Willy Thorn is a communications expert & artistic renaissance man. He is a journalist & copywriter, teacher, author & artist.
He has lived many places, beginning with Milwaukee & Rome & Minnesota & central Wisconsin. Among his other homes are Washington DC & Baltimore, Chicago & the Twin Cities, St. Francis South Dakota, the Bay Area & Shanghai. He currently lives & works in Bangkok.
Thorn has a Masters Degree in Journalism & has spent time as a Capitol Hill reporter & wire editor, sports writer, political columnist & arts critic. Other media endeavors include public relations campaigns, magazine feature writing, ghostwritten biographies & time on the radio – as a DJ & on-air host, play-by-play sports announcer & music promoter.
He has spent nearly a decade as a language specialist for Craft Worldwide & as a copywriter & creative for McCann Worldgroup. He currently works as senior copywriter at Quo Global branding agency in Bangkok.
He has won awards at Cannes Lions & been recognized for sports writing & political columns, magazine features, theatre scripts, religious publications & photography.
Thorn is also a photographer & classical oil painter, trained thru the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC. His artistic c.v. includes photography gallery shows; sculpting in Mamallapuram, India; concrete statuary at Wat Xieng Mouane, in Luang Prabang, Laos; and flower petal mosaics in Cagli, Italy.
He is a Buddhist meditation instructor; trained thru Thailand's renowned Willpower Institute. And he was even the rare foreigner to complete the entire six month course in spoken & written Thai. He currently sits as an advisor on the institute's English Foreign Language subcommittee – where he translates books, helps develop outreach programs & occasionally lectures.
He proudly notes a Master's Degree from Marquette University & books in both Washington's Library of Congress & the Vatican Archives in Rome.
His catalog is varied & he has written extensively about a number of subjects — including sports, politics, religion, Buddhist philosophy & Asian history & art. One of his largest endeavors was documenting & cataloguing several hundred temples in Bangkok, Ayutthaya, Yangon, Vientiane & Kuala Lumpur.
His catalog is available thru the following distributors: Am...
A collection of classic rhyming poetry built around the concept of personification; giving life & form, voice & breath to virtues & philosophical concepts.
Individual pieces include: flourishing Superstition, Idolatry & Hypocrisy; Outlaw Time & beautiful Nature; the collision of Time & Truth; Justice's eager ears; Lust & Greed exposed, as so naïve; Ignorance tobogganing; Alcohol is no lady — & certainly not your friend; the discourse between Knowledge & Wisdom; the relationship between Death & Beauty & more.
Includes 27 pieces, accompanied by allegorical art work from Arnold Böcklin, Donatello, Titian, Albrecht Duerer, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Kano Motonobu, Frederick Stuart Church, Maritius Lowe, Theodoor van Thulden, Balthasar Permoser & the Supreme Court of Canada.
Includes quotes from:
Martin Luther
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
John Updike
Mos Def
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tennessee Williams
William Carlos Williams
D.H. Lawrence
Lee Xiaolong
the Book of Isaiah
Jim Stands
the Book of Isaiah
John Webster
Jeremy Taylor
Pliny
Laurell K. Hamilton
Jack Kerouac
Marquis de Sade
Nicholas Rowe
Miguel de Cervantes
Rumi
John Updike
Claudian
Georges Bernanos
Tryon Edwards
Billy Graham
e.e. cummings
Mark Twain
Michel de Montaigne
Jimi Hendricks
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Thucydides
Henry Ford
Kurt Vonnegut
Louis Pasteur
DeWitt Clinton
Calvin Coolidge
Augustus Hare
Derek Bok
Margaret Fuller
Jay-Z
Friedrich Nietzsche
Leonardo da Vinci
Marcus Garvey
Plato
Ralph W. Sockman
Stephen Hawking
Kofi Annan
Avery Brooks
James Madison
John Milton
Jim Morrison
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Horace
Homer
Wallace Stevens
Walt Whitman
J.R.R. Tolkien
Edgar Allen Poe
Henry David Thoreau
Virginia Woolf
Laughing Bull
Plato
Zhuang Zi
Thomas Moore
Título : Personified - Volume 1
EAN : 9781005301712
Editorial : Willy Thorn
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