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The Shan Shan MannerTan

My feet don't belong on the floor..That's just not what I do.

About Me


The most important aspect of my life is my AMAZING family.
My thing is photography & art.. I love creating alternative images. My goal is always the same. To capture the true spirit of my subject in an original and expressive way.
I like working with people who are free to let their spirits wonder and enjoy the smörgåsbord of opportunities available to create something totally new and different. People who aren't hung up on what an image or portrait should be, but let the photograph develop from a twist of their individual personality and my unique style. The photograph is just a canvas. A capture of science and skill. True art explores far beyond that and this is my goal.
Other then music and art I'm very passionate about politics and social issues, literature and especially poetry, great friends, COFFEE!!!, cats, science, nature and my AMAZING family. I am opinionated and not afraid to express it. I'm sarcastic as all hell, but it's usually intended in a positive way. I sometimes give the impression that I am closed minded and resolute in my stances but though not easily swayed from my soapbox I greatly respect others opinions and enjoy the exchange of brilliant ideas, good conversation and a great debate.

My Interests


ART, POETRY, LITERATURE, MUSIC, MOVIES, AND ALL ARTISTIC EXPRESSIONS!!
I <333 talent.

Politics, the all time best sport ever!

Most importantly. Human rights and Human Kindness, sticking up for the little guy, even when they aren't so little, and those who truly do their part to make the world a better place then they found it.

I'd like to meet:

Those who see art in all



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Music:



I don't really discriminate.. I LOVE talent. James Blunt, Tool, Jem, No Doubt, Flyleaf, Feist, Andrea Revel, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Dido, Ingrid Michaelson, Kate Nash, Smashing Pumpkins, The Black Eyed Peas, Imogen Heap, Cranberries, ENYA, Finochio, The Weather Station, Norah Jones, Andrea Revel, The Pierces, Chrisette Michele, Joss Stone, Alannis, Frou Frou, Peaches, Elton John, ABBA, The Killers, Yellowcard, Fall Out Boy, Gwen Stefani, The Strokes, Maroon5, Mika, Blondie, Enigma, Bing Crosby, Poe, Cold Play, Etheridge, Mates of State, The White Stripes, Clannad, Nat King Cole, Bob Marley, Carly Simon, Annie Lennox, JEWEL- especially the first few albums, B-52's, Ella Fitzgerald, Garbage, GREEN DAY, Eric Clapton, Staind, The Beatles, Goo Goo Dolls, Ramones, Evanescence, Joshua Radin, Cyndi Lauper, Sarah McLachlan, Regina Spektor, Rooney, Led Zepplin, Matt Nathanson, My guilty pleasure is Monster Ballads & Phil Collins - Yea yea you heard me :P, Lincoln Park, Brightman, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Greg Laswell, Nickleback, Eminem, Franz Ferdinand, Simon and Garfunkel, Bjork, The Razmus, U2, Good Charlotte, Nichole Nordeman. Matchbox 20, Alicia Keys, Tom Petty, Sting, Breaking Benjamin, NIRVANA, Fiona Apple, Duran Duran, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Nine Inch Nails, Queen, Shakespear's Sisters, TATU, Metallica & Ozzy Osbourne. Just to get started. I <3 classical too, but lets not even go there..

Movies:

Across The Universe, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Moulin Rouge, Green Street Hooligans, Everything is Illuminated, Kingdom of Heaven, Troy ....yum!, Running with Scissors, LOTR, The Greatest Game Ever Played, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and pretty much anything Johnny Depp.. I <3 him HUGE

Television:

Weeds, Lost, Nova, Discovery Channel, BBC, Grey's Anatomy, 30Rock, etc

Books:

AMERICA- A Citizens Guide to Democracy Inaction, I am America (and you can too), The PhotoShop Bible, Stuff by: J.R.R.Tolkien, Jane Austin, Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickenson, E.E.Cummings, T.S. Eliot, Shakespeare, Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Sylvia Plath, Emerson, Yeats and most all of the great poets..

Heroes:

Gandhi, M.L.K. jr, Mother Teresa, Buddha, Robert Mapplethorpe, David Penprase, Maya Angelou, Susan Brownell Anthony, Hillary Clinton, (danged right I said it.. :P) all soldiers with heart,

I frickin LUV this man.. Gir and Master Shake!

All activists who stand up for what they believe in, without bloodshed..

And all artist who take the plunge and share their inner afflatus with the world.

My Blog

PROUD Mama!

I know..lol. Many of you may be disgusted by this.But personally, I'm frickin proud as heck!I don't encourage specific choices, as hard as that might be. I simply expose the situations and inform them...
Posted by The Shan Shan MannerTan on Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:13:00 PST

skinnamarinkie dinkie dink

Little man luvs him a phone. just a snap. for friends and family share-age.Last debate tonight.Hope peeps will tune in and learn.Sad to say, but seems lately my children know more about politics and t...
Posted by The Shan Shan MannerTan on Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:18:00 PST

Peggy Noonan is delicious!!!!

What the hell has happened to my country.The media is stocked overwhelmingly full of rating raving circus freaks.The politicians are making a MOCKERY of our political process and the people...Well.. A...
Posted by The Shan Shan MannerTan on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:23:00 PST

We HATES it...!$%!

  Busy creating.. on a roll.. vision in sight.. &.. blurry eyes hit.. glasses nowhere.. double zap..! kitty knocks off comp switch and all is lost.. Rebuilding, takes the creative function ri...
Posted by The Shan Shan MannerTan on Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:03:00 PST

MUCH better then ribbon or bows...

He wanted to play with the big kids..but they wouldn't let him..soo.. he discovered his own way.. HAHAGOD I LUV this kid.. and the girlies finally learned to ride their bikes.. exne on the training wh...
Posted by The Shan Shan MannerTan on Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:49:00 PST

Nothing Interesting... Don’t bother looking

   lol.. Just kidding .. Not that you were the greatest with the listening.. hehe. Truly nothing earth shattering here.. just a few more picies from my journeys.. hopefully another nice walk...
Posted by The Shan Shan MannerTan on Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:17:00 PST

In the City

  Decided to get out in the new location, city, and take some snaps.. Had envisioned some street shots from a walk I had taken earlier last week, Graffitti, homeless, dramatic B&W, more gritt...
Posted by The Shan Shan MannerTan on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:45:00 PST

just hangin..

..around.. heheLots of changes.. As many know and other's can prolly see... I'm not operational at the moment. (Hense the personal title) Closed up shop and probably will not be photographing, at leas...
Posted by The Shan Shan MannerTan on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:51:00 PST

new abode

We've moved to the city.Just sharing some pic-age.. us hangin out in the new place.. Playin video games and such.. Rooskie and my mini me.Giggling at the little man.Who just happened to be playing wit...
Posted by The Shan Shan MannerTan on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:48:00 PST

Waiting for lightning

Few more from the walky world..I'm moving.. OKC bound.Very happy am I. Life is changing greatly and more to come.. It's stimulating.. to sit back and watch all the new forms come dawdling into view.. ...
Posted by The Shan Shan MannerTan on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:26:00 PST