Aaron Douglas. American painter and major figure of the Harlem Renaissance.
Douglas is a graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1922. His style is based on the traditional style of Africa, dividing the figures into geometric objects.
Aaron Douglas is known as the “Father of American Art”.
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I love going to conventions and I love spending time with the fans and going to parts of the world where I wouldnt normally go.
Im a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think thats it really. I kind of have a look. Right now Im not fat enough to be the fat friend but Im not thin enough to be the leading man so I look like a cop.
I do miss Battlestar the cast and crew. That was a pretty well-oiled machine. Its sort of like you dont know what youve got till its gone. But I go to a lot of sci-fi conventions and I love going and talking about the show.
My mom says that when I was a little kid I always used to say I wanted to be an actor but I dont remember that.
When I was fourteen years old our family drove all the way from Vancouver to Newfoundland and back. Ive been all across the great land of Canada. I absolutely love the Maritimes and Im very excited to go back particularly in the fall when its one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
As an actor were unemployed a lot so Im familiar with the stress of trying to get a gig and sometimes you take shows that you dont really want to do to keep the money coming in.
Star Trek put sci-fi on the map and changed television and Battlestar has changed it in another direction by making it a little more mainstream and acceptable to people who wouldnt normally watch sci-fi.
My buddy tells me a lot of interesting stories about what goes on in prison – it just makes my head spin about what they deal with on a day-to-day basis.
I remember in high school thinking that I wanted to be a lawyer and now I realize I saw that movie And Justice for All when I was a kid and thought Thats what lawyers do and I want to get up and yell and scream in the middle of a courtroom.
The great thing about Battlestar was that it was basically Star Wars but once a week as opposed to waiting for three years for the movie to come out. I was a huge Battlestar fan.
I grew up playing hockey and some football and I always think about the first time you walk into the locker room on a new team. The cliques are looking at you funny and you make one friend but then theyre trying to stab you in the back.
I dont like shows that are predictable. I like it when youre shocked and you have no idea whos about to die.
I have a new show now called The Bridge where I play a guy whos a real-life guy. My characters based on the life of a guy named Craig Bromell who was a cop for 12 years and then became head of the police association so basically the president of the union for 85000 cops.
I would be the worst acting coach ever because I have no idea what Im doing.