Posts Tagged ‘Tyler Shields’

Tyler Shields, a photographer and painter, will debut a new show this weekend at the Poodle Parlor in downtown Los Angeles. Titled “Life Is Not a Fairy Tale,” the exhibit will be open to the public on Sunday after a launch party Saturday night.

The main attraction is a painting he created using blood collected from more than a dozen celebrities. The list of artistic donors includes nightclub promoter Brent Bolthouse, film financier Ryan Kavanaugh, and actress Jenna Ushkowitz.

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After 40 days of not sleeping, LA photographer Tyler Shields (pictured) wound up doing the very last thing he probably expected last night. He stayed up for another eight hours.

But fall asleep Shields finally did, and following what can safely be described as “the mother of all naps”, he blogged about the experience this afternoon on his website. Writes Shields:

It took me eight hours to fall asleep and after 40 days of not sleeping I slept from 8am to 1:55 pm. I woke up starving and ate half a loaf of bread sitting on my kitchen floor. My head felt like it was going to explode, almost as if a tank was driving through a wall and the only thing stopping it was my head! I still feel a bit like a balloon floating in space.

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