Hari-sauri dasa, also known as Prabhupada Kripa Swami, a former religious leader of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), was born in England on November 17, 1950. He was initiated by Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the Founder-Acarya of ISKCON on April 9, 1972 in Sydney.
He traveled with Srila Prabhupada as his personal servant from November 1975 to March 1977. In March of 1977 Srila Prabhupada appointed him ISKCON's Governing Body Commissioner for the South Seas, a post he held until 1984.
After returning to International Society for Krishna Consciousness he takes part in the work of the society mainly by publishing his diaries. In 1986 he began the work of transforming the daily diary he kept while travelling with Srila Prabhupada into a book entitled A Transcendental Diary. As of 2007 five volumes have been published, with two more planned to complete the series.
Hari-sauri dasa currently lives in Mayapur, W. Bengal, India, the world headquarters of ISKCON, with his wife Sitala dasi, and daughter Rasarani. Apart from his writing he is also involved in the development of the planned Temple of the Vedic Planetarium, a 300' plus edifice incorporating traditional worship of the Deities Sri Sri Radha Madhava, Sri Caitanya and His Principle Associates (Panca-tattva), Sri Prahlada-Nrsimhadeva, as well as a fully functional planetarium displaying the cosmos according to the version of the Vedic Puranic literature.
Bibliography
* Hari Sauri Dasa, A Transcendental Dairy Volume 2, 1993, Lotus Imprints, ASIN B000KYZ6DW. April 1976-June 1976.
He traveled with Srila Prabhupada as his personal servant from November 1975 to March 1977. In March of 1977 Srila Prabhupada appointed him ISKCON's Governing Body Commissioner for the South Seas, a post he held until 1984.
After returning to International Society for Krishna Consciousness he takes part in the work of the society mainly by publishing his diaries. In 1986 he began the work of transforming the daily diary he kept while travelling with Srila Prabhupada into a book entitled A Transcendental Diary. As of 2007 five volumes have been published, with two more planned to complete the series.
Hari-sauri dasa currently lives in Mayapur, W. Bengal, India, the world headquarters of ISKCON, with his wife Sitala dasi, and daughter Rasarani. Apart from his writing he is also involved in the development of the planned Temple of the Vedic Planetarium, a 300' plus edifice incorporating traditional worship of the Deities Sri Sri Radha Madhava, Sri Caitanya and His Principle Associates (Panca-tattva), Sri Prahlada-Nrsimhadeva, as well as a fully functional planetarium displaying the cosmos according to the version of the Vedic Puranic literature.
Bibliography
* Hari Sauri Dasa, A Transcendental Dairy Volume 2, 1993, Lotus Imprints, ASIN B000KYZ6DW. April 1976-June 1976.
Dave and Rich Christiano (born October 2, 1956) are Christian filmmakers and twin brothers. Born and raised in Waterloo, New York, United States, the brothers went to Hollywood at age 20 in hopes to produce films. When they became Christians a couple of years later, they turned in a new direction and since 1985 have produced films for the Christian film industry. Their first eight films were all dramatic shorts. Their movies have played on virtually every known Christian Television Network world-wide.
In 2002, they formed Five & Two Pictures as their distribution company for theatrical films and released their first feature length film in theaters, Time Changer, which eventually played in 310 theaters. They followed four years later with the UFO drama, Unidentified which was a much smaller release and only played in 85 theaters. They have produced their third theatrical film, the love story Me & You, Us, Forever, which is set for its initial release in 83 cities on February 15th, 2008. Rich recently completed filming The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry in the summer of 2007 with Gavin MacLeod in the lead role. It is being planned for a September 2008 release. Dave is looking to shoot his next film project in 2009 entitled, "True Champion", about a championship artistic roller skater with actress Stacey J. Aswad in the lead role (herself a former champion).
