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Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?

About Me


CONGRATS KYNT & VYXSIN - CHECK 20 seconds into this video! See my photo!
"It is not without cause that parents shudder when a child of theirs expresses the wish to become an Artist: they will, of course, do everything in their power to protect the child fromsuch a fate!: —to undermine any real adventuring... distort the whole meaning of the word “appreciation” . . . . confusing it with “voyeurism” . . . . to tame the energies of any active involvement: for real aesthetic appreciation runs exactly the same hazards as art-creation—leads as surely to what society calls “madness”
– Stan Brakhage, George Méliès lecture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1970
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THE 411


I am a published art, fashion and entertainment photographer, graphic artist and illustrator with 15 years experience in art direction and digital art and production. Primarily working in the publicity, entertainment and fashion industries. Commercial work also welcomed.
Trained as a poet and artist at Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (BA/MFA). Worked and lived in Prague, Czech Republic as a new media film industry art director for feature films and commercials while co-founding Prague School of Poetics in my free time. Worked in Chicago and New York as a freelance graphic artist and videographer. Returned to Louisville in 2003.
While I have dabbled in photography since the mid-nineties, I didn't call myself a photographer until I picked up a camera out of necessity while working on graphic and video projects for a modeling agency. Have been a freelance photographer since.
Although I keep a few high-profile publicity and design clients, and loosely maintain a consulting business, fashion and illustrative photography is my primary business.
I am a divorced father of two lovely children, Diamanda (6) and Dorian (2.5).
I understand lighting, set design, composition, working with a team in fashion and commercial photography. However, I rarely use a studio. I rarely covet more gear. I do with what I have and offer up a down-n-dirty stylistic approach to my imagery.
Ideas are everything. without them, you can have all the skill and technology in the world and still be noting more than mediocrity.
-- bb, March 2008
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K&V&me - Goth Prom '08
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My Interests



propaganda, solidarity, justice... catachresis and malapropism



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I'd like to meet:



"I feel that what is probably the greatest enemy of longevity is popularity, and most people die of popularity." – Anton Szandor LaVey

I would like to meet models, artists, artists as models. Beautiful women with our without tattoos, Pinheads, dwarfs, giants, hunchbacks, pre-op transsexuals, bearded women, people with tails, horns, wings, reversed hands or feet, anyone born without arms, legs, eyes, breast, genitals, ears, nose, lips. All people with unusually large genitals. All manner of extreme visual perversion. Hermaphrodites and teratoids (alive and dead). Anyone bearing the wounds of Christ. Buddhist superstars with Ray-Bans. Women whose faces are covered with hair or large skin lesions willing to pose in evening gowns. People who live as comic-book heroes, filmic Noir throwbacks, boot, corset and bondage fetishists. Theosophists with a leaning toward debilitating scizhophrenia. Anyone claiming to be God. God.

(This list is in homage to Joel-Peter Witkin)

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Music:



My other profile: MYSPACE/BIL BROWN (Experimental Poetics Music)


INFLUENCES
Velvet Underground, Meredith Monk, John Cage, young Sinatra, xiu xiu, The Who, early Rolling Stones, Patti Smith, Blondie, The Cure, Souixie Souix, Jeff Buckley, Iggy Pop, MC5, Dead Can Dance, Miranda Sex Garden, Nick Cave, Hildegard Von Bingen, The Wickerman Soundtrack, Circulus, Kate Bush, PJ Harvey, Espers, Alan Lomax, Pentangle, Jacques Brel, Odetta, Danny Elfman, Led Zeppelin, Folkways Anthology, Nick Drake, William Blake, Cocteau Twins, Buggles, Depeche Mode, Narnia, Ken Russell soundtracks, Serge Gainsbourg, Atari Teenage Riot, Lydia Lunch, Sonic Youth, Goldfrapp, Marilyn Manson, Ministry, Revolting Cocks, LARD, Johnny Cash, Space Team Electra, Myshel Prasad, AYIN, John Williams, Mozart, Prussian Blue, Miranda Sex Garden, Mazzy Star, Einsterzende Neubaten, The Doors, Prince.

MY PODCAST

Listen and see my podcast here.

Movies:


Yet another profile: MYSPACE/BIL BROWN (Experimental Film, Animation and MoGraph)


"The brain is unity. The brain is the screen. I dont believe that linguistics and psychoanalysis offer a great deal to the cinema."

