Post by A Manda On The Moon on Jan 7, 2007 15:05:29 GMT -5
Hes a pretty person [to me anyway...and I think Kirsten too] that I found while watching Animal Planet with kristen last night.
Hes on the show called 'Caught in the Moment'
Its about animals. [no shit. its on animal planet]
Tristan Bayer
Bio number 1 from a website::
Tristan Bayer has been on the road since he was two months old, when he accompanied his father, renowned wildlife cinematographer Wolfgang Bayer, to shoot a documentary. Today, at 24, he has canvassed every continent but one. "I’m working on Antarctica, he says. "I want to go ice diving with the whales and penguins."
Bayer keeps a record of his travels on a map of the world hanging in the entry hall of his exotically decorated apartment in L.A., where e lives with his girlfriend, fellow Wyoming transplant Vanessa Garnick. They left the Tetons for Tinseltown a year and a half ago in hopes of advancing their careers – hers as an actress, his as a second – generation nature documentarian.
Years of working with his father, one of the most admired wildlife cameramen in the field, have moulded Bayer into a gifted and sensitive filmmaker in his own right. His most important work so far is Youth in Asia, a 30-minute chronicle of a journey he, Garnick, and two friends made to Malaysia and Borneo - funded by a grant from the BBC. Miles from the stodgy format of so many wildlife docs, Youth In Asia is a beautifully photographed, craftily edited travelogue in which the four charismatic kids reveal themselves to be deeply committed to the preservation of the environment and endangered species. Memorable sequences include a confrontation with Malaysian street vendors who are illegally selling protected hawk’s-bill turtle eggs, and a visit to a Bornean sanctuary for orphaned orangutans.
Perhaps most impressive is the film’s non-judgmental tone and obvious respect for the cultures it documents. "The hardest part in the editing was to deal with situations in a way where we aren’t pointing fingers," says Bayer. "The turtle eggs are a perfect example. Selling them is completely illegal in Malaysia, but that culture’s probably been doing that since they first met eyes wit the turtle. So you can’t really blame the culture, and you can’t really blame the vendor; he’s just trying to make a living. At the government level, you’re looking at officials who get slashed by machetes for trying to confiscate the turtle eggs. It’s interesting trying to figure this whole mess out."
Also interesting is the unusual way Bayer pays for his costly cameras and editing equipment – as an actor and model. He accompanied Garnick to an audition last year, and someone took notice of her muscular, six-foot-three companion with the shoulder-length mane. Since then, he has appeared in a print ad for Brooks Brothers, fashion editorials in Vogue, Glamour and commercials for Dockers and Nike. Not surprisingly for someone with such lofty goals as saving the planet, Bayer sometimes finds it hard to reconcile the superficiality of modeling with his work as a preservationist and filmmaker. But the flexibility – not to mention the generous pay – makes modeling ideal for his needs. "Sometimes when I’m on my way to an audition, I question what I’m doing,’ he admits. "It’s pretty ludicrous, but I’ve been able to avoid a nine to five job, and buy a lot of great equipment."
While waiting to see where Youth In Asia takes him, Bayer is learning to surf, developing several Internet based ventures ("I have domain names coming out of every orifice of my body," he laughs), and continuing to assist his father on a sprawling, five-years-in-the-making nature documentary. He also did camera work for the upcoming feature film Carving Out Our Name, a melding of fact and fiction starring Wes Bentley and Brad Rowe. The exhilaration guerrilla-style shoot provided an opportunity to get to know his new urban surroundings.
"The city, the concrete jungle, is still a very new place to me," he says. "It’s definitely a contrast from what I’m used to, but every day I like Los Angeles more and more, as I meet new people and find nooks and crannies, little things that make me think. Because if I’ve learned anything through my travels and my work, it’s that you need to go outside yourself to know yourself better."
Bio number 2 from his offical website thingy:::
Tristan's first production experience began at 2 weeks old with his parents, a wildlife filmmaker team that traveled to the far corners of the world making documentaries. He never looked back since.
At age 2, Tristan was filming in East Africa, learning about other cultures and memorizing the Swahili names of animals while floating above the African landscape in hot air balloons and chasing elephants in Range Rovers.
Although he was small and young, his eyes were wide open to this fascinating, and sometimes disturbing, but always adventurous world. These experiences were the building blocks for a unique point of view while growing up in the small town of Jackson Hole, Wyoming on the outskirts of Teton and Yellowstone National Parks.
