Thomas Patrick Huston

Thomas Patrick Huston is a writer, published photographer, musician, and award-winning filmmaker. He is known for a creative, risk taking, and thought-provoking approach to all of his work. Even though his first documentary was on a controversial subject (the N word) and presented in an unconventional way, he managed to beat thirty other documentaries, some by established filmmakers, in a contest sponsored by The Documentary Channel. Huston finished his second documentary in early 2008.

Early life

Huston graduated from James Whitcomb Riley High School in his native town of South Bend, Indiana. He moved to Lafayette, Indiana, in 1992 and spent nine years collecting degrees (BA in English Education, a BA in Creative Writing, and a Masters in English) at Purdue University and three years teaching high school at Jefferson High School. Lafayette's newspaper Journal and Courier ran three articles [ [http://homepage.mac.com/thomashuston/Press/PhotoAlbum82.html Articles Written about Thomas Patrick Huston ] ] on Huston's Advanced Placement Senior English course, including an editorial praising his teaching style.

Huston left secondary teaching in 1999 after Purdue University offered a teaching stipend. He taught Composition 101 and 102 at Purdue University while obtaining his Masters degree. In 2000 he moved to Chicago and was an editor for Houghton-Mifflin for three years before pursuing art full-time.

Huston moved back to his native state of Indiana in December 2007. He currently resides in Indianapolis.

Photography

Thomas Patrick Huston's photography has been published in "The Potomac Review [ [http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/potomacreview/ The Potomac Review] ] " and "After Hours" [ [http://www.afterhourspress.com/archives/issue15.html After Hours - A Journal of Chicago Writing and Art ] ] .

He favors black and white photography over color and usually has a title included with every photograph. He is currently looking to publish a collection of some his work. Huston's current photography can be seen on his myspace page. [ [http://www.myspace.com/thomaspatrickhuston MySpace.com - www.myspace.com/25223244 ] ]

Film

In 2007 Huston's documentary "A Grassroots Analysis of the N Word" was announced as the grand prize winning documentary [ [http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070621005267&newsLang=en The Documentary Channel (DOC) and VMIX Announce 'Do It Yourself' Documentary Contest Winners ] ] [ [http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070621/20070621005267.html?.v=1] ] in a contest sponsored by The Documentary Channel and VMix. "A Grassroots Analysis of the N Word" had a world premiere [ [http://www.documentarychannel.com/schedule/index.php?d=2007-06-23 The Docum enta ry Channel - DOC Schedule ] ] on June 23, 2007, on The Documentary Channel during the channel's prime time hours.

The website Internet Video Magazine listed "A Grassroots Analysis of the N Word" on their list of "Best Films and Videos of the Week" and said the film was "a very interesting documentary." [ [http://homepage.mac.com/thomashuston/Press-TPH/PhotoAlbum83.html Thomas Patrick Huston ] ] The website also listed the video in their section titled "Political and Controversial Videos and Websites: A guide to websites who want to change the world through video and multimedia." [ [http://www.internetvideomag.com/Web-Sites/Political10001.htm Political Videos and Movies and Cartoons ] ]

On July 11, 2007, the Oak Park, Illinois newspaper "Oak Leaves" published an article on Huston and his winning documentary, "A Grassroots Analysis of the N Word." The title of the article was "Film gets takes on controversial word".

Thomas Patrick Huston finished his second documentary, "they do more for prisoners than they do for vets" in early 2008. He has entered it in multiple contests including the first ever online film festival. [ [http://www.babelgum.com/html/community.php?idCommunity=1 Babelgum - The new global Internet television network ] ]

A ten second trailer of Huston's new documentary can be seen at the following link: http://www.babelgum.com/html/clip.php?clipId=110604.

Music

In 2003 Huston and three others from Houghton-Mifflin started a band called "Heather". Huston started out writing lyrics and other song craft ideas, but was eager to contribute musically, and so he bought a keyboard and self-taught himself how to play. The band only played live once during a battle of the bands concert.

"Heather" stayed together for a little over a year. Huston decided not to give up music entirely and began a solo project called "Wind, Trees and BIrds" [ [http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=69587954 MySpace.com - Wind, Trees, and Birds - Chicago, Illinois - Expérimentale / Alternative / Autre - www.myspace.com/windtreesandbirds ] ] and another project with a friend called "Magdalene". Huston began experimenting with Pro Tools and Garageband by creating a unique collage of sounds by mixing talk from Polish radio, distortion, drum beats, and keyboards, and his goal in each instrumental is usually to have the soundscape represent the title of each song. The two songs heard in "A Grassroots Analysis of the N Word" are written and performed by Huston. "Wind, Trees, and BIrds", "Magdalene", and "Heather's" music can be heard on Huston's Tagworld music page [ [http://www.tagworld.com/wtbmusic/ TagWorld :: Wind, Trees, and Birds - Home ] ] .

Writing

Huston has written a novella, a play, two shorts stories [ [http://homepage.mac.com/thomashuston/fiction/FileSharing81.html Thomas Patrick Huston ] ] , and over one-hundred poems. He is currently looking into getting some of his work published and/or performed.

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