GLOBE CIRCLING MASTER ADVENTURE TRAVEL ARTIST, PHOTOGRAPHER, WRITER, ZEN SENSEI, SEEKS DARING INTERNS: ?IF YOUR LIFE BORES YOU, RISK IT?
Harvey Lloyd, top million and a half mile adventure travel artist, master photographer, writer, aerial photography specialist, iconoclast and poet (harveylloyd.com) seeks the best, brightest, creative, energetic, dedicated self-starters as interns, assistants, or apprentices in his atelier. Apply if you have a ?fire in your hair? passion for art, photography, science, technology, endless curiosity, study the university of the Internet, and have an insatiable desire to see and witness the world. You will dare anything to become a ?tenth degree black belt? rebellious, sensitive, madly creative, out of the box artist. You will work like hell to know and master the exponentially expanding artist?s ?paintbox? ?the magic, empowering art and techniques of digital photography and digital software .In short, you are one of the best and the brightest!
Artist-photographer Harvey Lloyd runs a creative, no holds barred, damned to hell with all pedagogic rules, aging mind sets, political correctness and restraints?a fire in the belly, freedom loving chaotic studio. We work and create passionately, recklessly, intuitively and sensitively to shatter boundaries, cliches and limits of any and all of the arts and sciences that explore and deal with vision and images. We live, love and breathe the magic and empowerment of the stupendous, game changing digital revolution in the arts, work, practice and play 7/24 to explore and exceed the limits of creativity and freedom. We are the future!
These shattered melodies that dance digitally and pulsate palpably in (Lloyd?s)’BREAKING THE LIGHT?’ images test the strange and tenuous relationship between sight and perception, between the intuition and the intellect.
?ABIGAIL CRISPIN
The digital age voraciously demands new blood, new minds, new eyes, passion, tenacity, boldness, reckless courage and the greatest audacity. Fear of failure is the opiate of unenlightened pedants, bean counters and the drugged orthodoxy of mass cultures. Please be sure to read every line of this revolutionary, iconoclastic and fearless manifesto, and e-mail your answer as requested below.
I erect myself at the exact point where knowledge meets madness and I erect no safety rail.
Digital photography benevolently bestows on us the virtually unknown and limitless child born of quantum perplexity, chance?the serendipity of the unexpected? and the holographic nature of light and light?s universe. Digital images emerge as infants, pure information, the beginning of magic, a new life giving a new profound, passionate potential, a quantum leap to the stars from the archaic limitations of celluloid film. The power of digital technology, cameras and software gives every daring artist the power of limitless information in the service of imagination, a becoming filled with the DNA and fires of an unborn child, an newborn child, a gargantua in the making, evolution taking a giant step to knowing herself, the reckless, fierce and holy scriptures of new art. We shout huzzahs to sculptor David Smith brash words, ?An arrogant independence to create is my only motivation ?
Digital photography is a quantum leap from the discipline of film photography which was limited to ?real? images. What you saw is what you got. Digital, like quantum physics deals with light?s universe, indeterminacy. It is a cloud that exists only in the form of unlimited information . This astonishing, exponentially expanding medium challenges us to learn to explore and see the many masks and faces of the world and of the universe?to see ?what isn?t there.?
You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day as though a fire were raging in your hair.
?The Zen Way to the Martial Arts
This revolutionary manifesto calls and challenges those happy few who have the fire in their hair, and the passion, courage, tenacity and will to triumph over all obstacles. In the immortal words of heroic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton in his ad for an Antarctic exploration adventure, ?Safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition in event of success.? Join us if you dare; set sail on the unexplored and tempestuous seas of Lloyd?s way, ?The Zen of Fluid Motion Digital Photography? and the seas of endless discontent to ?sail beyond the baths of distant stars.?
See Lloyd?s new books, FIRE IN MY HAIR, Reinventing the Art of Photography in the Digital Age; and VOICES FROM THE FUTURE, Young People Speak About Their Lives, Art and Photography (your voices ) and THE SAMURAI WAY, Spiritual Adventures with a Warrior Photographer. On the website, Lloyd?s abstract BREAKING THE LIGHT digital images display the mysteries of light?s invisible spectrums and wildly chaotic patterns. Each of these digital camera single exposure images predict and map a digital future unknown, inscrutable and unseen until now. Lloyd?s work shatters the conventions of two hundred years of traditional photography. His abstract digital camera paintings proclaim a revolutionary new direction and a long overdue historic turning point for the art of photography.
Jack Kerouac shouted, The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes ‘Awww ‘
Learn the secrets of the greatest mystery?how to live and work at a totally creative, freedom loving and paid for artist?s way of life and profession in the real world?and never get bored, quit, retire, slow down or stop creating. The power of digital technology frees an artist in the great French ?Art Brute? painter Dubuffet?s words, ?to re-invent the world every day.?
Lloyd has over forty years behind the lens making adventure travel, aerial, journalistic, abstract expressionist images, documentary films, and multi-screen, multi-media shows worldwide. He has eleven published picture books to his credit among which are THE SAMURAI WAY, Spiritual Adventures with a Warrior Photographer; THROUGH MY EYES, The Remarkable Children of Senegal; SACRED LANDS OF THE SOUTHWEST: aerial photography of Arizona, Utah and New Mexico; AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY, the first book on how to do this art;. Books, DVD sound & light shows and installations in progress and finished include YELLOWSTONE: The Devil?s Volcano; FOUR SEASONS OF HENRY MOORE at the New York Botanical Garden; ULTIMATE ROSES: The Erotic Inner Life of Roses; THE DEAD SEA: Aerial Photographs of Mysterious Rainbows In the Desert. His one man exhibition and video installation BREAKING THE LIGHT and THE FIRE BELOW opens at the Pennington Gallery in Soho, Spring 2010.
