PRESENT
(Fashion) Fashion, Design, Tailoring, Dressmaking, Pattern Drafting, Sculpting Fabric, Sewing Machines, Cotton, Silk, Denim, Leather, Fabric Dying & Processing, Fabric Enzymes, Writing, Reading, International Law, Sweatshop Culture, Weaving Machines, Used Textile Equipment Market, Screen Printing, Laundry Equipment, Fitting Forms, Exporting, Customs Forms, Wayne State University Fashion Design & Merchandising Program . . .(Fashion Design) Valentino, Emanuel Ungaro, Y&Kei, Alexander McQueen, Narciso Rodriguez, Doo Ri Chung, Derek Lam, Alexandre Plokhov, Proenza Schouler, Tom Ford, Isaac Mizrahi(Models) Omahyra Mota, Devon Aoki, Gemma Ward, Natasha Poly, Heather Marks, Caroline Winberg, Liya Kebede, Xiao (Ford Models), Charo (Ford Models), Bao (New York Model Mgmt.), Jarah Mariano (IMG Models)
(Mind) Saving my Down Payment
(Home) Healthy Living, Absence of Politics and Religious Battles from My Life
(Places) London, Germany, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Toronto, New York, Chicago, Texas, Atlanta, Miami, California, Washington State, Colorado
(Body) Music, Urban Mountain Biking, Truth, Private Time, Peaceful People, Bonsai Trees, Orchids, Miniature Roses, Miniature Orange Trees, Water features, desktop ponds and waterfalls, stomach crunches, push-ups
(Home)
(Halloween) Pushing Clay, Halloween masks, RD 407 latex, special effects , skin illustrator, Wacom, makeup
(People) llustrators, graphic designers, models, photographers, studio owners, stylists, writers, and all creative people.
(Photography) Ultra-wide lenses, soft gold reflectors, champagne, warming and red enhancer filters, fog, gray and graduated tobacco filters, Bronica ETRSi, Pentax 35mm, Ilford, AGFA, Fuji cross-processing and Ilford bleach bypass, black and white film, 100 speed, under-exposure, darkrooms, enlargers and tabletop processors, bulk film loaders, medium format, Polaroid
(Film) Arriflex, Éclair NPR and Bolex EL, B&W reversals, 100 fps, colored gobos, dimmers with light boards, fish-eye lenses, wide-angle lenses, cranes and dollies, Avid editors, actors, the Detroit Film Club
(Art) Jean Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Klimt, Chinese national oil painters, seventeenth century painters and sculptors, Italian painters seventeenth century, Grumbacher, acrylic, pallete knives, large format canvases, watercolor, oil
. PAST
(Movement) Sport Fighting (North American Champion Rated No. 1 & No. 2 NASKA), Youth Olympics Program Competitor and Qualifier, Weight Lifting, Walking Long Distances (10 Miles +), Gymnastics, Basketball, Reading, Eastern Philosophy,...
(Music + Places) Guitar, Bass, Recording & Mixing Music, New York Hardcore vs. Detroit Hardcore, Detroit Music Studios (City & Suburbs), StraightxEdge, Eyebrow Rings, Underground Electronic Music, St. Andrews Hall, Motor Lounge, Harpos , I-Rock, After Hours Bars ($6 Beer), After Hours Clubs, East Side Dives, Hamtramck Dives, Abandoned Houses with DJs, College Parties, Motor Cycle Clubs, Packard Plant Raves, Waterfront Warehouse Parties, Outlaw Warehouse Parties, Eastside Millionaire Parties (Old Money Meets New Money), Ukrainian Social Clubs, Italian-American Social Clubs, Eastside Yatch Club, Hells Angels Working Security...
(Young + Dumb) My First Bars at 15 Years Old (Detroit's East Side), Jumping from Moving Vehicles (Its working, Im flying), Jumping onto moving Trains (Troll Bridge), Abandoned Insane Asylums and State Hospitals (Northville), Horror Movies, Comedy Video Production, SUV's, Cohiba / Romeo & Juliet (Cuban Cigars), Evading Organized Criminals, Drug Addicted Models...
(The Grind) Horizontal Mill Operator, Sign Maker (Cranbrook), CNC Programming, Charity Fundraiser (Police Athletic League, Churches & Hospitals), Business Owner, Janitor, Entrepreneur, Professional Buyer, Newsletter Writer and Publisher, Spotlight Operator, Attack Dog Trainer, Law Enforcement Services, Detroit City Bill Collector, Business Deals Gone Bad...
