Dante Marioni
Views: 20,794Verve Episode #5 - Profile on Dante Marioni a Seattle Glass Artist.
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Maija Fiebig
Views: 6,936Harnessing a spectrum of rich color, a strong sense of depth, and repetition of forms, Maija Fiebig creates paintings that transport and move the viewer with their beauty and the other-worldly environments she creates. Fiebig is currently working with paint and canvas after a period of years working with fabric, glue, sugar, resins, office labels, even cake crystals in addition to paint and canvas. Those paintings were noteworthy for their complexity, richness and depth, and Fiebig is now creating works with some of those same strengths, but greater simplicity. Fiebig is a Seattle native who spent her student years in Bellingham and now resides on Queen Anne, where she spent her childhood. She is represented by G. Gibson Gallery. www.maijafiebig.com
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Tell Us the Truth
Views: 5,281Excerpt from the Tell Us the Truth Documentary. Producers - Gabriel Miller & Cecily Pingree Editor - Kurt Feldhun of Filmus Maximus Associate Producer - Patricia O'Brien Director of Photography - Gabriel Miller Additional Camera - Patricia O'Brien Graphic Design - Patricia O'Brien Lester Chambers, Boots Riley, Billy Bragg, Tom Morello, Steve Earl, and others sing Time Has Come Today.
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Portrait of Marya Sea Kaminski
Views: 6,106Produced by Gabriel Miller Director of Photography Gabriel Miller Editor Patricia O'Brien Artist Profile from the third episode of Verve on Seattle Channel. Marya Sea Kaminski is a performer, writer, and director based in Seattle. She is one of the founding members of the Washington Ensemble Theater. Her acting credits include Laura's Bush, Next Tuesday and Crave at WET, Simone Alone at La Mama ETC in New York City, The Cherry Orchard at Annenberg Center in Philadelphia, and The Time of Your Life at the Seattle Repertory Theatre. She has performed her original solo work at On the Boards in Seattle, PS 122 in New York, the Myrna Loy Center in Helena, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. Marya Sea directed WET's regional premiere of Adam Rapp's Finer Noble Gases, and is directing the world premiere of Jordan Harrison's The Museum Play this season. As a teaching artist, she has instructed at the University of Washington, Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences, Freehold Studios, Seattle Center Academy, Boeing, and Eastside Preparatory School. She holds a double BA in English and Theatre from the University of Pennsylvania and a MFA in Acting from the University of Washington. Marya is WET's Literary Manager.
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Charles Krafft
Views: 6,893*CHARLES KRAFFT is considered a pioneer of the "low brow" or Pop Surrealism movement. This is an alternative visual arts universe with roots in California custom car culture, surfing culture and '60s era underground comix. It*sa streetwise aesthetic that has been evolving and spreading out across the globe while remaining still overlooked by most mainstream art critics, museum curators and historians. He is the inventor of DISASTERWARE* ( blue and white commemorative ceramics informed by violence, politics, and natural catastrophies) and SPONE* (custom human bone china reliquaries made from crematory ash). Krafft is self-taught. His shrewd art and informal lifestyle evolved out of long friendships with the reclusive painter of startled birds, Morris Graves (l910-2001) and the crackerjack Hollywood hot rod hero, Von Dutch (l926-l992). He can get down with any militantly aesthetic easel painter, multi-media maestro or wooly potter, but when it comes to the mechanics of art making Krafft prefers the company of criminals, undertakers and blue haired grannies. With an excerpt from "What About Charlie...?," the only film made about Fishtown - by Joe McCarthy 1968. www.mccarthycommunication.com to find our more about Charles Krafft visit: www.antiquesatoz.com
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Tina Bafaro Tattoo Artist
Views: 16,613Tina Bafaro has been tattooing since 1993. She specializes in large custom pieces that are very individual for each of her clients. The personal nature of tattooing is one of her favorite things about the art. Tattoos become a physical and mental part of the client's identity. Her pieces are varied in subject matter but her singular style shines through on each piece and she has become a widely known name in the industry as well as in the public eye. People get tattoos for many reasons, as an expression of self, a mark in time, charm or purely for the artistic aspect. Whatever the intention for the original design, her pieces flow with the body and compliment it's overall beauty. When she designs a tattoo it is a process of consultation. A project is approached in much the same way as she would approach a painting or illustration also taking into account how a design will fit on the body and be executed to withstand the test of time. The client's concept about the tattoo is integrated with her own to bring about the final piece. One of a kind well thought out pieces are her goal. Being from an artistic background with a mother who was a painter all through her childhood years she has always been interested in and encouraged to create art of all types including music and dance. She moved on to graphic design in her twenties adding to her knowledge in composition and design. Exploring different mediums for creativity and just viewing the world around all of which influence ...
