Edwin Faughn

About me

Industry Arts
Occupation Artist & Lecturer
Location Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Interests I enjoy working with people on creative production teams and various other projects. Teaching and inspiring people about art and the beauty and vastness of the universe and encouraging others with their unique talents and abilities. Working with regional and world humanitarian missions projects. I have served on short-term missions to East Africa and South America. I enjoy observational astronomy, paleontology and collecting fossils, full scale and radio controlled model aviation, church and walking. I love visiting art, cultural history, space, and natural history museums, reading, racing, movies, music and spending time with my family and friends.
Favorite Movies In the Shadow of the Moon, The Right Stuff, October Sky, Apollo 13, Star Trek, Henry Poole is Here, Everything Is Illuminated, Cosmos, Pride And Prejudice, Apocalypto, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Gladiator, Passion of the Christ, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, O Brother Where Art Thou, History of the World, Joe Dirt, Contact, Dish, Boy in Striped Pajamas, The Pianist, The Atonement, Girl With a Pearl Earring, Bubble Boy, Army of Darkness, Evil Dead 2, Vangelis: Mythodea, 2001 and 2010 Space Odyssey, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Sling Blade, Babette's Feast, Titanic, Kung Fu Hustle, Kung Pow, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, House Of Flying Daggers, The Three Stooges, Tommy Boy, Airplane, Naked Gun series, Forbidden Planet and other classic old and new SciFi movies, Dumb and Dumber, Amelie, The Mission, Ferris Buelers Day Off, The Villian, Napoleon Dynamite, Band Of Brothers, Raising Arizona and numerous other films or documentaries that have inspired or challenge me to think, change or just laugh out loud.
Favorite Music Vangelis, John Michael Talbot, Iona, Yes, Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, Lisa Gerrard, Jonn Serrie, Sting, David Gilmour, Jon Anderson, Henyrk Gorecki, Lemon Jelly, 70's and 80's music, Natalie Merchant, Dave Matthews Band, U2, Pearl Jam, Rush, Talking Heads, David Byrne, Kate Bush, Brian Eno
Favorite Books The Bible, works by Billy Graham, Chuck Swindoll, Charles Spurgeon, Charles Stanley, Timothy Ferris, Carl Sagan, C.S. Lewis, Dag Hammerschold, Steven Hawking, The Search For Significance, Streams in the Desert, Oswald Chambers and numerous other books and authors that have challenged me to think or change over the years.