The brothers also turned to weekly television when Dave began production on his TV series, 7th Street Theater. The series began airing weekly on Trinity Broadcasting Network, the world's largest faith-based TV Network, on March 3rd, 2007. It was the first ever prime time Christian drama series in the history of broadcasting. Twenty-four episodes were produced for Season One. Production of another 24 episodes for Season Two began in April 2007. The series also airs on I-LIFE TV, the NRB Network, and Cornerstone Television.
Movies
Together
* The Daylight Zone (1986)
* The Pretender (1987)
* Crime of the Age (1988)
Rich
* The Appointment (1991)
* Second Glance (1992)
* End of the Harvest (1998)
* Time Changer (2002)
* Unidentified (2006)
* The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry (post-production)
Dave
* Pamela's Prayer (1998)
* Late One Night (2001)
* 7th Street Theater (TV Series) (2007)
* Me & You, Us, Forever (2008)
* True Champion (pre-production for a planned 2009 release)
In 2002, they formed Five & Two Pictures as their distribution company for theatrical films and released their first feature length film in theaters, Time Changer, which eventually played in 310 theaters. They followed four years later with the UFO drama, Unidentified which was a much smaller release and only played in 85 theaters. They have produced their third theatrical film, the love story Me & You, Us, Forever, which is set for its initial release in 83 cities on February 15th, 2008. Rich recently completed filming The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry in the summer of 2007 with Gavin MacLeod in the lead role. It is being planned for a September 2008 release. Dave is looking to shoot his next film project in 2009 entitled, "True Champion", about a championship artistic roller skater with actress Stacey J. Aswad in the lead role (herself a former champion).
The brothers also turned to weekly television when Dave began production on his TV series, 7th Street Theater. The series began airing weekly on Trinity Broadcasting Network, the world's largest faith-based TV Network, on March 3rd, 2007. It was the first ever prime time Christian drama series in the history of broadcasting. Twenty-four episodes were produced for Season One. Production of another 24 episodes for Season Two began in April 2007. The series also airs on I-LIFE TV, the NRB Network, and Cornerstone Television.
Movies
Together
* The Daylight Zone (1986)
* The Pretender (1987)
* Crime of the Age (1988)
Rich
* The Appointment (1991)
* Second Glance (1992)
* End of the Harvest (1998)
* Time Changer (2002)
* Unidentified (2006)
* The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry (post-production)
Dave
* Pamela's Prayer (1998)
* Late One Night (2001)
* 7th Street Theater (TV Series) (2007)
* Me & You, Us, Forever (2008)
* True Champion (pre-production for a planned 2009 release)
D. Keith Furon (born August 22, 1952) is an American fine art photographer.
Furon was born in Los Angeles, California. He attended the University of California at Berkeley, Edison State College and the University of California at Los Angeles.
Biography
Furon was born and grew up in Southern California. He spent many years in commercial art as an art director and creative director. During that time he was able to learn by working with some of the best photographers in the country. While developing and expanding his own unique photography style.
Furon took his first photographs in the mid-1970s as a way of expressing his individual creative ideas. He first explored photography to create images that were his alone and were in direct contrast to the commercial art side of his life.
His imagery strives for simplicity. Yet it contains intense detail in its simplicity. Many of his images are simple studies of isolated objects. While his photographs range from still lifes to landscapes, he focuses most of his efforts on nudes of the human figure and nude photography in general. He is constantly inspired to push the envelope of nudity, eroticism and the human form. In more recent years his work has begun to explore deeper human sensuality, expressions in fetish as well as the levels of sensuality between couples and groups. Due to the frank, erotic nature of many of his images, Furon says, "I don’t care if people love my work or hate it, as long as they react to it."
