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Phil D

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About Me

I'm a graphic designer / product designer / illustrator / artist. I've been a professional graphic designer for 7 years, but my personal highlight was in 2000, when I had my first published magazine illustration job.I've got a great wife, Mary, and we can't believe that Ella, our daughter, is already 1 year old. She's absolutely the best, most cheerful baby I've ever imagined, but we've had a long road with her already, since she was born with a bilateral cleft lip & palate (we just had the 2nd of her 3-stage repair done!) and a small hole in her heart, and a couple of infections so we've been in & out of all kinds of doctors since she was born.We also have the cutest puppy ever, a little bichon frise named Jonah.We recently were able to get our very first house, and we now live in "upstate" New York, just outside of Saratoga Springs.. It's great, and we have plenty of room for both our dog and daughter to play around!Visit my Flickr Photos!

My Interests

art, cartoons, illustration, photography, parenting, dogs, philosophy, history, science, etc

I'd like to meet:

Any old friends, new people with similar interests, or other professional artists.

Music:

Indie folk singer-songwriters, Dar Williams, Ellis Paul, Utah Phillips, The Monkees, R.E.M., U2, Phish, The Raconteurs, Cab Calloway, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Kenny Loggins, Pete Seeger, Cat Stevens, Woody Guthrie, Ashley Parker Angel, Jewel, O-Town, Nsync, James Lee Stanley, Michael Nesmith, Colm Wilkinson, Boyce and Hart, B.B. King, Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker, Chuck Berry Opie and Anthony, Ron and Fez, Brian Regan, Stephen Lynch, Lewis Black, Mitch Hedburg

Movies:

Star Wars, Star Trek 2, 6, 8, Dead Man, Indiana Jones, Spiderman, Batman Begins, Tron, The Muppet Movie, Monty Python, Strangers On A Train, Lifeboat, The Blues Brothers, Back To The Future, Clerks, Repo Man, Tapeheads, UHF, Freaks, Ed Wood films, High And Low, The Seven Samurai, German Expressionist & Silent films, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Phantom of The Opera, Edison's Frankenstein, M, The Man Who Laughs, The Penalty, The Last Laugh, The Dark Crystal, Labrynth, Napoleon Dynamite, The Machinist, V For Vendetta, Mel Brooks films, HEAD, Jan Svankmajer' s Faust

Television:

The Soup, Heroes, Ugly Betty, General Hospital, Mystery Science Theater 3000, 1 vs 100, The Amazing Race, South Park, The Honeymooners, Police Squad, WWE Raw, The Monkees, Star Trek, Monty Python, The Muppet Show, Dinosaurs, Most History / Discovery Channel shows, Voltron, The Transformers, Sesame Street, Play With Me Sesame, Oobi

Books:

'Books': Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, The Unimaginable Life, by Kenny and Julia Loggins, The Maximum Ride series by James Patterson, Tietam Brown by Mick Foley, Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella, Beowulf, stuff by Jules Verne and H.G. Welles, Arthurian Legends, Science FictionGraphic Novels: Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa, Yossel by Joe Kubert, MAUS by Art Spiegelman, anything by Will Eisner, Watchmen by Dave Gibbons & Alan Moore, Batman: Year One, and Sin City by Frank Miller, Pride Of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughan & Niko Henrichon

Heroes:

Ella has been through it all with the best of attitudes, she's been an inspiration.

My Blog

Recovery update

Just a short little thing to say that my daughter Ella's cleft repair surgery went very well, and we're almost 2 weeks into the recovery period and I've finally been able to sit and write for a minute...
Posted by Phil D on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:29:00 PST

First Blog - We've Moved!

The last few months have been spent preparing to move from New Jersey back into New York state - even though we were 2 miles from the border anyway.     Well, we finally made it.  ...
Posted by Phil D on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:47:00 PST