CalArts Portfolio Review
At the end of every year CalArts has a series of portfolio reviews for each school. My favorite of the past two years has been the Theatre school’s showcase and this year was no different. Here are some samples of this year’s fantastic work! Some showings from the Art department:
Blood Moon
I have heard stories, mostly from farmers long ago, about the moon changing color and what it meant. I don’t remember any of the details because I thought they were all out of their minds. Then I heard about a lunar eclipse that was going on and decided to see what all the hubub was [...]
Mantis
It was a night like any other. I got home, made dinner, and had a glass of wine. When I returned to the kitchen I gathered the trash, opened the door, and turned around to face the trash cans; that’s when I saw him. A praying mantis. An albino praying mantis. He was standing there [...]
Synapse
Every year there is one particular day that I look forward to: July Fourth. I wish I had a different reason than everybody else to love that day, but like the rest of America, it’s the fireworks. Photographing fireworks is a tricky prospect. There are so may potential angles and methods of making the image [...]
Avenue X
One day I was sitting at home working on some projects when my friend, rather incredible artist, and musician Carina Downing gave me a ring. She was working at AvenueX, an exceptionally restaurant in Santa Paula, and they were looking for a photographer for some promotional imagery. At the time I was just beginning to [...]
The product of one of the few small towns left in California, Christopher enjoyed a childhood ironically filled with travel. At just two months old his mother, an unapologetic jetsetter, introduced him to Europe for the first time. His father, a designer and professor born in England, opened his eyes to the intricacies of the apparent mundane. The reserved world of the English Cotswold’s clashed with the spirit of the vagabond and pushed Christopher to develop a style that is intensely expressive, emotional, yet accessible.