Posted 5/18/2019 - "This is Why We Do It"
3 minute and 51 second video with Lake Huron soothing sounds
that show where Brian Shell began his writing career in 1995
Welcome! You've reached Brian Shell's PassionHero.com
Brian's new book: 100 Names of Cats and Dogs
Check out Mr. Shell's 30 second drumming demo
Drum Circles is his new CD with 50 minutes of music
View Brian's bibiliography: www.amazon.com/author/brianshell
A PassionHero is an ordinary person in extraordinary circumstances who exudes a
passion for life even amidst great odds and tries to make the lives of those surrounding them
a better place because they're in it... as true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Eat Some Vegetables is a fun children's mp3 song of percussion performed and sung by Mr. Shell.
Mr. Shell's 200+ YouTube videos: www.youtube.com/user/passionherodotcom
Brian's (new) account on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/briankshell/
His business career profile and preferred method of contact - on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/briankshell
As mentioned by Jimmy Fallon
on The Tonight Show
10/1/2018
Video: Brian Shell plays Eat Some Vegetables Live at The Ark
It's also a 3:46 minute song on iTunes, Amazon, etc.
Eat Some Vegetables 2019 montage - a new music video
Brian Shell explains Eat Some Vegetables and its film references
He does so while strolling through a botanical garden - 9:00 video
Released September 20th, 2018
This audio CD contains 50 minutes of music
with 12 tracks that include a New Year's Eve drum circle
so the songs intensify as the evening advances towards midnight.
Easter Sunday in Detroit - 2019 - Tigers won!
366 daily inspirations targeted towards single mothers.
The original manuscript for this book was hand-written in a day journal
so the length of page kept each day's inspiration concise.
It was a romantic way to write it by candleight.
Paperback version of Single Mom Daily Devotions
Kindle version of Single Mom Daily Devotions
This is the book that began it all for Brian...
...it was his first one published.
Released July 17, 2018
100 Names of Cats and Dogs is available for Kindle.
It is also available as a paperback book.
As it suggests, there may be nothing that a
puppy licking your face can't cure.
It surveys pet owners, their pet names, and
some of the stories that make their pets special.
Student Study Cave - A Guide to Get Great Grades - Kindle
Print Version Student Study Cave
Create conducive surroundings and enable yourself to earn an excellent education. That's what this book is about... becoming your own best version of yourself. Be who you truly can be. This book aims to help you learn how.
It provides tips and tricks to bring home straight-A report cards so the college scholarships can roll right in.
Make scholastic achievement a consistently repeatable priority in school… and in life.
Build a happy space study space today.
It’s like a man-cave… for students.
From Student to Engineer
This textbook creates a college course that presents "The Journey of the Engineer."
Weekly topics include undergrad, graduate work, teaching, intellectual property,
money concerns, corporate engineering, mid-sized firms, & start-ups.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0196XBM3U - Kindle eBook
Gratitide Miles - 8000 Miles of Gratitude
On this 2014 8000-mile 20-day roadtrip, Brian gives gratitude to many past mentors.
It's his own private Idaho version of "Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance."
B.S. - "The road is there. The will is there.
All I gotta do is get in a car and go."
Gratitude Miles Paperback book
Note: this 8000 mile journey began 1/31/2014 at 5:15 p.m. EST
It completed 2/19/2014 at sunset... around 6:12 p.m.
Crossing through Career Crossroads
Re-calibrate to re-appreciate the crossroads Life
tends to send along the path of least regret.
Engineer a Path to Your Destiny and Avoid
Living a Life of Quiet Desperation
Dessert First Diet
Savor the food you crave the most when you are hungriest
so it tastes best and then get back to work eating right.
Ultimately, it hopes to help you realize any meal's
dietary point of nutrional dimishing returns.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006E0T3VC
Instead of one 60-minute workout, consider 60 1-minute workouts.
This exercise philosophy keeps your metabolism's
windmill spinning throughout the day.
Daily Common Cents
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015G2AZ5G - Kindle eBook
366 daily inspirations which present tips and tricks to make your $$$ last longer
This book's manuscript was hand-written in a day-journal to
keep each daily inspiration concise.