Light is more fundamental than space and time…There is no medium for light in the physical world because light is not in the physical world. The physical world is in light. Light is visual consciousness itself.
?SAMUEL AVERY, Transcendence of the Western Mind;
Physics, Metaphysics and Life on Earth
Lloyd hangs out of helicopters over seven continents and seven seas He went around the world from Antarctica to Alaska, and from JFK to Istanbul, Monaco, Cairo, Jordan, Dubai, Delhi, Thailand, Maylasia and Singapore in 2009 along with Israel, the American Southwest and the Maine islands. His chaotic, creative, anything goes, multi-award winning, inventive, idol smashing studio is a rare bird in the fierce wars of the business worlds of art and photography. You will learn professional and business practices from his aggressively polite forty plus years of business, public relations and marketing skills?getting published in media, writing proposals for picture books and getting them published, creating installations, multi-screen and documentary projects, securing paid assignments to exotic destinations around the world?to gaining media coverage, negotiating, budgeting, billing and employing winning business strategy. Like Patton and DeGaulle, our war cry is L?audace, l?audace, toujours l?audace
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The great guru and sensei, the raptor of the Empyrean heights once said, ?Expect Nothing, You are the universe.? Every human being is the potent smoldering volcano of evolution?s billions of years emerging, Gaea, the Earth Mother?s prodigious children, now in this age of technological and digital miracles, at childhood?s end. And yet, it is only the child within us that is endlessly fecund, that eternally echoes Kazantzakis the Greek Author?s words, ?life is an unceasing creation, a leap upward, a vital outburst, an elan vital,
IMPORTANT: Please see, read or get the book THE SAMURAI WAY: Spiritual Journeys With A Warrior Photographer by Lloyd.. Visit the studio website harveylloyd.com. Send an e-mail to with your comments on the website and the imagery. Your perception and understanding of the images, essays and books will influence the process of selection. Please send no attachments to your e-mails.. Paste your comments and resume on the e-mail letter.
Our billions years old spinning planet displays hushed dawns and blazing sunsets, cloudscapes to parade across the blue sky, rushing rivers, mountain crags and surf tossed ocean shores which conspire to create vast panoramas of peace, magic and magnificence. In the American Southwest, a unique place of gigantic forces, red rock canyons and stone parks glows a mile and half in the air on the Colorado Plateau and nowhere else. We seek beauty as we seek love, with our hearts and our reckless passions. Beauty is a lady, a lady who must be courted with care; she is disarming, dangerous and hold?s Pandora?s Box in her bosom. The earth is more than beautiful and she will rise when she wills, carbon footprints or global warming a small issue to a five billion year old world. She long ago came to peace with plate tectonics, gigantic vulcanism, boiling seas, exploding asteroids and the nuclear winters that caused extinctions.
We humans live, love and create here to admire her, and to get over the idea that we are gods that rule an unruly planet or that we frail beings can change the earth; She will change, when, and only when and if she wishes. To admire the Earth Mother is to be praised by the gods who first make mad those who would rule her with the arrogance of hubris. The eloquence of nature like the elegance of great music passes beyond words, beyond thoughts, beyond the enigma of the human brain which in its mysterious workings and complexity surpasses any creation in the known universe. We are here because evolution, Earth’s daughter wanted us here. Huxley wrote, “Mankind is evolution’s way of knowing herself.” Gaea, the Earth Mother, carries within her capacious bosom the nearly infinite molecular biology and genetic wisdom of five billion years.
What do you, a child of Gaea?s longing, desire to accomplish? ?a limitless, startling and fresh vision and perception of yourself and the world?a new found unshakable belief in your own talents and abilities; indefatigable intellectual growth, constant joy and achievement; a profound capacity to unravel the world?s mysteries by insight, intuition, no-mind and instinct; immense self-knowledge and confidence; inspiration, jubilation; the energy to seek, to grow and to find your own bliss; a never ending and exuberant desire to celebrate the wonder, enchantment and beauty of life on earth?In Tennyson?s words from Ulysses, ?To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths of all the western stars, until I die.?
CREDO: One of the fundamental principles of the samurai code of Bushido is that in your own mind, you are already dead; there is nothing you have to fear. An artist should live and feel the same way. You are not attempting to exist in any state other than living and creating your art. You are not afraid to die unheralded and unknown as far as recognition of you or your work by the popular world. What others think is of no concern. You create your art with the blind devotion of prophets and angels, come what may. The only thing that matters is the passionate and overwhelming inner aesthetic that drives you on, that makes you feel that this is what I want to do, this is what I believe, this is what I’m going to discover, this is what I’m going to explore; this is mine, my own blazing, future. I don’t care how dangerous it is. I don’t care how enigmatic it is. I must go into invisible chaos of becoming, into the wild and free frontiers beyond what I’ve ever done before. I may and I will go beyond the barriers of what most people see or understand at this time. That is the Zen warrior?s and the artist?s code, ?the absolute will to die? as I have translated it in my own terms in my books THE SAMURAI WAY and FIRE IN MY HAIR. ?Harvey Lloyd
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