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About Me

I'm a goth girl from a little place called Rigby, Idaho. I've lived in Salt Lake City, Denver, and now Cincinnati. I'm gainfully self-employed as a graphic designer, and I own a company with my partner called Hotiron Creative.
In spite of being a cynical atheist, I thrive on new experiences and challenges, and I strive to make peace with the world through greater consciousness and communication.
Self-actualization is a life-long quest. For me, it's involved a collection of philosophies that inspire, guide, and even denounce. Below are some thoughts I've carried over the years, in both work and life, and I'd like to share them with you.
Like anyone else, I suffer from the human condition. I'll say one thing and do something else. For that reason, I opt not to be opinionated. We evolve at will, which makes us fascinating creatures. Walt Whitman once said, "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself."
There is no right or wrong answer.
Relgion provides solace for the turmoil it creates.
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. How else will you know you've done enough until you've done too much?
If it were that easy, everyone would be doing it.
Be patient with those who offer you advice, but cautious of whose you take.
Everyone is someone else's weirdo.
People who dance are seen as insane by those who don't hear the music.
You've already survived the tomorrow you once dreaded.
If someone drains your energy, they are poison.
Get out of your comfort zone. You'll only regret the things you didn't do in life.
Do what you want, rather than what you should, and you'll be pleasantly surprised at the results.
Ask, and you shall receive.
The future belongs to the brave.
Why I'm here, in EmptyAir land:
I respect the many bands and brands who invest in TheirSpace as a means of PR, and I support a handful of them here.
Also, I'm human. I need to be understood.
Why this graphic designer has a bland page:
First of all, I'm a graphic designer, not a web programmer. I can write HTML that would make a coder in 1996 want to cry, so CSS is a little out of reach for me. Furthermore, I'm not a big advocate of templates and stolen images. The moment you see unicorn wallpaper on my EmptyAir, you'll know I've really lost my focus.

My Interests

Music styles: goth, EBM, IDM, industrial, electro-industrial, dark electro, aggrotech, futurepop, punk, new wave, dark wave, death rock, synthpop, shoegaze, ethereal, new age, downtempo, chill, lounge, exotica, classical, baroque, blues, boogie woogie, surf rock, rockabilly, bossa nova, salsa, samba, mambo, big band, swing.
Design: all disciplines. Dutch furniture, German engineering, Italian fashion...
Favorite things: hummingbirds, tropical birds, Macs, music, design, New York City, the Pacific Ocean, food, wine, coffee, my lovely A6, sushi, pasta, cheese, grapefruit, walking, head scratches.

I'd like to meet:

Philosophers, freethinkers, lovers, haters, gypsies and geniuses. Clever, thoughtful, evolved, passionate people. People who live and love music.

Music:

And One, VNV Nation, Apoptygma Berzerk (in their previous life), Depeche Mode, The Cure, Nine Inch Nails, The Church, Echo and the Bunnymen, Talking Heads, Clan of Xymox, Combichrist, Cocteau Twins, Erasure, Kraftwerk, E Nomine, Razed in Black, Informatik, De/Vision, Red Flag, Camouflage, Smashing Pumpkins, Neuroticfish, Neuroactive, Neuropa, Angels & Agony, Boards of Canada, Velvet Acid Christ, Ladytron, Echo Image, Covenant, Iris, Nosferatu, KMFDM, Die Form, Project Pitchfork, Wolfsheim, Einstuerzende Neubauten, Haujobb, Assemblage 23, Executive Slacks, Juno Reactor, Thrill Kill Kult, Spahn Ranch, Skinny Puppy, Beborn Beton, My Bloody Valentine, Joy Division, New Order, Christian Death, Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, Switchblade Symphony, Front Line Assembly, Funker Vogt, Lycia, Love Spirals Downwards, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Marilyn Manson, Propaganda, Underworld, Air, Bebel Gilberto, Blue States, Thievery Corporation, dZihan & Kamien, DePhazz, A Forest Might Black, Bent, Area, Lush, Bliss, Bryan Ferry, Coil, Conjure One, Cowboy Junkies, David Bowie, Corpus Delicti, Dead Milkmen, Beastie Boys, Dubstar, E Nomine, Felt, Freur, Jem, Johnny Cash, Killing Joke, Icon of Coil, Vicious Pink, Lateral Tension, Mazzy Star, Lycia, Mephisto Walz, Saint Germain, Tosca, Kruder & Dorfmeister, This Mortal Coil, Ulrich Schnauss...
... have I left anyone out?

Movies:

Snatch, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Stop Making Sense, SLC Punk, Waking Life, John Hughes films

Television:

What about radio? Echoes with John Diliberto, This American Life with Ira Glass (and David Sedaris and Sarah Vowell), Air America with Janeane Garofalo and Al Franken, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, Talk of the Nation Science Friday with Ira Flatow.
I just got cable and a big TV that is shared by a Mac Mini a client gave us in the absence of his money. I never really liked watching TV until I realized I not only needed to laugh more, but also understand popular culture better, especially in the marketing industry.
Series I tend to get hooked on: Aeon Flux, Daria, The Office, Weeds, The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Six Feet Under, Reno 911, Whose Line is it Anyway (UK only, silly Brits).
Commercials. Also, ESPN Sports Center graphics (but not sports).

Books:

Nonfiction: psychology, business, design industry publications.
Audiobooks are the only safe and productive thing you can do while driving.

Heroes:

Friedrich Nietzsche, Margo Chase, Noel Weber, Marquis de Sade, Marian Bantjes, Audrey Hepburn, Donna Karan, Miuccia Prada, Albert Einstein, Milton Glaser, Tim Burton, Alan Wilder, John Diliberto, David Sedaris.