Attack of the Electronic Dust Bunnies
A.I. plays the part of an electronic trickster in this sci-fi novella,
and "It" randomly starts to pull the plug on
electricity and the internet.
The Chip
This edgy short film script satirizes future femto-physics for
electronic picochips and biochip implantation.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006GEPUW2 - Kindle eBook
Brian's entry into Adobe's contest: #PickaPortraitStyle
"A mentat needs his data." - Frank Herbert - DUNE
"The life which is not examined is not worth living." - Plato
"No matter where you go; there you are." - Buckaroo Banzai
"The price of anything is the amount of Life you exchange for it." - Henry David Thoreau
"I've stood with the trees in the storm to keep them company just so someone will have done it." - H.D.T.
3-way mirror at Frank Lloyd Wright's Affleck House
Distortions
(supernatural suspense drama screenplay
that started it all for Brian on July 9, 1995)
It places a supernatural entity in mirrors that shows us our inner truth
in the mirror's reflection when we are at a crossroads and
need a subtle sign to change to be our destined True Self.
It contains all the film pre-production preparations Mr. Shell made for
his "Distortions" script which shows our inner truth in the mirror's reflection.
Published eBook cover design from a drawing Mr. Shell drew for
his supernatural suspense drama - Distortions
Logline: A guiding ghost uses mirrors as a portal to offer inner honesty via
scary reflections and shared experience to confirm its true intent & reality.
Shastras – Received Wisdom about Right Conduct
Set inside a House of Mirrors, 4 people represent
Pride, Anger, Grief, and Love in this stage play on Serendipity.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004CYF4ME - Kindle eBook
Texas Hold’em Tournament Tactics
Tips & tricks Mr. Shell used to win numerous poker tournaments.
It strictly covers the changing strategies of tournament play.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004D4Y672 - Kindle eBook
A photo eBook of all the art Brian Shell created with flavorful details
and colorful commentary about the origin and inspiration for each piece.
This film script depicts odd-couple brothers who take a one-last-look roadtrip
cross-country for a critical but experimental bone marrow procedure
It's similar to the road-trip movie "Sideways"...
only with younger men and weed instead of wine.
Mind Games
An idyllic visionquest to become a Hollywood director soon turns into
a knight's quest to test his sanity in this LA cuckoo's nest of a screenplay.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004EYUHP6 - Kindle eBook
The Sexuality of Synergy
A streamofconsciousness book about the muse and
sexual components that often fuel its creative inspirations.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C1P39H8 - Kindle eBook
Kindle eBook of daily inspirations for the single mother
just as Spring begins to sing & bloom.
99 cent Kindle eBook
This Kindle eBook delivers daily inspirations to
Savor those dreaded triple-dog-dare-ya days of Summer.
99 cent Kindle eBook
Daily wintertime inspirations help keep you warm as a Kindle eBook.
99 cent Kindle eBook
Spirit Vapors - 10:11 music video - released 3/2/2019
It travels to churches, pious artwork, and
scenic awe... all across America.
Its etheral ending at the Grand Canyon reminds
of the end of Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey."
It's an epic sonic journey on the spiritual side.
Peace, blessings, and good happiness stuff...
Pre-Celebrity Jesus - The Man before the Messiah
Written after the "22 Short Stories about Teenage Jesus" screenplay,
this book ponders and hypothesizes possible scenarios Jesus Christ may have lived
during his unknown years in order to proclaim his gospel parables years later.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004D4Y66S - Kindle eBook
Twenty Two Short Stories about
Teenage Jesus
Film script of 22 shorts stories that explores Jesus Christ's unknown teenage years.
Each one acts as a "circle of illumination" to different facets of Christ's youth.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004CYF4JW - Kindle eBook
A Juxtaposition of Idiosyncrasies
It's a stream-of-consciousness autobiographical assembly of Brian's
assorted silly life stories, toasted trivial tidbits, and other pure drivel by B.S.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004D4Y63G - Kindle eBook
This return-to-faith journey examines the effects of a
priest's failed fondling attempt. It describes how Divine Intelligence delivered hope.
A newfound faith emerges which enables the boy to mature into a compassionate man.
