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I'm around wikipedia only sporadically; if you need to contact me your best bet is to email me.

Wiki vitae:
pix:
wisteria, Hippeastrum, honeysuckle, push printing, angle of view x4, perspective distortion x4, pansy violet, pistachio, almond, Spanish moss, Wandering Jew, shrimp plant, depth of field x5, color temperature, canna lily, kiwifruit, and spiderwort. Also the emphatically mediocre photos at Uxmal and Palenque, taken with a point-and-click camera in Summer 1997 and not the slightest idea of how to take a photo beyond "point, and click," as well as the bad aerial pix of a Los Angeles, California interstate at freeway interchange--which were taken with a camera whose focus ring was slipping, at a non-perpendicular angle through a dual-paned dirty window of a descending plane, and then went through the rather strong X-rays at LAX not once but twice before being developed. All in all, not a good day for the Nikon. I've released all the pix above (good, bad, & mediocre) into the public domain because I think copyright is commonly abused to stifle creativity and/or free expression, both of which I value more than money. Google images likes some of those pictures too.

articles I've contributed to considerably:
Blood Simple (which could use a bit more external information for me to be happy with it: on funding, lenses used, time to get it all in the can etc.) McCabe & Mrs. Miller (cannibalizing the DVD commentary), The Man Who Wasn't There, Sid Davis, Six O'Clock News, Time Indefinite, Henriette Roosenburg, Mark Jonathan Harris, Dziga Vertov, Ingmar Bergman, Joel and Ethan Coen, The Thin Blue Line.

All of my contributions are of course completely open for revision, refactoring, removal, replacement, etc., and if you can improve them then please do so. Chat with me here or use the "email this user" link at left (that works only if you're logged in also and have provided your own email address). :-)

funny links

http://www.spinnwebe.com/a1/?3 (caption your own photos. love the Medusa one)
http://www.redvsblue.com/archive/ (making short films from video games)

cool links

http://www.infinitewheel.com/infinite_wheel.html (dub generator. good mindless fun)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3046791.stm (a sculpture which makes water appear to flow uphill perpetually, a la M. C. Escher)
http://www.kittyspit.net/erik/mp3/linkpage.html (mp3 pages galore)

