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Rick Cortes!

I used to be a mugster.

About Me

Inferno pimp.

Currently working on visual effects and illustration for ABC's Grey's Anatomy and Disney's Imagination Movers. Coming up: Showtime's Dexter.
Also, check out the gallery show:

My Interests

Drawing. Art. Music. Books. Films. Television. Comedy. Writing. Comic books. Cooking. The Denver Broncos. Critical thinking. Time. Travel. Time travel. Friends. Family. Lindsey.

I'd like to meet:

People who draw. And anyone on this list- "Sports fans??"

Music:

Elvis Costello. Johnny Cash. MIA. Kanye West. Nitro Microphone Underground. Little Brother. The Game. Sufjan Stevens. Damien Rice. Stax Records.D Common. The Old 97's. Death Cab For Cutie. She Wants Revenge. Yeah Yeah Yeahs. The Louvin Brothers. Franz Ferdinand. Arctic Monkeys. Jay-Z. Nas. Jamie T. The mighty mighty Mos Def. Polysics. Cousin Lovers. NWA. Ice Cube. John Legend. And a thousand other bands and singers.

Movies:

In this order: GoodFellas. The Godfather and Godfather 2. Sunset Blvd. Menace 2 Society. Casablanca. Anything about time travel. (Yeah, even that one. No, not that one.) Porky's. The Warriors. Most everything by Hitchcock. And anything with Gary Busey or his kid.

Television:

Top Chef. Doctor Who. The Daily Show. The Colbert Report. 30 Rock. The Office (UK). The Soup. Dexter. The Sopranos. Big Love. Black Sheep Squadron. Heroes. Mythbusters. Mr. Show. The State. Penn and Teller's Bullshit! Letterman and Conan. And documentaries about literally anything. (How an hour of television about cheese can hold my attention, I have no idea.) And The Mighty B!

Books:

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. Check The Technique by Brian Coleman. Anything by Sarah Vowell. The End of Faith by Sam Harris. And Hellboy by Mike Mignola.

Heroes:

Mike Mignola. Drew Struzan. Ray Harryhausen. Rick Baker. Phil Tippett. Stan Winston. Bill Watterson. Elvis Costello. Chuck D. Martin Scorcese. John Elway. Noam Chomsky. The Amazing Randi. Penn & Teller. Sascha Baron Cohen. John Stewart. Tina Fey. Amy Sedaris. Her gay brother. Stephen Colbert. And that one guy that one time.Mike Wieringo, 1963-2007. Stan Winston, 1946-2008. :(

My Blog

ICONS, LEGENDS and NOTORIOUS FIGURES @ Cactus Gallery


Posted by Rick Cortes! on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:52:00 PST

website updated!

    It's not quite done yet but I've been getting my website up and running with actual stuff to look at.  So go check it out, if you've got the balls.RICKCORTES.COM(NOTE: does not...
Posted by Rick Cortes! on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:35:00 PST

Auctions on eBay and art blog restructuring

What a super-fun blog title!  (Stab.)  Okay, I've switched up the game on my new-ish art blog and turned it from a hip hop only blog to an everything I draw blog.  So check it out if yo...
Posted by Rick Cortes! on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:48:00 PST