So far i have things going back as far as 2006 or so I believe, maybe longer and I will be uploading old journal entries, notes and sketches as I find them as well. So when you visit my website, don’t just look at now and the future. There is a world of the past to discover as well. Enjoy and have fun.

From now until the end of November, Early December, I will be doing a series of projects turning people into birds with my makeup and bodypainting. I need volunteers from the Oklahoma City and surrounding areas.

If you would like to be considered and are available and interested please let me know. I am looking to work with hair stylists and costumers as well on this project. So please let me know if you would like to participate.

*** I need people both young and old. I will be working with wardrobe and costumes, so the more conservative people can work with me on this project.

• All models must be willing to sign model releases and have at least two forms of ID.
• If you are younger than 18 you must be accompanied by parent or gaurdian and have them sign your model release

I have a few of my favorite hair salons around town, so I want to leave this open to working with several people so I don’t brew any bad blood.

Anyone that helps will receive credit and for any of the good but unused images, I am contemplating donating them as stock art on a few sites so others can turn them into art and collages. The beauty of stock is that I can require if used that they give everyone involved credit as well.

So hair, wardrobe and jewelry would be nice as well. I have some big ideas for this project. Know any jewelers or jewelry makers that would let us use their product?

If you could identify with any kind of bird what would it be? or to put it another way, if you were a bird, what kind of bird do you think you would be?

Please email me bryan (at) bryancrump.com with the Subject being: “Oklahoma Call for Models : Bird Series”

with your most recent pictures. A good headshot and profile would be ideal. Any experience with modeling is a plus. Once you have done that, please respond here so I know to look for your email. I get several emails a day, so this helps me to locate specific emails.

I look forward to your interests and responses.

Sincerely,

Bryan Crump

Photos taken by myself and various photographers throughout the years.

One of the main things I am doing is working on my website development and coming up with topics of value to talk about that my friends, fans, clients and loyal supporters might appreciate. Some of the topics will be about art and photography while other might go into philosophy, business and success principles. For the past few years I have been mentoring students and my friends children on art, modeling, what little I know about fashion and more recently what I am learning in business. I do not want to be  hypocritical, because I do not know everything. There is plenty of stuff that I have learned to only realize that I have just begun to touch the true surface of the realization and potential of my studies.

They say that only a small percentage of people truly apply themselves in life and if that is true then what can myself and you really be capable of? What dreams have we pushed to the wayside while settling for things that only give us temporary relief from the stresses and demands of life? Is there really a different pattern of thinking that the truly successful people have and that of the average population? I think there most definitely is. The average american is between $10,000 and $20,000 in debt and not the good kind. No wonder we have problems with the national debt. If the average american is in debt, maybe there is a problem with financial literacy and education in this country and others. I get tired of hearing about people complaining about the rich. Many of them get tax breaks because they provide jobs for people and a large percentage of their money goes to charitable donations as well. I could go further into my thought process on this but we will leave that for another day.

Anyways, as I said, I am working on updating and retrofitting my webpages. I am working on better educating myself in business as well so I can be more financially stable to be able to do some of the bigger and more creative projects that I want to do. I am one of those people that you might hear me talk about that complained about others achieving things while they supposedly struggle. More than a year ago now, I came to a revelation that I needed to do something different and I have been reading and studying every since. I am putting my acquired knowledge into practice so I might gain more experience as well.

Now while I have been successful in many areas in the past, I was not as successful as I could have been. I think be the whims of artistic inspiration and wonder I was the fly by the seat of my pants kind of person. The problem is that there is little to no foundation being built in that kind of mentality. When things began to tumble and fall, I could have blamed others for pushing on the walls of my endeavors but the truth is that if I had build a proper foundation first things would not so easily fall.

I have done so much photography and art for others for free or nearly free that I put myself in a horrible place financially. So much so that when my car quit working or my camera broke I was not able to fix either. So many people in the various industries want artists and photographers to just give away their work and they give very little in return. I have worked for so many people that have broken promises and also I have taken on so much that I was not able to fulfill my promises because I was trying to do too much and just simply got overwhelmed. While all this was happening I lost a dear friend and more recently my grandmother passed away. But, recent challenges have shown me just how far I have progressed in my work and philosophy, but there is still a long way to go to where I want to be.

While I appreciate my fans and the compliments on my work, I want to achieve so much more. I have ideas and abilities that I have not as of yet been able to express or manifest. Some of them take capitol, some take time, while others  a proper team and others I am still working on the details. I had to get away from toxic relationships and find myself again. I have spent so long trying to please other people or fulfill what I thought was expected of me that I perhaps became delusional and distracted from what I can truly do.

You see I want to help others so that they can grow and in return I can grow as well. If I find various resources and learn enough from them, I can share them from others that can use them and start to produce results as well. If I teach, students will ask questions that I may not have thought to ask myself. There is a joy in helping one another, we must learn to be both teacher and student. Far too often, I think we all get stuck trying to play one specific role in life, when in reality we have so many that surround us. The possibilities are endless if we just learn to apply ourselves properly and that is what I am endeavoring to do.

