Art That's Inspiring Me (Belated Monday Post)

Hello all! Sorry about the delay in this post! I wasn't well yesterday, so I didn't get the chance to update. Here is the second installment of "Art That's Inspiring Me"! Hope you enjoy it!
- Kay
1. Kehinde Wiley & Joshua Davis (Featured in Juxtapoz from January of 2010)

Santos Dumont- The Father of Aviation1 (The World Stage: Brazil)
By Kehinde Wiley, 60"x72" Oil on Canvas
Juxtapoz, January 2010 Cover

The Seal of Solomon
Joshua Davis

Omega Code 06, 2008
Joshua Davis

My Resume

Katherine “Kay” Paris 

Cell# 404.725.4203   Email: kayparisfilm@gmail.com   Website: http://kayparisfilm.blogspot.com

Film Work:

Paramount Pictures "Justin Bieber: Never Say Never"

Production Assistant (2011 Behind the Scenes Featurette)

oversaw the b-roll shoot at Atlanta Premier for the Production Coordinator,

organized/shipped releases and footage to production office in LA

Atlanta Business Video Freelance Editor (Jan-Feb 2011)

large and fastpaced editing project in conjunction with 9 other editors, solved technical problems

Desert Wind Films "Brother's Keeper"/"Fishers of Men"

Office Production Assistant (2012 Feature)

worked closely with Production Coordinator, UPM, Producers, and Executive Producer,

facilitated communication between set and office, delivered important documents to and from set,

office tasks, assembled sides and scripts, assisted craft service and transportation crew

Villain Pictures"Life.Less" Co-Editor (2011 Feature)

captured/logged footage, organized/catalogued 4TB of HD video, completed scenes on schedule,

provided multiple options for director, exported footage for sound designer/color correction

Trailer/Press Kit Editor (2010)

"Fly Away" by John Jay, Set Production Assistant (2010 Music Video)

Lisa Marie Miller Photography "Coming Clean"

Editor (2011 Experimental Animation for Art Installation)

created a stop motion animation for exhibition, assisted at gallery during installation

"When I Grow Up" Additional Editor (2011 Experimental Short)

Radiant3 Freelance Transcribing (Spring 2010)

Transcribed interviews with AT&T spokesperson for use by editors

Riot Atlanta Intern (Winter 2008)

Additional Work History:

Chocolate Coffee (Summer 2011) Barista

Fellini's Pizza (Fall-Winter 2009/2010) Waitress/Cashier

Private Afterschool Childcare Provider (2009/2010 School Year) 

PAWS Atlanta Volunteer

Computer Skills:

Final Cut Pro 7, Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator, EP Budgeting & Scheduling,

AVID Media Composer/Adreneline/Symphony Nitris, Unity Systems

Education

Savannah College of Art and Design 2008

BFA Film and Television Production (Specialized in Post Production)

completed Advanced Post Production Techniques and Aesthetics of Editing classes, edited a senior thesis film,

excelled in Shakespeare and Poetry Writing Classes

SCAD Rising Star 2004 (summer program for high school seniors to earn college credit)

Intro to Graphic Design and Intro to Video Production

St. Pius X Catholic High School 2005

President of Art Association (2003-2005), Novice Debate Champion (Thomas County Central HS competition 2002), took highly selective advanced placement classes for college credit (World History, US History, Biology, Drawing/Painting) 

Art that's Inspiring Me (& Some Paintings of My Own)

ART THAT'S INSPIRING ME TODAY: 

Here are some artists whose work has impressed, inspired, and fascinated me. I hope you guys enjoy it half as much as I do! I'm going to try and make a post in this vein every Monday in an effort to discover new and beautiful work and keep expanding my "bank" of creative influences. I may even interview a few of my artist friends / take videos or photos of their works for the blog! If you'd be interested in that, please write it in the comments!

Le Gun 3 (circa 2006)

from the collection of William Bragg

This is an art magazine from London. Here's a few images that I found particularly interesting...

Nahoshi Tanaka

Jonathan Aldous, from Cat and Mutton 

Robert Greene

Leigh Fox

SOME ART OF MY OWN:

Fish Face, 2005

Manimal, 2005

Nile River : Post Plague, 2010

Jetstream, 2010

Pepto Bismol Explosion

Hope you all enjoy, and I look forward to reading your comments! Take care, Everyone! 

- Kay Paris

End of Summer Reading List

1. Medical Muses : Hysteria in Nineteenth Century Paris
So I have been addicted to reading non-fiction books about medicine for quite a while. It all started about 6 years ago when I read the book "Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers". Ever since I have read about 20 books in a similar vein. Here's the one I'm currently reading...

 

So far, it's really interesting, though not so much as Mary Roach's books, which somehow meld science and comedy together in way that makes her books impossible for me to put down. In the future I would love to see her first book "Stiff" made into a film, though the logistics of that might be a nightmare, as would be getting american audiences to sit through a 2 hour movie about dead bodies and be able to appreciate the humor that worked so well in the book without seeing it as disrespectful. At any rate, this book is interesting, educational, and well-written, if not a little dry. 

2. Pox : An American History

I heard about this book on NPR and I'm so excited to get to reading it. Right now I'm still getting through Medical Muses, so I haven't even picked it up yet. My mom, however, grabbed it and is nose deep in it as we speak. She's loving it so far... I'm only hoping I find it as interesting as she does!

3. Eating the Dinosaur

It's so hipster of me to rave about Chuck Klosterman, but I just can't help myself. I can honestly say that I am a huge fan of his writing. "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs" is probably in my top 5 favorite books of all time, and I'm hoping that this one will give it a run for it's money. 

 

I may be a nerd, but I'm having a good time with my new books and hopefully I can reading them again in the future, because they were not cheap (Either that or I have holiday gifts for friends and family already). Is it considered re gifting if they were a gift to myself?

Why I'm Here...

Firstly, I want to start out by saying that I am not deluded enough to think that people need to know what I am doing or thinking about at every moment of the day. I don't have a twitter account, and I don't check/update my facebook everyday (or every week for that matter!). However, I think that this is going to be a fun undertaking. I got the idea from my friend Ebby (from EvelynBlogs). I was thinking about starting a professional website for myself so possible employers could view my resume and editor's reel online. Ebby, in a moment of brilliance told me that a viable second option would be to start a blog, where I could post the same information and also give possible employers a chance to get to know a little about me and my personality. For me, this idea really struck a chord. I feel that sometimes professional websites become somewhat impersonal. In addition, I don't have the money to hire a talented web designer to create the type of site that would impress possible employers, and it's been more than a couple years since I learned to use dreamweaver at college. Therefore, I decided to take her advice and start this blog in the hopes of giving anyone who might stumble on this a chance to see my work (both film and otherwise) and learn a little about what makes me tick. In addition, I intend to post about artists who inspire me, books, movies, beauty, fashion, and other random things that people might find interesting.