davo
male, 47 |
cinematographer / photographer
new york / l.a. /e.u. / usa
member since 01.08.2004
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welcome to my flork page. my name is davo here and i have been a member for a while at this site. anyway if you would like to talk about films,actors,music,photography or the you're latest read then send me a message. i've been the film business now for a number of years working on major studio flick's to the indie field. but long before that i worked as a photojournalist for the ap, new york times, washington post, magnum and afterwards as a network camera man. while i'm away from working as a camera operator during the off season in hollywood i'll turn around and pick up work as a fashion photographer and do a bit of stock photography.
the link between art and life is a given, but it's configuration can vary. the connection may be roundabout and hidden, or direct and fully exposed....to me life is about beauty, humanity, literature, art...music, film, paintings etc...life would not be worth living without it. dear g-d how we need more of it in a world gone mad....with war, hatred and greed.....where anything of quality is no longer valued ....we live in a disposable world where the public craves instant gratification.....where manners are obsolete.....and where we human beings have become expendable numbers thrown into some public or private data base. yes, I can shed a tear or two at a good flic or at hearing mahler's nineth..even at seeing a baby's smile........let us try sharing some kindness with one another....may we consider cultivating love and understanding....generating compassion to all around you. the oneness all of us share with each other and with the cosmos.... as the navajo indians say: walk in beauty...... this page is dedicate to: henri cartier-bresson. you henri will always live on in the hearts of photographers world wide. la france and humanity has lost a great son......may the heavens open her arms to you and to all like you who's concern was the plight of the human race. you opened our eyes to the beauty of life and what it could be......with your photographs......with hope and that dream in our hearts....we go on. and to you conrad hall who took me under your wings as i was fresh out of film school....all bright eyed and full of dreams.....you taught me how to tell a story with pictures...and how to empart emotions with a single beam of light.....evoke thought with colors. finally how could i forget the many great's of the cinema charlie chaplin, harry langdon,greta garbo, buster keaton, max linder w.c. field, martha mansfield, billy wilder, fritz lang, harold lloyd, louise brooks, the marx brothers laurel and hardy, max ophuls, stanley kubrick, irwin allen, jonathan harris, guy williams, the hollywood ten, orson wells, dolores hart, robert altman, bette davis, hanna and barbera, lorraine hunt lieberson mezzo soprano, luciano pavarotti tenor, calvin and hobbs, glen gould, gustav mahler, henry purcell, john coaltrain,sonny rollins, martin luther king, malcome x, john brown, stitting bull, the dali lama and to my parents.......who made it all worth while........
my heart and soul will remember.....always.
Music: baroque,classical, opera, the second viennese school, jazz, rag time, dixieland jazz, rock, new wave, beatles, basa nova, elo and bob dylan
Hobbies: collecting movie's, photographs, stamps, coins, world history, politcal science, sociology, horse back riding, cooking, museums, art gallery's, rock climbing, skin diving, bike riding, akido, calvin and hobbs.
Food: american,italian, french, german, spanish, polish, mexican, chinese, indian, nepalese, japanese, russian, finnish, tibetan and thai cuisine
Painters: claude monet, jackson pollock, vermeer, titian, renoir, edvard munch, fransico goya, edgar degas, botticelli, da vinci, bellini, picasso, van gogh,charles demuth
Sculptors: daniel edwards, bela lyon prat, alexander calder, robert bail, art belvins, giorgio varsi, jean arp, anish kapoor, isamu noguchi, amedeo modigliani
Philosophy: buddhism, confucianism, taoism, mohism, logicians, daoist, japanese aesthetics. idealism, pragmatism, zoroastrianism, medievalism
Celluloid: departed, scareface, a bronx tale, 2001, eyes wide shut, platoon, hoffa, blow, raging bull, to kill a mocking bird, angels with dirty faces, godfather, citizen kane, all about eve, african queen, anne hall, ben hur, the best years of our lifes, the big sleep, bride of frankenstein, broken blossoms, casablanca, bringing up baby, chinatown, city lights, the crowd, duck soup, easy rider, 42nd street, the general, the gold rush. gone with the wind, greed, high noon, the flying duces, dr. jekyll and mr. hyde (1920), a ghost in the house, king kong, jaws, the lady eve, modern times, mr. smith goes to washington, a night at the opera, ninotchka, on the water front, kelly's hero's, out of the past, paths of glory, rear window, roman holiday, shane, some like it hot, an american in paris, a star is born, sunrise, sunset boulevard, taxi, the third man, twilight zone: the movie, top hat, touch of evil, vertigo, west side story, the wild bunch, the wizard of oz, yankee doodle dandy, the apartment, badlands, the bank dick, laura, it's a gift, the big heat, brazil, camille, the cat people, frakenstein, cool hand luke, fargo, gun crazy, goodfellas, the awful truth
Literature, essays, writings: p. neruda, vonneget, d.c. fontana, orwell, h.g.wells, sartre, simone de beauvior, marx, descartes, husserl,plato, malcome x, socrates,homer, sir thomas more,aesop, heidegger, thomas mann, sir john davies, edward de vere, thomas kyd, john fox, ceaser augustus, ruckert, umberto eco, primo levi, kant, goethe, t.s. elliott, emerson, carl jung, sigmund freud, james thurber, amy lowell, ann sexten, ama aidoo, pearl s. buck, fanny fern, seiko yoshinaga, wang anyi
P.S. you can find me at the black pussy cat cafe anytime..........