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Check out my Zazzle Store for some fun products featuring my work…

If you don’t see a favorite that you like, request in an email to: bryan [at] bryancrump.com

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The Kiso Observatory observation dome (Photographed with an ultra-large-scale, ultra-high-sensitivity CMOS sensor amid illumination of 0.1-0.3 lux)

The ultra-large-scale, ultra-high-sensitivity CMOS sensor (left) alongside a 35 mm full-frame CMOS sensor

Here is an excerpt:

TOKYO, September 15, 2011—Canon Inc. today announced that an ultra-large-scale, ultra-high-sensitivity CMOS sensor developed by the company has enabled the video recording across a wide 3.3° x 3.3° field of view of meteors with an equivalent apparent magnitude of 10.^*1 The sensor, with a chip size measuring 202 x 205 mm, the world’s largest^*2 surface area for a CMOS sensor, was installed in the Schmidt telescope at the University of Tokyo’s Kiso Observatory, Institute of Astronomy, School of Science (Kiso-gun, Nagano prefecture).

With a chip size of 202 x 205 mm, the ultra-large-scale, ultra-high-sensitivity CMOS sensor, developed by Canon last year, is among the largest that can be produced from an approximately 300-mm (12 inch) wafer.^*2 The device is approximately 40 times the size of Canon’s largest commercial CMOS sensor^*3 and makes possible video recording in dark conditions with as little as 0.3 lux^*4 of illumination. In January this year, the CMOS sensor was installed on the focal plane of the Kiso Observatory’s 105 cm Schmidt telescope and used to record video at approximately 60 frames per second, resulting in the successful video recording of faint meteors with an equivalent apparent magnitude of 10 across a wide 3.3° x 3.3° field of view.

Detecting faint meteors with apparent magnitudes greater than 7 has proven difficult using conventional observation technologies, with sightings of meteors with an equivalent apparent magnitude of 10 limited to only 10 per year. However, video recorded using the ultra-large-scale, ultra-high-sensitivity CMOS sensor, combined with the Schmidt telescope, which enables observation across a wide field of view, yielded a one-minute segment during which more meteors with an equivalent apparent magnitude of 10 could be detected than could previously be identified during the span of a year.

Check out the full article here…

For all you production houses, printing companies, magazines and offices looking for that next big thing in printing. Canon and Océ  have announced a new venture and developed not one, but two new production printing systems.

As per press release:

TOKYO, September 9, 2011—Canon Inc. and Océ N.V. announced today the launch of two new production printing systems developed jointly by the two companies: a monochrome production printer series equipped with Canon finishing and scanning technology, and a high-speed color multifunction system series incorporating Océ controller technology.

Since Canon welcomed Océ into the Canon Group in March 2010, the two companies have steadily worked to enhance their business base, building on the excellent complementary fit in technology and product range. In March 2011, Canon and Océ launched their first jointly developed production-use multifunction press.

Today, the companies announced the next step in their joint development efforts: the launch of new monochrome production printers and high-speed color multifunction systems.

The new monochrome production printer lineup combines a newly developed engine, made possible through Océ proprietary technology for high-quality, high-resolution output approaching that of offset printing, with a Canon high-performance finisher and scanner. Despite their compact body size, the Canon finishers enable the creation of a variety of print materials. Additionally, the inclusion of Océ’s PRISMAsync controller not only provides the exceptional operability of Océ’s VarioPrint-series digital printers, but also facilitates advanced system coordination with PRISMAsync-equipped Canon imagePRESS-series and imageRUNNER ADVANCE-series devices. The introduction of the new series serves to further enhance the Canon Group’s overall black-and-white system lineup, better positioning the company to provide solutions that meet the increasingly diverse needs of the market.

The new high-speed color multifunction systems build on Canon’s imageRUNNER ADVANCE C9000 PRO series, incorporating Océ’s PRISMAsync controller to support high-volume production for the high-speed copying of color documents and forms. Like the jointly developed color multifunction presses announced in March this year, the new systems realize high compatibility with Océ’s PRISMA workflow, which is well established in the production industry.

The new monochrome production printers will be available in Europe from early September while the color multifunction systems will be made available in Europe and North America from around the same time. Future plans call for the lineup to be made available in other regions as well.

Aiming to create the No. 1 presence in the printing industry, Canon and Océ will further boost their cooperative efforts in the areas of technology and products, capitalizing on their complementary strengths to offer a wide range of printing systems and solutions that deliver high-quality, high-resolution imaging performance.

On that note, I would like to tell you about the current projects I am working on. Several months ago I was asked by the Oklahoma City Ballet to come in and do makeup on one of their fabulous dancers for a photoshoot and the result is that I was asked to return come this Spring and do bodypainting / makeup for the Firebird show to be held in Oklahoma City. This is a tremendous honor and I am privledged and excited to be a part of it. Check out OKCBallet.com for a preview and some information on some of their upcoming events. 

This has also inspired a new series for my makeup and photography that for now, I am calling “For the Birds”. I am looking for suggestions and favorites on types of birds you would like me to consider as I transform models from man and woman into flocks of birds.

More updates soon my friends. Thank you for the kind words of support in my absence while I have been dealing with some family tragedy, and other priorities. There is a lot to catch you all up on, and it will be interesting to say the least.