Rip Read

Hi! I'm Rip Read
I'm an artist, large scale muralist, nature photographer, nature cinematographer, and a whole bunch of other stuff!
That said, I'm on a most important life mission...to bring genuine, quantifiable and undeniable stress relief and psycho-physiological restoration...instantly...to hundreds of millions worldwide that really need it.
Can you help?
If so...please, reach out!
As I said in my brief introduction, I'm on a mission...to bring passive stress relief to hundreds of millions worldwide...instantly!
It's as simple as watching one of my ocean sunrise videos...that's it...just imagine that...seriously, think about it. How can something as simple as watching a one minute or longer ocean sunrise video bring instant stress relief that's quantifiable, and undeniable...and, more importantly, backed by a literal mountain of peer reviewed "evidence". Over the past 50 years alone, thousands of University level studies, and research projects have documented, quantified, and validated the human/nature connection and it's psycho-physiological benefits.
The works of Drs. Kaplan, and Dr. Ulrich laid the foundations for my work, in their quite different but fully compatible...and now fully validated theories, Attention Restoration Theory and Stress Reduction Theory. Their work had been carried forward widely, and validated repeatedly, in the modern day, by researchers worldwide...most notably in the work of Dr. Rita Berto, and Dr. Terry Hartig. I am honored to have had this work...my ocean sunrises, evaluated and validated fully, by both of these top scientists in this field.
Dr. Hartig, of Upsala University in Stockholm, confirmed my "gut feeling" that one of the widest "markets" for this material is in the area of corporate employee stress relief...writ LARGE, and has provided me with several white papers and journal articles (his), in support of this direction. Can you help? Let's talk...yesterday! Your employees need this today...and the delivery system is fully in place...plug and play...it'll blow you away how easy it is to implement at scale.
Dr. Berto and her partner Dr. Barbiero, from Italy, took it a step further...and included some of this stuff in a peer reviewed article in Visions For Sustainability, as a counter balance to a Biophila in Architecture study, a few years back. Using 3M's highly regarded AI tool VAS, their evaluations of my work far outweighed my expectations...and proved the efficacy, in terms of attentional focus, of my singularly unique art form. There's much more to the picture than meets the eye. Take a look for yourself at sunrises4you.com You can't take your eyes off of this stuff...nobody can. That "hook", happening at the core resonant level is what it's all about...instant attentional refocusing...stress doesn't have a chance...it's gone...instantly...at least for now.
I am here to connect this work to it's rightful and widespread audiences, and figured that a professional community of like minded folks would be a good place to start.
As you learn more about my stuff, you'll see that it benefits ALL forms of stress and stress related behaviors. Quantifiable benefits for sufferers of Alzheimer's, ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorders, PTSD, Hospital and Hospice patients, visitors to doctor and dentist offices, all medical "waiting" rooms and situations, like infusion and Dialysis centers...and much more than I'll mention here. Stress is everywhere...you know it...and so do the people that need this passive instant form of real relief.
That's what it's all about...the short version...get into it...watch some video...on the largest screen you have available. Bigger is definitely better...according to Dr. Berto!
Then...reach out...I'm open to a wide variety of opportunities to get this stuff out...NOW!
Interests
For over 25 years I have hand painted...one glowing star at a time...in pitch black darkness, on ceiling, walls, and other substrates, realistic 5D views of the night sky. My StarMurals are so unique that the art form has been immortalized by Ripley's...Believe It Or Not! Not braggin'...just sayin" That's 1200+ StarMurals, mostly on the bedroom ceilings of the rich and famous, in 13 countries, so far. You'll find a link or two around here...somewhere.
This work...my Best Sunrises Archive, was created, solely by me, at Hollywood Beach, FL, over a 4 plus year period...before COVID showed up and killed the effort...but not me. That effort was over 700 attempts to capture these full motion HD, Atlantic Ocean sunrises. The net result of those "trips to the beach", before first light, resulted in 549 "captures"...hundreds of hours of finished high quality 100% natural footage.
All of this material was shot from the water line at a low "immersive" angle, often with my tripod in a foot or more of water, and the ocean always trying to steal my camera. I hope that you like the video work as much as I do...and that you benefit from its powerful potential...on a psycho-physiological level.
Be sure to watch the 4 videos below...and be sure to turn up the sound!