Throughout his schooling, Tristan took advantage of the opportunity to skip class to work overseas as a crew member with his producer / director / cinematographer father and mentor. They made wildlife films for such companies as Nature, Nova, National Geographic, ABC and PBS. Tristan started keeping written journals and sketches, then took up still photography, and soon got his hands on a video camera. He began shooting behind the scenes video of his trips and would present his findings and adventures to his classmates back in Wyoming. Now in junior high school, Tristan found himself creating multi-media "show and tell" presentations that entertained and educated his peers and received academic credit. Occasionally Tristan's work was published in magazines such as Ranger Rick. In 7th grade Tristan was awarded the "Media Student of the Year" award for his still photography and video achievements as well as his technical skills.
Although it may seem obvious now as to what he wanted to be when, or if he grows up, he still had a lot of soul searching to do. Finally, in eighth grade, Tristan made up his mind that he wanted to be a painter, a 3D animator, a biologist, a stuntman, and an astronaut, of course. In his spare time he still wanted to keep his hobbies as a photographer and videographer. Little did Tristan know that these experiences would spawn into the beginning of a career that combines all his favorite disciplines into one.
Tristan is now the owner of EarthNative Inc. a multi-media production company. EarthNative is dedicated to pushing the limits on the innovative communication of ideas through creative storytelling and expression. In 1999 EarthNative won the BBC/Time-Life Natural History Innovation Grant. With $100,000, he produced and directed a pilot episode for a TV series, "Tripping", that shot on location in Borneo with his best friends as the cast and crew. He has been seen hosting wildlife shows or traveling the planet as a freelance director/cinematographer, working on adventure races in Brazil, shooting behind the scenes of the Academy Awards, directing music videos, working as a D.P. on feature films, and finding himself in front of the camera as well. He is currently finding distribution for his feature length film six years in the making, entitled "Earthling", in which he wrote, edited, narrated, co-directed and co-produced with his father. Playing themselves, the Bayer family reveals "Earthling" at their world premiere at the 2005 Seattle International Film Festival and will be screening at festivals all over the world as a 35mm big screen cinematic experience in digital surround sound.
In his spare time Tristan is still developing ways of combining his new style of multimedia "show and tell" with his space explorer childhood dreams. Tristan regularly heads to beautiful Jackson Hole to breathe fresh air and gain perspective on this fascinating, and sometimes disturbing, but always adventurous world.
sorry if those are exactly the same things... i didnt exactly read the first one... because i dont feel too good.
PICTURES
[the girl with him is Vanessa. Shes on the show too.]
Site::
www.earthnative.com/tristanbayer/assets/html/home.html
Hes on the show called 'Caught in the Moment'
Its about animals. [no shit. its on animal planet]
Tristan Bayer
Bio number 1 from a website::
Tristan Bayer has been on the road since he was two months old, when he accompanied his father, renowned wildlife cinematographer Wolfgang Bayer, to shoot a documentary. Today, at 24, he has canvassed every continent but one. "I’m working on Antarctica, he says. "I want to go ice diving with the whales and penguins."
Bayer keeps a record of his travels on a map of the world hanging in the entry hall of his exotically decorated apartment in L.A., where e lives with his girlfriend, fellow Wyoming transplant Vanessa Garnick. They left the Tetons for Tinseltown a year and a half ago in hopes of advancing their careers – hers as an actress, his as a second – generation nature documentarian.
Years of working with his father, one of the most admired wildlife cameramen in the field, have moulded Bayer into a gifted and sensitive filmmaker in his own right. His most important work so far is Youth in Asia, a 30-minute chronicle of a journey he, Garnick, and two friends made to Malaysia and Borneo - funded by a grant from the BBC. Miles from the stodgy format of so many wildlife docs, Youth In Asia is a beautifully photographed, craftily edited travelogue in which the four charismatic kids reveal themselves to be deeply committed to the preservation of the environment and endangered species. Memorable sequences include a confrontation with Malaysian street vendors who are illegally selling protected hawk’s-bill turtle eggs, and a visit to a Bornean sanctuary for orphaned orangutans.
Perhaps most impressive is the film’s non-judgmental tone and obvious respect for the cultures it documents. "The hardest part in the editing was to deal with situations in a way where we aren’t pointing fingers," says Bayer. "The turtle eggs are a perfect example. Selling them is completely illegal in Malaysia, but that culture’s probably been doing that since they first met eyes wit the turtle. So you can’t really blame the culture, and you can’t really blame the vendor; he’s just trying to make a living. At the government level, you’re looking at officials who get slashed by machetes for trying to confiscate the turtle eggs. It’s interesting trying to figure this whole mess out."
