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Walter

Artist in LA

About Me

Living the life of an artist can be quite a challenge. Always striving to see things differently and to manifest the life that I want by really paying attention to my thoughts. I've done what I loved as an artist. I've made lots of money working in advertising. Now I'm looking to do what I love while also making a decent living simultaneously. Right now I'm co-producing two feature films with Nikos Linardakis of Olive Film Productions. We are working with Billy Wirth and Scott Colomby. It has been quite an amazing journey and we hope to be filming this year if these strikes don't interfere. I'm just learning to go with the flow and to trust that everything is happening for the better good of all involved. I am utilizing all my talents by working on these films. I played violin and french horn growing up and started singing soon after high school. I danced professionally for several years and then quit to finish college majoring in political science. Went back to school later on studying computer programming and took a few art classes as well at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Worked as a fashion illustrator for Playboy and several other magazines. Also worked in the world of advertising freelancing as a production artist, art director, illustrator, and web designer. Moved to LA eventually and started shooting a few years ago and absolutely loved it. Now I am finally learning to utilize all my skills in the film industry. Life is great. .. .. ..>

My Interests

I'm truly a sucker for a pretty face. Love the whole aesthetic thing of beauty. Hence my participation in the fashion world and my obsession with Charlie's Angels. Have a passion for people that live passionately. Always have been fascinated by identical twins. Have dreams about Chicago pizza. Other obsessions in my life have been Katharine Hepburn, Brooke Shields, Christy Turlington, Jean Paul Gaultier, Mozart, Gershwin, Gianni Versace, Herb Ritts, Picasso, Baryshnikov, and collies.

I'd like to meet:

...people who are passionate about life...people who love what they do...people who excell in life...I've always had friends that are over-achievers. I'm attracted to people who are eccentric, intelligent, and who live consciously. I love to surround myself with people who are geniuses in their professions...a nice ass doesn't hurt either. I also like people who have integrity and who don't take themselves too seriously. Love to meet people who are really looking to give back through what they do. Have known way too many narcissists and am done dealing with them. Ideally I'd like to meet someone with lots of money that just wants to give it to me.

Music:

Love Mariah Carey's first album. Don't know what happened to her after that. My friend Josie Aiello has the most amazing voice I've ever heard my entire life. It can heal me in an instant. Love Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 4. Also love Rossini's Semiramide, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Brand New Heavies, Luis Miguel, Sting, Seal, John Mayer, Chaka Khan, Donna Summer, Amel Larrieux and Take 6

Movies:

As Good As It Gets, Wizard of Oz, Star Wars, Europa, Europa, Squid and the Whale, American Psycho, Apartment Zero, Frequency, West Side Story, American History X, Stage Door, Notes On A Scandal, Last King of Scotland, Little Miss Sunshine, Lars and the Real Girl, Atonement, The Kite Runner, No Country for Old Men

Television:

Charlie's Angels (It's all about Farrah, Kate and Jaclyn), Project Runway, Medium, Knots Landing, Zoom, Pushing Daisies

Books:

Conversations with God, Energy Anatomy, Many Lives, Many Masters, The Artist's Way, Why People Don't Heal and How They Can, 7 Laws of Spiritual Success, Illusions, The Law of Attraction, Catcher in the Rye

Heroes:

My parents, Katharine Hepburn, my dogs...