Safari + Party = Safarty?
Tomorrow, Thursday September 18, 2014 marks what would be Dan’s 44th birthday! Here at Creative Visions, we take birthdays very seriously, and by seriously, I mean we go big! How big? A safari and a party!! In other words – what Dan did best. So first, if you live anywhere close to Malibu, CA or if […]
Turn on LA!
Calling all Dan fans who hate predictable galas but love to be inspired! Please join the Dan Eldon Legacy team and Creative Visions Foundation for a highly original party called Turn On LA! It will be an evening of mind-blowing music, suave food, engaging people, and better (than usual) spirits! Not to mention Aloe Blacc […]
An Excerpt from “Art of Life”: Intermission
An excerpt from the book Art of Life written by Jennifer New. Between May and July of 1992, Dan lacked a clear path. As usual, he filled the void with a host of schemes. Some of the crew members from the film had encouraged him to apply to UCLA’s film program and had promised him letters […]
An Excerpt from “Art of Life”: Heartland
An excerpt from the book Art of Life written by Jennifer New. As other UCLA students were getting ready for a few weeks of downtime with family and friends over the winter holiday, Dan was headed for a month of dizzying travel, romance, and decision making. Even by his standards, life was more crowded than usual. When […]
An Excerpt from “Art of Life”: Thanksgiving
An excerpt from the book Art of Life by Jennifer New. The fall of 1991 served as an antidote to the perpetual overcast of London and the sultry, labyrinthine alleyways of Morocco. Having temporarily given up the mobile shop, Dan returned to Los Angeles to take a few classes through UCLA Extension. It proved to be his […]
Our World, Their Lens
“It was exploring the unknown and trying to make it known to the rest of the world that led to Dan’s death. In the months before he died he made a name for himself covering the civil war in Somalia. Dan took searing images of the conflict’s innocent victims — skeletal children and starving men […]
An Excerpt from “Art of Life”: Arriving in Blantyre
An excerpt from the book Art of Life by Jennifer New. In the last week of the trip, Dan put a new sticker on Deziree’s bumper: “Positive Vibrations.” They needed the sentiment as they skirted the Mozambique border on their way to Bantyre. The area had a trashed, desolated look. The purpose of the trip, largely overlooked […]
Meeting Ralph: An Essay
Ralph Waldo Emerson By Dan Eldon It’s Monday and time to do my essays for class. Gone are the days of churning out a page and a half on “what I did last summer or over the weekend.” For Wednesday I have due: “Discuss the characteristics of Romanticism, using examples from Goethe, Wordsworth, and Keats” […]
Our World, Their Lenses
“After my first trip to Somalia, the terror of being surrounded by violence and the horrors of the famine threw me into a dark depression. Even journalists who had covered many conflicts were moved to tears. But for me, this was my first experience with war. Before Somalia, I had only seen two dead bodies […]
An Excerpt from “Art of Life”: Border Control
An excerpt from the book Art of Life by Jennifer New. While on the STA safari… The morning of July 15 began poorly. It was just five days since they’d left the coast. The previous night, they’d been unable to find a hotel until 3:00 A.M. People were slow to wake up, despite needing to prepare for […]
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