untold Story Behind the Race to the Moon, The Devil's Chessboard, Great Plains, Son of the Morning Star: Custer and The Little Bighorn, James Agee, Francis of Assisi, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Raymond Chandler, Noam Chomsky, Billy Collins, Baltasar Gracian, Shirley Jackson, C.S. Lewis, Ross MacDonald, James Martin, Thomas Merton, M. Scott Peck, Rod Serling, Henry David Thoreau, Kurt Vonnegut.


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  • Seattle, WA, USA

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