John Lee

I started writing and photography when I was six (I am now almost forty). My 1st job was before Blockbuster Video at a mom-n-pop video rental establishment. In exchange for any and every movie I wanted, I cleaned up, fetched lunch and the like. My 1st real job was Tower Records, 1996-2000.

I also did some tech gigs where I began learning about operating systems and LANs. Boy George (formerly of The Culture Club) helped an idea I had explode into a multimedia frenzy of interviews with DJs from around the world in April of 2001 but certain events brought that to an end.

Drawing from a lifetime of experience with bad taste and good luck, I wrote my first screenplay ("Blackline" - a high-crime auctioneer with a cyberpunk setting) in 2003 and got the attention of a film production company in Los Angeles.

Between 2010 and 2013, I wrote, produced, shot and edited a demo reel which consisted of eight short films and several fake commercials. I am primarily a photographer in the day-to-day life and in pre-production on my second demo reel; filming is tentatively set to begin in Autumn of 2017.

If you're still reading this, hey, cool, thanks for sticking around

To close, here's a list of cornerstones to who I am today.

FILM

[] "Blade Runner" (original theatrical cut)

[] "12 Monkeys"

[] "The Godfather I & II"

[] "Ronin"

[] "Almost Famous" - the bootleg cut

MUSIC

[] Master of Puppets - Metallica

[] Astro-Creep: 2000 - White Zombie

[] The Bends - Radiohead

[] Pornography - The Cure

[] Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys

BOOKS

[] "A Tale of Two Cities" - Charles Dickens

[] "The Stand" - Stephen King

[] "Count Zero" - William Gibson

[] "Prey" - Michael Crichton

[] "Bright Lights Big City" - Jay McInerney