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\"Looping<\/a>If you reach Information Services Help Desk Administrator Russell Cooper \u201989<\/strong>, you can expect a calm, soothing, and professional presence to assist you with your computer needs. But don\u2019t let his grey-suit-and-conservative-sounding voice fool you, there\u2019s some wild rides in that personality. Rides as in roller coasters! And that\u2019s only one of Russell\u2019s passions. Another is photography, and he\u2019s combined the two in his 2014 ArtPrize submission, For Your Amusement. “I love photography, and I love roller coasters (riding and photographing),” said Russell. “And I\u2019ve been looking for a way to put them together.” The “marriage” is a collage of photos seamlessly melded together to create the ultimate roller coaster experience. Russell is a pretty good writer as well. Here\u2019s a sample from his artist statement: “Arms down, head back, and hold on. Slowly climbing your way to the top of the never-ending lift hill. Click. Click. Click. Click. Excitement and fear awaits. Heart in your throat, stomach-churning, cannot breathe. Prepare for the thrill ride of your life. Cresting the peak, you suddenly drop down the hill, wind in your hair, hands in the air, screams of pure joy, air-time lifting you out of your seat. The 3 minutes feel like an eternity, yet over in a flash. Let\u2019s go again!” You gotta love that liberal arts versatility. Russell majored in music and studied abroad in Muenster, Germany.<\/p>\n

ArtPrize opens to the public on Sept 24th and runs until the 12th of October. It\u2019s a democratic art exhibition involving several hundred thousand visitors and over 1500 artists and everyone gets to vote for their favorites…like Russell. We\u2019d love to know about other alumni who have submitted entries for ArtPrize 2014. Let us know, and we\u2019ll let our readers know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you reach Information Services Help Desk Administrator Russell Cooper \u201989, you can expect a calm, soothing, and professional presence to assist you with your computer needs. But don\u2019t let his grey-suit-and-conservative-sounding voice fool you, there\u2019s some wild rides in that personality. Rides as in roller coasters! And that\u2019s only one of Russell\u2019s passions. Another […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[31,42,40],"post_formats":[],"class_list":["post-4897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","tag-alumni","tag-arts","tag-staff"],"yoast_head":"\r\nWild Ride - News and Events<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If you reach Information Services Help Desk Administrator Russell Cooper \u201989, you can expect a calm, soothing, and professional presence to assist you\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wild-ride\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta 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But don\u2019t let his grey-suit-and-conservative-sounding voice fool you, there\u2019s some wild rides in that personality. Rides as in roller coasters! And that\u2019s only one of Russell\u2019s passions. Another is photography, and he\u2019s combined the two in his 2014 ArtPrize submission, For Your Amusement. “I love photography, and I love roller coasters (riding and photographing),” said Russell. “And I\u2019ve been looking for a way to put them together.” The “marriage” is a collage of photos seamlessly melded together to create the ultimate roller coaster experience. Russell is a pretty good writer as well. Here\u2019s a sample from his artist statement: “Arms down, head back, and hold on. Slowly climbing your way to the top of the never-ending lift hill. Click. Click. Click. Click. Excitement and fear awaits. Heart in your throat, stomach-churning, cannot breathe. Prepare for the thrill ride of your life. Cresting the peak, you suddenly drop down the hill, wind in your hair, hands in the air, screams of pure joy, air-time lifting you out of your seat. The 3 minutes feel like an eternity, yet over in a flash. Let\u2019s go again!” You gotta love that liberal arts versatility. Russell majored in music and studied abroad in Muenster, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>ArtPrize opens to the public on Sept 24th and runs until the 12th of October. It\u2019s a democratic art exhibition involving several hundred thousand visitors and over 1500 artists and everyone gets to vote for their favorites…like Russell. We\u2019d love to know about other alumni who have submitted entries for ArtPrize 2014. Let us know, and we\u2019ll let our readers know.<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4897"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14094,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897\/revisions\/14094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4897"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=4897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}