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Had the incredible opportunity to photograph Wes Parker at a few of his headlining dates recently. I also interviewed him for a piece that I'm writing. I was a huge fan before the interview, and now he's stuck with me as a fan FOR LIFE. He's a lovely soul.
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Will never be over this shoot I got to do with the incredible Wes Parker for Zany Waves. These were taken for the profile piece on Wes that I got to write as well. You can read that here:
Wes Parker’s FilmFreeway account is pretty easy to come across in an internet search. There’s only one credit listed – a short film from 202
Everything happened so damn fast with this. I came across Wes's music around late 2024/early 2025, definitely around the Splinter album cycle. I was immediately obsessed. Splinter and the singles before that lived on repeat in my life. I thought his comedy was very funny and endearing, but it's his songwriting that really caught my attention. I didn't have any plans of reaching out to Wes. As someone who photographs a lot of shows and interact with a lot of artists, I've had to accept the hard way that not everyone cares that you're a fan of them. And that's fine! I'm not owed any kind of interaction with bands I photograph. BUT then I saw a video he made promoting (I think) "Salute (The Show)". I immediately recognized where he was -- Savannah, Georgia. That is why I reached out to him. I wanted to know his ties to my hometown. His old band, Camp Howard, had played Savannah in the past. He fell in love with the city and often visits it. We also have a mutual friend or two. Talking to him and realizing he was genuinely nice (nice enough to answer my dumb DMs anyway lol) on top of being endlessly talented made me want to cover him. He conveniently announced tour dates very soon after. I pitched photo coverage of one of his shows with a few portraits to Zany Waves which got approved. After a bit more talking to him, I made the decision to put words into the world about this guy instead of just photos. I revised my pitch to my publication and asked Wes if that was something he was cool with doing while he was on tour -- an interview and a shoot -- and he said yes. He forwarded my email to a label rep and the label rep put me in touch with his brand new publicist (I think I was the first media coverage she handled for him). I ended going to three shows all together on his tour, but I only talk about two-- Asheville and Atlanta -- because those were the ones discussed with his team. Because of how everything got scheduled, I didn't interview him until Atlanta so I got to observe him and hang with him a little bit in Asheville. I think that's when I realized I really liked Wes -- that he was more than just a nice dude, but a good dude. I loved his stage presence and the way he took his time with fans no matter how stressful things got post-show. And I loved his rapport with his bandmates and how he was doing this project with people from two very different times and parts of his life. So I wrote about all of that which turned part of the piece into something of a tour diary. And when we actually sat down for the interview, we had such a great chat that felt very easy and comfortable. I think that comes through in the write up. Going from exchanging DMs about Savannah in mid-March to sitting in the back of his tour van with him at the end of May is crazy work, even for my very weird life.
That whole mental breakdown in his underwear was kind of a dead giveaway.
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incredible stuff
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so easy (to fall in love)
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This is a couple of weeks old but I just saw it and holy shit I'm cackling
Matthew really popped in the comments ready to go to war for his murder husbands ship
I've been subscribed to Deadline's several newsletters for years. And while I don't open them very often, I always read the email subject lines. "Peter Greene Dies" is the most shattering email subject that's ever come into my inbox.
I saw Peter for the first time in "The Mask" as a kid. Everyone else was watching Jim Carrey, but I was inexplicably drawn to him. "The Mask" is so profoundly ridiculous. I think part of my fascination with him was how Dorian's storyline is so outside of the silliness of the rest of the movie. He's getting golf balls hit out of his mouth by his mobster boss like it's "The Godfather", and Jim is turning into a whistling, cartoon wolf at the sight of Cameron Diaz.
I continued to follow Peter in the way that I follow actors I latch onto. I went down his IMDB and sought out the films I could access and watch via Netflix (back when it was a DVD rental service). That's how I saw "Clean, Shaven" for the first time -- an indie drama/character study that follows a young man (Greene) with untreated schizophrenia and his attempt to be a father to his young daughter. It came out in 1994. From what I've heard him say in interviews, I think that's what Peter secretly wanted his career to be -- a series of highly-regarded indie films that would bring out the best of him as an actor. But "Pulp Fiction" also came out in 1994, and that movie, where he played an unhinged security guard who gleefully sexually assaults someone, had a much larger influence on his career than "Clean, Shaven" did. Peter got a bit pigeon-holed. He was forever the bad guy. The drug lord. The small-time hustler. The heavy. He felt very aware of it, but he never seemed ungrateful. He was old school, and acting work of any kind meant making rent. Directors and writers who worked with him later in his career also felt aware of his typecasting, and a few of them tried to give him parts that were unlike what he was known for. Those were my favorite roles to watch him in.
As a writer, I wanted to give him the emotional depth he wanted in his work. I knew I couldn't really execute on a project like that, but I could put it on paper and send him the message that I thought he could portray more than a villain. I wrote a short film called "Asleep" with him in mind. It was a raw and emotional exploration of grief after the preventable loss of a child. To this day, it may be the heaviest thing I've ever written. I had the channels to send him the script and tell him that I wrote every bit of it while picturing him as the lead, but I never did it. I thought maybe he'd be unmoved by my audaciousness. Or that he'd just laugh at me for sending him a script I had no resources to make. I ultimately chickened out.
In 2019, after having a dream about seeing him at a party, I put together a 6-episode podcast called "Million-Dollar Day Player" with some friends. It was a celebration of his work that I didn't see anyone else doing. Each episode, I discussed one of my favorite roles of Peter's with a different co-host. Through the lovely Sissy Gamache, who so deeply believed in my little podcast, Peter found out about it and sent me the video message below. I never posted it publicly, but I watched that thing about a million times. I used to grin at him saying he hoped to meet me soon. Now it just hurts.
I didn't know Peter, but I adored him in a way that was completely irrational and unconditional. Through his faults. Through his well-documented demons. Through the unflattering things about him that may or may not have been true when he was at his lowest...he was so thoroughly cared for by me. I hope he finds peace in the afterlife, whatever that looks like for him.
My condolences go out to the people he left behind who have a number in their phone that connects to no one now
Was flipping through my comic books and I genuinely can't believe we only got this version of Twelve for like 3 seconds and then never again. Can you imagine if they'd given him this look in the show? 57 dead 246 injured and they all would've been me because I would've gone RABID I would've LOST MY MIND. They showed us the world only to take it away immediately 💔
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A screenshot of Ilkka Villi in Nightwish’s film, “Imaginaerum”.
Happy Birthday, Ilkka (August 4th, 1975)
Twelve agape (2 of 3).
Ilkka Villi || Alan Wake 2
continuing my series of nature-themed portraits — this time with Saga and Alan, paired with moonflowers and night-blooming cereus: two flowers that only bloom in dark
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I think you're probably an amazing teacher.
JACOB ANDERSON Photographed at the Variety Studio for #SDCC 2025