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Laura Yeats
Views: 5,938Designer and woodworker, Laura Yeats uses domestic woods and steel to create sculptural and functional works of art. The designs are simple, modern, and timeless. In her recent work, Laura transforms dead, diseased, or unwanted trees into fine furniture, bowls and sculptural elements. She seeks inspiration from the piles of logs that surround her studio, a virtual graveyard of Seattle's natural heritage - such as the recently felled Honey Locust trees planted for the 1962 World's Fair. She gives these dead trees new life by finding and revealing their interior character and beauty and turning them into lasting, handcrafted objects. Her work is a available at Urban Hardwoods, and Ornamo. For more information visit www.yeatsdesign.com.
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Robert Hardrave
Views: 8,835Robert Hardgrave has inhabited the city of Seattle for the past 15 years. He adores coffee, delicious breakfasts, and listening to metal. Most days you can find Robert painting at his studio in Ballard, adorned with headphones, jacked up on caffeine. As a self-developed artist, Robert creates work both highly intricate and abundant with personal symbols. Inspired by experiences from disease and recovery, his paintings and drawings reflect ideas of reincarnation and the richness of life beyond death. Robert is represented by BLK/MRKT Gallery in Culver City, CA with an upcoming solo show in November, 2007. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, had work featured in books and magazines, and regularly does work for skateboard and snowboard companies. You can find more information about robert at farmerbobsfarm.com
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Alexander Conley III Hat Maker Extraordinaire
Views: 3,736Producer / Editor - Patricia O'Brien Director of Photography - Gabriel Miller Production Assistant & Hat Model - Ryan Claypool To find out more about Alexander Conley III Hats visit www.halcyon.com Thanks to the kind people at R & L Home of Good Bar-B-Que for letting us shoot in their restaurant and for the delicious lunch. (Check them out if you get a chance at 1816 E. Yesler Way in Seattle) Thanks to Seattle Central Community college for letting us come in and film in their wood construction center. This piece was produced for the Seattle Channel to be aired as part of their In Studio show on the Art Zone. The stock footage came from the Prelinger Archive.
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Johanna Kunin
Views: 5,249Midnight tangos with ghosts, journeys into the minds of suicidal insects, childhood memories set off-kilter by bad dreams: reality is sometimes elusive but always uniquely beautiful in Johanna Kunin's melodic meditations. She may sing you an infectious pop song, but not without twists of harmony and turns of phrase that set it refreshingly off the beaten track. She possesses the kind of sadly angelic voice that compels you to follow on whatever journeys she has in mind, strange though they may be. Her thoughtful, minimalist piano parts form the strong sonic backbone around which her melodies are built. She writes for the piano with a subtle complexity that calls to mind the music of Chopin or Erik Satie while still having a decidedly pop language all her own. For more information visit www.johannakunin.com or Johanna Kunin on MySpace
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Charles Mudede
Views: 4,509Charles Mudede is presently the Associate Editor for the Seattle-based weekly The Stranger as well as lecturer in English Humanities at the Pacific Lutheran University, located near Tacoma, Washington. The column he writes in that paper, "Police Beat," was turned into a film of the same name in 2004. Police Beat the movie was selected for competition at the Sundance Film Festival 2005. In 2003, Mudede published a short book called Last Seen with Diana George. Mudede was also a member of the defunct Seattle Research Institute, a Marxist circle inspired by the Frankfurt School and the work of Hardt and Negri. SRI published two books, Politics Without The State and Experimental Theology. (Mudede and George edited the former.) Mudede has also published essays and articles with Nic Veroli, a French American Marxist philosopher, and is on the editorial board for Arcade, an architectural journal. Mudede's work has appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and C Theory, which published one of his most popular pieces of writing, "The Turntable," a theory of the hiphop practice of scratching and sampling. Charles Mudede is also the writer of Zoo, a movie about the Enumclaw Horse Case, and he played a priest in The Naked Proof, released in 2003. He and the director Robinson Devor run a film company called The Cook Ding Institute of Imagination which is presently producing The Cloud Room, a movie about a society of cloud lovers.
