Hey Howdy,

I would like to pretend I'm a international man of conspicuous leisure, but in reality I'm dorky, clumsy, anxiety ridden, and really just a part time jokester. Nice to meet you.

Currently I'm wandering the earth as a freelance cinematographer/videographer/DP/gaffer/grip/AC/PA//DIT/editor/colorist/photographer in the Philadelphia Tri-state. So yea, don't rely on me for financial support, you'll be very disappointed.

If your interested in seeing some of my work here is my site www.dylanranson.com

Making really fast quips, being lazy and yet having things fall into place.

My pompadour hair, preppy dress style, acne scars (give me character) and my clubmaster style glasses. Oh and the fact I'm ridiculously thin.

If you know or like any of these films, your all right in my book.

Night of the Hunter
Brazil
I am Cuba
Playtime
Medium Cool
Network
Badlands
Reds
Barry Lydon
Paths of Glory
Paris Texas
Children of Men
Midnight Cowboy
Run Lola Run
12 Monkeys
Battle of the Algers
Harlan County U.S.A
Who are you? Polly Maggoo

Oh geez, I just realized my list looks like something from the Criterion Collection, but I don't care.

Overall, I like thrillers, crime films, dramas, westerns, sci fi, and documentaries.

Also if you listen to any Punk, New Wave, Disco, Ambient, Rockabilly, Folk & Country, and I also like relaxing to either classical baroque or droning new age music.

I try my hardest to be a news junkie, but I end up most of the time watching trashy reality shows.

I read....mostly blogs, occasionally some philosophy/history books, and glance over coffee table photo books.

Pretty much I could walk away from everything, so long as I have my backups of my work, my Fuji X-Pro 1 and the rest of my camera collection, and my childhood monkey puppet I grew up with. The simple things really.

I also have in my possession, a oak chair with demons and serpents carved on it. A medal from the Olympics, oil paintings from Italy, Hindu artifacts from India, African tribal masks, Hopi kachina dolls, tapestry and quilts from Mexico, many crystals and new age devices, a whole bunch of useless awards, and a industrial silk-screening press.

Working class struggle....and how the light falls and shapes the shadows upon us.

I'am also very much straight edge (no smoke, drink, drugs... caffeine is still a vice, but eh) I also don't gamble or support it, so yes Im very boring, deal with it.

Taking pictures of interesting people on the street, being a shut in reading blogs about cartoons, tech, sports cars, left leaning journalism or fashion.
If I feel really fancy I'll go out to a punk house and see crust punks distort the sound system, or watch a film with a bunch of olds at The Ritz.

Among a ton of weird things, I have a bad habit of giving funny voices to animals.
To the point some people actually slip up and think that the animals are actually talking back to them and freak out at my childish antics.

Also I sometimes wear mascara, I guess as a throwback to my early days acting, or maybe because I really just want to pretend I'm from 1986.

You reach the bottom of this page and have the time, I don't know it's your call honestly.