Stuart Land
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | writer |
| Location | Chiang Mai |
| Introduction | Stuart’s story ideas come from his vivid imagination, but his inspiration draws from extensive world travel and fascinating careers: from US military medic to hairstylist, then Washington D.C. Police officer to NYC photographer. Later, he converted a chicken coop in the woods into a live-in studio and taught himself metal sculpture. That rudimentary craft expanded into the fine arts. Sculptures in bronze and fiberglass led to shows in the US, England and Thailand. Stuart’s passion for all arts segued into: costume design (top 100 designers in the book, Fashion: 2001); modeling agency art director; fashion show designer; water feature designer, computer illustrator and a top sculptor for special effects, sets and props in the entertainment industry with work in over thirty major films, hotels and theme parks worldwide. During Stuart’s film career, he learned screenwriting firsthand, writing over a dozen screenplays. To explore character and environment more, Stuart took up narrative fiction. He’s completed many short stories and five novels. His writing places high in contests and his screenplays are optioned. He continues on the journey. |
| Interests | Cats, Interesting people, Film, Fiction, Science, Motorbikes, Formula1, Art, Sculpting, Inner space, Outer space, Mysteries, Archaeology, Architecture, Reading and Writing, Burmese language, Italian food, Japanese food, Chinese Food, Thai food, Greek food, Camping, Tennis, Mixed martial arts, Shorin Ryu Karate, Krav Maga |
| Favorite Movies | The Fall, Ondine, Mao's Last Dancer, So Close, Ip Man, Romeo Must Die, Independent Filmmakers and Screenwriters, The Mummy, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Notorious Bettie Page, Wallace and Gromit, WALL•E, Up, Toy Story, Casino Royale 007, Snatch, Silver Streak, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Men who Stare at Goats, The Bucket List, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Dance Movies, Documentaries, The Secret Life of Bees, The Lovely Bones, The Reader, Running with Scissors, Milk, Seven Pounds, House of Flying Daggers, House of Sand and Fog, Gods and Monsters, Dakota Skye, Brokeback Mountain, Atonement, The Blind Side, The curious case of Benjamin Button, 300, The Wizard of Oz, Pan's Labyrinth, Kick-Ass, Humphrey Bogart, Shakespeare in Love, Love in the Time of Cholera, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, The Time Traveler's Wife, Kissing Jessica Stein, Shallow Grave, Something Wild, Raising Arizona, The Illusionist, The Number 23, Match Point, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Inception, Blade Runner, Blade, Terminator, The Fountain, Iron Man, Avatar, Hellboy, West Side Story, Danny Kaye, Chicago, It's a Wonderful Life, jungle book - the original, Topper, The Thin Man, Alfred Hitchcock, Old School Horror Movies, Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, The Invisible Man, Frankenstein, Young Frankenstein, Westerns, Film noir, Slumdog Millionaire, Malena, Betty Blue, District 9, District 13, And God Created Woman, Amelie, The Rebel 2006 Vietnamese, Infernal Affairs, Lone Wolf and Cub, Zatoichi, Akira kurasawa, chocolat - jeja, Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior, Jet Li, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Tetsuya Nakadai, Toshiro Mifune, Sword of Doom, Japanese Movies, Ink |
| Favorite Music | Aretha Franklin, Yann Tiersen, Carrie Underwood, Van Morrison, Vanessa Mae, Desiree' Apolonio Bassett, Louis Armstrong, Alana Grace, Queen Latifah, Shakira, Queen, Carlos Santana, Pink Floyd, Pink, Neil Young, Michael Jackson, Link Wray, Joan Osborne, Lady Gaga, Joan Armatrading, Frank Sinatra, Dr. John, Fatboy Slim, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Eric Clapton, The Beatles, Al Green, Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé, Bonnie Raitt, Tori Amos, Hans Zimmer, Eminem, Thai Essan music, Reggae, African Music, Tango music, movie soundtracks, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Question Mark & the Mysterians, Roy Buchanan, Mississippi John Hurt, Lightnin' Hopkins, Josh Stone, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Hendrix, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Freddie King, BB King, Albert King, Bob Dylan, Katsuya Yokohama, Shakuhachi, Vivaldi, Richard Wagner, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Puccini, Beethoven, Bach, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Taylor Swift, Johnny Cash, Susan Boyle |
| Favorite Books | One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Frankenstein, The Dexter Series by Jeff Lindsay, Isabelle Allende, H. G. Wells, Franz Kafka, Rudyard Kipling, Steig Larsson, John Le Carre, Macchiavelli, Interview with the Vampire, Stranger in a Strange Land, Carl Sagan, J. D. Salinger, Sartre, Sun Tzu, Hunter S. Thompson, Nicola Tesla, Amy Tan, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip Wylie, Phillip K Dick, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Edgar Allen Poe, John Barth, The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Diary Of Anne Frank, Isaac Asimov, The Iliad and the Odyssey, King Arthur, The Arabian Nights, William Gibson, William Shakespeare, The Magus, The Glass Bead Game, The Fountainhead, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, James A. Michener, Santa Evita, Aldous Huxley, Lord Of The Rings, Back from the Dead by Stuart Land, Original Blood by Stuart Land, Shadow House by Stuart Land, Back from the Dead: the true sequel to Frankenstein by Stuart Land, Epiphany by Stuart Land, Flashman, Carrie, Jorge Armado, Anna Karenina, Teresa Batista Cansada da Guerra, and a bizillion more. |
When you hesitate before hitting snooze on your alarm clock, are you being lazy?
I don't hesitate.