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Yuri the Storyteller
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Faux Propaganda Art by techgnotic, journal

  • June 26
  • Australia
  • Deviant for 14 years
  • He / Him
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My Bio
The Surreal World of Flatearther

He looks ordinary – but he doesn’t see ordinary. His camera is like everyone else’s - but his pictures are far from that. He lives in the real world – but he sneaks away to visit the ‘Other’ world – and he brings things back. His subjects look unexceptional .... at first glance. When he studies something – he doesn’t see it quite the way others see it. He’s ‘at home’ by a computer as he is in a cemetery – or a toxic waste dump. His home is in Bundeena – and his heart is in Transylvania- and Liliput– and Xanadu and Eden. He’s a photographer – and a sculptor - and an illustrator – and a storyteller – and a writer – and a mechanic – an artist by anyone’s yardstick.

Flatearther
Once took pictures for giant corporations as well as for normal individuals – he took them for money or for art. He was as agile with a 4x5 Toyoview monorail camera in an open-cut coal mine in the La Trobe Valley as he was with a 35mm Pentax depicting conflicts in the streets of Sydney - or a wedding in Castle Hill, or a celebrity shoot at the Conservatorium of Music.

In his time he was known to criticize others – as a popular, sought-after judge on the camera club circuit – and to judge the Sydney International Exhibition of Photography – and the Royal Easter Show. His public lecture – ‘The Psychology of the Photograph’ usually fills a good community hall with eager camera & art enthusiasts. He was invited to contribute four of his best prints to the permanent collection of the Melbourne Art Gallery – they’re still there - maybe see them on your next visit.

These days, Flatearther has a gallery space in Bundeena. He teaches and creates images designed to entertain, to inspire, and sometimes, perhaps, to amuse or even unsettle. Either way, his guests are welcomed to view and to discuss and to share their love of all the arts. Visitors come to do just that. They are even able to make a purchase of their choice – or view his other archived material. He is also available as a public speaker.

Current Residence: Bundeena, Australia
deviantWEAR sizing preference: legal clothing
Print preference: mural
Favourite genre of music: Northumbrian Pipes
Favourite photographer: Bill Brandt
Favourite style of art: Surreal
Operating System: Hospital
MP3 player of choice: brown
Shell of choice: scallop
Wallpaper of choice: floral
Skin of choice: fore
Favourite cartoon character: asterix
Personal Quote: things have a tendency to be the way they are

Favourite Visual Artist
Andrew Wyeth
Favourite Movies
Doctor Strangelove
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
tom waits & "The Flying Haemmorrhoids"
Favourite Writers
Steinbeck
Favourite Games
Warcraft 1
Favourite Gaming Platform
croquet
Tools of the Trade
brains
Other Interests
world folklore, judging camera club competitions, storytelling & industrial machinery

I Am A TROLL

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They started calling me one about six years ago on the online debating forums. They called other people 'Trolls' too. The ones who were articulating powerful and coherent arguments in total contrast and opposition to the ones which were the official reality of the time. The ones who could handle themselves in a verbal Karate session. The ones who were by nature fair, co-operative and transparent. They would invariably be savaged and called Trolls by the combative, litigious and adversarial nit pickers who attacked in swarms and would avoid and evade a fair contest with the morals of a Latvian sewer rat . The higher your ability to stand your
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Flatearther It started so innocently, didn't it? – or so it seemed  at the time – that's  how the world usually ends. First, the legends. Then  the entertainment obsessions - and finally,  it is revealed - they really do exist!  After this, they soon become an endangered species and  a persecuted  misunderstood ethnic minority. Then we grant them affirmative action,  and  they take over the world to inevitably enslave and exterminate the lot of us! That's how  it was with the Vampires. Everybody was dumb-struck. How could this be happening?  When I was a kid,  the Vampires were the baddies. All you had to do was drive a stake thro
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Yuri The Storyteller - National Library  Address  11 October 1997 Introduction: Traditional Folktale - Isle Of Man - "Dicky The Wren:" English is my fourth language. My native tongue is Latvian, though I am no longer a native of Latvia. Russian is my second language and my mother's Mother  tongue,  though  Russia and  my mother  live on  in my memory.  German is my third language; it was  my father's Father  tongue.   I   visit  Germany and my father,  in my recollections. English is my fourth language. I was eight and a half when  it confronted me. I beheld it as indecipherable alien gibberish. I knew  in  my heart  it was impossible fo
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Keep living an awesome life :D
How wonderful are you? Thanx & lotsa fun. Cheers!
thanks for the fave and watch, watched back. :)
Can't wait for more outrage by the public and riots in the streets over your next amazing brainstorm. Well, at least some celebratory gunfire. Cheers!
Thanks for the fav my friend.