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About Me

"In youth and beauty, wisdom is rare." - old chinese proverb read from fortune cookie fortune

Surround yourself with people who make you laugh.

Leave the world a better place than how you found it.

Love your belly.

So sayeth Terri Lea

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ARTISTS OF INTEREST:
If you are interested in photography or enjoy looking at photos, I have some eye candy for you. Check out some of these links. These are a few of my favorite artists and resources for inspiration. I add to this list from time to time as I find more good work. So revisit this part of the page for updates.

Gerard Petremand - - View his work here and his series on Trains , Identites , and Le Proprietaire .

Also, Loretta Lux. View her work here .

Installations by Lorie Novak. Click here . Also her photographs using slide projections .

I like this blog by a guy who does pinhole photography. The photos are beautiful. NYCLondon Blog
View the Galleries .

Post Secret Blog - New post cards every Sunday.

Asofterworld.com - New photo strips every Thursday.

This is just really cool furniture that you should take a look at StraigtLineDesigns.com .

This is an amazing photo essay about a man's journey through Australia: Minutes to Midnight by Trent Parke seen on the Magnum Photos website. Magnum Photos is a photographic media agency founded shortly after the end of World War 2 by Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson .

The American Society of Media Photographers - This is helpful for you photographers who are interested in copyright laws, self-promotion, ethics in media, and many other business type problems you run into as you work freelance. Visit ASMP.org .

Media Storm - - Media Storm is a multi-media production studio which showcases some really beautiful and in-depth photo essays on world and social issues.

Eugene Richards - An amazing man and photographer. Gene has a LARGE body of work spanning over thirty years. My favorite photo essays of his are the work he's done on drug use and on his first wife's battle with breast cancer.

My Interests

Photography, photojournalism, the arts and art education, music, travel and people, karate, young-hip-knitters like myself, good books, social eating, homeopathy, recipees, food, organic living

I'd like to meet:

Bill Murray

Music:

A wide variety of this stuff here:
Damien Rice, Sarah McLauchlan, Van Morrison, David Gray, Portis Head, Massive Attack, Jack Johnson, Franz Ferdenand, Modest Mouse, Radio Head, Rolling Stones, Fugees, Fiona Apple, Dashboard Confessional, Jet, Primitive Radio Gods, Mazy Star, Coldplay, Ben Folds, Chris Issac, Bjork, Natalie Merchant, Poe, Tracy Chapman, The Killers, The International Noise Conspiracy, Arcade Fire, SPin Doctors, Counting Crows, NIN, Steve Poltz, Bill Withers, U2, Imogene Heap (thank you lacey), Sister Hazel, Ryan Adams, Amos Lee, Ray LaMontagne it goes on and on and on.

Miles Davis, Diana Krall, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Coltrane

Soundtracks: Vanilla Sky, I Am Sam, Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2, Ocean's 11, Ocean's 12, Romeo and Juliet

Movies:

Vanilla Sky, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lost in Translation, Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2, The Usuall Suspects, Snatch, Shawn of the Dead, The Full Monty, Monty Python Holy Grail, Bruce All Mighty, High Fidelity, Swingers, Office Space, A Beautiful Mind, Royal Tinenbaums, Queens of Comedy, Cameron Crowe films, John Cussack, Amelie, The Triplets of Belleville, Closer, Pride and Prejudice, Dogma, The Princess Bride, Gladiator, Old School, To Kill A Mocking Bird, Shawshank Redemption, Annie, Hotel Rwanda, Ocean's 11, Ocean's 12, Seven, Crash, From Hell, What Dreams May Come, Beautiful Girls, RENT, Family Stone, Shutter, SLC Punk, Bourne Identity, Bourne Supremacy, The Truth About Charlie, Run Lola Run, One Missed Call

Television:

Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Futurama, PBS, The Office, Six Feet Under, Independent Lens, Frontline

Books:

Comics: Bone, Too Much Coffee Man, Maus I and II
Books: Stich & Bitch, Ray Bradbury, Memoirs of a Geisha, Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Night, Working Poor

Heroes:

my sister, Eugene Richards, Robert Capa

My Blog

Taking the heat

Oh Geez! Looking at the weather report, Arizona temperatures will be in the triple didgets this weekend. Thurs. = 110 degreesFri = 110 degereesSat = 106 degreesSun = 104 degrees(Precipitation all we...
Posted by Terri on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:06:00 PST

"In the studio" and "Birthday Reflections"

These are kind of old (from sometime last Fall) and were taken in the studio at UNA. The model is my very photogenic friend Heath M. I was going through my photo stash and found these nugets of crea...
Posted by Terri on Tue, 29 May 2007 07:23:00 PST

Can I have your bottle?

Hey Guys :)I am collecting empty glass bottles to make art work with. Do you have any of these lieing around the house or possibly in the trash? Why not recycle them instead? Give them to me. This...
Posted by Terri on Thu, 03 May 2007 09:14:00 PST

I ride my bicycle

I rode my bike for most of the day today. A first in nearly two years. I forgot how to work the gears. This was an enjoyable experience - the bike ride not the gears. Especially tonight. The air ...
Posted by Terri on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:27:00 PST

This was too funny. I had to share :)

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Posted by Terri on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:14:00 PST

website problems

Hi Everybody :)Over the past weekend, my host server was hacked into and my domain name (and all within it) was lost. I'm not sure how to explain that, but basically my website was dropped from the s...
Posted by Terri on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:04:00 PST

my sunrise

Over the past few days, the most interesting lighting has been occuring in hours other than the bright of day. The moon is full and extremely bright in the evenings. Its like someone turned on this ...
Posted by Terri on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 11:29:00 PST

Thanks for Voting. Its still open till end of January.

Hi Everyone :-)Thank you all for voting on my photo for the JPEG magazine contest. If you haven't voted yet, you can do so here until the end of January:http://www.jpgmag.com/photos/30228So that leav...
Posted by Terri on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:49:00 PST

New banner ad

Hi. This is for you. There is more to come. This is a banner ad. You can post it on your own MySpace page if you want or on your website. It is a link to my online portfolio of photos. The code ...
Posted by Terri on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 01:11:00 PST

know what would make me really happy?

if you do, and you want to do something really nice, then you should go to this website and vote for my photo (Hell Opened Up).http://jpgmag.com/people/TraciesSisterIt would be really swell of you. ~T...
Posted by Terri on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:31:00 PST