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About Me

Where to begin? Over the years I've been an aspiring comic book artist, musician, novelist, and would-be movie maker. I've also dabbled in computer programming and worked in call centers taking calls from irate consumers. More recently my main projects have involved photography and sound recording, as well as semi-acting roles in occasional totally amateur productions. I record spoken word artists in my living room when I get the chance, and I have put spoken word CD's together for five local spoken word artists. For two years I served as the unofficial photographer for the first generation of Saturday night open mics at Bill's Records & Tapes in Dallas, TX. Currently I work as an occasional photographer and fan of several local D/FW bands, and have contributed to the Deep Ellum Enrichment Project and the Town Square Project. I make the occasional appearance as spectator at the monthly Mad Swirl open mic at the Absinthe Lounge (inside the Southside Lofts, or the old Sears building, and one street down from the new Bill's Records), and have put a website together which showcases examples of my photography and many of the spoken word recordings.
Photography gigs:
2002 - 2004 Unofficial photographer, Bill's Records & Tapes open mic
2003 The Dharma Broads, press release photos
2003 Portraits photo chapbook, mostly of people from the readings at Bill's
2007 Photographer, first D.E.E.P. Gallery Walk
2007 Photographer, first Town Square Project festival
2007 - present Occasional photographer and fan of several local bands (in a non-professional capacity)
Acting gigs:
2006 Worked in a Deep Ellum haunted house as "The Man in Black"
2007 tOUCHED, (5)A1NT Productions, bit/supernumerary role
Recording Project gigs:
4/21/07 Desmene Statum
5/05/07 Max Earl Blair
5/12/07 Michael Machicek
5/13/07
5/27/07 Alex P.
6/03/07 Shanna Hale
7/07/07 Johnny O.
7/08/07 Alex P.
2/10/08 Desmene Statum
2/17/08 Joey Cloudy
3/30/08 Alex P.
4/20/08 Mike Clay
5/10/08 James Rodehaver / Desmene Statum - CANCELLED
5/18/08 Desmene Statum / Opalina Salas / Jolee Davis-Cloudy
5/17/09 Johnny O. / Opalina Salas
5/23/09 Michael Clay, Gordon Hilgers
5/24/09 Alex P.
Miscellaneous:
2005 Translated the dialogue of French film Mon Ange into English
2008 PAO Productions website goes online

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Artists, musicians, photographers, writers, and the like, who are down to earth and real. People who enjoy conversation over late night coffee.

My Blog

What I've been up to

There haven't been any updates in quite a while. Believe me, it isn't for lack of material. I've taken on some otherassignments and done some birthday party and outdoor portrait work overthe last fe...
Posted by on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:19:00 GMT

Local band seeks second guitar player (repost)

Reverent is looking for a good guitar player that has their head together, good gear, the ability to practice once or twice a week off of 820 in Ft Worth, stage experience (preferable but not necessar...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:21:00 GMT

Red Pyramid pics

Pics from last Friday's Red Pyramid show are up on the site:http://www.paoprod.com/Photography/Live/RedPyramid/RedP Gallery1.htm
Posted by on Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:54:00 GMT

Black and white and digital photography

As someone who used to work with film, it's really distressing to me to see the huge numbers of digital photographs out there taken by people who have no idea how to property use black and white. N...
Posted by on Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:34:00 GMT

Taking the rest of the year off

After Friday night, no more site updates until January. I'll probably be at a show or two before the end of the year, but I'm going to take some time off photo work to take care of a few things, like...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:16:00 GMT

Site redesign

I am currently in the process of redesigning the website. Don't expect any really major changes to most of it, just the removal of some material I'm not entirely happy with, and some tweaks to s...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:44:00 GMT

Support your local bands and artists!

They need your support! Go to the shows and pick up the merchandise. We've lost a whole bunch of venues over the last couple of years and the local music scene is a shadow of what it once ...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:32:00 GMT

10 Memorable Shows

I've been to a lot of shows over the past two years, and have seen hundreds of band performances, almost all of them local. Some were good, some not so good, and some great. Picking the 10...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:52:00 GMT

site update

I've updated the site with four pages of pictures from last month's Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re show at the Double-Wide in Dallas. Feedback is welcome as this is the first all-digital music gallery I've ad...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:52:00 GMT

Camera bags >:|

My famous camera bag broke on me a couple weekends back while taking pictures of a female friend in the park. One of the rings that holds the strap onto the side tore off the bag, which means there's...
Posted by on Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:12:00 GMT