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Ryan

From within madness and trancendence lay the pathos of Divinity. W. Nayr

About Me



I am always interpreting things through angles, color, pace, and emotion.


I often view daily life as a film. I am a film editor and I work mainly in the independent environment. I have a studio at my home so it's pretty easy to wake up in the morning and walk to work. I thoroughly enjoy editorial and feel fortunate to have finally established myself and work in a field that allows me to express my creativity.
I have been an Angeleno for fifteen odd years, spending two years in Manhattan to complete my film studies at NYU. I have been avid traveller throughout Asia and Europe and am always keen for a kindred traveller's tip.
I enjoy an active social life and Los Angeles has yet to let me down, except at 2-am.Being relaxed is imperative, non-superfluous and open-minded are characteristics I hold in high esteem and consider mine.
I have a new film on HBO. Please check it out.
The Catalyst

My Interests

All aspects of film and film-making. A well placed Dutch Angle when something is amiss.
Focused art movements. Modernism. The Impressionist Period. It's influence in music and it's cause of changes from the romantic composers.
Chopin's Nocturne In E flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2. Esspressivo.
Lounges. Dim lights and red leather booths. Aggressive conversation blatantly overshadowed by a soft focus atmosphere and rudely aloof waiters.
An inadvertent glance of Los Angeles from a Hollywood Hills home's driveway vista at 3 a.m. whilst stumbling to where I think I parked my car.
Sunrise ensues and I am still searching.

I'd like to meet:

Like minded individuals who both understands and is not socially motivated by the game.

Music:

Radiohead, DJ Shadow, Sublime, Air, Bob Dylan, Chet Baker, Johnny Cash, John Coltrane, Chopin, PINK FLOYD, Charlie Parker, Duran Duran, White Stripes, Beethoven, Tribe Called Quest, NWA, Easy E, Long Beach Dub Allstars, Wagner, Peggy Lee, U.N.K.L.E., Kid Koala, ELO, Rjd2, Ella Fitzgerald, Mozart, David Bowie, Beck, and the list goes on and on and on.......

Movies:

2001, Clockwork Orange, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Shawshank Redemption, Blue Velvet, Bettlejuice, Snatch, Taxi Driver, Blade Runner, Touch of Evil, Weird Science, Blazing Saddles, etc., etc., etc., ad nauseam.

Television:

Comedy Central, Discovery Channel, American Movie Classics, Turner Classic Movies, The Independant Film Channel, Deadwood, Rome, Lost. Saturday Night Live reruns from the late 80's and early 90's. Simpsons, and South Park.

Books:

East of Eden, Doors of Perception, Heart of Darkness, Naked Lunch, The Time Machine, Crime and Punishment. Most of Steinbeck's works and all the works of Hemingway. I'd like to devote more time to reading but I find it hard to tear myself away from my studio and my work.