Encounters - not of the extraterrestrial type

Cinema on the Bayou

Sunday 1/29/12

Link to Film Festival webpage...
http://www.cinemaonthebayou.com

 

photo credit: www.cinemaonthebayou.com one of the many taking off in the canoes scenes...

Encounters

Link to the description of the film...
http://www.cinemaonthebayou.com/onefilm.cfm?film_id=193

 

photo credit: from the film makers webpage www.mofilms.ca in French, the orig cover...
and in French Encounters = Rencontre

Encounters (Louisiana Premiere)

Melanie Carriere and Olivier Higgins

2011 52 min. Color

This documentary film tells the story of a group of young Innus, Huron and non-Aboriginal Quebeckers, who together travel an ancestral land and water path, 310 km long, which joins Lac Saint-Jean and Quebec City. Along the way, they learn about themselves and each other. This is another wonderful film from the award-winning filmmaking team of Melanie Carriere and Olivier Higgins, based in Quebec, for whom questions of identity, social fabric, land protection, and social justice inspire their projects. 

French with English subtitles.
Click for filmmaker's web site (MoFilms)

photo credit: Lise Breton 2010 took this & put it on InfoCulture.Biz from the couples/the film makers Asiemut film project at the time...

(they look so happy & so young, to be film makers - or to be a couple that rode bikes from Mongolia to India & still looking this good?!)

photo credit: again from their Asiemut film, biking from Mongolia to India...uh, if I could read French I may be able to tell you who took the photo-could be they set up their own camera...but never the less, it was on this webpage...

http://www.teteslibres.com/lesailesdemoncoeurlourd/2007/04/04/asimut/

(note: so they went from a huge bike riding adventure in Asiemut to the journey with the native teenagers in Encounters, again on bikes & hiking & canoeing as well--with their camera?! do I detect a theme, besides full on nature--does there have to be hardship...)

Link to their film webpage - Mo films...

www.mofilms.ca

"films is a production company based in Quebec city, who wants to linger in the debates and social issues of our times. Questions of identity, social fabric, land protection and social justice are all subjects that inspire our projects..."

From my evening of viewing, finally almost the whole entire film too...

~lots of nature, Canadian nature, beautiful (I have never been to Canada & I have a passport...)
~lots of teenagers, but native ones trying to understand their culture & how it relates to 'others' - no matter which 'others' & just trying to make it from the beginning to the end of this specific journey & it does look like it was a journey through the wilderness (camping & riding & hiking--often in the rain, I would of been done with it all very quickly...)
~lots of sitting around the campfire at the end of the day to ask How was your day? which surprised me, they showed up & they said something, they shared & they also shared with the camera--because after awhile I'm guessing it faded into the background of the film makers holding it, this couple that went along on the adventure with them...
~lots of healing going on, though I haven't a clue about native peoples in Canada--one can imagine...

At the end (this is not a spoiler) you saw that the kids were going to stay in touch, as the one girl brought a group of the others to her village--I can't even say which native tribe of Canada she is, it doesn't matter really in the end...she was the one though that had never finished anything up until that journey...
It was a kind of Wisdom Quest I think for her & many of these teenagers...they shared a long hard endurance adventure together in the wilderness - at one point a Shaman came to speak with them too, which would of been awesome if you were or weren't a native person (or I'd of called him that, I may be wrong, he could of just been an Elder of a tribe--I wasn't there & I can't rewind the movie now either) & I would hope they're still staying in touch today & that other kids like them continue to go on this Nature Adventure in Canada, along a river that their ancestors probably used as well (also possibly without a camera crew following along with them the whole time...)

It was great too at one point in the film, they got lost--plain & simple...
Going up a mountain trail in the woods, so there's that decision--do we go back, do we go ahead...
Wondering if you'll find 'the' trail that you need, again I would of been so done/Done even before then--being rained on for days, wet clothes, wet shoes, it would of been a drowning, bogged down feeling all over (but these kids/teenagers came thru the other end of that, so it was great to watch that too...)

