CURRENT MISSION

To stay golden, Ponyboy

ABOUT ME

I'm a young artist/photographer/student kid from Toronto (represent). Super down to earth and easygoing. I'm a 3rd year Art History student at the University of Toronto, I also work there as a digital imaging specialist in the art history dept. I have a news photojournalism background, but recently I've been mostly shooting weddings, nightclubs and events. I was basically born with a camera in my hand, and it has become third limb, essentially. I paint, but I'm currently focusing on my drawing at the moment. I play guitar sometimes, I also played the triangle in a 3 piece triangle band (we all played triangles) but we split up over creative differences in '99. I'm also really into Fleet Foxes and the Strokes.

I have more info on my facebook though, add me: http://www.facebook.com/mark.tymczyszyn

Here's my photog website:
http://www.marktym.com

PHILOSOPHY

I don't really want to be remembered, but rather live a life that's worthy of remembrance

Interests

Making music and art, politics, the guitar, walking, thinking (while standing or sitting, sometimes both), being youthfully reckless and climbing buildings and such

• arts
• beauty
• walking
• drinking
• politics
• news
• painting
• drawing
• music
• guitar
• cycling
• hunting
• rock climbing
• art history
• history
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Fleet Foxes, DCFC, Mussorgsky, the Kills, the White Stripes, Simon and Garfunkel, Metronomy, Jack White, the Arcade Fire

Mallick's The Tree of Life, Harmony Korine's Kids ('95) and Gummo, Kubrick, Haneke

John Currin, Pollock, Raphael, the Pre-Raphaelites, Caspar David Friedrich, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Ron Mueck, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Alfons Mucha

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Every second of life leaves me awestruck (both in its immaculate beauty, happiness and sadness) it's tough to limit myself to specific moments, but maybe these: Climbing two stories of sheer wall to get to the 11th story roof of my friends apt in Manhattan on New Years, hitchhiking from Paris to Rome in two days, biking through the bustling saturday Toronto at three a.m. on a hot summer night with my friend on the handlebars, drinking kir in Paris

Teach, Learn, Share

Everyone brings different perspectives to the table, it's out of unusual juxtaposition of ideas and thoughts that creativity bursts forth from

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Ukraine, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada