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Name: Anthony Trott
Age: 32
Status: In Relationship
Location: New Jersey
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Background
I was born and raised in Maryland. I moved to New Jersey in 2006.
I’ve
cared for well over 1,500 pets. Maybe about half of them have been
freshwater or saltwater fish and creatures. The rest ranged from a few
cats and dogs, to bearded dragons and sugar gliders, and whatever you
can think of in between. Most pet stores don’t have the variety of pets
that I’ve cared for.
I’m PADI Open Water Certified and I love SCUBA diving. It’s been awhile
since I’ve been in the water, though.
I have an Associate of Arts degree. Yep, that’s right. I had no idea
what I wanted to do when I went to college.
Document
Management and Document Control are how my days are currently spent. I
sit in front of a screen all day pressing buttons wishing I was at home
sitting in front of a screen pressing buttons.
My family lives
in Maryland. I never realized how important family was to me until I
moved to New Jersey. I miss them a lot at times. It’s hard to just drop
down and visit them whenever. It’s about a 4 hour drive each way. But I
do enjoy living in New Jersey.
I’ve played World of WarCraft on
and off since a few months after its release. I haven’t been around
there much lately. That world can get very addictive.
I’m sure
even in this day and age I spend more than the average amount of time
on the computer. But I like the search of something new and different
that it provides.
I haven’t had any pets since 2005, but I’m
hoping that will change soon. I have a vivarium at my apartment that
I’m very eager to setup. Once I get settled in with a company or
career, I plan to buy another house and get another Great Dane. They’re
the best dogs in the world.
Interests
CATS - [RETIRED]
The Phantom of the Opera
Les Misérables
BLUE MAN GROUP - [ATTENDED - 01/01/06]
STOMP
The Lion King
Sweeney Todd
Cirque Le Masque: Evolution - [ATTENDED - 02/07/09]
A Day in the Life: Three Phantoms in Concert Return - [ATTENDED -
01/17/09]
Best of MOMIX - [ATTENDED - 03/25/09]
Nai Ni Chen Dance Company: Silk & Bamboo - [NEED TICKET -
04/25/09] |
| Animals |
The Home
Zoo my experience with pets, from cats and dogs to stingrays.
Growing
up, my dad would take me for walks into the woods behind our house. I
never really thought of why we always did that, we just did. We'd go
back there and sit at the top of the cliff and look down at the stream,
maybe talk some, but mostly just sit there and throw sticks into the
stream. He'd always tell me to watch out for hunters and stuff that
might be too busy killing helpless deer to realize that I wasn't a deer
(by the way it's illegal to hunt in those woods in the first place).
Stuff like that. Then we'd go down and cross over where the stream was
and just take a random direction. But as you get older the walks get
less and less. They really taught a lot though, about him and about
nature and respect for the wildlife. Maybe once or twice we'd see a
deer but we'd see squirrels and once in awhile a fox or two. Sometimes
we'd go downtown Annapolis and feed the squirrels in State Circle. Now
that was fun. We'd just stay there for a few hours, sometimes my oldest
sister would come along and she'd feed them too.
My dad's always
been VERY outspoken when it comes to destroying habitats. He's more
than willing to write and call politicians and chew them a new one when
a new community would come in and destroy thousands of homes that
belonged to the animals, and I'm glad he does it. Someone has to. And I
hope he never stops.
So basically I guess you could say that my
dad is one of the main influences that has shaped my interests in
animals into what it is today and to what I inspire it to be in the
future.
Not to discredit my mom though. She's actually the one
that got me my first two real pets. I mean I had a small ten gallon
fish tank but that doesn't count. That was a hand-me-down from my
sisters.
One Christmas, many years ago, probably before I was
even in middle school or at least right around then, she and I went out
to a local pet store and bought two long-hair hamsters. I only recently
realized the simple fact of: Wow, my mom bought me hamsters. I mean
most parents don't let their kids have animals and my mom and I just
went out one day and bought them. It was great. Unfortunately one of
the two hamsters died of WetTail. There's a water treatment that you
can get to prevent this and in some cases cure this. It's actually
called "DryTail". My mom felt so horrible about this. I told her it
wasn't her fault. I'm not sure if she believed me or not. But I really
didn't hold it against her. We just didn't know. Well, to replace this
guy we got another pet. And it all just grew from there.
I've
had 7 cats, 4 dogs, a few wolves, hamsters, 5 ferrets, a guinea pig,
...I've bred mice, and gerbils, ...I've had a bunch of different salt
and fresh water fish, a turtle, a few hermit crabs, and a ton more.
