I am a photographer, I'm slowly getting my AA and will then go to art school somewhere, maybe Chicago. I specialize in taking many pictures of a scene, cutting them into pieces, and putting them back together to make up a bigger picture. I've always felt this is a sort of metaphor for life in general. We are always trying to make something bigger than the sum of its parts.
Aside from photography I am not very good at art. I come from an art family and grew up in an art town. Loveland, CO is a big place for sculpture and because there's so many sculptors it attracts other artists. So I kind of have a good sense of what is good art and what is bad. I understand that the quality of art is subjective but only to a degree. Like Rabo Karabekian is so fond of saying when asked how to tell a good painting from a bad one, "just look at a millon paintings and you'll know."
Other than that, I work in the arts and letters department of the local community college and some jobs on the side for beer money. I own three SLR's, all Canons. An old manual one from the 70's, a Rebel Ti, and a digital Rebel xTi. I have three tattoo's including my entire left arm, and three holes in each ear which are intermittantly filled with metal. I'm certifiably crazy and have spent time in a mental hospital but only the required 72 hours for observation. I've been arrested twice but not for anything cool.