How far is 300 km? About 186 miles?!
Oh my I would of fallen down & never gotten up at like mile marker 10 or maybe 20--tops?!

Délivrance - of the French Canadian kind

Cinema on the Bayou

Sunday 1/29/12

http://www.cinemaonthebayou.com/

7th Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival

Jan. 25-29, 2012
The dramatic film "Delivrance" will make its U.S. Premiere on the opening night of the Festival at AcA with New Brunswick filmmakers Donovan Richard and Danny Thebeau in attendance.

 

Délivrance 2011
"When all is lost, only deliverance is left to gain."

Link to review from Cineman on the Bayou Film Festival webpage...
http://bulldogpublicity.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/anna-silk-for-a-weekcbc-premieres-delivrance/

This dramatic narrative feature film tells the story of the escape in 1756 from Fort Beausejour by Pierre-Henri Surette and his followers, and Surette's return to battle for the rest of the men who were left behind before their deportation by the British. The film was shot primarily at Fort Beausejour (in the fort's ruins), in the areas of Memramcook and along the Petitcodiac River.
The film premiered across Canada this past fall with great fanfare. The amazing cast and crew created "a great snapshot of the hell Acadians were subject to during the great expulsion," says film and music writer Jim Lavoie. "Well written, directed, shot and acted, this is one film that 'Delivered' as promised."

The film is in both French and English, with English subtitles.
Click for filmmaker's web site

My notes from the evening...

As I was a volunteer I was doing that & not getting to watch the whole film--but did get to step inside at the end when there was a Q&A, my fav...because you hear people speak with passion normally about what they're trying to do & I like to listen to them give you a sneak peek into their creativity...

With these 2 (writer/film maker) I learned they had a lot of family/friends help them with this, but that they also all got paid--even in Canada...

And they took a car ride together somewheres in Canada & came up with the whole story along the way--would of loved being in the backseat for that...

They didn't want to do a documentary, they wanted to fictionalize the history with a story (I'm sure many people can tell family stories about what happened to their relatives at that time) & so there could be more films--will see if they follow that story of the Acadiens expulsion (their word) to say other locations where they fled to...They both knew that Southern Louisiana would be interested in the film as many fled here...

Also there were characters on both sides that were not all good or bad - as the groups were as well, not all bad or all good (as is real life if you think of it, so it was good they tried to portray that in their film too...)

Again I didn't see but 1 scene before a reunion of 2 groups of Acadiens that had been separated, 1 was being marched to a ship, the other had escaped & were helping others escape, so there was firing on the soldiers--then at a house/barn they were meeting up with the women & the children running to meet them, with the ship on the river in the background (I thought the film makers did well with the costumes of the times too, but what would I know not being of any Acadien descent that I know of...)

Don't think I didn't look twice at the title of this movie--I've grown up with movies & TV & the first Deliverance I'd heard of was a movie, that had canoes, banjos & squealing like a pig involved...but I just knew that this one would have nothing to do with that one, tho there was a river & trees & people running around the woods with guns in that (from what little I saw,) but that was about it that I can tell...then too the titles are spelled differently, as the French way is Délivrance...

On a lighter local note, they were asked about the food they enjoyed since coming to Lafayette or if they enjoyed the Cajun Food while they've been here, which they liked & want to come visit again, not just for the food--but it seems one of them is not fond of  Boudin, there was something with the soft texture that he thought would take some getting use to, like you'd need to acquire a taste for it...I like Boudin now, but could agree--if you're looking for a sausage it's not that...(they need to come during the Boudin Festival & try a whole bunch of choices is what I'm thinking?!)

note: both my pic's - can ya' tell I went to the Boudin Festival 2011?!

A Weaverly Path - Vimeo

A Weaverly Path Trailer from Kenny Dalsheimer on Vimeo.

