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Kay O.

Happiness is saying yes more often than no.

About Me

I'm dedicated to learning and growth. I like nothing more than snapping my fingers or opening my eyes in awe and uttering, "Eureka!"I hope to produce those shifts in perception, those lessons and ideas in others which is why I am, for better or for worse, an artist, a traveller, an explorer and an inventor.The method? Whatever works. Whatever hasn't been tried before. Climb a mountain. Climb a building. Make a movie. Make an interactive art installation out of disposible cameras and EL wire. Doesn't matter. All options are open.I like good food, good music, serene sunsets by the beach and adrenaline powered sprints. I'm all about saturation and contrast - literally and metaphorically. Intensity & passion drive me forward.

Personal Mutations - my personal blog

Astral Projections Film & Video Works

Urban Exploration Alberta

Flickr photo gallery

Streaming Internet TV show soon to come...

My Interests

Urban Exploration, Guerrilla Filmmaking, Burning Man, Masculinity & Yang Energy, Fire Spinning, Poetry, Writing, Pyrotechnics, Culture Jamming, Philosophy, Polyamoury, Psychology, Sociology, Improvisation, Technology, Anarchy, Activism, Capoeira, Climbing, Hiking, Journalism, Environmentalism, Computer Graphics, Enthenogens, Travel and Art. Collecting flashlights, bottles, super 8 cameras & equipment (functional or not), hub caps, cans, funky hats, action figures and whatever else seems pointless but cool at the time.

I'd like to meet:

I enjoy being challenged and pushed as much as I adore being coddled and loved. Intelligence is important, though there are many different ways to be intelligent. So is authenticity and passion. Be passionate about something, anything. I can't stand dull people.
If you want to befriend me try sending me a message with some substance first. I'm not a card collector, you don't really need to "catch 'em all."

Music:

How about the next several artists I hit with WinAmp on random?Guess Who, Electric Six, Richard Cheese, Dante's Voodoo Cabaret, Stephane Grappelli, Levi Strauss, Crystal Method, Jeff Zellner, Ani Difranco & Portishead, The Specials, Tracy Chapman, Queen, Stravinsky, Pink Floyd, Pete Heller, DJ Shadow, Janis Joplin, White Stripes, Soul Coughing, Nick Cave, Sage Francis, Monster Magnet, Saint Saens, The Faint, Violent Femmes, PJ Harvey and Pocketdwellers.I'm as baffled as you are.

Movies:

Apocalypse Now, Moulin Rouge, Crash, Blade Runner, Nosferatu, Koyaniqatsi, Pulse, Fight Club, Matrix, Rejected, Highway 61, Human Traffic, Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, Hard Core Logo, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Citizen Kane, Third Man, Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona, Hudsucker Proxy, hell anything by Joel and Ethan, the Evil Dead Trilogy, Human Traffic, Brazil, Waking Life, Usual Suspects, Delicatessen, Amelie, Alligator, Lola rennt, Memento, Waydowntown, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Lost Highway, eXistenZ, Top of the Food Chain...

Television:

Babylon 5, Babylon 5: Crusade, Blakes 7, Dr. Who, Duckman, Batman the Animated Series, Clone High, The Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy, MASH, X-files (seasons 1-4, after which it went to hell)... I dunno, I almost never watch TV anymore.

Books:

Thomas Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow, Crying of Lot 49, V and Slow Learner. Matt Ruff: Sewer Gas & Electric. Hunter S. Thompson: The Great Shark Hunt and Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas. Patrick Suskind: Perfume. Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness. Aldous Huxley: Brave New World, The Doors of Perception and Brave New World Revisited (even if its horribly depressing). Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Richard Brautigan: Dreaming of Babylon, The Hawkline Monster, Confederate General from Big Sur. A. A. Attinasio: The Dragon and the Unicorn. What They Don't Teach You In Film School. James P. Carse: Finite and Infinite Games. Robert Moore: King, Warrior, Magician, Lover. Michael Talbot: The Holographic Universe. Etc...

Heroes:

Hunter S. Thompson, Thomas Pynchon, Bill Hicks, Lenny Bruce, Orson Welles, Abbie Hoffman, Jello Biafra, David Suzuki, Ninjalicious, Max Action, predator, Bruce Campbell, Ridley Scott, Terry Gilliam, David Cronenberg, Don McKellar, Hakim Bey, Robert Anton Wilson, R. M. Patterson, Ian Wright, activists, artists, explorers and intellectuals of all kinds. Those who have vision and integrity. People who live(d) by their own rules.

My Blog

The real deal.

MySpace is too friggin' 2004 to incorporate RSS feeds into its blogging. I know, I'm as disappointed and shocked as you are. So sadly you're going to have to set up your own RSS aggregator to get upda...
Posted by Kay O. on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 03:23:00 PST

UE Survey

1- What's your favorite abandoned building, and why?The old YMCA in Calgary. Maybe not the most epic building I've been in, but filled with great memories. Sadly missed.2- What's the closest you've be...
Posted by Kay O. on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 08:49:00 PST

Alright I'm a cut & paste idiot

Here's the aforementioned profile: Here.
Posted by Kay O. on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 03:52:00 PST

Formatting

I'm really not a fan of promotion on MySpace, especially when it boils down to what's essentially spamming people. But...This is probably the most amazing customized MySpace profile I've ever seen. It...
Posted by Kay O. on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:46:00 PST

Burning Packing

It seems odd to be washing the playa dust off of my gear, only to bring it back to the playa a week and a half later to get it all dusty all over again. The dust tastes terrific though, in your nose, ...
Posted by Kay O. on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 04:11:00 PST

Just Another Saturday...

This is Amber. The poor girl ran into us three Flickrites on her way home from the pub and suddenly became the subject of an impromptu model shoot. Not that she minded, and for that matter neither did...
Posted by Kay O. on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 12:16:00 PST

SleeP?

I'm not sure my circadian rhythms have ever been so fuct. Ever.My men's weekend was rough on them, but that was two weeks ago now. This past week, oi...I've worked every day out of the past ten days, ...
Posted by Kay O. on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:08:00 PST

WORK IT

Its almost too much. I worked at WestJet Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday, then I worked all nighters on Resurrecting the Champ Wednesday and Thursday nights. Tomorrow I'm shooting a wedding all d...
Posted by Kay O. on Sat, 29 Jul 2006 09:56:00 PST

Displacement

Apparently there was a story in the paper a couple of days ago about potentially knocking my apartment building down. I haven't read it myself so its all speculation from here on in until I get my han...
Posted by Kay O. on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:31:00 PST

One Word Survey...

one word!!Y O U ... C A N ... O N L Y ... T Y P E ... O N E ... W O R D !N O ... E X P L A N A T I O N S !1. Yourself: Preparing2. Your boyfriend/girlfriend: Anticipated3. Your hair: Stubble4. Your Mo...
Posted by Kay O. on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:43:00 PST