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ian ethan vloke-wurth [professional photographer]

PHOTOGRAPHER, FILMMAKER, CONCEPTUAL ARTIST: http://www.ianethanvloke-wurth.com

About Me


____________________________________________________________ __"The Plain Pulchritude of Ian Ethan Vloke-Wurth's photography lures the viewer's eye and mind to open the soul to moments of wide-eyed innocence, be it through flagrant or veiled sexuality and intoxicating imagery.
.....see what awaits".(by Ronda Burrell, UCLA - TV and Film Archive)____________________________________________________ __________"A Genius. A thought provoking and sensitive man. An inspirational artistic collaborator. A never ending font of support. And above all else....one of the best friends a person can have". (by Jeffery Scott, friend and amazing photographer)_______________________________________________ _______________
ANYONE CAN FEEL FREE TO ADD ME ON THIS PROFILE. THIS PROFILE IS TO PROMOTE MY ART, PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILM._______________________________________________________ ____PHOTO BELOW: My loft / studio downtown Los Angeles. The studio is available for photo shoots and other uses for the day rate of $300 or $150 for 4 hours. 220 power, east facing windows, one white wall, one brick wall, props, full kitchen and bath, wireless internet, 12 ft ceilings, 1700 sq ft, beautiful original hardwood floors, located off Alameda and the 10 fwy (also very near 101/110/60).
Full time professional photographer
Documentary filmmaker
I also teach a workshop once a week to 100 middle school students in Los Angeles for Hands On Schools through a non-profit called LA Works. My workshop teaches sustainability / environmental issues and leadership.
Also: Conceptual thinker, Writer, Music creator, and Graphic designer / art director.
I've my work in 50+ galleries.
Have shown photography in 22 art galleries world wide and my last film won best documentary, was in the ifilm.com Top 10, and was aired on MTV2. ...also an artist in other mediums with non-photography work featured in an additional 30+ art galleries, cafes, and events.
I create music, experimental sound, experimental film, 16mm and 8mm film loop projectionist, electrostatic art, and I've been know to write...if I try really hard.
____________________________________________________________ __Extremely intuitive, clairvoyant. keenly perceptive, empathic, deeply passionate, very open and honest, conceptual, intelligent, have integrity and dignity, strong morals, loyal, romantic, kind, gentle, attentive, thoughtful, deeply compassionate, with an acute sense of detail. I know the difference between right and wrong and don't "have to do something wrong in order to learn from it". I believe in karma.A non-smoker. 100% drug free and always have been. I rarely ever drink alcohol. I've never had coffee. Never had a beer. I want more life...not less. I'm not hiding from anything or anyone. I employ proper dental hygiene 3 times a day and bath 2 to 3 times per day. I have zero credit card debt, no past bankruptcies.
I either wear very expensive suits or the opposite - simple Dickies pants. I don't have anything in-between except one pair of jeans.
I love calmness and peace in my life.
Interested in alternative medicine and natural healing. I eat healthy food at home shopping 100% at Whole Foods, Trader Joes and Farmers Market (street market). Love to cook odd inventions at 3am. I eat out once per day. I eat almost 100% organic foods, vegan, raw/live food (which is not raw meat) at home..but I also eat out at all types of ethnic foods such as Thai, Indian, Middle Eastern, Greek, Japanese, Mexican, Italian, Chinese, Peruvian, and Salvadorian...etc. I know the best hole in the walls in Los Angeles. I admit, I love Chicken lovers burritos from El Polo Loco. Love hummus, avocados, green curry, port wine, baklava, dried cranberries, and goat cheese!Born February 2nd, Aquarius, 6 foot 4 1/2 inches tall with blue eyes.
I am open to a new healthy relationship with someone who is kind, caring, and of very sound mind (if not, don't bother)
You will find that I am down to earth and approachable. Email me and say hello. Please engage me in conversation anytime. Seeking like-minded humans to share life and thoughts with.
Places I love are..New York City, Chicago (always fall in love with women in Chicago and NYC because they are mostly more down to earth and intelligent), Los Angeles, Italy, West Virginia, and San Francisco, love to drive my car and explore.I'm lucky enough to have the most beautiful, eccentric, and interesting long time friends who I love and cherish...most...are artists, writers, and filmmakers.
I am a closet architect and have plans on building an advanced modern home of my own design in a few years. Also involved in real estate marketing for a top firm many years.
GENERAL DISLIKES IN PEOPLE: Deceit, liars, manipulators, and people who can't follow through with their promises.
"The bigger the lie...the more people believe it" - Adolph Hilter
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A purveyor of rare and unique vintage photographs and fine vintage objects. ____________________________________________________________ __
"Do androids dream of electric sheep?" - Phillip K. Dick ____________________________________________________________ __EMAIL: [email protected] AOL/AIM IM = ianvlokewurth Yahoo IM = ian_vlokewurth 646.258.8111 Cell / Text Call or text my cell from 9:45am til 11pm
____________________________________________________________ __PHOTOGRAPHY WEBSITE: http://www.ianethanvloke-wurth.comMODELS or NON-MODELS: Working on several photographic fine art series and coffee table book projects and seeking subjects of all ages over 18, all looks, body types/shapes.
I shoot film with a Leica, Contax, or toy plastic camera, and some digital.::MODELS::WANTED::::MOSTLY SEEKING UNIQUE MODELS::::SEEKING ALL TYPES OF UNIQUE BODIES AND FACES.This fine art series is not exploitive in any negative way. The photographic images are merely a marriage of your unique body and my own artistic vision. I personally feel these unique ...or should I say... not so unique body features are of a rare particular beauty. There are no names used...the shoot is completely discrete and private...you will have my trust. I take my work seriously. Whether you are comfortable with your body or not you can be a part of this beautiful series and immortalized forever in the pages of my fine art book.This is for a serious fine art photography book + art gallery showings.
I have shown work in over 50+ art galleries and venues world wide.:::SEEKING SUBJECTS OF ALL TYPES::: FINE ART NUDE SERIES:NO FACES SHOWN::NO NAMES USED::TOTALLY PRIVATE & DISCRETE SHOOT::ONLY 1/3 OF BODY SHOWN:: About 75% of the subjects I have photographed for this fine art series have never modeled before While I am always wanting all types of subjects..I am specifically seeking models with "unique" or "odd" body features such as puffy areolas, huge hips, large labia, extremely white skin, petite, bellies, pregnant...etc Any age 18+. Any body type. You can live anywhere in the world, I travel a lot.$$$$$ Some $$ compensation for certain models / situations. $$$$$$
Seeking subjects to photograph in the Los Angeles, Orange County, Scottsdale, Phoenix, Chicago, Palm Springs, Beaumont, Hemet, Redlands, New York, Portland, and Seattle. All body types welcome. Non-models Ok....email me now: [email protected]
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My Interests

