2. What are your hobbies outside of photography?
Music. I’ve been focusing a lot on music recently. At the beginning of the year I looked at my schedule and saw that I was going to have a lot of free time so I bought a banjo. I learned how to play the banjo, and I’m always picking up little musical toys and stuff off of eBay. I always wanted to be a rockstar –– and I still can’t work it out of my system.
3. What musical toys have you bought recently?
4. What type of sound do you like to compose?
I just consider it chaos. Some of it would hardly be classified as music, but it’s interesting sound I guess. I think the music industry is going towards interactive music. For example even on guitars you’re pressing certain parts to make different sounds. So imagine MP3s that you can manipulate by your hands to produce different sounds. Then all of a sudden you become the composer of all the music.
5. Where do you make your music?
I have a converted garage studio. My garage has to function as a place to put cars, a place to invite people over and play music, a place to paint and it’s also converted into a dark room. It’s got a lot of character –– I really believe in design and that you can make things for yourself better than somebody in some company somewhere can make for you.
6. What do you love about art?
Yesterday I was teaching Art at Fremont High School, sitting up on a desk and my students were drawing me. I was sitting there in a pose and they were all looking at me and drawing my shoes and head, and I just suddenly said half and hour into the period: “I just want to remind all of you that I’m getting paid for this.” In art, [getting paid to sit still] in some circumstances works.
7. Do you ever plan on focusing on art and music as a career?
