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shuttersoul.com: Your Guide to Living Soulfully in Chicago
shuttersoul.com is a Chicago based culture and lifestyle site. The site is dedicated to shedding light, visually and editorially, on local culture, talent, and places in Chicago and the surrounding areas. shuttersoul.com was formed to provide a unique forum for exhanging local cultural events and exposing Chicago talent to a mass audience.
Founded: December 1st, 2009/Chicago, Illinois
Design and Development
Neoteric Design designed and developed this site. Neoteric redesigns websites with a focus on customer needs, site goals, ease of use and engaging design. A complete design and development was completed in December 2009, and co-directed by shutter soul Publisher Tedd Strom.
Typography
The primary navigation for the site is set in Trade Gothic Bold. Page titles and subtitles are set in Helvetica Neue Bold. Helvetica is used for body text.
Technical
We used Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop and TextMate to create this site, and content is maintained using Expression Engine. The site is structured using semantic markup and complies with the XHTML 1.0 transitional web standards as set by the W3C.
If you have questions, comments or suggestions regarding this site, please contact us.
Tedd Strom, Publisher & Soulful Contributor
shuttersoul.com Cultural Curators
Comedy
Tim O’Malley: Director, Actor, Comedian
Tim O’Malley studied acting and Improvisation with Del Close, Don DePollo, Bernie Sahlins, Sheldon Patikin , and Alexander Technique with Ed Bouchard. Tim is an alumnus of The Second City Resident Company (1989’ – 93’) where he wrote and performed in 5 original revues. Tim O’Malley’s original play "Godshow" ran for four years to sold out audiences and critical acclaim all over Chicago. He recently finished his second play “9210 South Winchester”. Tim recently wrote and produced his first short film “Reasonably Happy” with Dan Andries at WTTW Chicago which airs in Feb. '09. Tim was also featured in a documentary onWTTW Chicago’s Irish. Tim has performed with Famous Door Theater and CollaborAction Theater. He can be seen in the films: Return to Me, Bad Meat, Shift, and Black Days.Tim is a Core Faculty member at The Second City Training Center, where he teaches Improvisation and Scene Creation at The Conservatory Level 5.
Jamie Black: Actor, Comedian
Jamie is an actor/comedian in Chicago. He has performed for many theatre companies in Chicago including Noble Fool Theatre, Factory Theatre, and Bailiwick Repertory. He is also a graduate of Second City's writing program. He is currently a company member of Bare Boned Theatre where he performs regularly in the LGBT soap opera "The Ville". He has appeared on The Chelsea Handler Show and is currently working on his stand up comedy. He can currently be seen on YouTube as "The Bathtub Philosopher".
Cinema
Mike Dombrosky
Mike is a veteran editor of documentaries and reality-style video programs for such networks as The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, The Weather Channel, and also HGTV. Mike is also completing a grant-funded documentary at his home Final Cut Studio 2 editing suite. Mike's diverse background includes a 2-year tour in the Peace Corps,where he produced educational video material for the Government of Jamaica's Ministry of Health. He has also shown numerous self-produced short films at the Chicago Comedy Film & Video Festival, and has edited multiple shows at Towers Productions that have earned TellyAwards, including "Las Vegas Flood" and "Galveston Flood", both episodes of The Weather Channel series, "Storm Stories".
Drama
Matt Holzfeind
Matt Holzfeind is an actor in Chicago, whose most recent credits include Strauss at Midnight, with Theatre Oobleck at the Gallery 37 Storefront Theatre, Romeo & Juliet, with TUTA, Our Town, with Lookingglass, and The Flu Season, with Black Sheep Productions. He has worked with many other theater companies in the city, including The Goodman, Writers', Pegasus, The House, Collaboraction, Eclipse and Congo Square, to name a few. He is a company member of The Strange Tree Group, where he has also appeared in several productions, and works in theater education and outreach for Emerald City Children's Theatre, and A Crew of Patches Shakespeare Theatre Company.
Music
Tyler Huffman: Musician, DJ
Tyler Huffman joined his first band in 1993 as a guitarist for a traditional Ska band in the southwest Missouri area. Over the next 15 years he was in numerous bands, both original and cover, playing a variety of roles. He expanded to lead vocals and occasionally drums.
In 2007, Tyler branched into a new area of music when he began the Chicago deejay company, Cage and Aquarium Productions. His expertise in music allows him to offer a unique deejay experience to clients by combining live and recorded music at events. Since its inception, more than 15 local artists and musicians have joined the Cage and Aquarium crew. Tyler makes an effort to support these artists by providing respectable compensation for their work. This allows them more freedom and time to develop personal projects. Through deejaying, Tyler continues to bring music into peoples lives and his own.
Visual Art
Shelley Anderson: Photographer
Shelley Anderson started as a photographer at age 15 when she borrowed her dad's camera to take her first black and white photography class. She quickly realized that photography was to become a lifelong passion, and she continued her training in photojournalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Shelley's training in composition and photojournalism influences how she tells the unique story of her subjects. She is dedicated to shooting black and white film and printing in the darkroom as an artistic release from everyday life. Shelley combines pinhole and medium format photography and film to create non-traditional and distorted images through a fundamental method of image capture. Shelley believes that photography is a means to see the past, live in the present and conceptualize the future.
