artist bio (2.09.2010)
I've been pondering about this rewrite for a month or two now. Every year, I rewrite my bio. It allows me to reflect on what I've done, what I'm doing now, and what I'll do in the future. Tonight, I decided that there is no reason to go beyond the next few words, whether they be wise or full of folly.
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Some people want to live to be 100 years old. While that's perfectly acceptable, I just want to live. I don't want to waste my days visiting numerous doctors, sacrificing my taste buds drinking shark cartilage & obscure beetle shit smoothies, or dulling my mind by not enjoying an appealing adventure.
Give me my sunshine, my scotch neat, and my blues. I'll make do.
-WFL
equipment
photography:
I use an Olympus E-VOLT E300 with the stock lens for the initial pictures, shooting exclusively in RAW format. Lighting wise I use the sun, and a cheap Precision Design flash that "just plain works". For still shots/extended exposures, I utilize a Slik aluminum tripod (you can't go wrong with a Slik, in my experience, as well as the experience of many of my peers). Processing is done on one of my two main machines (one home-built machine, the other a Lenovo Thinkpad T400 laptop) using Photoshop 6 (once again, it "just plain works"), and am currently evaluating the Adobe Lightroom 3 beta (which is an amazing piece of software).
digital art & graphic design:
Most of my digital art is put together on my Lenovo Thinkpad T400 laptop, utilizing a Wacom Bamboo tablet for rough illustrations. Software wise, I use Photoshop 6 for photo manipulation and digital painting, and Illustrator CS2 for illustrations and other vector work.
music & composition:
I play a JB Player JB-20-12 12 string, a Republic Duolian resonator ("Providence", as pictured next to me, usually played with an Eric Sardinas Preachin' Pipe slide), a B.C. Rich Platinum model Bich (great neck, comfortable body, not much else to it), a Ventura classical guitar, and an SX Bass (great budget bass with awesome upgradability). I'll occasionally grab a harmonica and screw around, or will play whatever piano is put in front of me. I've still got a Besson 943 Symphonic bass trombone that's feeling lonely since I was diagnosed with TMJ Disorder.
I primarily use an MCA-SP 1 for my mic work, and a Johnson J-Station for my guitar signal processing, both running into an EMU-0404 USB external soundcard. Software wise, I'm using Record (version 1) for recording, and Reason 4 for sequencing and composition, utilizing an old Casio keyboard running on D cell batteries as a midi controller.