Talent Freaks

A new web series dedicated to all the talented freaks out there. Check out our All Aces Media homepage for more information about us.

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Season 2 Premiere Live Twitter Feed From The Charleston Music Hall

Season 2 Premiere Live Twitter Feed From The Charleston Music Hall

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Season 2: Episode 1 - Nathan Durfee

Season 2: Episode 1 – Nathan Durfee

Nathan Durfee is a Vermont native. He pursued a career in illustration after graduating from Savannah College of Art and Design. Durfee creates fanciful contemporary narratives that feature an eclectic array of characters. He has garnered notoriety across the Southeast for his captivating pop-surrealist paintings and intriguing use of color. Heralded as the 2010 Best Local Visual Artist by…

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Season 2: Episode 6 - Patch Whisky

Season 2: Episode 6 – Patch Whisky

Patch Whiskyis a muralist and fine artist who graduated from the Art Institute of Pittsburg. Now based in Charleston, SC and working primarily with aerosol and acrylic paint, his murals can be seen up and down the walls of the East Coast and Midwest. Whisky’s signature “monsters” have been shown in The Museum of Sex in NYC and the Museum of Art in Columbia, SC. They have also appeared at Art…

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Season 2: Episode 5 - Sean Williams

Season 2: Episode 5 – Sean Williams

Sean Williamswas born in Beaufort, SC. He attended the College of Charleston focusing on drawing, painting, and art history. Sean presently resides in Charleston where he paints and works at Ahern’s Anvil, Inc. blacksmithing and creating custom metal work. Williams is inspired by nature, whose processes are often similar to those of art-making. From a simple concept or form, a work of art evolves…

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Season 2: Episode 4 - Molly B. Right

Season 2: Episode 4 – Molly B. Right

Molly B. Rightwas born in Greensboro, NC, and now lives in Charleston, SC. Her subject matter has ranged from vignettes of her childhood to minimalist figurative works. The leap from narrative paintings to her signature bottle cap portraits was inspired by a chance encounter with a large rust-stained piece of sheet metal. Right began using bottle caps to render her forms, eventually leading to…

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Season 2: Episode 3 - Chad Awalt

Season 2: Episode 3 – Chad Awalt

Chad Awaltstudied Anatomy at the University of Colorado and has spent the last twenty five years continually expanding his knowledge of classical design and traditional art. Raised in an artistic family, he was inspired as a child to pursue his passion in sculpting. With his definitive style of the human form and his ability to embrace the native materials that surround his studio, Awalt gives…

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Season 2: Episode 2 - Matt Wilson

Season 2: Episode 2 – Matt Wilson

Matt Wilsonwas born and raised in Greenville, SC, and attended studio arts classes at the Fine Arts Center of Greenville and Winthrop University, where he worked on an arts degree in drawing and painting. Upon moving to Charleston, SC he became interested in metal sculpture. While interviewing for a welding position, Wilson landed a unique opportunity as the resident artist at Detyens Shipyards.…

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Charleston Scene Article with Talent Freaks

Charleston Scene Article with Talent Freaks

Charleston Scene a weekly entertainment newspaper did an article with us about our event with The Charleston Music Hall on August 14th.

Don’t let the title of Andy Coon’s insightful web series put you off. Despite any negative connotation that the word “freaks” might hold, the artists profiled in the All Aces Media production “Talent Freaks” are very much ordinary people. Sort of.

“All of the…

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Charleston City Paper Article on Talent Freaks

Charleston City Paper Article on Talent Freaks

Charleston City Paper did an interview with us about the event at The Charleston Music Hall on August 14th.

What do an outdoor spray-paint muralist, a portraitist whose primary medium is bottle caps, and a veterinarian who creates intricate driftwood pieces at his Beaufort home all have in common? According to filmmaker Andy Coon, they’re all talent freaks — freakishly good artists who share a…

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The Music of Season 2

The Music of Season 2

I am so fortunate to be able to work with some incredible musicians on Season 2 of Talent Freaks. Here are the list of fantastic musicians/composers and what episode they worked on.

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So happy to announce that Talent Freaks the web series took home an award last night at the Los Angeles Web Series Festival. This a big honor for me and I'm so proud to share all the artist that were a part of this series.  Like to thank Chris Hayner, Cokau Lab and Khoi Nguyen for helping with the opening and closing credits. Lori Farnum with all the awesome graphic design work. As well to all my wonderful artist that challenged, inspired and motivated me to push myself to show a small glimpse of their brillance. Tip of the hat my Talent Freaks.  If you have yet to watch the web series (what the hell is wrong with you) you can view the entire first season here.  https://vimeo.com/channels/talentfreaks

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Over the past few weeks in a wooded area around Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, UK—a city known for quirky architecture and annual art festivals—three sculptures were surreptitiously carved into a number of felled trees by an unknown artist. These were not crude, amateur wood carvings, but clearly the work of an accomplished sculptor that the Daily Mail called “an anonymous Banksy-style guerrilla artist”.

Incredible wood carving artist

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What at first look like delicate works of carved porcelain are actually thousands of layers of soft white paper, carved into busts, skulls, and human forms by Beijing artist Li Hongbo. 

I want this artist for Talent Freaks.

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Re-installation of “Building 3 Steps” at MACE /// The installation “Building 3 Steps” (first presented in Lisbon in 2006/07) was re-installed within MACE – the Contemporary Art Museum in Elvas, Portugal, which houses the António Cachola Collection, where it now belongs. One of the Diorama pieces in styrofoam is also being showcased alongside it. The current display will remain there for a year in the permanent collection exhibition.

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These incredibly photorealistic self-portraits are the work of Spanish painter Eloy Morales. Eloy is one of the best hyperrealistic painters in the world, not only

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Sometimes an artist creates something so beautifully simple that it takes your breath away…. literally. (hack line – couldn’t help it) Artist Jason de Caires Taylor creates life-size cement sculptures of people and submerges them into the waters of South America. As time passes [....]

This is absolutely beautiful and such a creative idea.

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This is pretty incredible

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