Also interesting is the unusual way Bayer pays for his costly cameras and editing equipment – as an actor and model. He accompanied Garnick to an audition last year, and someone took notice of her muscular, six-foot-three companion with the shoulder-length mane. Since then, he has appeared in a print ad for Brooks Brothers, fashion editorials in Vogue, Glamour and commercials for Dockers and Nike. Not surprisingly for someone with such lofty goals as saving the planet, Bayer sometimes finds it hard to reconcile the superficiality of modeling with his work as a preservationist and filmmaker. But the flexibility – not to mention the generous pay – makes modeling ideal for his needs. "Sometimes when I’m on my way to an audition, I question what I’m doing,’ he admits. "It’s pretty ludicrous, but I’ve been able to avoid a nine to five job, and buy a lot of great equipment."
While waiting to see where Youth In Asia takes him, Bayer is learning to surf, developing several Internet based ventures ("I have domain names coming out of every orifice of my body," he laughs), and continuing to assist his father on a sprawling, five-years-in-the-making nature documentary. He also did camera work for the upcoming feature film Carving Out Our Name, a melding of fact and fiction starring Wes Bentley and Brad Rowe. The exhilaration guerrilla-style shoot provided an opportunity to get to know his new urban surroundings.
"The city, the concrete jungle, is still a very new place to me," he says. "It’s definitely a contrast from what I’m used to, but every day I like Los Angeles more and more, as I meet new people and find nooks and crannies, little things that make me think. Because if I’ve learned anything through my travels and my work, it’s that you need to go outside yourself to know yourself better."
Bio number 2 from his offical website thingy:::
Tristan's first production experience began at 2 weeks old with his parents, a wildlife filmmaker team that traveled to the far corners of the world making documentaries. He never looked back since.
At age 2, Tristan was filming in East Africa, learning about other cultures and memorizing the Swahili names of animals while floating above the African landscape in hot air balloons and chasing elephants in Range Rovers.
Although he was small and young, his eyes were wide open to this fascinating, and sometimes disturbing, but always adventurous world. These experiences were the building blocks for a unique point of view while growing up in the small town of Jackson Hole, Wyoming on the outskirts of Teton and Yellowstone National Parks.
Throughout his schooling, Tristan took advantage of the opportunity to skip class to work overseas as a crew member with his producer / director / cinematographer father and mentor. They made wildlife films for such companies as Nature, Nova, National Geographic, ABC and PBS. Tristan started keeping written journals and sketches, then took up still photography, and soon got his hands on a video camera. He began shooting behind the scenes video of his trips and would present his findings and adventures to his classmates back in Wyoming. Now in junior high school, Tristan found himself creating multi-media "show and tell" presentations that entertained and educated his peers and received academic credit. Occasionally Tristan's work was published in magazines such as Ranger Rick. In 7th grade Tristan was awarded the "Media Student of the Year" award for his still photography and video achievements as well as his technical skills.
Although it may seem obvious now as to what he wanted to be when, or if he grows up, he still had a lot of soul searching to do. Finally, in eighth grade, Tristan made up his mind that he wanted to be a painter, a 3D animator, a biologist, a stuntman, and an astronaut, of course. In his spare time he still wanted to keep his hobbies as a photographer and videographer. Little did Tristan know that these experiences would spawn into the beginning of a career that combines all his favorite disciplines into one.
Tristan is now the owner of EarthNative Inc. a multi-media production company. EarthNative is dedicated to pushing the limits on the innovative communication of ideas through creative storytelling and expression. In 1999 EarthNative won the BBC/Time-Life Natural History Innovation Grant. With $100,000, he produced and directed a pilot episode for a TV series, "Tripping", that shot on location in Borneo with his best friends as the cast and crew. He has been seen hosting wildlife shows or traveling the planet as a freelance director/cinematographer, working on adventure races in Brazil, shooting behind the scenes of the Academy Awards, directing music videos, working as a D.P. on feature films, and finding himself in front of the camera as well. He is currently finding distribution for his feature length film six years in the making, entitled "Earthling", in which he wrote, edited, narrated, co-directed and co-produced with his father. Playing themselves, the Bayer family reveals "Earthling" at their world premiere at the 2005 Seattle International Film Festival and will be screening at festivals all over the world as a 35mm big screen cinematic experience in digital surround sound.
In his spare time Tristan is still developing ways of combining his new style of multimedia "show and tell" with his space explorer childhood dreams. Tristan regularly heads to beautiful Jackson Hole to breathe fresh air and gain perspective on this fascinating, and sometimes disturbing, but always adventurous world.
sorry if those are exactly the same things... i didnt exactly read the first one... because i dont feel too good.
PICTURES
[the girl with him is Vanessa. Shes on the show too.]
Site::
www.earthnative.com/tristanbayer/assets/html/home.html