Cinema on the Bayou

Cinema on the Bayou

http://www.cinemaonthebayou.com/
Sunday 1/29/12

A Weaverly Path - The Tapestry Life of Silvia Heyden
A documentary film by Kenny Dalsheimer
Marybeth Dugan - Assistant Director
2011 The Grove Productions

Link to webpage for the film...
http://aweaverlypath.com/the-film/

Eno River, Durham, North Carolina inspired

These things I know from watching this documentary film...

~ She hears colors (don't know if she's a synesthete or not, this was not mentioned in the film)
       Link to what that is if you don't know... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia (thanks Wiki?!)

~ She's said she has an 'eye in every finger' - I love that she said that & by now with her fingers on the yarn in the loom she probably does, you know--kinda sorta fashion & not a horror movie image...

~ She's done at least 2 commissions (those shown in the movie, but from Flickr pics looks like there were more) where she's listened to musical compositions & made a tapestry according--in motion/in colors (I can't find the 2 composers, yet, think 1 was Bach...then I read she plays the violin, yet I didn't see that in the film--but as a volunteer I didn't get to see it all...)

~ She's studied in the Bauhaus tradition at  - I read - the School of Arts in Zurich (where I've stopped off for a day/night before, getting off a train, was going on to Interlaken at the time...)

~ She's Swiss from the 20's & is like 82 in the film & I woulda never guessed...

Link to Silvia Heyden's Tapestries...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/64309623@N04/sets/72157627023889283/
(note: see Polyphonie & Bartok's Sonata for the musical movements in tapestry...)

More pics of her tapestries...
http://www.annatextiles.ch/artists/artindex/silvia/silvia.htm
(note: one titled orchestra & multi rhythms that again involve music...)

H-Town Coffee Adventure No. 2

H-Town (aka Houston, TX)
Coffee Adventure No. 2
weekend of 1/20 - 1/22/12

Coffee Adventure No. 2

note: the tiny/cute Daikon Radishes in the center, had to bring a few of those babies home...another name for them is a Chinese Radish & usually they are enormous, so these are a treat?!

The Revival Market
Coffee Partners w/ Greenway Coffee Co/Greenway Barista

also
Fat Cats Creamery
Gulf Shrimp Stock
Slow Dough Bread Company

My Purchases:
Cortado, Cranberry Bread, Daikon Radishes & a thin slice of Parmesan Cheese...
(note: I seemed to have forgotten to take a pic of my coffee?! And that last item the nice guy behind the counter wrapped it up, sealed it up-in zip bag, put it on ice in another tie bag - ready for the long road home, which meant No Fat Cats Creamery on the road - that I didn't find...another chance, another weekend, another adventure...)

2 loaves of Slow Dough Bread Co on the left - Cranberry Walnut, am going to snag one as a couple comes in to squeeze them & am guessing she'll snag the other...don't smoosh my bread please?!

location...
550 Heights Boulevard (at White Oak - aka in The Heights)
Houston, TX 77007

phone...
(713)880-8463

Hrs...
M-F 7-8
Sat 8 - 7
Sun 10 -5
*this is the day I was there, rather 2:30ish
(I was late--but by a 1/2 hr's guesstimate...)

Where was Fat Cats Creamery? I dunno...was told it was here,
there'd been a dropoff & then I find this-- Trentino?
Link to their webpage: http://trentinogelato.com/
Is this a substitute when they ran out...
Are they related, am I confused? It's curious...
a foodie mystery for that next adventure?!
Link to the Fat Cats Creamery webpage:
http://www.fatcatcreamery.com/
(note: I have to admit, I love the name...meow...)

Link to Revival Market's webpage...
http://revivalmarket.com/











About the Tea & Coffees...

Revival Café

"Revival Market has a small indoor café
with additional sidewalk seating to enjoy your morning
or afternoon break coffee, a light breakfast, lunch or dessert.
We are pretty proud of our coffee bar,
which is manned by professional baristas from open to close.
They will prepare you a choice of coffees –
 from drip to cortado to a flat white –
made with beans from one of four local coffee purveyors.
We also stock beans by the pound that can be ground to you specifications.
Revival also offers a selection of Rishi teas,
all organic and fair-trade certified."

