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Brooke
Alexander Wilton was born in Houston
Texas in 1967. His grandfather, Wilton
Wilton Sr. was an artist and novelist
for most of his life, but had become most
famous early on as a milliner (maker of ladies'
fine fashionable hats.) “Papa”
also directed some musicals performed at the
Miller Outdoor Theater in
Houston, and later he served in the Navy in
WWII. He would live to be 89 years old by
the time he departed in 1995. Brooke would
receive the first instruction in drawing and
painting from his grandfather from the time
he could hold a brush.
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"Papa"
Acryllic
on canvas. |
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Brooke’s
father, Wilton Wilton Jr. is
a double engineer who had worked for Nasa during
the Apollo missions and who breeds prize-winning
longhorn cattle. Brooke's mother, Sally
Phillips, is brilliantly multi-lingual,
and retired recently from her 30-year tenure heading
the Bilingual Education Department at Houston
Baptist University. She currently travels the
world on folk dancing and grandmotherly excursions.
Brooke’s only biological brother Jeff
is a dentist in Madison Wisconsin, as well as
a prolific
panoramic photographer. |
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Brooke
was accepted into the High School for
the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston
Texas (a magnet-school for the arts with only
600 students drawing from the largest school
district in the Southwestern US.) He studied
the visual arts there for two years, excelling
in reductive
sculpture. He went on to study Art at the
University of Texas at Austin,
as well as Radio-TV-Film and English / Creative
Writing. |
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While
in college in the mid-80’s. he collaborated
on the mural in the Commons Area at the 21st
Street Co-op, which has withstood the
test of time for over 20 years. He also collaborated
on projects with Roy
Tomkins and Ron
English.
At
left he is shown at
his first professional art show at age 19. |
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Brooke
has spent most of his life in Austin now, and
much of that as a musician. His musical projects
began with Houston nerd rock legends Three
Day Stubble while in high school,
as well as a collaboration with Stubble’s
front-man Donald called The
Cabs Are The Waves On The Sea Of Trucks.
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In
college Brooke would perform with a band opening
for the Butthole
Surfers on July 4th, 1986 at the
Ritz theater (one of Wammo’s
projects, a 13-piece proto-industrial percussion
ensemble called Rint Zycle and the Speed
Queens, which featured a metal Marlboro
sign getting sliced into with a buzz saw. Brooke
doubled on tape-loops.) |
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Later
Brooke would form and front short-lived projects
Shamanic
Depression, Miss
Happenstance, and Dia
De Los Gatos. His band Dwarf
Nebula was a mainstay at 6th street
clubs for 7 years, playing for a crowd of 7000
at the Rolling Thunder Downhome Democracy
Tour, and having the distinction of
opening for and playing with Bernie
Worrell in 2003.
Brooke
created rich graphics in support of all of these
bands, as well as writing the bulk of the lyrics,
creating the websites, and performing all of
the audio and CD production. In so doing, he
ended up creating his own record label, Real
Eyes Records, and his own web and graphics
shop, Origami Electrick Architects.
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Additionally,
Brooke has collaborated with childhood friend
Terry Barnett in creating the
unique Fantasy Role Playing Game system, Myriad
Realms, and play-testing it for over
30 years. |
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Brooke
is a part-time Funkateer, avid Concerteer, performs
as an eclectic DJ as Baron Mind
and regularly creates art / music events for
the East
Austin Handmade Arts Market,
which he founded. Additionally he is...
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Now
a fashion designer, having created Flameless
Shirt! |
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