Brad is a photographer, filmmaker, writer, editor, and communications specialist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He holds a degree in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and he has studied film, theater, and art history at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Major exhibitions have included showings at the Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen and the Centro Cultural Andratx in Mallorca, Spain.
Country: United States
Interests and Hobbies: My children and family, photography, video, movies, documentary, writing, filmmaking, acting, theater, blogging, new media journalism, the real story, painting, walking, cooking, camping, astronomy, renewable energy, The Electric Universe, Morphic Resonance, Singularity, ET, evolution, human rights, environmentalism, life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, etc.
Movies and Shows: The films of, in absolutely no particular order, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Luis Buñuel, Jane Campion, Billy Wilder, Jim Jarmusch, Douglas Sirk, Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Fredrico Fellini, Paul Thomas Anderson, Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson, Fernando Meirelles, Andrei Tarkovsky, Sean Penn, Charlie Chaplin, Julien Duvivier, Joseph Losey, Werner Herzog, Robert Altman, Sergei Eisenstein, Wim Wenders, David Cronenberg, The Coen Brothers, Jules Dassin, Sam Fuller, François Truffaut, Bernardo Bertolucci, Claude Berri, David Fincher, Stephen Frears, John Huston, Howard Hawks, Quentin Tarantino, Otto Preminger, Jean Renoir, Frank Capra, Jean Cocteau, Preston Sturges, Alain Resnais, William Wyler, Grigori Chukhraj, Sam Peckinpah, Majid Majidi, John Schlesinger, Stanley Kubrick, Mike Nichols, Sidney Lumet, Arthur Penn, Víctor Erice, John Boorman, Dziga Vertov, Orson Wells, Pedro Almodóvar, Alfonso Cuarón, Errol Morris, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Jacques Tati, Fritz Lang, Hayao Miyazaki, Spike Lee, Larry Charles, Kihachi Okamoto, Gillo Pontecorvo, Masahiro Shinoda, Michelangelo Antonioni, Terrence Malick, Richard Brooks, Masaki Kobayashi, Edward Dmytryk, Busby Berkeley, Elia Kazan, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Theodore J. Flicker, Steven Soderbergh, Jean-Pierre Melville, Monte Hellman, Yasujiro Ozu, Michael Haneke, Luchino Visconti, Todd Solondz, F.W. Murnau, Marcel Carné, Ki-duk Kim, He Liu, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Vittorio De Sica, Stephen Chow, Robert Rodriguez, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Nicholas Ray, Marc Forster, Alexander Payne, Peter Bogdanovich, David O. Russell, Terry Gilliam, Sergio Leone, Katsuhiro Otomo, John Cassavetes, Ernst Lubitsch, Gene Kelly, Yimou Zhang, Abbas Kiarostami, Gabriele Salvatores, Guy Maddin, Peter Weir, Walter Salles, Michael Polish, Sam Raimi, Vincente Minnelli, Martin Ritt, George Roy Hill, David Lean, Carol Reed, Tony Gatlif, Morgan Spurlock, Hal Ashby, Jafar Panahi, Albert Lamorisse, and Alfred Guzzetti, among many others.
Authors: Cormac McCarthy, Sylvia Plath, Jack Kerouac, John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, Flannery O'connor, Ben Okri, Jean Cocteau, Iris Murdoch, Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda, Lao Tzu, to name just a very few...

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