Note: the Fabulously Proud Label...Gulf Shrimp Stock--
so not just any stock & not just any shrimp--but Gulf Shrimp?!

Link to Yelp Listing/Reviews...
http://www.yelp.com/biz/revival-market-houston
Link to Urbanspoon Listing/Reviews...

http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/8/1546518/
restaurant/The-Heights/Revival-Market-Houston

Link to Facebook page...
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Revival-Market/124475060957083

Link to Houston Press Blog Post...
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/eating/2011/03/
revival_market_to_open_monday.php

Link to Chron.com article...
http://www.chron.com/life/article/
Revival-Market-to-cater-to-consciously-raised-1716296.php

Link to Foursquare--I think I remembered to check in while I was there...
https://foursquare.com/v/revival-market/4d7eb87cb25d6dcbd49bbf42

Link to a YouTube--Yes, someone did wander around the Market
when it first opened w/their phone taking this video to share...
http://youtu.be/0OcpCW34TFU
(note: am happy they did...First off I see the coffee machine,
always the best view...
And I see how lucky I was to get those tiny Daikon Radishes when I did,
coz they're not there in this Video?!
And too funny the bread was in a diff place,
plus remember now they were out of Olive Oil on Sunday--
but the empty glass bottles would of been great to use for vases...)

Coffee Partners:

Greenway Roaster/Barista Info...

aka or prev know as Tuscany Premium Coffee

location...
5 greenway plaza suite c-610
houston texas 77046

phone...
832-377-7773

Hrs:
M-Th 7-4:30 Fri -4:00


Greenway Coffee...
www.greenwaycoffee.com

Yelp listing/reviews...
http://www.yelp.com/biz/tuscany-premium-coffee-houston-2

Greenway Barista - David Buehrer -
Twitter...
www.twitter.com/greenwaybarista

Facebook page...
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Greenway-Coffee-Tea/131684226870444

Blog...
www.coffeestreethouston.blogspot.com/

Blog at Houston Press...
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/author.php?author_id=1523

Blog Post - Houston Press: Rising Star Barista at the Greenway Plaza
Food Court - David Buehrer...
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/eating/2009/07/barista_david_buehrer.php
(note: mention of coffee cocktails being made--Anvil Bar & Refuge -
1424 Westheimer, Houston, TX 77006  Link: www.anvilhouston.com)

Coffee Products available on webpage...

Scrimshaw Espresso: Winter/Spring 2012
Yirgacheffe  gr. 2 Ethiopia
Deterra Sunrise: Minas Gerais, Brazil
Bella Carmona: Antigua, Guatemala
Decaf: Monte Camejo, Costa Rica


Roast every Monday, Ship every Tuesday

Greenway Coffee Partners...

Paulie's - 1834 Westheimer Road, Houston, TX 77098

Revival Market  -550 Heights Blvd, Houston, TX 77007
                            (note: *where I went Sunday)

Relish Fine Foods - 3951 San Felipe, Houston, TX 77027

Soma Sushi - 4820 Washington Ave, Houston, TX 77007

Kata Robata - 3600 Kirby Drive, Houston, TX 77098

Absolatte Coffee Catering - 3100 Timmons Ln., Houston, TX 77027Also found at The Revival Market...
Amaya Roasting Co - Max (the roaster) again from Catalina Coffee Shop

note: my 3 purchases from what I thought were 2 different roasters...
2 from Catalina Coffee Shop/Max/Amaya Roasting Co - Guatemala/Rwanda
1 from Revival Market - what I thought was Greenway Roasting Co, is Amaya Roasting Co with a different label & of all the things Decaf...

