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C.C.(Charles Charles)Adams. Born: December 25th 1978

(Multimedia Artist) Updated 2021: C.C. Adams is a Southern California based Multimedia Artist & Social Observational Poet with a focus on landscape photography and forms/variations of its manipulation.

Born as an only child on Christmas day 1978. His parents, Charles & Clarissa, were one of southern California's original organic goat's milk farmers. Having a leased ranch in Riverside (although living in the hippie commune area of Topanga Canyon, outside Los Angeles, California) his parents were one of the original "foundation farmer's" in California that created the local food movement. They farmed goat's raised on free range techniques which produced some of the finest milk and cheese products in the US throughout the early 1980's until the closure of the facility to accommodate condominiums being built by a developer who owned their leased land.

C.C. was the President of his class throughout high school, but being an only child and home schooled most likely allowed for that honor to be easily bestowed to him year upon year. With heavy earthy artistic and hippie based parental neglect being such heavy influences on C.C., he found himself easily drawn to the arts through out his youth.

With close location to film & music productions and narcotics in Los Angeles, C.C. was able to both score drugs and jobs working as a P.A.(Production Assistant) on many Music Videos in the 1990's.

With a fondness for camera's and Percocets C.C. took to the local Los Angeles creative scene easily and with fire. As he continued to work for Music Video Productions a new found passion for taking photographs of the locations he usually found himself at during the video shoots emerged. As music videos mostly took place in scenic and remote places along with providing him with hours of downtime, C.C. took advantage of the opportunity to start taking photographs whenever he was on a shoot.

C.C. found solace in these remote places and on these production shoots. The production locations and lack of city stress and people reminded C.C. of his youth spending time at the Riverside goat ranch as well as Topanga Canyon. This transitional creative era created his passion and career in poetry and photography.

Today's results are due to his brief visits to the desolate and quiet parts of the country mixed with his current need to live in the Los Angeles Metro area (also his inspiration for disturbed poetry based on social observations).

His current ramblings and photos can be found all over the place from website's, blogs and art gallery's in the Southwest.

Photography: As of January 2013 C.C. Adams photography portfolio is undergoing a completely new review for (re)release in the summer of 2013. A new website and gallery hosting events are scheduled. At this time all images on blogs and other websites have been either removed or asked to be removed as under license. Images C.C. had licensed to stock photo websites continue to be available but not as original C.C. Adams image portfolio work.

With new business development assistance from his "Associate Manager", Brian Krawcykowski, C.C. Adam's work is temporarily on hold and his portfolio is under review in order to further develop a more sustainable work flow for C.C.. C.C. Adam's and Brian met (Brian was trail running) in the hills of Southern California when Brian approached C.C. (who was "thrashing about in the brush with an expensive camera so I thought he needed help"-Brian ) to ask if he needed assistance. They struck up conversation and spoke about camera's and the outdoors which has evolved to a business relationship over the years.

Poem: C.C. Adam's "poetry" style is self described as "Society Observational Commentary, part truth, with a dash of cynical humor but mostly asshole". His early childhood of living simply (hippie parents) but close proximity to Los Angeles has created a unique view on life and the people in it. As he spent many years working on film and video productions he was immersed in the behind the scenes world of Hollywood which has greatly created a unique non-trusting relationship with people and a bit of a bitter outlook on almost everything. However, those factors have contributed to a unique view on the world, right or wrong, that has created some truthful and yet funny poems and Observational commentary.

C.C. Adams website is; http://www.iamccadams.com

Quotes & Poetry;

"Mother Earth is my Muse. Her Oceans my Sirens, Her Streams my Solitude, Her Mountains my Salvation" -C.C. Adams

"It looks like they're in a race to Stupid and unfortunatley it's looking like a tie....." -C.C. Adams