The Official Intriguism Story Pictured, Left To Right: Shahram Farshadfar, Crazy Wolf (Randolph Maxted), and Lee Alien (Lee Balan) Sometime in 2007, a group of Southern California artists attended a social gathering -- as they had numerous times prior. The party-goers had known each other for a while and referred to themselves, as a creative group, as "Les Bon" (meaning "The Good" in French), as "free-spirited, free-thinking" artists. The group consisted of writers, poets, painters, photographers, assemblage artists -- all looking for avenues to exhibit their work and to learn more about the processes of creating art. The core group members of "Les Bons" were Shahram Farshadfar (painter, photographer, gallery owner, and a member of the Artists Council Board of Governors at the Palm Springs Art Museum), Crazy Wolf (Randolph Maxted -- poet, writer, publisher, actor and former model) and Lee Alien (Lee Balan -- poet, writer, assemblage sculptor, digi-graphos artist, minister and hypno-therapist). Mr. Alien showed some of his recent art work to the group. A fellow artist, Peggy Vermeer (painter, paper-maker, assemblage artist and docent at the Palm Springs Art Musuem for over thirty years), said of Lee's images as a "digi-graphos" artist, "Your work is intriguing." Lee responded rather flippantly, "That's because I'm an 'Intriguist'." And thus, the "title" of "Intriguism" was "created", somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Shortly thereafter, Crazy Wolf began gathering poetry and images to create a hard-copy, self-published magazine called, "The Intriguist", aptly titled since most of the submissions were from the "Les Bon" group who began referring to themselves as "Intriguists" as well. Most of the artistic endeavors created by the "Les Bons" resembled Dada and Surrealist methods in nature. Later that same year, A. Neal (writer, poet, film-producer) heard of the former "Les Bon" group (then known as primarily as "The Intriguists") and was introduced to the members of the group. It was explained to him how the group arrived at the word "Intriguist" and the general meaning behind the word -- which was somewhat vague. Mr. Neal then began research on art movements and other historic groups who influenced art (such as Dada, the 1940's "Roundtable" in New York, "The Beats" of the 1950's, and "Pop" culture in the 1960's), as well as differing art methodologies such as the newly created digital art which uses multiple media. Lee Alien and A. Neal (who then changed his moniker to "Brother Andy" in homage to "brothers and sisters in the struggle for self-actualization") decided to take the concept further, developing a true art method and to define a legitimate art practice while Copyrighting and Trademarking the intellectual properties involved. The original "Les Bon" group members (except Mr. Alien) declined participating in the business aspects of "Intriguism" but lent their time and talents to its overall success. A logo was designed. Fliers were created. Brother Andy annointed "believers" in the practice as "Brothers and Sisters in the struggle..." and further developed an understanding of the technique of utilizing the past, present and future as basic materials in a technological Information Age for a global audience. The vision grew by the day, as did a group of supportive group artists who began labeling themselves as "Intriguists" as well. The results have been inspiring to all parties involved. Intriguism was then developed into a company to create multi-media projects for artists. Recently, music videos, films, magazines (both hard-copy and on-line), websites, e-books, e-calendars, products and personal appearances have brought the "Intriguism" movement to the public. Reactions to the work has been overwhelmingly positive. Intriguism products and services have increased dramatically. The launch of the 24/7 video-on-demand TV channel, Intriguism-TV, began in February 2010. Also in 2010, Brother Andy became the soul holder of the Intriguism trademark/copyrights and expanded the brand into producing live entertinament events and licensing. To date, more than over 100 artists have been helped by the Intriguism project.

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