New Direction, new goals and plans for 2010

I will always be doing my art and creative projects, it is my heart, my love and dedication. I have been doing much research over the past few months in areas that I have been quiet about until recent.

I have been researching mindsets, behaviors, successful individuals, techniques, belief structure and much more. I have been brainstorming beyond anything I have done my entire life.

Every few months I try to evolve my work to another level. Now I am taking that same mentality and applying it to the aspect of self betterment, for my personality, mental health, well being, communication with others and my craft. I am working on plans within plans, goals within goals.

I will be working to help others better their work and find ways they can improve in their own ways and find resources for their work, projects and even relationships. It’s all about staying positive and keeping personal goals in mind.

From my research and reading, i found that a majority of people never trully put together a goal plan for themselves and even less stick with it. The very action of waking up in the morning and being thankful and focusing on some aspect towards your goals can do so much. People tend to stick in survival mode and do things in a complacent mindset, even when they constantly complain, many do nothing to get themselves out of or away from the situation that makes them miserable.

I will be working on new art and symbolism in 2010. I will still be doing my fantasy art and fun photoshoots, but I will also be working on symbolic pieces. This will not be an easy task, but it will be worth it. I am going to find a way to create new symbolism from new and old ideas and provoke thought. It is important to do more than just exist, if one is to be happy, they must live. Live life to love life.

On that note, I will get back to work creating and researching. I have made an oath to myself to be a lifelong learner and I plan to keep true to that path.

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Attention models/actors in Oklahoma and California. Are you interested in working on projects in 2010?

Many of you know i do several events each year through my photography, promotions and such. Some are body painting, other fashion shows, spokemodels for clients at tradeshows etc. I am working with talent agents and other businesses now as well. If you are interested in working with me this year please let me know either here or by email.

I will be having interested models fill out questionnaires as well so I can know more about each person and find jobs that specifically fit each candidate.

some work is trade and some is paid, I will specify for each project.

Here are some base questions in advance:

1. ) Why do you want to model?

2. ) What can you bring to the table?

3. ) Are you reliable? Why or why not?

4.) What kind of experience do you have?

5. ) do you have a portfolio of your work?

6. ) what are areas you wish to improve on?

7. ) do you prefer studio settings, outdoors, events, promotion, several or all?

8. ) Where do you see yourself in your profession or hobby in 5 years and in 10 years?

9.) if you have previous experience, what was your favorite or most memorable job and why?

10.) When you have differences with a models, professional or client, do you act professional or let your emotions get the best of you? How do you deal with situations that upset you?

11.) Are you willing to work with models that you may not get along with?

12.) What is your favorite genre: R&B, Couture, Fashion, Sports, Nightclub, Spokesmodel, Swimwear, etc.? What do you prefer? What looks best in your portfolio?

These are some general questions that can help me, help you find work as well as some of the clients I work with. You can email me privately, but know responding here, several of the people I work with will see your responses and you will be able to find work not only through me but other photographers, modeling agents, etc. I will also be posting this note on some of my other forums.

Thank you in advance for your interest. 2010 is going to be an awesome year.

Sincerely,
Bryan Crump

http://www.bryancrump.com

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Create Bubbles with Relections in Photoshop



Create Bubbles with Relections in Photoshop

Originally uploaded by bryancrump


Here is a image tutorial I create to help people learn to create bubble with reflections.

1. Copy a square image section from an image in which you desire to make into a reflection.
2. create a new image and paste the square image into it.
3. using the filters, go into distort and select polar coordinates, make sure you select rectangular to polar and click okay.
You will notice your image is distorted to a circular shape. you can make more of a bubble bulge by going back into distort and selecting spherize.
4. Duplicate this distorted image on a new layer.
5. make the background layer, solid black or grey, so you can see the next step as you work on the bubble.
6. using the layer mask tool, paint a transparency into the distorted image, making see through areas for your bubble.
7. create a new layer and paint your light reflections and highlights on the bubble to create dimension.
8. Merge all the laters except the background. you want to keep your transparency and if you merge everything you will lose it.
9. Delete the background image and save your bubble image with a transparent background.
10. Now you can copy and past or input your bubble into whatever image you are working on that you want to add bubbles with reflections.

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial and it helps you to create new and fun work.

Sincerely,
Bryan Crump

Rex The Orange Guy Breathing Fire



Rex The Orange Guy Breathing Fire

Originally uploaded by bryancrump


Rai and her lovely Hat



Rai and her lovely Hat

Originally uploaded by bryancrump


Roya and the Golden Dragon



Roya and the Golden Dragon

Originally uploaded by bryancrump


Body Painting done at Psychopomp in Oklahoma City. The editing style is Another step towards my Hyper Realistic technique aka The Crump Effect!!!

Lovely time with the flu

the past several days i have had the flu, so i have been in bed and not been able to get much work done,edit pictures or do much of anything. I don’t currently have insurance aside from some coverage at the VA but given that they overmedicated me several years ago and other is know have not had the best of luck i really prefer not to go to them.  I did go the other night to the VA  Emergency room after having a temperature of 103.8  I took a cold bath that brought my temp down along with some tylenol but when i temp started going back up, I decided to do something about it. Low and behold I get to the VA and they tell me “they can’t test me for swine flu unless I am a pregnant woman or an admitted patient because the CDC does not want people freaking out because everyone is going to get the swine flu eventually” anyways, so i was given some antibiotics and a pat on the back.

I have occasionally been able to get up for a few minutes at a time from being stuck in bed the past few days and check emails and such. Still feverish, feeling awful and in a lot of pain, but I am sure that there are people that have is worse off.

I just know after what i have been through the past week, I have lost a lot of faith in our healthcare system.  Tomorrow I have another doctors appointment in the morning, so we will see what becomes of that.

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A corset at sunset

A corset at sunset

Originally uploaded by bryancrump

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Nespresso Sculpture by Bryan Crump and Sande Sisneros

Sande Sisneros and Bryan Crump created this Nespresso Art Installation piece purely from Espresso shot canisters full to the brim of flavor and artA Nespresso Art installation piece by Bryan Crump and Sande Sisneros, art created from expresso at the Art Lofts of Lancaster, CA

Nespresso Sculpture by Bryan Crump and Sande Sisneros

Originally uploaded by bryancrump

A new type of art that I have not done before. Sandy Sisneros and Bryan Crump (myself). worked on this abstract installation art for the Art Lofts of Lancaster first art show.

The entire piece is composed of Expresso shots from Nespresso. Each color is a different flavor and shot of EXPRESSO. So in some ways, it is art that can wake you up.

Special thanks to Amanda Gattenby Johnson, Nicole and Jason Moan and of course the Art Lofts, owners and builders.

I hope everyone likes this piece. It got quite a bit of attention at the show.

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Rue and the Flying Kitty

Rue and the Flying Kitty

Originally uploaded by bryancrump

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