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-'''warning: you are entering a POV area'''.  I do try to keep my POV out of articles I work on, and decline to edit some articles out of suspicion I wouldn't succeed at being NPOV.  This is my user page though, and here I say what I like.  :-)
+<center>'''''I'm around wikipedia only sporadically; if you need to contact me your best bet is to [[Special:Emailuser/Koyaanis Qatsi|email me]].'''''</center>
 Wiki vitae:<br>
 '''pix''':<br>
-[[wisteria]], [[amaryllis]], [[honeysuckle]], [[push printing]], [[angle of view]] x4, [[perspective distortion]] x4, [[pansy violet]], [[algal bloom]], [[pistachio]], [[almond]], [[Spanish moss]], [[rust]], [[Wandering Jew (plant)|Wandering Jew]], [[shrimp plant]], [[marigold]], [[coleus]], [[depth of field]] x5, [[color temperature]], [[cattail]], [[canna lily]], [[kiwifruit]], [[cumulus]], [[spiderwort]], [[dragonfly]], and [[Moebius strip]].  Also the emphatically mediocre photos at [[Uxmal]] and [[Palenque]], taken with a point-and-click camera in Summer 1997 and not the slightest idea of how to take a photo beyond "point, and click," as well as the bad aerial pix at [[Los Angeles, California]]--which were taken with a camera whose focus ring was slipping, at a non-perpendicular angle through a dual-paned dirty window of a descending plane, and then went through the rather strong X-rays at LAX not once but twice before being developed.  All in all, not a good day for the Nikon.  I've released all the pix above (good, bad, & mediocre) into the [[public domain]] because I think copyright is commonly abused to stifle creativity and/or free expression, both of which I value more than money.  Google images likes some of those pictures too.
+[[wisteria]], [[Hippeastrum]], [[honeysuckle]], [[push printing]], [[angle of view]] x4, [[perspective distortion]] x4, [[pansy violet]], [[pistachio]], [[almond]], [[Spanish moss]], [[Wandering Jew (plant)|Wandering Jew]], [[shrimp plant]], [[depth of field]] x5, [[color temperature]], [[canna lily]], [[kiwifruit]], and [[spiderwort]].  Also the emphatically mediocre photos at [[Uxmal]] and [[Palenque]], taken with a point-and-click camera in Summer 1997 and not the slightest idea of how to take a photo beyond "point, and click," as well as the bad aerial pix of a Los Angeles, California interstate at [[freeway interchange]]--which were taken with a camera whose focus ring was slipping, at a non-perpendicular angle through a dual-paned dirty window of a descending plane, and then went through the rather strong X-rays at LAX not once but twice before being developed.  All in all, not a good day for the Nikon.  I've released all the pix above (good, bad, & mediocre) into the [[public domain]] because I think copyright is commonly abused to stifle creativity and/or free expression, both of which I value more than money.  Google images likes some of those pictures too.
 '''articles I've contributed to considerably''':<br>
-''[[McCabe & Mrs. Miller]]'' (cannibalizing the DVD commentary), ''[[The Man Who Wasn't There]]'', [[Salam Pax]], [[Sid Davis]], ''[[Six O'Clock News]]'', ''[[Time Indefinite]]'', [[Henriette Roosenburg]], [[Mark Jonathan Harris]], [[film noir]], [[Dziga Vertov]], [[color temperature]], [[foley artist]], [[Dave Brubeck]], [[Ingmar Bergman]], [[Joel and Ethan Coen]], [[digital video]], ''[[The Thin Blue Line]]'', and [[Spider-Man]].
+''[[Blood Simple]]'' (which could use a bit more external information for me to be happy with it: on funding, lenses used, time to get it all in the can etc.) ''[[McCabe & Mrs. Miller]]'' (cannibalizing the DVD commentary), ''[[The Man Who Wasn't There]]'', [[Sid Davis]], ''[[Six O'Clock News]]'', ''[[Time Indefinite]]'', [[Henriette Roosenburg]], [[Mark Jonathan Harris]], [[Dziga Vertov]], [[Ingmar Bergman]], [[Joel and Ethan Coen]], ''[[The Thin Blue Line (documentary)|The Thin Blue Line]]''.
 All of my contributions are of course completely open for revision, refactoring, removal, replacement, etc., and if you can improve them then please do so. Chat with me [[user talk:Koyaanis Qatsi|here]] or use the "[http://www.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Emailuser&target=Koyaanis_Qatsi email this user]" link at left (that works only if you're logged in also and have provided your own email address). :-)
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-I lament ''[[Eldred v. Ashcroft]]'':<br>
-An English folk poem, circa 1764:
-:They hang the man and flog the woman
-:That steal the goose from off the common,
-:But let the greater villain loose
-:That steals the common from the goose.
-===watching===
-*''[[The Lady Eve]]'', a classic, but often overlooked
-*''[[Knockaround Guys]]'', I don't know, it got a good review from Ebert and Roeper
