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'Floating Lei' Randall by Mike Tossy
-Check out more of Randall by Grantham & Tossy below-
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Brett Gleason: Destruction
Above: Single cover for 'Destruction' by Brett Lindell It's not likely you will ever hear Brett Gleason's music while standing in an elevator...and that's a good think. Brett doesn't make background music, his songs are loud, provocative and make force you to pay attention. His new single Destruction was released this week and I think it might be my favorite of the songs I have listened to off his upcoming release The Thawing.
Below: Brett by Nephi Niven
'Building on my philosophy that a song can be both bruising and vulnerable, abrasive yet beautiful, these new songs draw more from my classical piano background while still inhabiting lush, electronic soundscapes both haunting and hypnotic.'
Brett Gleason
Destruction, available now on iTunes is the first single from Brett's upcoming sophomore EP, The Thawing- now streaming on BandCamp where pre-orders are being taken for the 3-20 release.
Randall by Mike Tossy & Mark Grantham
It is always interesting to see how a subject is captured through the eye of different artists. We all see things slightly different and it is fascinating to see the slight, and not so slight, differences in how two or more artists choose to capture it. In my second outing of Perspective with Mark Grantham and Mike Tossy, the photographers, not surprisingly, are travelling, this time in Hawaii.
Mark and Mike met Randall on a beach in Maui. Mark says he is a bit of wimp when it comes to walking up to great looking guys and asking if they might be interested in modeling, he says Mike is the braver one of the two for that task. After Mike talked with Randall they all met up the next morning at the beach to shoot. Randall obviously enjoyed the experience as they followed up a day later with a couple of other locations on the island, including a giant bamboo grove and an abandoned mill.
Although many photographers would have been quite satisfied shooting a hot guy on a beautiful beach in Maui. It is no surprise to me though that Mark and Mike followed the beach up with the bamboo grove and abandoned mill. In every shoot, whether at home in Santa Cruz or traveling the globe, the architectural blending of model with environment is always beautifully manifested within Mark and Mike's images. Their use of lines with body and bamboo and having Randall not just laying on sand, but apart of it, is one of the reasons the work of Mike Tossy and Mark Grantham always captivates and impresses me.
Randall by Mark Grantham
Dominic West in The Awakening (2011)
One of my favorite actors, Dominic West in 2011 thriller, The Awakening.
Thanks to Braxnis for the caps
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