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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.

I was asked to videotape the event at the Hoyt Sherman. I had two Panasonic HVX-2000A cameras and had my actor run the static two shot camera on the main floor. I ran the panning camera on the balcony. I also went to the house party and Dawkins was a bit of an ass to me. I was initially to be paid but wasn't. Not sure if I paid my camera guy. I did have Dawkins answer my question in his book.

Photos I took of Des Moines artists.

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.

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.

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.

I normally submit more than one photo. The photos show are the ones selected.

October 2016

The Statue of Constantine the Great is a bronze statue depicting the Roman emperor Constantine I seated on a throne, commissioned by York Civic Trust and designed by the sculptor Philip Jackson. It was unveiled in 1998 and is situated on Minster Yard, outside York Minster. It commemorates the accession of Constantine as Roman emperor in AD 306 on this site, after the death of his father Constantius Chlorus in York.[1]

I painted on of the fiberglass pigs which were displayed in the Des Moines metro area. Mine was displayed during the Iowa State Fair and was sold at auction. I would love to get it back. One side was the traditional story and the other sides were that the wolf was innocent.