information design
graphic design
type design
skateboarding
music (playing & listening)
pizza
sailing
Kaiju Big Battel
Meatland
letterpress printing
typography
road trips
silkscreen printing
button making
photography
web development
holography
audio recording
Netflix
karaoke
cartography
painters hats
Coca-Cola
Slingerland drums
Heavy Metal guitars
Satanism
whaling
calculator watches
candy
checkered slip-on Vans
my lime-green 1971 Chevrolet Nova
I'd like to meet:
a ballerina
a lighthouse keeper
people who respect typographic subtleties
a baby polar bear
constructive people, people who create things
Music:
Black Sabbath
Hirax
Burning Witch
Craft
Sleep
Fucking Champs
Devo
Melvins
Hammers of Misfortune
Flower Travellin' Band
Sun-Ra
Earth
Witchcraft
The Shaggs
Saint Vitus
Septic Death
Man is the Bastard
The Fleece
Buffalo
Brujeria
Unearthly Trance
Kraftwerk
Bang
Thrones
Egyptian Lover
Sacred Steel
Kids of Widney High
Fat Day
James Brown
Minutemen
Pixies
Anton Maiden
Bl'ast!
Night Sun
Lack Of Interest
Mercyful Fate
Amon Düül
Prince
State Of Alert
Blue Cheer
Big Boys
Mental
Stevie Wonder
Necrophagist
Goatlord
Movies:
Barrier Kult Horde
The Search for Animal Chin
Powers of Ten
Psych Out
Dracula
Thrashin’
Dr. Strangelove
The Holy Mountain
Warm Brew in the East
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Black Sunday
Night of the Demon
Gojira
Nosferatu
Village of the Damned
Young Frankenstein
Bad Man ’97
Eddie Murphy—Delirious
Space is the Place
Water Power
It Came From Outer Space (preferably in 3-D)
Rosemary’s Baby
Rivers Edge
SkateVisions
anything by Purtle
Ask if you want to be my Netflix friend.
Television:
X-files, Seinfeld, Freaks and Geeks, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, Tales from the Crypt, Twilight Zone
Books:
Visual Display of Quantitative Information
American Wood Type: 1828–1900
Lords of Chaos
The Elements of Typographic Style
Mapping Boston
Jimmy Corrigan/the works of Chris Ware
Cocks magazine
Fuck You Heroes
Baseline magazine
The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint
Erotica Universalis
Moby Dick (California University Press edition)
Envisioning Information
In the Heart of the Sea
Fucked Up and Photocopied
Lucifer Rising
Visual Explanations
the Bible
the Satanic Bible
the Dictionary
Heroes:
Edward D. Wood, Jr.
Johannes GutenbergEdward TufteBuckminster FullerTony Iommi
Deer Man of Darkwoods
Albert Einstein
PusheadMatthew CarterBenjamin Franklin
Thomas Edison
Wonton Animal Chin
Leonardo DaVinci
Alexander Graham Bell
Personal Heroes:
My Dad, the Captain
Mr. (Tom) Noonan (high school Graphic Arts teacher / mentor)
Paul Savini (my skate dad; ran the local skateboard shop where I spent half my adolescence)
Phil Vitali (drum teacher)
Mr. (Will) Harrigan (middle school band teacher)
