Please click here to check out my Kickstarter. Thank you for all the support over the years!

I’m very excited to announce my Kickstarter campaign for a very special personal project that has been in my head and heart for the last 3 years. It’s always been a dream of mine to create a large sureal series of photographs centered around a character.  The campaign’s purpose is to fund the purchase of a prop (SPACE SUIT) for a LARGE fine art series I will shoot along my travels in my airstream. (you read that right, Space Suit) The Space Man character, The Xplorer, will be found in a variety of landscapes that I will shoot in many of the country’s national parks over the course of 2 years.  I’ve come up with a pretty awesome range of rewards  from Polaroids, prints, and to a very cool book that includes your name in it on a special Thank You page!

This was not such an easy thing for me honestly. It’s hard to put yourself out there as a creative, to ask people to believe in you enough to pull out their hard earned money. But if you believe in the project enough you just have to go for it! It’s only been live for about 35 hours and I’m blown away by the amazing pledges and abundant positive feedback I’ve gotten!

To be honest the timing is extremely hard for me to grasp because literally 1 hour after the campaign went live did I learn on the  Tornado devastation in Oklahoma. Such horrible loss. Words can’t begin to describe how much I love that I live in this country that rises to help its people in a time of crisis. (government and individuals)  SO LET ME BE CLEAR! First and foremost, I ask you to consider giving to one of the disaster relief organizations for the Oklahoma Tornado victims. Then after that if you still want to be involved in making this project become a reality then I would be extremely grateful.

• Text “Storm” to 80888 –> $10 to Salvation Army
• Text “Redcross” to 90999 –> $10 to Red CRoss Disaster Relief 
• Text “Food” to 32333 –> $10 to OK Regional Food Bank

After meditating on it quite a bit after I learned about the tragedy I was still left with the feeling I truly believe this project will inspire lots of people  with its visuals. I’m not saying it’s going to rebuild that town, that is underway already. But it’s important to stay inspired! To spur the imagination.

Please click here to check out my Kickstarter. Thank you for all the support over the years!

Deadly Tornados, Plant explosions, Marathon Bombings, school shootings, theater massacres. We’re beaten up but NOT BEAT. Rise through love!

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ShutterBug Book. Brian Braun

“Brian Braun, a local Dallas photographer, believes he’s hit Pulitzer pay-dirt when he receives an unusual call for an extraordinary photo shoot from a U.S. Senator.  Afterward, however, Braun comes to realize his photographs have done more than record history.  He’s recorded one of the greatest hoaxes and politically devastating scandals that breeches beyond the boundaries of Watergate.  The hoax is perpetrated on the American people by a private security firm that specializes in high profile political murder.  Relying on his own streetwise wits, Braun has less than forty-eight hours to stay a step ahead of a highly motivated death squad and keep from being branded by history as the next Lee Harvey Oswald.”

We’ve been asked to do a duo book signing soon so snatch up a copy (YES one made of real paper)! Buz is a really neat guy who has taught in public schools and Art Institutes, connected to some seriously powerful people, (FBI, CIA etc) but also down to earth. Below is a portrait I did for his author bio.

Be Well, Go Far

-Braun

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Needless to say I’m inspired! I have always wanted my upcoming trip to not just be about me so I can’t wait to do this while on the road! Does anybody have anybody specific that this would benefit? Maybe a children’s hospital special department? I would love to connect with them and start forming a game plan with my Airstream trip. Would love to do a few locally around Dallas before I leave as well.

Add me on Google+ at BRIAN BRAUN

Start your own Virtual PhotoWalk to Share and Help Others here

Be Well, Go Far!Braun

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-Braun

1. The event is 4-8pm

Talk to you soon!

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THANK YOU EVERYBODY THAT CAME OUT! WE HAD A BLAST!

HUGE THANKS for helping me organize this thing…

• Klyde Warren Park
• 106.1 Kiss FM
• Electro Innovators  
• Lights All Night

Big Thanks to Klyde Warren Park!

Want some real fun, go to instagram and look at #dfwHarlemShake  to see all the photos from it. Great stuff!

Also check out the cool photos Penny got during the event! She was the one that started the whole party in her Daft Punk helmet and was also the one to really encourage me to do the event in the first place!

Ranger WOOKIE

Be Well, Go Far

-Braun

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Everybody in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex, We’re doing a MASSIVE Harlem Shake video and ALL ARE INVITED! Bring your craziest props to wear and we’ll handle the rest. Kids, College Students, Professionals, Moms, Dads, Grandparents, Cops, Photographers…We Need You!  ALL ARE WELCOME! Everybody Spread the Word!  The video will be up that night!

• Klyde Warren Park, Downtown Dallas.   
  2012 Woodall Rodgers Freeway
  Dallas, TX 75201
• Saturday, February 16th.  
• 11 Am

Tweet it! Facebook it! Google +! Instagram! Foursquare! Link’d IN! SPREAD THE WORD & BRING EM OUT!

BE SURE AND RSVP AT THE FACEBOOK EVENT HERE!

#DFWHarlemShake

 Don’t know what a Harlem Shake is?? Watch these Hilarious Videos!

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I took over 10,000 photos that trip and somehow when I get the chance to go through them it still doesn’t feel like enough! It was a dream trip with experiences and new friends I will cherish for the length of my life. Needless to say, I can’t wait to go back and am forever grateful I had the opportunity to go. Here are a few of my favorite images from my trip to Africa, (South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe).

Which one is your favorite? (Sorry so many, if it takes a bit to load, I couldn’t cut the selection to less!)

Be Well and Go Far!

-Braun

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Which one is your favorite?

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-Braun

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Happy New Year!

If I cannot bring you comfort
Then at least I bring you hope
For nothing is more precious
Than the time we have and so
We all must learn from small misfortune
Count the blessings that are real
Let the bells ring out for Christmas
At the closing of the year
Let the bells ring out for Christmas
At the closing of the year.

If I cannot bring you comfort
Then at least I bring you hope.

Now all the winter bells are ringing
Hear them echo through the snow
And the children’s voices singing
on the streets so far below

This is a time to be together
And the truth is somewhere here
Within our love of people
At the closing of the year.

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