Mike Olmsted

Denver Based

As a Sailor, he traversed the high seas of the far east and was bitten until bloody by a fuzzy animal a fraction of his size, got very sick and then recovered. After being blessed by a man in golden robes, he voyaged to the middle east where he discovered red skies, and water on fire, and was very confused. Returning home, still confused, he was robbed, and later taken in by a ragged gaggle of street youths that demanded he live in van by day, and make music by night. Sleepy, smelly, and desiring domestication, he learned how to use a camera, went to school, and got a job. Made photographs for CP+B, Microsoft, Infiniti, Domino’s, Hershey’s, and Kraft. One day he heard of a bird with two beaks across the sea, and decided he must go. Once there, he was peed on by a lesser ape, and had a confrontation with the local mafia. Laying low in a hut by the sea, Dengue Fever set in, and he was nursed back to health by kind women who adorned all but their cheerful faces in colorful cloth. Disillusioned, and having lost much weight, he returned home once again, where he still often wakes up sweating, and mumbling about ‘flying snakes’.