I am commercial, editorial, and fine art photographer, documentary filmmaker, conceptual artist, and music creator, a collector of one of a kind vintage photography. My interests are Technology, Vellum Paper, Conceptual Thinking, Perception, Geodesic Domes, Bell Jars, Algorithms, Meditation, Spirituality, Hot Tea, Iceland Poppys, Intelligent Women, Touching Soft Skin, Lilys, Styrofoam, Microbes, Sleeping in, Dreaming while sleeping, Blackberry mail, Minimalism, Port Wine, Rose Water, Bvlgari rose, Dictionaries, Rain, Self-realization, Handwritten letters, Natural Light, The color black, Convergence, Chess, Apple Mac Dual G5, German engineering, Moog synthesizers, Kurzweil, Shergold Marathon 6 string bass guitar, Peter Hook, Ian Curtis, 23 envelope, V23, Vaughan Oliver, Robin Guthrie, Will Heggie, Elizabeth Fraser, Simon Raymonde, Ivo Watts-Russell, 4AD, Tesla Coils, Eric Saks, Harlod Budd, Ridley Scott, OQO computer, Curta mechanical calculator, New York City, Chicago, Japan, Paris, Los Angeles, Found photographs, Contax, Leica, Voigtlander 40/1.4 lens, Lomo, Toy Cameras, Hogla, Diana Plastic Camera, Pinhole Cameras, Minolta 16, Super 8mm, 16mm film projectors.