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Ree Brown
Views: 2,346Born in Utah, Ree worked for a petroleum company in Seattle and San Mateo, California, until the late 1960's when he decided to return to Seattle and retire. Along with his partner, Ree scoured western Washington for antiques and then "peddled what we could, but there really wasn't much money in it." In the mid 1970's Ree began to draw, and then paint, pictures of "no one in particular", scenes containing birds, cats, and people. Ree paints his delicate paintings onto scraps of paper, cardboard, bits of matting, brown paper bags, and just about anything else that will hold paint. "I was always interested in art," says Ree. In the late 1980's, Ree's paintings caught the attention of MIA Gallery who began to show his work. Currently, Ree is represented by Seattle-based Garde Rail Gallery, and in several galleries across the US Ree is also included in 20th Century American Folk, Self-Taught, and Outsider Art by Betty-Carol Sellen.
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Amy ONeal
Views: 5,591Excerpt from the Seattle Channel In Studio Profile on Amy O'Neal | producer/editor - Patricia O'Brien | DP - Gabriel Miller | sound design - Ollie Glatzer | PA - Joseph Walker | Music Zeke Keeble Amy O'Neal is a performer, choreographer, teacher and the co-director (along with Zeke Keeble) of locust (music/dance/video company) based in Seattle and touring nationally. Amy teaches contemporary dance technique and funk regularly at Velocity Dance Center in Seattle and has taught and/or conducted residencies at the University of Washington, University of Idaho, Idaho State University, Texas Woman's University, University of Oregon, Lane Community College (Eugene, OR), Northwest Vista College (San Antonio, TX), Cornish College of the Arts (Seattle, WA), and Dance New Amsterdam (NYC). Her work has been commissioned by Spectrum Dance Theater, Cornish Dance Theater, Moving Current in Tampa, FL, and Seattle Theatre Group (collaborating with Sonia Dawkins and Savion Glover). As a performer, she worked with the Pat Graney Co. for 3 years, was a 6-year member of Scott/Powell Performance, and performed in Mark Haims acclaimed "Goldberg Variations". Amy also frequently collaborates with musician/comedian, Reggie Watts, touring nationally in his show Disinformation. For locust, Amy has received funding from the Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, the international DanceWEB scholarship, the Mary Levine Fund, Artist Trust , 4 Culture, the Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation ...
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Paul Rucker
Views: 2,866Excerpt from Verve Episode #1- www.seattlechannel.org A half-hour showcase of local artists. Each monthly episode will consist of video portraits of three artists. Viewers get a look inside the artists' worlds- their creative processes, work environment, and thoughts on inspiration. The premiere episode features choreographer, Zoe Scofield; interdisciplinary artist, Paul Rucker; and architect/sculptor, Iole Alessandrini.
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No One Left
Views: 6,358Tom Morello, the Nightwatchman sings No One Left on the Tell Us the Truth Tour. This is an excerpt taken from the documentary about the Tell Us the Truth Tour. If you'd like to see this documentary be released to the public contact Artemis Records. Music by Tom Morello - The Nightwatchman This documentary was produced by Gabriel Miller Edited by Kurt Feldhun | www.babycandyrecords.com
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Anna Lange
Views: 3,800Anna Lange, aka Anna Banana, loves color, fashion and, most of all, people. In addition to creating an original line of clothing, Anna sings Bossa Nova, and is part of the dynamic tap duo, Tap Explosion. Learn more about Anna and her marvelously wacky world at: www.prettyparlor.com
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Tent City 3
Views: 6,366The need for Tent City 3.
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Dufon Smith aka OrbOrbitOrbitron
Views: 5,822Dufon Smith, aka Orb/Orbit/Orbitron, is a free-style dance expressionist, as well as an MC and rapper. Dufon's crew, Circle of Fire, has been together for ten years, and can be seen and heard every Monday night at the War Room. More information about Dufon can be found on his myspace page: myspace.com/orbcircleoffirecrew
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Zoe Scofield
Views: 4,699Zoe Scofield is a Seattle based choreographer who shows an extensive background in the dance world. Her education in dance has led her to study in many institutions. Zoe studied ballet as a scholarship student at Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts in Boston. She later concentrated on Ashtanga Yoga while in Toronto with another dance company. Her background has contributed to her signature modern dance choreography. This portrait of Zoe Scofield's is an excerpt from the Seattle Channel's show Verve. (cable channel 21 in the Seattle area). To find out more visit- www.myspace.com
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Curtis Steiner
Views: 3,229Produced and Edited by Patricia O'Brien DP - Gabriel Miller Created for Art Zone with Nancy Guppy which airs on the Seattle Channel and Seattle's PBS station KCTS.