(note: I really/Really didn't have my glasses on then to make that mistake w/this label--I thought all the white bags under the counter were all from Greenway, guess I shoulda asked...or like the Fat Cats Creamery, it could be they substitute when things are Sold Out?! Or another possibility is that they/Amaya roasted a decaf coffee for Greenway - but they're now roasting their own coffee is what I'd heard & I was trying to find their roasted coffee, as their shop is closed on Sunday, if not w/e's so that's the only time I had...)

Info-Poster at RestStop on the way home...

Driving from Houston, TX to Lafayette, LA

Did you take the Hint??!!

"Dead Man Talking"

(of course that would be in a Texas RestStop...

& does anyone else have a big enough imagination

to think it kinda looks like a windshield w/the trees

reflection in it?! but if I could crop out the frame

would be even more convincing--more to learn,

sigh...)

H-Town Coffee Adventure No.1

H-Town (aka Houston, TX)
Coffee Adventure No. 1
w/e of 1/20/12 - 1/22/12

Stop No. 1

photo credit: catalinacoffeeshop.com

Catalina Coffee Shop
2201 Washington Ave
Houston, TX 77007

Bus Stop - Sawyer @ Union
S. Heights

Roaster of Catalina's Coffees - Amaya Roasting Co - Max, the Owner

http://catalinacoffeeshop.com/

photo/logo credit: catalinacoffeeshop.com

About...
Since opening in April 2007, Catalina Coffee has sought to provide our customers with a fresh and exciting coffee experience. We strive to consistently offer the best product that we can, and constantly evolve to do so. We mainly feature coffee from Amaya Roasting Company, as well as bringing in guest coffees from other roasters from across the country.

Hours:Monday - Friday 6:30 AM – 7:00 PM
Saturday - Sunday 7:30 AM – 7:00 PM

phone 713.861.8448

my Cortado, on the wood counter in the back corner against the brick wall...
taken w/natural light, can you tell (OK, I will not give up my Day Job for Photography anytime soon...)
Back to the coffee--there was no messing around--there is no Latte Art here, or not in this order...

A curious link to a Proto type of Luminaire LB-1 under the News tab on their webpage...
http://catalinacoffeeshop.com/index.php?option=com_zoo&view=category&Itemid=224

Link to their Facebook page...
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Catalina-Coffee-Shop/249554315274

Facebook Info...

"A tribute to the best coffeehouse in Houston. If you're in the market for a foo-foo, coffee-flavored beverage, you're in the WRONG place. I would willingly increase my carbon footprint for the brew." Link to Urbanspoon reviews... http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/8/777940/restaurant/The-Heights/Catalina-Coffee-Shop-Houston Link to Yelp reviews... http://www.yelp.com/biz/catalina-coffee-houston Link to Houston Press - Best of 2011 Award - Best Coffee Shop... http://www.houstonpress.com/bestof/2011/award/best-coffee-shop-2674542/ "Here's our exhaustive criterion when it comes to drinking coffee: It has to be good. Annnndddd that's about it. All of the bells and whistles in terms of decor and iPod playlists are fine, but if the warm liquid that fills our barely awake beings tastes like brown water, our caffeine-deprived benchmark will never be met. It's true that Catalina boasts an inviting and chic space in the Sixth Ward, but they're nailing the most important part — the coffee — thanks to creative yet not too fancy takes on goods from Amaya Roasting Company, which harvests coffee beans from countries such as Brazil, Costa Rica and Ethiopia." Link to Houston City Search reviews...

http://houston.citysearch.com/profile/45339821/houston_tx/catalina_coffee.html


Link to Chron.com review by TechBlog...
http://blog.chron.com/techblog/2008/06/caffeinated-wi-fi-review-catalina-coffee/

Link to 29-95 Restaurants review...
http://www.29-95.com/restaurants/catalina-coffee

Link to their Roaster Amaya...
http://www.amayaroasting.com/

sparrows in the winter trees alongside Catalina Coffee Shop in their garden...
I like they have a side garden there & metal art work hanging/flying on the corner of the bldg too, a bird, a phoenix (should of taken a photo of that too, but I was on a coffee mission first...)

