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No Zach left behind.

The multiplying villanies of nature do swarm upon him...

About Me

I'm a simple guy, an art student at the Cleveland Institute of Art. I am currently involved in mainly Video-Gaming and Game Production. I do concept art, story conception, object design, character creation, and overall production. I live in a two bedroom apartment in Fairview Park, Ohio. Other than that, there's not much to tell. I lead a fairly simple life. Maybe someday I will make my impression on the gaming and/or art world, but until then, I'm happy with things just being normal.

My Interests

Drawing, sculpting, creating video-games, playing video-games, Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, anime, food, chocolate, RPG's, coffee, coffee houses, Adult swim, rollerblading, camping, world mythologies, world history, politics, creating my own worlds and mythologies.

I'd like to meet:

Glenn Rane, Alan Lee, Samwise, Hugo Weaving, The Wachowski brothers, Bruce Campbell, Nebu, Danny Elfman, Hayao Miyazaki, Nobuo Uemestu, Toshiro Masuda, Ozzy Osbourne, J.R.R. Tolkien (I know, he's dead), Yoshitaka Amano, Masashi Kishimoto, Jason Hayes, Christopher Walken, Eric Clapton, John Williams, George Lucas, Steven Spielburg, Stan Winston, and many others, but I will think of them all later.

Music:

Ben Dewey, Ozzy Osbourne, Eric Clapton, B.B.King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Led Zeppelin, Jason Hayes, John Williams, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Rob Zombie, Beethoven, Mendholsson, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, C.S.N.Y, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Glenn Miller, Sousa, Howard Shore, Marylin Manson, Native American Tribal, Joe Satriani, Carlos Santana, Los Lobos, Eagles, C.C.R, Chicago, Stevie Wonder, Nobuo Uemetsu, Robert Rodriguez, Nightwish, The Minibosses, E Nomine, J-Pop, J-Rock, Don Davis, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Danny Elfman, Juno Reactor, and much much more....

Movies:

Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Matrix trilogy, Akira, V for Vendetta, Grandma's Boy, Waiting, Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Hudson Hawk, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, El Mariachi, Desperado, Once Upon A Time in Mexcio, Princess Bride, Office Space, Super Troopers, Cowboy Bebop the Movie, Spaceballs, Robin Hood: Men In Tights, History of the World Part 1, Young Frankenstein, City of Lost Children, Blazing Saddles, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Hellboy, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Star Wars, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, Dodgeball, Wedding Crashers, Anchorman, Ice Age, Toy Story, The Fugitive, Indiana Jones trilogy, Transporter, The Mean Machine, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Shawshank Redemption, Equilibrium, Batman Begins, Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, Stargate, A Beautiful Mind, A Knights Tale, Shrek, Shrek 2, Kung Pow, Kung Fu Hustle, All the President's Men, Zoolander, Inherit the Wind, Ocean's 11, The Bourne Identity, The Rainmaker, Rain Man, Top Gun, Jurassic Park, The Prophecy, and many more....

Heroes:

My brother Ben, my little brother Gabe, Hayao Miyazaki, Yoshitaki Amano, My mom, Chris Metzen, Glenn Rane, Wang Wei, Samwise.

My Blog

The Shieldbearer

He lies broken and weighted down in a heap on the hill top. His muscles burn and joints ache. His eyes peer through the slit in his visor, focusing and dilating as sporadic rays of sunlight perferate ...
Posted by No Zach left behind. on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:28:00 PST

When the inspiration fades...

What do you do when the spark you had going for so long starts to fizzle out?What do you do when all the creative ideas you had suddenly seem bland?Why do so many things you wish to accomplish go unfi...
Posted by No Zach left behind. on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:33:00 PST

Married to my Art

Art cannot betray. It can not forget. Art can not lie. It does not ignore. It knows only loyalty. In the darkest of times it can bring joy. My art may not be liked by all, but it will always be...
Posted by No Zach left behind. on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:20:00 PST

2006 in review.

I see that many people are taking this time to review everything that has happened over the past year. So I figure I should as well. 1. Created a videogame 2. felt like a rockstar 3. moved twice. 4...
Posted by No Zach left behind. on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 10:28:00 PST

Hero by night, carting garbage the next day...

Well, here's a funny little blog. I'm writing this all a few days in retrospect, so I'll try to get most of it right. The past two weeks were hell on earth, but the good kind of hell. The kind that ma...
Posted by No Zach left behind. on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:48:00 PST

Outnerded and Reflective.

So these past few weeks have been confusing yet fun. First off, I'd like to take a look at one of my previous blogs. In retrospect, I perhaps didn't mean everything I said. I know that I wrote a lot o...
Posted by No Zach left behind. on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 09:17:00 PST

Vivified

Ok, so I decided to write two blogs because I haven't in a while, and I was feeling rather verbose. This blog will not have the dark overtones of the previous however. This is a happy blog. In the pa...
Posted by No Zach left behind. on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 08:57:00 PST

Vindication

"......the only verdict is vengence...a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, that the value and voracity of such will one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous..."      ...
Posted by No Zach left behind. on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 08:24:00 PST

Things are looking up....

So finally, things are starting to fall into place. I'm making friends at work. People with similar interests as my existing friends. I'm getting to hang out with my buds more often. Went to Brittan...
Posted by No Zach left behind. on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 10:30:00 PST

What's in a dream?

So I just woke up from a dream and decided I would tell you all a little about it. All I can really remember was that I was running around in this big building which was basically every major departme...
Posted by No Zach left behind. on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:21:00 PST