- Gilles Deleuze
FILMMAKERS
Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Saul Bass, Harry Smith, Jonas Mekas, Tod Browning, Andy Warhol, Eon McKai, Wim Wenders, John Waters, Peter Greenaway, Asia Argento, Dario Argento, Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Darren Aronofsky, Russ Meyer, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, The Hughes Brothers, David Cronenberg, Sam Raimi, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Leni Riefenstahl, Guillermo del Toro, Production IG, to many more to mention...
FILMS Ever heard of the original Liquid Sky, with a cross dressing lead and alien sex snatching crystals? A film with Oingo Boingo and Herve V. from "Fantasy Island"... I like other films... but I get drawn into odd "meshes" like that for some reason.

Television:

Vimeo , YouTube, IFC, SciFi, CourtTV (especially John Waters' new show). The now defunct DISINFORMATION .

Books:

Ask me about my book projects HEARTS and REVIVAL

Heroes:



"It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment. There is no law governing all things."

- Giordano Bruno, (Italian philosopher executed for truthfully believing in infinite space.)

HISTORICAL
Joan d'Arc, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Dante, Ezra Pound, Giordano Bruno, Vaclav Havel, Nazim Hikmet, Yang Lian, Bronislava Vokova, Johnny Cash.. others

My Blog

R.I.P Artist, Inventor, Publisher, Rabble-rouser Leo Wrye

Part II knew Leo Welmer Zimmerman as an artist first and foremost. Second as a friend, and mentor. Third as a community leader.Leo was a friend these last 10 or so years of his life. We met somewhere ...
Posted by BIL BROWN" on Sat, 10 May 2008 07:59:00 PST

Kynt & Vyxsin in HOT TOPIC VIDEO & Gothic Beauty, photos by Bil Brown

Congratulations Kynt & Vyxsin!!! They have made their debut for HOT TOPIC with a feature music video!!Also, if you check 20 seconds into the video, you will see on the make up table my photo of K...
Posted by BIL BROWN" on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:44:00 PST

Generative Art as Figure Photography: Bil Browns Underground Aesthetic - by Jamie McDermond

..This critical exegisis was written by one of my favorite models and is being reworked for further publication. I found it charming, and also, she got a lot of the things that I could not put into wo...
Posted by BIL BROWN" on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:07:00 PST

Bil Brown in Beat Documentary, THE SOURCE (1999)

Here I am (a bit younger) in the PBS rotated documentary on The Beat Generation. I was living in Prague when this came out and just so happened on the DVD when I moved to Chicago in...
Posted by BIL BROWN" on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:20:00 PST

Noble Friend. Noble Death.

On October 27, 2006 my friend Brad Will was in Oaxaca, Mexico filming the intelligentsia uprising of a grass-roots movement to remove the local Provence of a bullshit governor.On October 27, 2006 my f...
Posted by BIL BROWN" on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:20:00 PST

Design should be my mortal enemy. I am a designer.

American culture is formalist. American culture is hidden, is about hiding, is about lies and obscuring the truth. Design is the highest expression of formal art. Content is principle but if that form...
Posted by BIL BROWN" on Mon, 03 Oct 2005 03:49:00 PST

Guerilla Healthcare: The Inmates Run the Asylum

. . . . "Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by divine gift.." ~ Plato (Phaedrus) . . 1// Would Cassandra be considered Schizophrenic ...
Posted by BIL BROWN" on Sat, 17 Sep 2005 02:59:00 PST

Guerilla Healthcare Part 2

2// A new timeline in the fight for rights so-called Mentally Ill has emerged recently: President Bush: Screen all Americans (as posted previously on YH, with some new information) August 200...
Posted by BIL BROWN" on Sat, 17 Sep 2005 02:57:00 PST

Guerilla Healthcare Part 3

3// The Meaning of Schizophrenia R.D. Laing shook up the psychiatric establishment in the 1960's when he showed that the person who gets labelled "schizophrenic" is usually the "identified patie...
Posted by BIL BROWN" on Sat, 17 Sep 2005 02:55:00 PST

Guerilla Healthcare Part 4

//4 From the George Méliès lecture: It is not without cause that parents shudder when a child of theirs expresses the wish to become an Artist: they will, of course, do everything in their power...
Posted by BIL BROWN" on Sat, 17 Sep 2005 02:52:00 PST