Furon primarily works in black-and-white prints as well as polaroid transfer image transfers. While most photographers have converted to digital photography, Furon is notable for his loyalty to film photography and his intricate hand-made image transfers. A loyalist to working with film in a world that is rapidly seeing the demise of film and a reliance on the digital camera, Furon set out to develop a process of supporting his obsession with the quality of film in what's becoming a digital-photography world. His imagery is unique due in large part to his pioneering a process of capturing his images with digital equipment and then outputting the digital images to film that he prints in the darkroom as is done with conventional film cameras. Thereby being able to retain the unique quality and romance of hand-printed photographs. His work has been exhibited extensively in the United States as well as Europe. Furon still lives in the historic district of Pasadena, California.
Recognition
His works are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, among others. The bulk of his work has been sold through Sotheby’s.
* Infusion Gallery, Los Angeles, California
* Art Seen, Los Angeles, California
* NoHo Gallery, Los Angeles, California
* Stepping Stone Gallery, New York, NY
* T suki Lounge, Chicago, IL
* International Photo Salon (FIAP), Targu Mure, Romania
* The Echo Gallery, Chicago, IL
* Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado
* Lankershim Art Gallery, Hollywood, California
* International Photography Exhibition (FIAP), Istanbul, Turkey
Publications
* Thinking About Art: the One Word Project, Kirkland,JT, 1991
Furon was born in Los Angeles, California. He attended the University of California at Berkeley, Edison State College and the University of California at Los Angeles.
Biography
Furon was born and grew up in Southern California. He spent many years in commercial art as an art director and creative director. During that time he was able to learn by working with some of the best photographers in the country. While developing and expanding his own unique photography style.
Furon took his first photographs in the mid-1970s as a way of expressing his individual creative ideas. He first explored photography to create images that were his alone and were in direct contrast to the commercial art side of his life.
His imagery strives for simplicity. Yet it contains intense detail in its simplicity. Many of his images are simple studies of isolated objects. While his photographs range from still lifes to landscapes, he focuses most of his efforts on nudes of the human figure and nude photography in general. He is constantly inspired to push the envelope of nudity, eroticism and the human form. In more recent years his work has begun to explore deeper human sensuality, expressions in fetish as well as the levels of sensuality between couples and groups. Due to the frank, erotic nature of many of his images, Furon says, "I don’t care if people love my work or hate it, as long as they react to it."
Furon primarily works in black-and-white prints as well as polaroid transfer image transfers. While most photographers have converted to digital photography, Furon is notable for his loyalty to film photography and his intricate hand-made image transfers. A loyalist to working with film in a world that is rapidly seeing the demise of film and a reliance on the digital camera, Furon set out to develop a process of supporting his obsession with the quality of film in what's becoming a digital-photography world. His imagery is unique due in large part to his pioneering a process of capturing his images with digital equipment and then outputting the digital images to film that he prints in the darkroom as is done with conventional film cameras. Thereby being able to retain the unique quality and romance of hand-printed photographs. His work has been exhibited extensively in the United States as well as Europe. Furon still lives in the historic district of Pasadena, California.
Recognition
His works are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, among others. The bulk of his work has been sold through Sotheby’s.
* Infusion Gallery, Los Angeles, California
* Art Seen, Los Angeles, California
* NoHo Gallery, Los Angeles, California
* Stepping Stone Gallery, New York, NY
* T suki Lounge, Chicago, IL
* International Photo Salon (FIAP), Targu Mure, Romania
* The Echo Gallery, Chicago, IL
* Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado
* Lankershim Art Gallery, Hollywood, California
* International Photography Exhibition (FIAP), Istanbul, Turkey
Publications
* Thinking About Art: the One Word Project, Kirkland,JT, 1991
Jo Ellen Dickey (born May 15, 1978 in Florida) is an American model. She possess a striking figure, standing 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m), with all the stereotypical characteristics of the "beautiful redheaded girl", namely very white skin with freckles, green eyes, wavy red hair, and pink nipples.
Jo Ellen has been featured most prominently in Perfect 10 magazine, in 2000 and 2002.
Jo Ellen has been featured most prominently in Perfect 10 magazine, in 2000 and 2002.