P.P.P.S. " the american dream.....you have to be asleep to believe it"
~george carlin
none are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free
~goethe
lamenting......tower records....and cbgb's
~davo
"everything is inevitable and proceeds to an unchangeable pattern. when you know enough about any situation it's future is entirely predictable"
~davo
just a simple statement of fact: for civilization to survive the human race has to remain civilized
~rod serling
it's part and parcel of the whole corporate encroachment on every aspect of our daily lives. i mean, it's hard to hear music and eat food or buy anything that's brought to you by some enormous multinational entity.
~ani difranco
when deeds speak, words are nothing
~african proverb
let them talk, let them talk
~stanely kubrick
action is eloquence
~will shakespear
all know the way; but few actually walk it.
~the bodhidharma
don't find fault. find a remedy
~henry ford
the cinema was born with neo-realism
~giuseppe bertolucci
he never knew what hit him (harry langdon)
~robert capra
you talking to me?
~taxi
rosebud
~citizen kane
it certainly made a film writing career for me
~buck henry
i have an old brain but a terrific memory
~al lewis
well done is better than well said
~ben franklin
banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies
~thomas jefferson
the shortest answer is doing
~lord herbert
painting is just another way of keeping a diary
~pablo picasso
love is so short, forgetting so long
~pablo neruda
to retire is to die
~pablo casals
i'm gonna be something one of these days
~patsy cline
people don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about god
~kurt vonnegut
educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine swiss watch: everything stops
~kurt vonnegut
how embarassing to be human
~kurt vonnegut
i will prepare and some day my chance will come
~abraham lincoln
he has the right to criticize, who has the heart to help
~abraham lincoln
i am free of all prejudice. i hate everyone
~w.c. fields
i am at two with nature
~woody allen
freedom lies in being bold
~robert frost
the purpose of life is to be happy
~the dali lama
the report of my death was an exaggeration
~mark twain
words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind
~rudyard kipling
the secret of happiness is to admire without desiring
~carl sandburg
love all, trust a few. do wrong to none
~shakespeare
wars never hurt anybody except the people that die
~salvador dali
our patience will achieve more than our force
~edmund burke
i wish they would take me as i am
~vincent van gogh
singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. it is so spontaneous. and after singing, i think the violin. since i cannot sing, i paint.
~georgia o'keeffe
to give an accurate description of what never happen is the proper occupation of the historain
~orson wells
keep turner and his damn crayons away from "cititzen kane"!
~orson wells
beauty has to do with proportions and harmony. real beauty has to do with the harmony in you, how you communicate beyond word's.
~davo
races? only one race the human race. united we stand, divided we fall.
~davo
i die the kings servant, but god's first
~sir thomas more
if honour were profitable, everyone would be honorable
~sir thomas more
you are what you know
and what you do with what you know.
~davo
this became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve yor work
~bette davis
to love and be loved is to feel the sun on both sides
~david viscott
acting is bigger than life. scripts should be bigger than life. it should be all bigger than life.
~bette davis
old age is no place for sisies
~bette davis
hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but i fought for realism
~bette davis
"wanna see something really scary"!
~twilight zone: the movie
start off each day with a song.........
~ jimmy
made for my arms
made for my kisses,
made for my soul.
~neruda
if you call yourself common, it is to know that you are alive and have no falseness about you.
~sartre
hell is other people ~sartre
beware of the man of one book
~saint thomas aguinas
a little wonton money and it burned out his purse
~sir thomas more
for if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be currupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education diposed of them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make theives and then punish them.
~sir thomas more
art is like a fruit that grows in a man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in his mother's womb
~jean arp
we have only one political party in the u.s. , and that is the property party, which has two right wings
~noam chomsky
the first to reason by analogy was the devil
~ the koran
"i'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is rapidly losing it's understanding of being human"
~john trudell |
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