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The VisaVis Society
Views: 1,687The Vis-à-Vis Society was founded in a year that felt like 1957 by Drs. Ink and Owning (aka Sierra Nelson and Rachel Kessler, of the literary performance group The Typing Explosion). Gathering data from audiences using original poem-surveys, the Vis-à-Vis Society presents its findings in humorous and informative multi-media performances which include song, dance, and live graphs. The Vis-à- Vis Society has performed across the nation (including at the NW Film Forum, Wave Books Poetry Bus, Henry Art Gallery, Bumbershoot, Galapagos Art Space) - building installations, teaching the polka, crying into telephones, rapping equations, and tenderly taking the poetic pulse of every audience they meet. www.myspace.com/visavissociety Thanks to: Sierra Nelson & Rachel Kessler Northwest Film Forum - Sean Davis With excerpts from Signed, Stamped, Dated: the story of the Typing Explosion (c) superGfilms
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Zia Mohajerjasbi
Views: 1,323Zia Mohajerjasbi, recipient of the 2009 Stranger Genius of film award, is a young filmmaker known for his hip hop videos featuring his unique vision of the Seattle landscape and it's neighborhoods. For more information see his blog - loveandshoestrings.com Producer & Editor - Patricia O'Brien ( patriciaobrien.com ) Director of Photography - Gabriel Miller ( kindredmedia.com ) Music Videos by Zia used courtesy of Zia Mohajerjasbi Production Assistant - Nick Thompson Audio Sweetening - Mike Sebring ( wanderinginfinity.com )
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Haruko Nishimura
Views: 1,903Portrait of Haruko Nishimura from Seattle Channel's show Verve. www.degenerateartensemble.com
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Queen Underwoods rap
Views: 2,860Queen Underwood from Cappy's Boxing Gym
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Norman Durkee Musical Director for Teatro Zinzann...
Views: 1,712Now the musical director of Teatro Zinzanni, Norman Durkee has had a long career writing music for everything from Operas and Ballets to Coca-Cola commercials. Also featured in the portrait are Soprano Rachel DeShon and aerialists Andrew Adams and Erika Gilfether-Adams. Producer / Editor - Patricia O'Brien patriciaobrien.com Director of Photography - Gabriel Miller kindredmedia.com Production Assistant - Christina Ryan Thanks for Beth Brooks Teatro Zinzanni Director of Communications & Marketing dreams.zinzanni.org
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Laprell Nelson aka Pearl Dragon
Views: 2,4172009 NW Emmy Award Winner - Best Arts / Entertainment Feature / Segment Produced by Gabriel Miller and Patricia O'Brien for the Seattle Channel. Pearl's many projects include Champagne Champagne, a collaboration with Mark Gajadhar AKA DJ Gajamagic & Thomas Gray. Pearl is also working with Phillip A. Peterson from the house of breaking glass studio developing new songs. check out pearl's web site - myspace.com/thepearldragon Produced by Gabriel Miller & Patricia O'Brien, DP- Gabriel Miller, Editor - Patricia O'Brien
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Artist Trust Supporting Art at its Source
Views: 1,178This video, created for the 2010 Artist Trust auction, asks the questions why is art important? and why fund the arts? to arts supporters and artists connected with Artist Trust. Executive Producer Fidelma McGinn Producer / Editor / Graphics Patricia O'Brien Co-Producer / Director of Photography Gabriel Miller Original Music Noah Dassel additional footage thanks to... John Forsen Dayna Hansen Doug Plummer Lucia Neare Valerie Vozza Olivier Wevers & The Seattle Channel Production Assistants RoseMarie Fitzsimons Mark George Denny Monick Featuring: Alfredo Arreguin: Arts Supporter Dayna Hanson: Choreographer/Filmmaker Etsuko Ichikawa: Visual Artist Tiffany Lin: Pianist/Composer Ronald Moore: Artist Trust Board Trustee Charlie Staadecker: Arts Supporter Benita Staadecker: Artist Trust Board Trustee Cynthia Toops: Jewelry artist Kris Tucker: Washington State Arts Commission Lorraine Wagner: Arts Supporter Jim Woodring: Visual Artist
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STart on Broadway Sound Transit
