June 2003 - Grays Lake Plaque

A video that I got into N film festivals. I used a terrible consumer camera with on camera mic. Yikes. It sucked.

This web page originally contained just art. I then added video and photography and cycling to show a timeline of efforts. I threw out a bunch of art in the late 1990s at Mary E's house and then threw out a barrel of art at Eric W's house in about 2003.. I threw out all of my 35mm negatives and prints and printing plates. Sadness. Many of the video pictures are low quality as I had smaller than SD to display. The other pages on my site provide more material for a given project.

I wanted to include filthy director, John Waters, in my President George Bush mask project. He was giving a talk "Warhol & Waters: Fame& Filth" at the Hoyt Sherman in Des Moines. He was bold and filthy on stage but was shy. I told him I wanted to take photos in the filthy bathroom and he said no. He said I should have contacted his people. Right. Rachel Tone and Bob Schulte sat in another part of the building and then Rachel helped me by standing by myside while photographing legless friend Jay Brummel and then Waters and a stranger. I took a photo of the bathroom earlier and merged the photos.

Corey Taylor is the lead singer for Stone Sour and Slipknot. Corey, Dave Lundberg, the drummer, and I drove in Corey's car to the Council Bluffs Westfair Amphitheater for Avenged Sevenfold, Disturbed, Stone Sour, and Halestorm. I was allowed to take photos from the stage front for three songs.

A video that I got into film festivals.

I took a B/W DMACC - Ankeny photo class. It was mostly middle aged women and the instructor told me I could not develop my "bimbo" photos. Bob Schulte, an occasional art Grandview College instructor, invited me to develop B/W film for the State Fair photo contest. I keep going back. At some point another instructor noticed I was not a student and told me to come only when he was there. I might have used B/W into late 2002 or early 2003 as I have a photos of B/W Todd G 2003 license plate. This is just a sample of the B/W era.

I saw this guy and stopped to photo. He wanted his money back on a car purchase. They were camera shy and I held his sign while they spoke in the office. They wanted to trade my photos for his money. I kept my photos and he got his money. July 14, 2001, July 14 is Bastile Day, a French day of resistance. These were mostly developed/printed at Grandview College. I went there with Bob to develop photos for the State Fair and kept going back until a instructor questioned my student status and I wasn't one.

Every year, Eastsiders make money parking cars in their yards during the 10 day state fair. I am an East sider who loves the fairgrounds.