(The Roadtrips) Downtown Chicago (Greektown), Living In Hotels Across the U.S. On Weekends, Traveling to London Ontario On a Train By Myself Every Two Weeks...
I'd like to meet:
Either Your In or Your Out
People with good hearts and good intentions are welcome here. It doesnt matter if your covered in tattoos and can fight your way out of a crowd with a wallet chain, or if you are delicate and spend Friday afternoon being pampered in a day spa.
Guess What? Your Invited!
I am not a racist, a sexist or homophobic, although all types of people in the past have been known to test my limits. Anyone and everyone who has seen something on my page or something about me that interests, intrigues or educates can feel free to be added. I only ask that you leave any hostile misspent aggression at the door. This is the place on the Internet where I come to relax, update my design journal and digital scrapbook and post random philosophical ideas. My only major requests are:
Please dont make me miserable policing the posts below, although you are free to say or express whatever you like.
And please make any video or audio files you decide to load as small as possible. I want to give people with slower connections the ability to access the page.
. The Usual Suspects
Included in my top groups would be the Usual Suspects, including: Fashion Designers and Student Designers, Dressmakers and Tailors, Models, Photographers and Assistant Photographers, Studio Owners, Hair and Makeup, Stylists, Fashion Journalists and E-zine Publishers, Illustrators, Painters, Graphic Artists, Day Spa Owners Operators and Employees, Filmmakers and Editors, Animators and Special Effects Enthusiasts, Electronic Musicians, Art Gallery Owners and Curators, Glass Artists and Artistic Welders, Accessory and Jewelry Designers, Party Promoters and Party Girls. MySpace Fashion and Art Group Leaders. When I have a chance to drop-in on New York, Jay McCaroll and Parker Posey. You get the Idea.
. Six Degrees of Separation
Ideally Id like to make long-term acquaintances all over western and central Europe, Japan and of course the United States and Canada. The type of people who would be interested in keeping me in their rolodexes and keeping touch over three or four years. Not a deep and meaningful relationship, but someone who would be interested in dropping a line a half dozen times a year just to see whats been going on.
I am less interested in thousands of superficial relationships with a lifespan of 90 days or less. As long as MySpace exists for the next three years Im committed to sticking around and seeing who comes and who goes as an experiment. My only concern is in not wanting to turn my studio or my home into a motel or bus depot for MySpace users down on their luck.
I am not opposed to ambitious users who want to build their online networks, or people who want to learn about how to sew a perfect pocket, because I am sure that hundreds and thousands will come and go over that period of time.
I would just like to separate the 90 day flakes from the long term arts and entertainment community the best that I can. It would be a shame to get to know bits and pieces about someone over the course of three or four years and have them just disappear one day never to be heard from again.
Some of the people on MySpace I am sure Ill see at a venue some day out on tour or at a gallery opening in Chicago or Cologne or Tokyo. That is obvious by some of the profiles. But I also do not want to pre judge each and every person. I Hope to see you here in the future. Its kind of like the feeling I get when I see Roger Miret or Vinnie Stigma each two or three years, I brings back memories of good times and good friends some are here and some are gone, more than anything it creates more quality memories for the future.
Practical Patron of the Arts
If you have read through some of my interests, spoken to me through an e-mail or even crossed paths midtown, you know that I have an interest in art and artists. Painters and sculptors have a particular reserved parking place in my heart.
If you are an artist and work in the mediums of acrylic or oil paints, I might be interested in learning more about what inspires you to create, though as a simple rule, I am interested in the person as much or more than I am the artwork itself.
I do believe in rotating paintings and sculpts with the seasons or a mood or occasion, however I do not believe in permanent storage of someone’s creative expression.
Let’s be realistic, however, living in one of America’s top ten major metropolitan cities, the amount of space any one person has comes at a premium, and as an artist with a studio space (no matter how compact) devoted to creating your artwork, you understand how limited wall and floor space can be as well as I understand how limited closet space can be.
All invitations to gallery openings, group exhibits and promotional materials are appreciated, however, giant sized images files, the overloading of my home page and random Spam is not.
I believe that artists will understand the intent of my experimental art / design (fashion) project a little better than any other group of people.
If something you see, one of the design challenges or one of the photo journal shots catches your eye and you are interested in learning more or have thought about trading with me, I will consider all conversations, requests and offers as soon as I have free time from the studio and workshop.