--- Magazines:
PDN, RES, Wallpaper, Dwell, Scientific American, National Geographic.

--- Other ramblings include:
Cyclical loops, Indiscriminate assortments, Ambitious consumers, Purveying attitudes, Buyers regret, Miscellaneous subtitles, Treacherous intrigues, Subtle disillusionment, Obsequious, Usurious interest rates, Inordinate amounts, Insoluble fibers, Life-like creatures, Estuarial Sediments, Phenomenology, Mitigating circumstances, Progression, Merits of a humble piece of paper, Misguided effigies, Subsidiary lovers, Poignant memories, Subroutines, Puffy areolas, Dreaming androids, Dirt clod fights, Drip drying, Iconography, Ocular aberrations, Levels of Discourse, Eternal shame, Subsequent thoughts, Practical Information, The vernaculars of you, Silly juxtapositions, Seminal pools, Unknown Pleasures, Oblique conversational maneuvers, Pulchritudinous prose, Her succulent bouquet, Moral efforts, Cultivation of virtue, Delicate intentions, Tender discourses, Emotional debris, and to heal together in harmony.

--- Pondering: Thank you for the most beautiful gift one can give another human. All the unknown paths. Its not beautiful...when you destroy everything around you. Its ugly. I fell in love with the person you tryed to make me believe you were. You are not her. In stardust.

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Music:

Joy Division, Warsaw, Cocteau Twins, Moby, The Durutti Column, A Certain Ratio, Abecedarians, Dali's Car, Factory, Kummunity FK, Lee Haslewood with Nancy Sinatra, Vincent Gallo, PAVO (from texas), Moon and the Melodies, This Mortal Coil, Harold Budd, Cabaret Voltaire, Skinny Puppy, Pink Floyd (The Wall), Sonic Youth, New Order (Factus 8 and Movement), Section 25, The Cure (pre 1984 cure..ya they were together about 7 years before 1984!! Wake up!!), 28 Days Later soundtrack, BladeRunner soundtrack from 1994 (there are several versions), The Glove, Soft Cell, Specimen, The Centimeters, 2:07am, Familiar Trees, and Frank Sinatra.

Movies:

Bladerunner, THX-1138, Taxi Driver, The Insider, Code 46, The Shinning, Alien, Gummo, 28 Days Later, The Celebration (Dutch), 12 Monkeys, Fifth Element, Unbreakable, Crash, and The Fountainhead.

Television:

My all time favorite TV show and thing to do 5 days a week is watch Charlie Rose (I'll know I made it in life when I am a guest) if you haven't watched him....please do on Channel 28 at 11:30pm in Los Angeles..they are relaxed, personal, and in depth interviews....his guests include writers, directors, architects, actors, etc. I also watch Made to Order on Fine Living Channel, The Discovery Channel, Science Channel, A series called The day the Universe Changed.Also love the original TV shows of Twilight Zone, Star Trek, and Wild Wild West.

You can also TEXT my cell phone by EMAILING me at [email protected] (this will come to me as a text message

Books:

Selected Works by Cicero. Meta about artist Jean Tinquely. Do Androids dream of electric sheep by Phillip K. Dick. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson. Jealousy by Alain Robbe-Grillet. Synergistic Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking by Buckminster Fuller. Maldoror & the Complete Works by Comte de Lautréamont.

Heroes:

Perspicacious humans ...with dignity, intelligence, and honor.
My precious child. He was born May 9th 2006. I spend most of my time with him. I adore each second together. Its amazing to be in his presence!!!!!

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