Berry Ives
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | kind of retired |
| Location | Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States |
| Introduction | I was a WW2 post-war baby raised on the "oil patch" (Permian Basin), mostly in SE New Mexico. I went to two kindergartens and six grade schools. I spent 2 years overseas working in several countries as part of a university co-op program, which was a liberating experience for me. I came out of the late 1960s as a progressive liberal, surviving the regional conservatism I grew up with. I studied engineering, math, and economics (B.S. and M.A. degrees). I was shocked that GW Bush was elected 36 years after 1968... Dennis Kucinich and Bernie Sanders are my favorite politicians. I agree with Sinclair Lewis's attitude that America is a most contradictory and often depressing place. Today we still have inequities and callous individualism which makes the U.S. the most socially backward of the industrialized countries. Moving on, fine art photography has been a serious interest of mine for many years, although I have not worked with the kind of consistent dedication to earn the title "artist". While working as an economist, I studied (non-degree) photography at the UNM Fine Arts Dept. I have strong interests in cosmology, consciousness, and time. Organized religion is not for me. |
| Interests | Photography, cosmology, politics, fine literature, and of course sexy highly intelligent women! |
| Favorite movies | Come Back to the Five & Dime Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean, Roshoman, Do-des-ka-den, The Lover, Italian neorealist, etc etc. |
| Favorite music | Monk, Muddy Waters, Doors, Leonard Cohen, Dylan, Chopin, Memphis Slim, Hendrix, Joplin, east Indian music, maybe there's some kind of drift there. |
| Favorite books | As I Lay Dying, Log from the Sea of Cortez, Marguerite Duras, The Lover, The Sea Wall, Free Fall, Tennessee Williams, Be Here Now, Steppenwolf, The Clown, The Moviegoer, Gary Snyder |
What spells can you cast with magic markers?
If there were no conscious beings in the universe, would time exist? Answer: No