. My Friends Many people are probably wondering why it is that we have introduced ouselves and stay in contact through e-mails but haven't added each other to our friends list.
Even though I have been a part of MySpace since the begining of 2005 and have enjoyed my time here, I have been busy in my studio and my workshop, and I haven't had the time to dedicate towards updating my MySpace page until the Christmas Vacation interim. In the New Year I will be available on a more regular basis. What does that have to do with the friends list?
The first ten people on my Friends List are reserved for people that I remember from my High School and Neighborhood, fashion designers and artists that were supportive along the way and other individuals that are in some way special or memorable to me. These are the people you could find in my private address book or PDA.
After adding my first group of people I have a list of e-mails and contacts of people I have had fun speaking with or that have so much personality that they have somehow stood out from the crowd, and I will be contacting you as soon as possible.
My good friend Tom will have to do for now...
Music:
Bands PAST
(Metal) Metallica, Pantera, Biohazard, Sepeltura, White Zombie, Hatebreed, Nail Bomb, Pro-Pain, Sick of It All, Deftones, Korn, Motorhead, Sabbath . . . you get the idea
(Hardcore) Murphys Law, Madball, Cold as Life, Agnostic Front, Crown of Thorns, Twenty Five to Life, Bright Side (Germany), Fury of Five, One Life Crew, White Devil (UK Underground Hardcore) Stampin Ground, again, you get the idea . . .
(Detroit Underground) Subsidence (Paul C.), Simple Wisdom (Paul C.), Cold as Life, Elephant Ear, Critical Bill, Dissonant, Know Life, Bag of Hammers, House of Krazies, Simpkin Heights,HMR, Cymonic Drive, Biast Fear (Ohio), Neo Tribe (Chicago)
(Alternative, Hip Hop, Dance, Noise, other...) Mighty Mighty Bostones, Toadies, Beastie Boys, Wu-Tang Clan, Grave Diggas, Outkast, Godflesh, Keoki, Frankie Bones, Richard Humpty Vision, Bad Boy Bill, DJ Shadow, etc . . .
Bands PRESENT
(Cut N' Sew Music) Bjork, Chicks on Speed, Le Tigre, The Capricorns, TV on the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Smiths, Tatu, Breakfast Club Soundtrack, Billy Idol, Motley Crue, Nancy Sinatra, Bag of Hammers (Detroit) Dave and Kevin), Jillian Ann D. and Dave Kirby (New York, Elucido Project) Jillian Ann Solo Projects and Albums [Random Jazz, Soul, Motown and 70s (including Sun Rah)] ,
(Classical) Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Guest Members, Electronic Music . . . (Latest Music) Avenged Sevenfold & My Chemical Romance
Favorite Songs and Albums PAST: Metallica Ride the Lightening - Black Album, Cowboys from Hell . . .Great Southern Trendkill
Movies:
Actors PRESENT
Billy Bob Thornton, Sam Rockwell, Robert DeNiro, Parker Posey, Julliet Lewis, Holly Marie Combs
Directors: Sam Raimi, John Carpenter, Dario Argento
(Movies) In the Mouth of Madness, Big Trouble in Little China, Nightmare on Elm Street, Kill Bill, How High, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Lost In Translation, Party Girl, The Anniversary Party,Touch of Evil, Citizen Kane.
Television:
Current: Project Runway
also . . .Insomniac with Dave Attell, Designer Guys, What Not To Wear, , Project Green Light, most anything design or home improvement related, etc . . .
(Also) Charmed, Seinfeld, Law and Order
(Politics) Washington Journal, C-SPAN, House of Commons, Bundestag, Today in Washington, Detroit Public Television, Local City Council Television
(Music) Fuse TV (Juliya)
Books:
Books & Magazines
Threads, Vogue, Paper Magazine, WWD, Dutch, In Style, Lucky, GQ, Details, Fine Woodworking, Fine Homebuilding, Guitar World, Mix Magazine, Filmmaker Magazine, Sewing, Dressmaking and Tailoring Books...
News Investor Business Daily
Local and Entertainment Metro Times & Real Detroit
PAST BOOKS Seven Habits of a Highly Successful Person
Heroes:
Jimmy Carter (Habitat for Humanity), Lauren Ezersky (Style TV), Liya Kebede (Charity Foundation), Paul Teutul Sr. (Family)
