PatrickD
38 years old
Columbus, Ohio
Male
About
*A nomad of sorts, never anywhere long enough to get comfortable and settle in.
*Toyed with photography for something like 7 years.
*Generally enjoy taking photos of things I run across while on my bike excursions.
*Enjoy mountain biking excursions and exploring.
*Vegetarian
*Animal Lover
*Compassionate Consumer
*Nothing like a good scotch (Highland Park 18), good bourbon (Woodford Reserve), and good beer (Bell's Two Hearted Ale or Great Lakes Brewing Porter)
*Do some drawing: colored pencil on various media
*Electronic music is love.
*A fabricator by trade, I do resin casting and mould making as well as metal work for a kick-ass company, TORK Industrial ARTifacts, Inc.
*Like finding new music.
*Good coffee makes me happy (Cup-O-Joe/Stauf's in Columbus, Ohio...mmmmm)
*I think Wal-Mart Sucks and do not shop there.
*I Love Columbus, Ohio
*Single-Speeds F+ing Rock!!!
*Bikes rock!!!
*I tool around creating experimental electronic music
*Enjoy reading about Buddhist philosophy
*Being barefoot is zen
Text(12)
Mar 3, 2009
Schlitz Beer & Vinyl
My wife and I went vinyl shopping at local vinyl emporium Used Kids Records. We go occasionally looking for used vinyl to add to our ever growing collection, and since we purchased an Ion portable USB turntable (we already have a regular turntable), but this one lets us …
Nov 9, 2008
Concerts, Vampires, Drywall, And A Ton Of Coffee
So, what the hell have I been up to? Well, for one thing, I need to post on here more. It's tough getting online at home( I am at Cup-O-Joe coffee house), the house is in a total state of disarray with multiple home improvement projects, there is no place to set up to …
Oct 12, 2008
Release Your Cows - A Buddhist Story
A story told by Buddha to his fellow monks, quoted from Thich Nhat Hanh's book:
One day the Buddha was sitting in the wood with thirty or forty monks. They had an excellent lunch and they were enjoying the company of each other. There was a farmer passing …
Movies
Deadman, The Proposition (2006), Eternal Sunshine, CE3K, LOTR, In Cold Blood, City Of Lost Children, Northfork, Brazil, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Jaws, Stations Of The Elevated, Star Wars (Original Trilogy), Willie Wonka, Fight Club, The Grapes Of Wrath, The Good The Bad And The Ugly, Pedal, Triplets Of Bellville, Fear And Loathing, M*A*S*H, Fistful Of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More
Music
Depeche Mode, Interpol, Coil, Meat Beat Manifesto, Jack Dangers, Jeru Tha Damaja, The Smiths, Lift To Experience, Erasure, Autechre, Plastikman, Richie Hawtin, The Tiger Lillies, My Bloody Valentine, Future Sound Of London, Front 242, Red Stars Theory, Negativeland, Stylex, The Orb, DJ Krush, Dif Juz, Front Line Assembly, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Lush, Massive Attack, Skinny Puppy, The Legendary Pink Dots, Felt, Souls Of Mischief, Hilt, The Wolfgang Press, Geniuser, Renegade Soundwave, Modest Mouse, The Pharcyde, Cabaret Voltaire, His Name Is Alive, Speedy J, Psyche, Portishead, The Tear Garden, This Mortal Coil, Janes Addiction, Erasure, Vince Clark, Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins, Tom Waits, The Young Gods, Boards Of Canada, Mos Def, The House Of Love, Boogie Down Productions, Future Sound Of London, Jessica Baliff, Joy Division, Clock DVA, The Creatures, The Cure, Scanner, F.U.S.E., Kasabian, Limehouse Outlaw, Magnetophone, Click Click, The Pogues, Psyche, Ugly Cassanova, The Mission U.K., DJ Shadow, Jeff Mills, Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Bad Religion, The Tear Garden, The Faint, MHZ, Themselves, cLOUDDEAD, DoseOne, Boom Bip, !!!, Editors
Television
Books
1984, Hitchhikers Guide, most any art books, Harry Potter, Under The Banner of Heaven, Into Thin Air, LOTR, Watching My Name Go By, any Edward Gorey, In Cold Blood, Pedal, Dirtrag magazine, Tropic of Cancer, Hollywood, Burning In Water, Drowning In Flame
Activities
darts, photography, tooling around town on my bike, tea or coffee, staring at the mountains around my house, commuting by bike, drawing with colored pencils, mixed media, aerosol art, creating electronic/ethereal music
Interests
My Wife, Photography, Tea, Mountain Biking, Single-Speeds, Good Coffee, Good Scotch, Bourbon, and Beer, Compassionate Consumer, Vegetarian Cooking, Street Art, Graffiti/Aerosol Art, Collage, Rappelling, Hiking, Outdoors, Atari 2600, Buddhist philosophy, electronic music, Vanilla Coke, Camping, Columbus Blue Jackets
mama, Dec 14, 2007:
Gagosian Liga, Jul 26, 2007:
"We all admire the spangled acrobat with classical grace meticulously walking his tight rope in the talcum light; but how much rarer art there is in the sagging rope expert wearing scarecrow clothes and impersonating a grotesque drunk! I should know." (Vladimir Nabokov)
Thank you for your friendship! Musical greetings from Munich/Germany!
Feel free to download my music!
Bicycle, Jul 2, 2007:
Thanks for your comment Patrick. Cycling really IS the way forward. Spread the word. I love your pics. Profile pic is very rocky horror-esque
Spirits In Ambience, Apr 4, 2007:
Hi Patrick,
It great to meet you here and see your amazing photographs,
All the best in the things you like to do,
Cheers,
SIA
elese, Apr 3, 2007:
there's something about that photo of the hand...i am intruiged by it!
have a beautiful day
reality photography, Mar 14, 2007:
nice to meet your acquaintance! i look forward to seeing more of your fantastic photography -