Rich Mann
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Fine art photography |
| Location | Venice, California, United States |
| Introduction | Born in Hollywood California USA, the son of an amateur & professional ex-champion boxer/salesman from Hell's Kitchen, New York, and an artist from Brighton Beach, Brooklyn New York; Max & Sylvia Goldman are the parents of Richard Goldman who later changed his name to Richard Mann, eventually using Rich Mann and R Mann as creative art names. Both parents where American born, wereas both grandparents decended from Russia, Poland, Germany, and England. Raised in both Beverly Hills & Hollywood, eventually settling in Venice California for the past 45 amusing years. Education: Hamilton and Fairfax High Schools, Los Angeles and Santa Monica City colleges (AA), Trade Tech, Venice Skills Center, California Institute of the Arts (Calarts) (BFA), and Cal-State Fullerton University (MA). All college degrees are majored in fine art photography. Projects: Worldly Boardwalks (singularly, and as a 9-12 sequential boardwalk compilation), also a series of conceptual images about the current ever evolving digital photgraphic technologies. E-MAIL: rvmann@gmail.com |
| Interests | Travel, fine art education, creative writing, inventions, |
| Favorite movies | (dramatic), Rebel Without A Cause, BlackBoard Jungle, Last Tango In Paris, 2001 A Space Oddessy, 7th Samurai, Shock Corridor, Flash Gordon, God's Must Be Crazy, Door to Door, Coco's Nest, Bicycle Thief, Koyanisqatsai, Bagdad Cafe, Loved one, Being there, Outbreak, Torque, Mind's Eye, The Gate, Heart is a lonley hunter, Wildone, King Kong, Pawnbroker, Cast away, 5Th Element, An Inconvient Truth, (comedy), Modern Times, Hulot's Holiday, Little Rascals, Laurel & Hardy's, Eastside Kids, Hellzapoppin |
| Favorite music | RECORDING ARTISTS, Eva Cassidy, Rickie Lee Jones, Lyle Tuttle, Smokey Robinson, Bobby Hatfield, Alicia Keys, Corrine Bailey Reye, Christina Agulaura, Chris Daughtry Cyesha (American Idol), Etc, MUSIC Type, Salsa, Instrumentals, Blues, jazz, Techno, R&B, Rock, Ballads, classical. |
| Favorite books | BOOKS, Photoshop CS 3, Art of Living, HTML for Dummies, Art, Interpretation of dreams, Psychic sciences, Touched with Fire, Unquiet Mind, Book Of Lists, Zen and the art of M M, Almanac, North Beach, 90291, How to sell photos. |
Unlike a dog, how can a turtle ever be naked?
Comedy, Buster Keaton, W.C. Fields, Jacques Tate, Laurel & Hardy, Peter Sellers, Robin Williams, Eddie Murphy, Richie Pryor, Keenan Ivory Wienans, Michael Richards TV: Then Came Bronson PROVERBS: "Those who laugh...last" TV: (comedy) All in The Family, Honeymooners, Life of Riley, In Living Color, Seinfeld, Titus, Americas Funnest Videos, CIRCUS: Cirque De Soliel, Pickle Family, Big Apple,