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Keri

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

...I’m originally from Michigan and I studied photography in Pittsburgh. I moved to Los Angeles about two years ago and continue to pursue my photography. I do freelance photography, digital restoration, retouching and graphic design. I love traditional photography, but I blend it with digital technology in a style all my own. .....

My Interests

PHOTOGRAPHY...everything about it, spending hours looking through books, reading and watching MOVIES, TRAVELLING/ROADTRIPS, JUMPING THE BORDER...to Canada, HIKING, HOCKEY!!!!!...... SWIMMING, YOGA, EXPLORING Hollywood, making WAFFLES, COLLECTING Old Photos, Postcards, Cameras, picking up Rusty objects (Especially bottle caps), going back to MICHIGAN, Seeing my sisters and brother, Spending hours in the DARKROOM learning to see in the dark, being crazy, playing in the rain, walking for hours, sand angels, mix cds, receiving real mail, the 4th of July, mint chocolate chip ice cream, headstands, living on my own...

I'd like to meet:

My lord and savior...Conan O'Brien...I'd love to meet and talk to Bill Murray, Stephen Colbert, Wes Anderson, Jason Schwartzman, Nick Swardson, Thomas Lennon, Chris Parnel, Christoper Meloni, and Amy Poehler... all very awesome people......Sam Waterston (my imaginary Grandfather), and Anthony Hopkins (The Coolest dude ever) ...........perhaps Cillian Murphy and Natalie Portman.

Music:

The Beatles, Better than Ezra, Interpol, NIN, Tool, The Gorillaz, Matthew Good Band, Moist, David Usher, Our Lady Peace, Vast, Sufjan Stevens, Postal Service, Led Zeppelin, Simon & Garfunkel, Cat Stevens, Johnny Cash, The Decemberists, Frou Frou, Alexi Murdoch, The Pixies, Nirvana, Placebo, Silverchair, Raconteurs, Rhymes with Orange, Spacehog, Ours, David Bowie, Gogol Bordello, Arcade Fire, Modest Mouse, Spoon, Kings of Leon, White Stripes ect...

Movies:

Amelie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Everything is Illuminated, Kill Bill, Harold and Maude, American Beauty, Ravenous, 12 monkeys, 28 Days later, A Few Good Men, Abyss, Adaptation, Aliens, American History X, Army of Darkness, Babel, Baby Mama, Back to the Future, Batman, Battle Royale, Beetle Juice, Big Fish, Boondock Saints, Bowling for Columbine, Boys from Brazil, BraveHeart, Bubba Ho-Tep, Buffalo 66', Clerks, Chasing Amy, Chinatown, City of God, City of Lost Children, Clockwork Orange, The Crow, The Darjeeling Limited, Dawn of the Dead (both), Dead poets society, The Departed, Dogma, Donnie Darko, Drop Dead Fred, Edward ScissorHands, Elephantman, Enduring Love, Evil Dead, Fifth Element, Fight Club, Four Rooms, Full Metal Jacket, Ghost World, GhostBusters, Grosse Pointe Blank, The Gods must be Crazy, Hannibal, I heart Huckabees, Indiana Jones, Jaws, Labyrinth, The life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Life is Beautiful, Life of David Gale, Little Miss Sunshine, Lord of the Rings, Lost in Translation, Mallrats, The Matrix, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Memento, Million Dollar Baby, Napoleon Dynamite, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Nosferatu, One flew over the cuckoos nest, Pan's Labyrinth, Pleasantville, Predator, Princess Bride, Pulp Fiction, Quills, Reality Bites, Red Dragon, Red Violin, Requiem for a Dream, Reservoir Dogs, The Royal Tenenbaums, Run Lola Run, Rushmore, Saw, Se7en, Seven Samurai, Sex, lies and videotape , Shawn of the Dead, Shawshank Redemption, Shipping News, Silence of the Lambs, Sin City, Sixth Sense, Spiderman, Star Wars, Super Size Me, Terminator and T2, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Tideland, The Triplets of Belleville, Trainspotting, Unbreakable, Vanilla sky, V for Vendetta, Velvet Goldmine.....

Television:

The SIMPSONS, CONAN O'BRIEN, SNL, The Daily Show, Rocko's Modern Life, X-men, Spiderman, Batman, Ali G Show! Upright Citizens brigade!, The Twilight Zone, Mr. Show, and The Chappelle show

Books:

Seizing the Light (Robert Hirsch), Come to Me (Amy Bloom), Art for Art's Sake (Van Dyke), Ripley's Belive it or Not (copyright 1930), PhotoBooth (Babbette Hines), I Am Iman (Iman), CHOKE by chuck palahniuk..

Heroes:

As a Photographer: Michael Kenna, Sally Mann, Gordon Parks, Edward Curtis, Sandy Skoglund, Herb Ritts, Bruce Davidson, Fredrick Sommer......

My Blog

Forecast: Smokey

The fires out here are  ridiculous.  For the most part we live in a safe area, but we can see the smoke clouds and feel the ash in the air.  The valley is so polluted with smoke th...
Posted by Keri on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:39:00 PST

First Rain in Months...

Yesterday it started to rain just before I left work and it continued all through the night and until now.  They say it hardly ever rains in September out here, and it never pours. ...
Posted by Keri on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:56:00 PST

I turn my camera on

I love this song....It makes me so happy.....It makes me want to turn my camera on.....hehehe I love Spoon and spooning, in general.....spoons are pretty awesome too.. ...
Posted by Keri on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:17:00 PST

Murderball

I Love this movie so much!  Watch it if you haven't yet...You'll love too! ...
Posted by Keri on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:51:00 PST

A short film on one of my favorite Photographers: Michael Kenna

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Posted by Keri on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:57:00 PST

Top 5 Movies

These just happen to be my 5 favorite movies... 1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2.  Amelie 3.  Everything is Illuminated 4.  Hedwig and the Angry Inch 5.  The Elephant Ma...
Posted by Keri on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:26:00 PST

Zombie Apocalypse

A few Pictures from the Zombie Apocalypse Party ...
Posted by Keri on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:21:00 PST

http://www.markholthusen.com/caira/

You should check out this website.  Ca Ira is an opera scored and directed by Roger Waters from Pink Floyd, depicting the events of the French Revolution.  Only a month before Ca Ira was to ...
Posted by Keri on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 06:08:00 PST

watching people die.....

Everyday for the last month I've been working on an order of scanning three thousand slides to cds.  These slides are one family's history of weddings, births, vacations, parties and graduations....
Posted by Keri on Fri, 02 Sep 2005 04:32:00 PST

It's funny how beautiful people look when they're walking out the door

It's funny how beautiful people look when they're walking out the door.  So true.  It's quote from a great movie I just saw, you win a prize if you can quess the movie. 
Posted by Keri on Mon, 29 Aug 2005 07:54:00 PST