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ELIAS

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About Me


www.eliastahan.com
eliastahan.blogspot.com

My Interests

genuine laughter, breaking rules, humanity, humility, avant-garde, Michael Jackson's outfits, Sweden, Lundlund, mermaid mythology, telepathy, Wikipedia, karma, waifs, middle-american wasteland, the study of ethos logos and pathos, Feng Shui, Tai-Chi, creative collaboration, graphic, interactive, environmental, & industrial design, IMAX, Baraka, video production, music videos, color theory, composition, miniatures, models, Playmobil, surrealism, ephemera, memorabelia, saving things for anthropological reasons, claymation, certain forms of animation, museums, symphonies, opera houses, architecture, spectacles, metropolises, airports, hotels, ancient Egypt, Middle Eastern cuisine, culinary arts, 80s nostalgia, Studio 54, tiki culture, perfectionism, breaking records, people who capitalize and thrive on the fusion of their inherent talents and learned skills, philanthropists

I'd like to meet:



Music:

Progressive rock/electronica, Mamas and the Papas, Pink Floyd, TMV, The Pixies, Under The Influence of Giants, Metric, Royksopp, The Knife, Air, Boards of Canada, The Flaming Lips, Lake Lustre, Massive Attack, Of Montreal, Roisin Murphy, Micatone, Alanis Morissette, Fiona Apple, NIN, Skinny Puppy, The Verve, Beck, Basement Jaxx, Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, Ace of Base, Mirwais Ahmadzai;, Stuart Price, Madonna, Zoot Woman, Three Tenors, electronically enhanced psychedelic folk, Michael Jackson.

Movies:

Nobody Knows (Dare Mo Shiranai), The Insider, Boiler Room, Closer, A.I., Gattaca, Baraka, What Dreams May Come, Series of Unfortunate Events, Head-On, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Before Night Falls, The Dreamers, The Shining

Heroes:



My Blog

Newstoday.com

They picked me as their QBN Certified feature. I used to visit this site as a teen and gawk at the talent on there and now I am headlining the site. I am speechless. www.newstoday.com...
Posted by ELIAS on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 03:19:00 PST

Woosta.com Interview

This awesome website called Woosta asked me to do an interview for them. They promote exceptional artists of all sorts. Here is the interview: woosta.com...
Posted by ELIAS on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 02:37:00 PST

Then and Now

Music videos were popularized in the late seventies and early eighties by visual pioneers such as Michael Jackson and were viewed as an inventive art-form. It was a cultural phenomenon to see popular ...
Posted by ELIAS on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 02:51:00 PST

Creativity vs. Marketability

I feel creativity in the U.S. is highly compromised by the desire for major corporations, particularly record labels, to simply acquire people skilled or qualified enough to just get the job done, rat...
Posted by ELIAS on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:10:00 PST

Inspirations

Each stemming from different artistic mediums, my top 3 influential artists would have to be Eugenio Recuenco, Mark Romanek, and Michael Jackson. I believe they are the true visionaries of this centur...
Posted by ELIAS on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 10:16:00 PST