Randy is Studio Manager for Cooper & Cunningham, a multimedia art studio which specializes in educational interpretives, environmental design, and public art. Although currently dedicated to sculpture at his studio, Randy has worked in a myriad of theatrical productions and in a variety of functions for 15 years. Not only an actor for an audience or camera, he has also worked in several temporary and permanent scene shops building sets, designing special effects, script writing and editing, or applying make-up. The hobby he has pursued from a very young age is working in miniature. Tiny environments, similar to model train sets, serve as the background for small vignettes incorporating highly detail-painted characters from various time periods. Storytelling is the focus in all of his works, from character illustrations to improvisational theater. Randy has worked as an assistant teacher to Wes Price on occasion, introducing stop-motion techniques and animation history to local schoolchildren at Dora Moore Middle School and the Mapleton Expeditionary School for the Arts. Randy’s interest in working with underserved youth actually stems from personal experience. As a Little Brother in the Big Brothers/ Big Sisters program, and having graduated from an alternative high school in Aurora, CO, he is no stranger to the difficulties young people face when not given the same opportunities as other children, both financially and emotionally. Given the chance to potentially inspire people to see beyond their hardships and realize their own capability to positively affect the world, is quite an honor.
Here is an original animation created by Wes Price, Christine Wise and Randy Buckle, as an homage to Edweard Muybridge's motion studies, Jann Svankmajer and The Verve's remix of "Just One of Those Things":
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