Views: 1,763Sound Transit is building a light rail station in Seattle's densely populated Capitol Hill neighborhood. Artists were commissioned to create three month installations in storefronts prior to construction demolition. Executive Producer Sound Transit Art Program Barbara Luecke STart on Broadway Producer Jennifer Babuca STart on Broadway Curator/Coordinator Christian French Produced & Edited by Patricia O'Brien Director of Photography Gabriel Miller Additional Camera Patricia O'Brien Production Assistant Noah Dassel Audio Post-production Ollie Glatzer © Doug Hollis, "Waterworks," Cal Anderson Park, Seattle WA, 2005. Used with Permission. Thanks to Sound Transit Property Management Jack Hilovsky all the STart Artists & Residents of Capitol Hill Produced by Sound Transit & Seattle Channel 2009
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Andrew Morrison
Views: 1,581Producer / Editor - Patricia O'Brien Director of Photography - Gabriel Miller For more about Andrew go to www.onestaa.com Andrew Morrison's paintings and murals have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and Universities throughout the Northwest and the United States, including Washington State University in Vancouver, WA; Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA; Portland State University in Portland, OR; Portland Community College in Portland, OR; University of Alaska in Anchorage, AK; Massachusettes College of Art and Design in Boston, MA; Daybreak Star Gallery in Seattle, WA; Neumonics Gallery in Seattle, WA; Julyamish Art show in Coure De' Alene, ID; Arts of the Terrace Art Show in Mountlake Terrace, WA. In addition, his work is in public and corporate collections, including those of Seattle Indian Health Board, Iwasil Boys and Girls Club, United Indians, Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center, El Centro De La Raza, Edmonds Community College, Portland State University, Seattle Public Schools, Wilson Pacific School, Mountlake Terrace Highschool, Suquamish Clearwater Casino, Snoqualmie Casino, and the Potlatch Fund. www.onestaa.com
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Stefan Gruber updated
Views: 3,751Stefan Gruber is a Seattle based animator. To see more his work check his web site, the fantasy pleasure complex, at www.stefangruber.com This piece was produced by Kindred Media for Nancy Guppy's Seattle Channel show In Studio. Producer - Patricia O'Brien DP - Gabriel Miller Editor - Patricia O'Brien Opening Music - Noah Dassel Thanks to: Stefan Gruber - www.stefangruber.com Nova High School - www.novaproj.org Nova Student - Danton Domike- robotcloud.net Ballard Public Library Curan Dory Gross Lynne White (Stefan's Mom) Brian Chapman Haruko Nishimura - Degenerate Art Ensemble Paige Barnes for use of still from Stenophobia Director Paige Barnes Group Name Paige Barnes and The Grizzlies Photographer: David Rueter Title of Piece: Stenophobia (the fear of narrow spaces)
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Changing Course Trailer 111106
Views: 685Check out the updated Trailer!
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Juan Alonso painter
Views: 7,422Juan Alonso left his native Cuba on March 2, 1966, exactly one month before his tenth birthday. He left behind, aside from material possessions, his father and two older sisters. With his mother having passed away four years earlier, his life in America began with his aunt and uncle in Miami, Florida. He made a living singing and playing guitar in Florida nightclubs from 1976 to 1979 until he moved to San Francisco, where he lived until 1981. After returning to Florida and living in Key West for nine months, he moved to Seattle in May of 1982. With music now on the back burner, interest in painting and drawing became the main focus in his life. Alonso's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the US, Canada, and Latin-America. He is represented in the northwest by the Francine Seders Gallery. He has been awarded an Artist Trust GAP grant, an Artist's Residency at the Centrum Foundation, Special Project grants by 4Culture and the city of Seattle's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, a Northwest New Works Grant by On the Boards for a collaboration with theater artist Susy Schneider, the Behnke Foundation's "Neddy" Award, and was named PONCHO's 2007 Artist of the Year. Alonso considers humanity, the driving force in his work. "The human condition, our fragile existence on this planet, the way we relate, love, isolate, and unnecessarily damage ourselves and the world we live in are fascinating topics, no matter how they are ultimately expressed".
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