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Location: Panther Lake
Website: http://www.williamelston.com

Bio/Manifesto

I'm a professional artist living in the Seattle WA area. I am best known for urban and rural landscapes, and have works in collections throughout the US and in Europe. I'm represented in Seattle by Davidson Galleries. You can see some of my paintings at http://www.williamelston.com/ . I teach painting, in privately offered seasonal plein air workshops. I train in Seido Karate, and have 3rd degree (sandan) black belt ranking. I am a lead instructor for Seido Karate adult classes at the Northshore YMCA in Bothell, WA, and lead instructor for kids' classes at Northshore. I also assist with kids' classes at Dale Turner YMCA in Shoreline, WA. I am also the Seattle Seido Karate webmaster. I do some computer related work on the side, mostly web design, database design, network design and management, training etc. I designed the first commercial gallery websites in the Pacific Northwest, for Davidson Galleries and Francine Seders Gallery. I continue to manage the Davidson Galleries network.

More Than You Need to Know

This or That

• Dan Savage or Charles Mudede
• Vampire or Zombie
• Frank Gehry or Rem Koolhaas
• Dicks or Vaginas
• Elliott Bay or Amazon
• Barsuk or Fantagraphics
• Pot or Coke
• Zune or Segway
• SF or LA
• Folklife or A kick in the face while drowning in fish guts
• Tom Skerritt or Dave Matthews

Questions

• What song do you want played at your funeral?: Mr. Malcontent
• What song do you never want to hear again?: Up, Up and Away
• What do you like to read when you poop?: John Burdett
• What song or movie makes you cry?: Maborosi no hikaru
• Where's your hairiest square inch?: medulla oblongata
• If you could bring one dead person back to life, who would it be?: the ur-mother
• What book have you read the most?: Dracula by Bram Stoker
• What movie can you recite verbatim?: Le Bal
• What piece of art would you steal?: the entire Led Zep catalogue
• What's your biggest grammatical pet peeve?: bad, punctuation
• What is your sweetest taboo?: shitting in your purse

Fill in the Blank

• God is: !/?