#ryan frame

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Artist Spotlight: Ryan Frame

Alphaa.io is pleased to welcome visual artist Ryan Frame to our network of creatives!

Frame was born in South Africa and is based in Los Angeles. He incorporates body paint, human subjects, water, and photography to create surreal yet intimate portraits.  Learn more about Frame in our interview below and check out his works on Alphaa.io.

Where are you from? 

Ryan Frame: I was born and Raised in Johannesburg South Africa, then lived in Cape Town from 18-24 and then moved to LA where I have lived since 24. I am 30 now.

What is your background?

RF: I have been working in the motion picture industry throughout my entire professional career, which led me to move to Los Angeles. There, I studied for my MFA at UCLA's School of Theater, Film, and Television.

How did you get started in your artist career? 

RF: As I became more involved in the motion picture business I begun feeling frustrated at how long things take for a creative vision to materialize. It was through this creative frustration that I searched for more immediate ways to express myself. I gravitated towards body painting because I have always been fascinated by the originality of how this medium combines naked skin, paint and photography. The immediacy of this art form gave me an emancipation from the long drawn our process of making films.

Any exciting upcoming projects in 2023? 

RF: I’ve been experimenting with underwater photography and testing paints and powders that will enable me to achieve it.

What excites you the most about technology (NFTs, Web3 blockchain etc) right now? 

RF: I think the promise of NFT technology is well suited for fine art for three reasons. First is that it provides provenance for these works as a certificate of authenticity that cannot be manipulated. Second is the ability for the creator to participate in secondary sales in perpetuity which I find most exciting. Third, I believe NFTs should ideally be accompanied by the original works. Although some can exist on their own, the value of art is the ability to appreciate it in person.

What inspires you? 

I get inspired when I observe life's contrast through witnessing my hopes and dreams against another person's pain and suffering, or my own pain and suffering against another's hopes and dreams. Seeing creation and destruction both in a natural context is another source of inspiration. I like to choose locations for my photoshoots in places that highlight the beauty of natural landscapes or places that carry a heaviness to them through political or religious affiliation. 

How did you get in touch with Alphaa.io and how would you see the relationship growing this year? 

RF: I met Manu at an event several months ago where she saw my work and invited me to apply. I would like to see our relationship become one where Alphaa.io represents my work to its clientele for sale.

What are you currently working on?

RF: I’m currently in Cape Town until the end of February. It’s summer here so I’m using the opportunity to create a series featuring local muses and landscapes. We’ll see how it comes together.

Anything else you want to add?

RF: Just that I recently started becoming more public with my work in the past year. It took some courage to come out because I wanted to build up enough works before I shared with whoever might find them pleasing.

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We moved on WAY too fvking quickly from this…

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This ^^^ Honda Odyssey has my undivided attention

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RYAN JAMES CARUTHERS

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"Are you going to miss me when I'm gone?"

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Don't fall out of love with me, promise.

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Ryan Ross give me your MCR merch challenge??

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IT'S MY BIRTHDAY TODAYYY 🪅🎊🎉 my cake couldn't be printed with Punch Out!! Wii on it so we did the next best thing possible ,,, 😊

everybody marvel at how absolutely HIDEOUS they are and thank Google search engine for providing me with the most evil shots available ✝️

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🎶save a horse ride a cowboy🎶

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RYAN PANYA and FRAME RITCHANON (17s) 17.12.23

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the strokes: in transit - 2001 tour (2004)

transcript:

unknown: oh, here's the gun.

fab, to julian: (dramatic voice) where'd you go, man, where'd you go, motherfucker? where'd you [inaudible], motherfucker?

julian: (crosstalk) kill me!

ryan: (crosstalk) hey guys, [inaudible] hey- rosemary has kids and stuff so she needs to go home.

fab: oh, shit. (to ryan, in a dramatic voice) yo, i don't like that mouth, man, i don't like how you run that mouth.

julian: (crosstalk) [inaudible] what about my kids?

julian: what about my fucking kids, ryan? what about little fabrizio? he hasn't eaten in three hours. (turns and slaps fab) shut up! don't do that (breaks off into laughter)

nick, off-screen: what're you filming, man?

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zee/sprite being an overexcited puppy around first

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"let me prove it."

TWINS (2023) | episode 9

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—TWINS THE SERIES · Episode 10

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the aesthetic change between buzzfeed unsolved and watcher is like going to college and then coming back as a completely different person