My Note - My Purchases - Guatemala & Rwanda...
And a Coffeebag packed T-shirt (for a coffee loving friend I know, who just happens to be a Barista back home too - who sent me here so how could I not say Thank you with a Coffeeshop Tee?!)

Descriptions from Roaster webpage...

Guatemala
http://www.amayaroasting.com/product/concepcion-pixcaya

Guatemala Concepcion Pixcaya

Notes: Juicy, complex, melon, cane syrup, bakers chocolate.
Origin: Guatemala
Owner(s): Manuel Zaghi Miron and Maria Cristina Miron de Zaghi
Region: Sacatepequez
Varietal: Giant Bourbon
Elevation: 1890MASL
Process: Fully washed

(note: nothing else after this...Let it be known though that I support the Guatemalan Coffee Farmers, maybe I repeat this, due to the fact I know a family from there whose patron use to tell them sad stories about the local coffee plantation farmers & then after I met them as an Expat they'd tell me some of them...right then & there, I did a silent "I swear I will help however I can in the future"--so I buy Gutemala Coffee, Fair Trade especially, whenever I possibly can?!)

also in the Catalina Coffee Shop garden, I think it's a fig tree, sparrows gone

Rwanda
http://www.amayaroasting.com/product/rwanda-musasa

Rwanda Musasa

Notes: Violet, dried cranberry, prune, black tea, complex.
Co-Op: Dukundekawa Musasa (1815 Co-Op Members)
Region: Ruli Sector, Rushashi District
Varietal: Red Bourbon
Elevation: 1500 - 2000 MASL
Processing: Fully Washed and dried on African beds
The Dukundekawa Musasa cooperative lies high in Rwanda’s rugged north-west, at around 1,800 meters. The co-op built its first coffee washing station in 2003, with a development loan from the Rwandan government and the support of the USAID-financed PEARL project.
This transformational program was aimed at switching the focus in the Rwandan coffee sector from an historic emphasis on quantity to one of quality - and so opening up Rwanda to the far higher-earning specialty coffee market. The programme and its successor, SPREAD, have been invaluable in helping Rwanda’s small-scale coffee farmers to rebuild their production in the wake of the devastating 1994 genocide and the 1990s world coffee crash.
Musasa now owns two washing stations and is one of Rwanda’s larger cooperatives, with 1,815 members in the 2010/11 crop year. In addition, the co-op buys and processes cherries from a few thousand more farmers in the area who are not official co-op members.
Most of these small scale producers own less than a hectare of land, with an average of only 500 coffee trees each as well as other subsistence food crops. Musasa gives these small farmers the chance to combine their harvests and process cherries centrally - and therefore sell them on to international buyers for far higher prices. Before the proliferation of washing stations such as Musasa, the norm in Rwanda was for small farmers to sell semi-processed cherries to a middleman - and the market was dominated by a single exporter. This commodity-focused system - coupled with declining world prices in the 1990s - brought severe hardship to farmers, some of whom abandoned coffee entirely.
Today, it’s a different picture. Farmers who work with Musasa have seen their income at least double, and the co-op produces some outstanding lots for the specialty market year after year. ‘Dukundekawa’ means ‘love coffee’ in Kinyarwanda (Rwanda’s official language) - in reference to the power of coffee to improve the lives of those in rural communities.
The level of care that Musasa takes over the processing is impressive. Cherries are hand picked only when fully ripe and the beans are sorted, sorted and sorted again to remove defects. Individual lots are also tracked through the pulping, sorting and drying process, meaning that Musasa can trace each lot back to the individual farmers that grow it.

(note: we would sample this coffee roast as a Clever/PourOver after the w/e in Houston along with another Rwanda coffee from another roaster & Both of them were very/Very interesting to my tastebuds...I was very/Very surprised & a bit sad that my Guatemala choice & another Guatemala from another roaster were not as interesting...)