-*''[[Yojimbo]]'', [[Akira Kurosawa]]'s affectionate sendup of [[western film]] and [[samurai]] culture
-===listening to===
-*[[Radiohead]] -- ''OK Computer'' -- hellz yeah.
-*[[Radiohead]] -- ''Hail to the Thief'' -- hellz yeah.  Wait, I said that already.
-*[[Kruder & Dorfmeister]], and pining for a beer and a hammock.
-*[[Iron & Wine]] -- ''The Creek Drank the Cradle'' -- picture [[Nick Drake]] crossed with [[Pete Yorn]].
-*[[The Soul Stirrers]] -- especially "Lord, I've Tried" and "Life's Journey" -- it's enough to make a sociopath weep.
-===reading===
-===movies I should watch again for some fun writing===
-*''[[Fanny and Alexander]]''
-*''[[The 400 Blows]]''
-*''[[Man with a Movie Camera]]''
-*''[[Tom Jones (movie)|Tom Jones]]''
-===idea warehouse===
-*Opening shot for a movie: zooming in from off planet, through the atmosphere, to a city, into a city park, coming to a stop on an ECU of a leaf or something, which blows away, or maybe there are bugs on it.  Perfect for a naturalist or existential piece.  It's probably been done before?
-*Premise for a film: ''Pinocchio 2: Revenge of the Donkeys''
-*New camera technology: Why don't cameras measure light and color separately?  Is it possible to set up something more like the human eye, with its rods and cones?
-*''The Ring, pt. 2'': same girl, slightly mollified: the phone rings: "Seven decades"
-*A trickle up theory, which explains why the middle class is vanishing in the U.S. while the lower class is expanding rapidly
-*''Bacon Grease for the Soul'', a collection of sordid and disturbing true stories
-*A mockumentary in the style of an experimental film: e.g. something like ''[[Baraka (movie)|Baraka]]'' but about a fictional subject.
-*''A Nightmare on Elm Street, part 21'': Freddie has been dead for 61 years, and his spirit has developed a case of acute rheumatoid arthritis. After years of seeing himself increasingly unable to dispatch the descendents of the Elm Street lynching mob, he has taken to more philosophical pursuits, and concluded that his endless vengeance is unproductive and shameful. He spends his time canning goods in the kitchen, and uses the gloves to help get the jars onto the top shelf, as standing on tiptoe is painfully impossible. However, when Nancy's grandson proves to have narcolepsy, the temptation is too strong and he goes back to business, albeit inexpertly. Fun for the whole family! Rated PG for severe facial burns which may alarm young children.
 ===funny links===
-('cause I'm angry in general these days, though in unrelated news DRUNKEN FRAT BOY DRIVES COUNTRY INTO DITCH, Starts War to Cover Up)
-*http://www.ruben.fm/format.html (DJ Format video.  27MB .mov file)
-*http://bekow.free.fr/vroom/index_eng.htm (stop motion revisited.  several formats, from 5 to 10 MB)
-*http://www.poundy.com/wwcards.html (horribly misguided recipes)
-*http://www.totalobscurity.com/mind/flagstore/ (nationalism and consumerism, two great tastes that taste great together)
-*http://web.mit.edu/munch/Public/humor/elk (How do I get my dogs out of this elk?)
-*http://www.blackpeopleloveus.com/ (a classic)
 *http://www.spinnwebe.com/a1/?3 (caption your own photos.  love the Medusa one)
-*http://www.redvsblue.com/bloodgulch.shtml (making short films from video games)
+*http://www.redvsblue.com/archive/ (making short films from video games)
 ===cool links===
-*http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/061203A.shtml (Bill Moyers' informative & thought-provoking speech on "the unholy alliance between government and wealth")
-*http://www.freemaninstitute.com/nightearth.htm (Earth at night)
 *http://www.infinitewheel.com/infinite_wheel.html (dub generator.  good mindless fun)
+*http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3046791.stm (a sculpture which makes water appear to flow uphill perpetually, a la [[M. C. Escher]])
-*http://club.pep.ne.jp/~hiroette/en/facemarks/index.html (Japanese emoticons)
-*http://www.naimark.net/projects/zap/howto.html (blinding a surveillance camera with a laser pointer, and how to decipher the image afterwards)
-*http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3046791.stm (a sculpture which makes water appear to flow uphill perpetually, a la [[M.C. Escher]])
 *http://www.kittyspit.net/erik/mp3/linkpage.html (mp3 pages galore)
+[[fr:Utilisateur:Koyaanis Qatsi~frwiki]]
-===useful links===
-*[http://www.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Motion_picture_terminology re: motion picture terminology]
-*[http://www.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Film re: film]
-*[http://www.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=List_of_%27years_in_film%27 re: years in film]
-*[http://www.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Photography re: photography]