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lantz.

remember where you came from, remember what you are.

About Me

my name is lantz arroyo and i live in portland, oregon. i take pictures, make music and offend people. it's good times. i'm also a bit jaded. don't bitch at me for it. after all, it's probably YOUR fault. i consider myself xVx; if you don't know what this means, don't bother asking.

i run an electronic music label called Circa Tree Media . we are a fledgling collective looking to take over the world. please check out the myspace page and subscribe to our blogs to stay updated with the label's happenings and keep one eye open for the official website, which will launch fairly soon...

if you're a band, model, or anyone else who needs professional photographs, please feel free to e-mail me at [email protected] or you can email me here on myspace.

thanks for reading.

My Interests

photography, music, film, train rides, grapes, clementines, roadtrips, rest stops, apple computers, guitars, keyboards, drum machines, electronic music, digital hardcore, clouds, VEGANISM, buddhism, human rights, animal rights, STRAIGHT EDGE, boring days, thursdays, underground culture, trees, fresh produce, farms, pin-ups, fresh air, stanley kubrick, darren aronofsky, christopher nolan, nan goldin, alfred stieglitz, sara sanger, dorthea lange, tattoos, duckies, turtles, nice people, revolutionaries, people who think and feel, knowledge, religion, spirituality, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, hills, fresh air, all saints cafe in tallahassee, and more importantly people who DON'T drive hummers.

I'd like to meet:

the vegan girl of my dreams and the dalai lama. i've already met the former. now, dalai lama...where you at, nukkuh?

Music:

...and you will know us by the trail of dead, a perfect circle, abandoned pools, the album leaf, algo rythem, ALIAS, anticon, aphex twin, apoptygma berzerk (old stuff), the appleseed cast, the arcade fire, armor for sleep, ATARI TEENAGE RIOT, at the drive-in, autolux, azure ray, baby calendar, BAD RELIGION, badly drawn boy, belle and sebastian, beauty's confusion, bjork, black tape for a blue girl, boards of canada, built to spill, bush, camera obscura, cat power, cave in, chris clark, clint mansell, codeseven, coheed and cambria, the cranes, criteria, the cure, cursive, death cab for cutie, the decemberists, deep puddle dynamics, defiance ohio, deftones, delerium, denali, depeche mode, desaparecidos, dinosaur jr., the doors, dredg, drive like jehu, EARTH CRISIS, eisley, elliott, elliott smith, engine down, erin tobey, the evening episode, failure, the faint, far, the flaming lips, forma tadre, front line assembly, fugazi, funker vogt, garbage, glassjaw, godspeed you black emperor!, haujobb, the helio sequence, hopesfall, hum, i am the world trade center, imadethismistake, incubus, jeff buckley, jets to brazil, jimmy eat world, joy division, jurassic 5, kidneythieves, KMFDM, kronos quartet, look mexico, love spirals downwards, lovespirals, lycia, luz, madeline, massive attack, mellowdrone, metric, mewithoutyou, the microphones, milemarker, minipop, minor threat, minus, minus the bear, mira, mirah, modest mouse, mogwai, moments in grace, muse, my bloody valentine, the new trust, nine inch nails, nirvana, the offspring (old), on the might of princes, the one am radio, onelinedrawing, orbital, pearl jam, pedro the lion, pennywise, petticoat petticoat, phantom planet, phunk, pink floyd, the pixies, placebo, +/- plus minus, portishead, the postal service, pretty girls make graves, project pitchfork, pulse legion, RADIOHEAD, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, REFUSED, rescue, rilo kiley, THE RISE, sarah mclachlan, sayonara tokyo, the shins, shotgun wedding, sigur ros, the silent films, silverchair, the sisters of mercy, six by seven, skinny puppy, slowdive, smashing pumpkins, the smiths, SNAPCASE, sonic youth, sparta, spoon, squarepusher, statistics, sunny day real estate, switchblade symphony, taproot, team sleep, therapy?, thrice, THURSDAY, tool, torche, the unicorns, vast, the velvet teen, vnv nation, will haven, wumpscut, x marks the pedwalk

Movies:

as long as my music section, or longer. how about directors? stanley kubrick, darren aronofsky, david lynch, christopher nolan, orson welles, oliver stone, akira kurosawa, martin scorsese, the coen brothers.

Television:

thanks, peta2.com

Books:

authors: the dalai lama, thich nhat nanh, george orwell, sandra cisneros, edgar allan poe, junot diaz, sylvia plath, walt whitman.

Heroes:

"all my heroes have FBI files." but this guy is cool too.

My Blog

total liberation for all beings.

it is december 7th, 2006 and last night was an advanced screening of the film, "Your Mommy Kills Animals," a documentary about the animal rights movement. the film, admittedly, was a lot better than ...
Posted by lantz. on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 02:07:00 PST

PHOTO BLOG: a young girl's nightmare.

this is a series of photos that i took of my friend jessica. the initial project was to do a modern adaptation of pandora's box where pandora was actually a teenage prostitute. a night set aside wit...
Posted by lantz. on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 06:39:00 PST

add my record label!

hey kids.so i'm launching an electronic music label called Circa Tree Media. it's gonna be rad. i've added as many people from my personal list as i could (unless they didn't accept band requests or i...
Posted by lantz. on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 04:17:00 PST

LIVE PHOTOS: the evening episode.

yep, so a lot of the photos i took at Berbati's came out like shit. the reason? a jacked up ISO and no flash to give me the fill light i needed. here are the ones i could salvage. unfortunately, i...
Posted by lantz. on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 08:59:00 PST

PHOTO SHOOT: krista herring.

i recently had the opportunity to work with a great singer-songwriter by the name of krista herring. she's got a beautiful voice and is pretty damn photogenic. the shoot seemed more like hanging out...
Posted by lantz. on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:30:00 PST

xperspectivex

the more things change, the more they stay the same. i wrote the following almost exactly ten days shy of 3 years ago. 8/17/0311:33pmthe world is very abrasive.just when you think your body has adap...
Posted by lantz. on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 03:30:00 PST

PHOTO BLOG: boy.

here are photographs from a shoot i did with the infamous alex (my name is not) sanchez herself, aka boy. for those who don't know, alex is a wonderful musician and currently plays in the miami band ...
Posted by lantz. on Sun, 23 Jul 2006 04:21:00 PST

my resume.

holla.---LANTZ ARROYO7850 SW 47th avenue Miami, Florida 33143Mobile: (954) 684-8563Email: [email protected]: To apply my skills in a creative and productive environment pertaining to ...
Posted by lantz. on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 01:17:00 PST

i'm in portland.

yep, the rumors are true.  i'm officially in portland, oregon.  staying with the lovely kristen until danny and i can find a place.  just so you know, oregon has the biggest fucking mou...
Posted by lantz. on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:03:00 PST

bye florida.

it's been real.- lantz.
Posted by lantz. on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 05:29:00 PST