Other Coffee Roasts of Amaya Roasting Co. I did not purchase...
Columbia
Peru
Santa Ana - Guatemala - Decaf

above the Catalina Coffee Shop garden, the power boxes & one my fav secret loves to photograph, grafitti - Yes, grafitti stickers count (in my book) - I always want to know who 'they' are, who put them there...(my all time fav's are still back in Stavanger, Norway...sigh...the power boxes that were there were painted to look like mini apt complexes, complete with say satellite dish details?!)

...and in zooming in I have a feeling the 'force majeure' sticker, on the middle box at the top, just may have a little something to do with a certain oil spill in the Gulf, so it's been there that long on this power box... (having driven over from Lafayette & having lived there before & also having lived in Houston before I know a bit of the backstory to that sticker's image--just don't know who made these & put them up - were they making a statement? hmmm...for another investigation, another time?!)

Next Adventure - Coffee & Grafitti (I may need a guide--any volunteers out there?!)

Light/Dark Old/Young

Playing with Light:
The Art And Process of Capturing Emotion

Tom Hussey

TOM HUSSEY Photography, LLC

"In the course of a diverse 20-year career in commercial

advertising photography, Tom Hussey has established a

successful advertising studio. Respected industry wide for his

lifestyle photography and admired for his lighting techniques,

Tom has worked on local. national and international

campaigns. Based in Dallas, Texas, TOM HUSSEY Photography,

LLC is a full production photography studio.

Tom’s passion for photography began in the early 70′s when his

Dad got a new ”expensive” SLR camera. Tom asked to take a

picture and much to his mother’s horror was handed the

camera. He put the camera down briefly but was never far

away from it. Tom has taught photography on the college

level and worked in the Conservation Laboratory at the

International Museum of Photography at George Eastman

House.

Tom is a graduate of Southern Methodist University where he

earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film Production with a minor in

Photography. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Museum

Practices and Conservation with an emphasis in Photography

from The Rochester Institute of Technology".

Tom Hussey is represented by Michael Ginsburg

and in Texas he is represented by Patty Hudson

Link to AAF Acadiana Event page & what could become an iconic advert photo...
http://aafacadiana.com/rsvpmaker/january-luncheon/
(Note: you'll see the photo of the Soldier old/young, as the rest of the ads in the pharma campaign are the same setup - which I don't like the idea of it selling drugs as much as the feelings it inspires in looking at the ads, which I'd seen before but never knew they were ads for an Alzheimer's patch?!)

Link to Tom Hussey Photography webpage...
http://www.tomhussey.com/
Link to his Blog...
http://tomhussey.com/blog/
(note: I especially love now knowing the stories behind some of these photos - on the webpage & the blog, which is my fav part--as much or maybe even more than just the photo's themselves...what was the photographer/the subject doing kind of thing - putting a place/time/feeling to it all I suppose...rather than it was part of an ad campaign or what is it selling or what camera/lighting did he use, etc/Etc...)

About (Tom Hussey)
"Sometimes we need photography to create a complex interplay between reality and illusion. Welcome to Tom Hussey's world. A world of many brands, and many audiences. A world involving many production needs. From location scouting, casting, styling, animation and photo retouching to lifestyle, portrait, and kid shots. A world located, in reality, in Dallas, Texas, but a world that knows no boundaries." - from the Webpage

My notes after watching the webpage Photo SlideShow--again seeing many photos we saw at the AdFed Luncheon last Friday, at River Ranch City Club (we had a different room this month for the luncheon/speaker, bigger maybe, but those mirrored posts? I will not comment on the buffet, my Grandmother taught me that classic line--if you can't say something nice...it was a good thing I was powered by Cafe Cohen espresso before I arrived?!)