I
think another thing that inspired my interest was when our cats would
catch a bird or a rabbit or something, we'd chase it down and get the
animal from them, and if it needed treatment we'd try to help it. Most
times they would die though. You can't really help but to get attached
to something when you look in its eyes when it's in pain and it knows
it's dying.
So I guess that's the basics of my story with animals. |
| Art |
Favorite
Artists
Anil Gupta (Tattoos)
Bob Ross
Christy Brown
Claude Monet
Francisco Goya
H. R. Giger
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
Shigenori Iwasaki (Tattoos)
Stefan Duncan
Vincent Van Gogh |
Background
Growing up, I always had an interest in art.
I enjoy taking in the worlds created through artwork.
What
really makes a piece enjoyable for me is one that pulls me in to wonder
where the artist's mind and life were at the moment of creating it.
What were their thoughts? What were their emotions? What influences
were in their life at the time? What relationships or substances were
involved in the piece?
I don't often worry myself with finding
out what was behind the work. I find the wonder of it all much more
fascinating at times than finding the actual truth of it all.
In
my own personal artwork, I've learned to let go of such meticulous
detail in which my older pieces have displayed and to just concentrate
for a bit on line, color and emotion.
I am currently exploring
keeping the artwork simple and more about its purpose I have set for
it. I visualize my artwork up on a wall and someone looking at it and
thinking "Yes, it's pleasant. But more importantly, this piece here
directly helped make a difference in someone's life."
Art can make a difference. I think it should.
Acknowledgements
Bob Ross - Artist - I grew up watching him and wishing I could paint
just like him.
Mr.
Morehead - High School Art Teacher / Artist / Mentor - The last real
art mentor I had. He smiled when I said I wanted to be an Artist, and
never said I couldn't. In an unrelated matter, he once said to me
"That's not good." ...It made a difference. |
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| Causes |
Open
Boxes - What's Your Cause?
I'm someone who has gone to the edge of, if not jumped over, many of
life's different aspects.
I've had a share of life's ups and downs, and experience new ones every
day.
I've
had my power cut off, slept in my car, lived with a condition for the
better part of growing up, abuse, destruction, illness, death, life,
wealth, poverty, rescue, love. All aspects of life have come to my
doorstep in one form or another.
Many people go through life
thinking something must be wrong with them. Many people feel alone in
their struggles, or even in their accomplishments.
You are not alone.
speak up, speak out, speak loud, speak often
This is for the masses. |
| Religion |
For years I voiced my opinion on
how organized religion has been used and abused throughout history.
I
don't trust people enough to really put out there what is true and
right on what is out there. I don't believe anyone knows what is really
out there in the first place, and if they did, I don't think they would
give an unbiased view to others on it.
I think some of the worst things in the human, and non-human, world
have been committed in the name of religion.
For years I didn't want to be classified in ANY aspect of a religious
stance.
Life
moves forward and thoughts form other thoughts and I realized one day
that I'm PROUD to call myself an Agnostic. I don't know if there's a
God out there. I don't feel that this planet is the only out there with
life. I don't feel that we're the biggest life forms out there with
thought and a sense of self and purpose and all of that.
I
believe in infinite bigness and infinite smallness. I think there is
always something bigger or smaller than what we see before us.
Everything makes up something else and everything is made up of
something else.
I know a lot of people turn to becoming Atheist.
And I get that. But to me, it's all the same as saying that someone
KNOWS there IS a God (in the sense that other religions define it, as
well as other senses). It's saying that the person KNOWS there IS NOT a
God.
I feel we don't know enough to KNOW either way.
Which makes another chapter in my life very interesting to some,
logical to me.
I was Ordained through the Universal
Life Church on October 22, 2008.
Ever
since finding out I COULD BE Ordained without joining a religion and
going to a church etc., I thought it would actually be pretty damn
great to have that.
So one day I remembered wanting to do this
and I searched around on the web and came across the Universal Life
Church and looked up its history, current events and beliefs. I
completely respect the whole philosophy behind its beliefs and I felt
proud to say "I would like to be a member of this church. This is the
organization for me." Whatever current events, struggles, beliefs, the
core foundation of ideals they present are what make sense and feel
right to me. So I was happy to join them.
Why get Ordained in the first place, especially when I'm Agnostic and
not sure about God...?
Well, first, if their IS NO "God" out there, then that makes me "God"
of my world. So, to me, the Ordainment still counts.
Doing this filled some struggle and void inside. I found a bit more
piece in it.
Having
this also keeps in the front of my mind that if there is something I
think this world needs, I need to be the one taking direct steps toward
accomplishing it. It's already made many changes and differences. |
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