Lorenzo
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Human |
| Location | Peekskill & NYC, New York, United States |
| Introduction | is the author of the #1 best seller, 25 Lessons I've Learned, as well as an award-winning street photographer. In 2008, he was chosen to be the HP Be Brilliant Featured Artist. He has been called an "Internet photography sensation" by Time Out New York and is considered a "Flickr star" by Rob Walker, Consumed columnist, for New York Times Magazine. |
| Interests | light, taste, touch, euphony, existential experience, iridescence, life as poetry, solitude, reflection, introspection, action, words, muses, music, raisins, raisons d'etre, darkness, dark chocolate, laughter, enlightenment, verse, a reversal of fortune. |
| Favorite Movies | Adaptation, Ai No Corrida (In the Realm of the Senses) Apocalypse Now, Awakenings, Bad Lieutenant, Being John Malkovich, Cinema Paradiso, Citizan Kane, City of God, Closer, Cocteau's La Belle et La Bete, Como Agua Para Chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate), Cyrano de Bergerac, El Hombre Mirando al Sureste (The Man Looking Southeast), Election, Enter The Dragon, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Good Fellas, Human Nature, I Heart Huckabees, Lawrence of Arabia, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amlie Poulain (Amelie), Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run), Lucia y el Sexo (Sex and Lucia), Mitt Liv Som Hund (My Life as a Dog), Requiem for a Dream, Ridicule, Rocky, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Sweet Smell of Success, The Fisher King, The Godfather I & II, The Jerk, The Lover, The Night of the Hunter, The Royal Tenenbaums, To Die For, Touch of Evil, True Romance, What The Bleep Do We Know? |
| Favorite Music | googoosh, les nubians, paris combo, frank sinatra, charles aznavour, vicente y alejandro fernandez, javier solis, many of the cafe del mar records, angelique kidju, norah-norah jones, william shatner (has been), will smith, dr. dre, luis miguel, amalia rodrigues, lila downs, pepe aguilar, nat king cole, fatboy slim, dean martin, bobby darin, etta james, led zepplin, omara portuondo, issac stern, vladimir horowitz, elvis (presley), wax poetic, groove armada, anne-sophie mutter, and so forth |
| Favorite Books | A Joseph Campbell Companion, A Study of Sanity and Strangeness by Dr. Weeks, Ackerman's A Natural History of the Senses, Baltasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom, Busgalia's Love, Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, Creativity by osho, Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand, Eccentrics by Weeks, Exuberance by Kay R. Jamison, Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac, G.G. Marquez Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by J. Gleick, Goldberg's Citizen Turner, Joyce's Ulysses, King Henry V, Montainge's Essays, My The Lost Man Chronicles (www.thelostman.com), Nicolo Machiavelli's The Prince, Plato's Symposium, Reflections on the Art of Living, shel silverstein's The Missing Piece and The Giving Tree, Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn, The Art of Happiness - Dalai Lama, The Art of Loving by E. Fromm, The Dictionary, The Watershed: A Bio of Johannes Kepler by A. Koestler, The Work of Martin Luther King Jr., Thus Spoke Zarathustra by F. W. Nietzshe. |