OK, I do love light & shadow...I do love black & white...I do love a sense of humor...I love the stripey socks Birthday/Slumber Girls in a tent Party...I love the pink bubble gum...I love coffee mugs in coffee shops...Even love Miss Schlitz/Pal-Mal Black eye Hair in rollers...or the almost Norman Rockwell-ish boy w/a razor & tissue spots...or my cure for the curious in not visiting the Louvre, as now I've seen what the room looks like where the Mona Lisa lives--Mon Petit Postage Stamp...or from the Series esp like 'Reflections' or 'Recharge Your Karma.org'...surprised by the iHussey section - as in it's all iphone photos/apps (for these alone I may be more inclined to bump it up to an iphone, as soon as the Droid2 freezes up with forceclose errors again?!) Yeess--I've seen & also recently photographed the WienerMobile too at our Youngsville Rouses, so I like that one for Deja vu effect?!

Link to where you can create your own PDF Portfolio on his webpage - I had hoped to copy at least one photo to share, but copyrights make me nervous...
http://www.tomhussey.com/pdf/
Link to "not" his Wiki page - which at first, seeing the same name I thought it was him/the photographer...but apparently his Dad musta really loved Major League Baseball...or the Red Sox...to give him the same name, or that's my conclusion from very little evidence....

And there are 25 individuals with the same name on Linked In...

I took curious delight in knowing his wife did 'not' take his last name--why oh why would the woman not want to be called A Hussey?! hmmm...curious that...bad enough a man to live that name down during certain times (imagine it's not such a big deal now a days as people have forgotten, unless reminded by Turner Classic Movies am guessing)--but all in all no where near as bad as being a Boy Named Sue right?!

Link to more images/portfolio on Workbook Photos - Tom Hussey...
http://www.workbook.com/portfolios/hussey
(note: #15 saw this photo at the presentation for AAF luncheon, especially like the water in it, how it's captured as much as the guy's face...it is fun, I am a Pisces...which if you didn't know is a Water Sign--such is, I'm guessing, the attraction in the first place...)

http://www.workbook.com/portfolios/hussey
(note: #22 I adore these tiara/animal print wearing/book reading/prob drinking/Southern women--Oh how I would love to be a part of their book club meetings?! For the fun alone--somehow all that comes out in this photo, right?! We were told they do all travel wide & far to attend, hmmm, no surprise there... And they do so remind me of the SweetPotatoQueens--if you've seen those book covers, though I've never read one of their/her books...)

http://www.workbook.com/portfolios/hussey
(note: #72 - here's the almost Norman Rockwell-ish image of boy with razor, boy with lots of tiny pieces of white tissue paper stuck on his face...Tom mentioned the comparison so I'm just repeating--I didn't make that up, just so ya' know...)


http://www.workbook.com/portfolios/hussey
(note: #105 - #114 are the pharma series for the patch, all the old/young reflections...they are marvelous for many a reason, for me one of them is 'not' to buy a patch for Alzheimers?!)

His list of clients
(note: I imagine this is to the date of whenever the Workbook.com Porfolio was done...)

7-11
7UP
American Airlines
AT&T
Beringer Winery
Blockbuster Video
BMW
Boy Scouts of America
Brach's
BusinessWeek Magazine
Cadbury Schwepps
Chase Bank
Coca-Cola
DirecTV
FedEx Kinko's
Frito Lay
General Motors
Greyhound
HBO
Hewlett Packard
Home Depot
Hyatt Hotels
Inc Magazine
Johnson & Johnson
Jose Cuervo
LeapFrog Toys
Levi Strauss
Miller Brewing Company

Link to his Rep in Dallas--what's as much fun to see are the 'other' photog's images...
http://www.michaelginsburg.com/
(note: I'm liking the looks of Montalbetti + Campbell especially in this line up...they do conceptual imagery & portraits...their webpage link... http://www.montalbetticampbell.com/  And I could easily fantasize about them doing my Portrait photo?! They too have a sense of humor--check out their Biking is Believing image under Advertising on their webpage...
http://www.montalbetticampbell.com/#/ADVERTISING/Biking Is Believing/1/ among others--I could imagine myself with a ruffle collar of roses I think...time for bed & ad dreaming time?!)