American Romance
Arranged-marriage love-triangle romcom movie script set in
Ann Arbor, Michigan and Patna, India...
which pays tribute to Ann Arbor's Faz Husain
This is the Hollywood version of my Bollywood "Here & There" ebook.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004ELAQ5A - Kindle eBook
Bollywood/Hollywood romcom bounces its
best-of-both-worlds dilemma between India & Detroit.
This is a Bollywood alternate-ending version of the "American Romance" film script.
Oprah and I
Captures the quintessence of how meeting Oprah Winfrey gives
the guts to become a writer... set in 1994 Los Angeles.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0057XOR86
Facebook Diaries
Jumping aboard the social media bandwagon,
this 2010 journal captures new-user fb first-impressions.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00585CG54
Brian Shell's YouTube video favorites:
1) Djembe solo with whistling skat - 3/12/2019 - 6:30 in length
2) Practice Carillon at Burton Tower in Ann Arbor - 2012
3) Jets fly over my synthesizer - 777 air show collage
4) His percussion performance on a kitchen sink
at The Ark in Ann Arbor - 1/16/2019
5) Soul Acorns - 32 minute podcast by Brian Shell & Diane Wing
180+ image video montage of Brian's art & photography
while he discusses supernatural dimensionality
Made on April 17, 2019
From Seattle to the Cascades and Back
This 1:58 music video takes us on a 3 hour road trip from
Brian's apartment in Seattle to the Cascade Mountains
and then back through downtown Seattle in 1997.
Created 4/24/2019
8 Minute intensifying Drum Circle with
90+ Frank Lloyd Wright photos:
3 of his homes are examined in all 4 seasons of the year:
Palmer, Smith, and Affleck
Recent video sonic slideshows (March 27-31, 2019):
Seattle and The House of Mirrors 1997
4:54 in length
8:12 in length
The Funky Seattle - 1:52 Photoshop fun at a flowing fountain
The 6:13 entry by Brian Shell into Adobe's Pick a Portrait Style challenge contest
#PickaPortraitStyle - 4/2/2019
NEW! Made on March Madness first Friday 22nd
NYC 24 hour walking tour - 1:43 music video of Manhattan
...and atop the Empire State Building
Created on Friday March 15th, 2019
Dare to Take Risks - An Upper Peninsula Adventure
This scenic sonic slideshow story takes you on an early Autumn circle tour of
Michigan's Great Lakes - Huron, Superior, and (pure) Michigan.
Flashback 5 years - Brian's videos filmed in February 16-19, 2014
1) Taking the snowy scenic route north of Elko, Nevada
2) Wyoming and Exit 89 - a tunnel is at the 2 minute mark
3) Windy Idaho plains sleet - 2/16/2014 bucket list state
4) Idaho free range cows - 30 miles north of Nevada
5) Pony Express and its first post office - Nebraska
6) Indiana-Michigan border and gratitude
These next 2 were filmed later in 2014:
7) Lone Tree Field - Ypsilanti, Michigan
Brian performs percussion on a kitchen sink at The Ark in Ann Arbor - January 2019
Satellite antennas Brian Shell helped design as an electrical engineer in Los Angeles
Fly-eye adaptive-optics 163-element antennas, plus a 9-element global antenna
Dual parabolic antennas tested & tuned by Brian Shell
Location where Mr. Shell's writing career truly began with a Lake Huron view.
Queensryche drumset for the "Promised Land" tour
All Men Are Dogs
Uses sophomoricly-snarky shoot-from-the-hip writing
styles that savor one-liner salty guy-humor.
(Not for the mamby-pamby or blushingly bashful... )
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007Y74NQO - Kindle eBook
Published version of the cover for "All Men Are Dogs"
and its snarky stream-of-consciousness one-liner jokes.
Love Poems
Inspired by Dead Poets Society, these poems once tried to woo women
with well written words, rhyme, and verse. A lof of B.S. pure drivel.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006OP40WO - Kindle eBook
"Thank you for visiting my website... all the very best to you." - Brian
Brian's cafe collage in Venice Beach, CA 1999
Brian's boardwalk mural in Venice Beach, CA where he got called "Picasso" daily.
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