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Crist

I am going sane... in a crazy world.............. Semi Human 1000 yrs Twin Cities, Minnesota United

About Me

I am a proud father and an artist making a living doing make-up. I am guided by the power of the heart, passion and instinct. I have feelings and heartbeats, thoughts and daydreams, humor and tragedy (like all of you). I have lost my history to both time and persons. I like the color Green Monday thru Thursday (with the exception of Wednesday; Red) and the color Black Friday thru Sunday.
I Like to paint portraits.I also like to make things. I've been making things for a long time. Some of the things I have made;

CURRENT WORKS:
" The Love Guru " Paramount Pictures
“ Seeking Wellness ” Sally Mars Productions
" Beauty And The Geek " WB Television Network
" Star Trek " Paramount Pictures

My Interests

Missppelling, Oil Painting, Antiques, Thunderstorms, Dirty Martini's after 6, Laughing till you pee a little, A good Conversation, A good Debate, Passion, People with Passion, People with Passion that don't Shit in your pants, Hiking, Chateauneuf-du-Pape, Cooking, Shopping, Shoes, Chocolate with Red Wine, Playing Accordion whilst Yugoslavian Tap-dancing and last but not least West Coast Hog-Tying.

I'd like to meet:

Artists of all types. People who can communicate even through difficult times. Those who can fall and get back up again with grace. Anyone that loves life, and strives to do something with it. The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing.

Music:


The Nairobi Trio, The Beatles, XTC, Cake, Ween, Radiohead, (old) Stranglers, The Clash, Elvis Costello, Violent Femmes, The Stockholm Monsters, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Cabaret Voltaire, New Order, Camille Saint-Saens, Portishead, Vitalic, Franz Schubert, Parliment, Outkast, Gnarls Barkley, David Bowie, Itzhak Perlman, Camper Van Beethoven, They Might Be Giants, Soul Coughing, Stevie Wonder, Sublime, Tenacious D, Meat Puppets, The Strokes, Cab Calloway, Billie Holiday, Django Reinhardt, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, The English Beat, The Specials, Maddness, The Jam, The Who, Prince Buster, Lead Belly, Ray Charles, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, James Brown, The Ramones, Squirl Nut Zippers, Taj Mahal, Tom Waits, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash and many more.

Movies:

Citizen Kane, Harold and Maude, Being There, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Brazil, all David Lynch, Wings of Desire, Jacob's Ladder, Kung Fu Hustle, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Singing in the Rain, Cinema Paradiso, Dogma, Le Dernier Combat, City Of Lost Children, Chocolat, Donnie Darko, Fight Club, Edward Scissorhands, Frankenstien, The Matador, Little Miss Sunshine

Television:

The Prisoner, The Gong Show, Father Ted, Deadwood, Carnival, Heros, The Sapranos, Six Feet Under, Twin Peaks, The Ernie Kovacs Show (Toons: The Tic, South Park, Salad Fingers, The Amazing Screw-On Head, HomeStar Runner)

Books:

A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Stand, Gerald McBoinBoing, How to talk dirty and influence people, C D B, The Stranger, Handbook of Forensic Pathology, The Metamorphosis, Kurt Vonnegut, Edward Gory, Shel Silverstein, Thurber, David Sedaris, Shakespeare, Sartre, Camus, Dostoyevsky, Hunter S. Thompson, William S. Burroughs and Mark Twain

Heroes:

Andy Kaufman, Gary Boham, Pudget and Misha, Lenny Bruce, Andy Partridge, John Lennon, Ernie Kovacs, Dick Smith, Lon Chaney, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

My Blog

I guess it was a tumor...

I was recently involved with a short called Final Project; the last segment of a four part film called Seeking Wellness. My friend Sally Mars, who is producing the film, brought me on board. I feel th...
Posted by Crist on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:48:00 PST

Twas the night before Christmas&

Dec 24 2000 and my daughter Matia was in doubt of the existence of Father X-mas. Earlier in the week she had asked me "Papa is Santa Claus real, Liv told me he is her parents?" I told her that I had h...
Posted by Crist on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 12:05:00 PST

Rubba Dub-a-ya

Last weekend I found myself unpacking my make-up trunk in Portland Oregon. I was working on a live event turning (the wonderfully talented and humorous performer) Jim Nieb into George Dubya Bush. The ...
Posted by Crist on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:41:00 PST

Puppies & The Poker Brat

This week I had the great opportunity once again to work on a photography project for the Target gift cards with one of the best animal photographers I know, Joe Lampi.Much patience and knowledge of a...
Posted by Crist on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 12:00:00 PST

My Latest Adventure

Over the last couple of months, I was blessed to find myself in LA and back in China working on a film titled The Forbidden Kingdom. My friend Mark is heading the special make-up department, we were d...
Posted by Crist on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 07:20:00 PST

A trusting perspective

I knew this day would come and have been dreading it since I was a new father. My Daughter is going on her first date.When I held her in my arms thinking of the possibilities of her life that would be...
Posted by Crist on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:35:00 PST

My Beast

After two years of mourning, visiting four different litters of pups and several dogs one on one, Maxim Bunjil planted his cute little dog butt down at my feet, untied my shoe (something Misha had don...
Posted by Crist on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 02:34:00 PST

The best date Ive had in a long time!

I spent Saturday with my daughter T, holly crap she's fun! For some time she has been wanting me to teach her how to apply mascara, eyeliner and eyeshadow. I have been giving her "the guff" about the ...
Posted by Crist on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:37:00 PST

Some of my friends want to see my boob...

Well here it is.This is much better than my hairy ones.This is a silicone prosthetic made for the MN Opera's The Grapes of Wrath. It is for a scene where one of the characters that has miscarried feed...
Posted by Crist on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 10:10:00 PST

October Make-up's (warning kind'a gory)

Here are some recent make-ups from the last month or so, lots of injuries outside of the Elvi.. Hmmm Tis the season. Throat and arm wound for Dawning.Air and blood tube combined in trachea made for bu...
Posted by Crist on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 12:27:00 PST