Animation, Illustration and CG Art. Storytelling, photography, comic books, painting, and model sculpting, drawing and writing. Vegan food and cooking. Indian and Thai food. Coffee. Good Wine. Green Tea. Movie Marathons. Coffee. Adventures. Bike rides. Singing in my car when i have to drive. NOT driving when i don't. Rollercoasters. Occasional video games. Stargazing. Finding new uses for things. Consuming less and doing more. Animals. Evolution, Relativity and cosmological theories. Ethics. History. Philosophy and philosophical debate. Mythology. NPR. and one or two other things, maybe.
intelligent, creative, caring, sincere, genuine and kind people.
on the professional front, if you're artistic, creative, inspired and want to create unique, literate cg comic-book art/animation/stories (or collaborate on the like) give me a shout. seriously.
and finally, i'd like to meet george lucas. in an alley.
with an extra heavy-weight lightsaber replica in one hand and
a big bag of potato chips in the other. know what i mean? yippppeeeee!
wii: 7861 5059 0402 1203
zero 7, pauline taylor, deep dish, tori amos, kosheen, nina simone, faithless, the decemberists, dusted, dusty springfield, bent, skinny, dido, groove armada, jamie myerson, olive, thievery corp, mamas and the papas, dolly parton, supreme beings of leisure, jason mraz, cary brothers, damien rice, howie day, death cab, sia, cat power, paul van dyk, bt, sander k, digweed, jack johnson, one eskimo and lots of others. a cool, chill groove is a good thing.
and though not exclusively music, I love NPR, especially Wait Wait and This American Life
Donnie Darko, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Rocky Horror, Waiting for Guffman/Best in Show/A Mighty Wind, Kill Bill(s), Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Run Lola Run, Big Fish, Beetlejuice, 9 to 5, Charade, Memento, North by Northwest, Vertigo, Talented Mr Ripley, Primer, 28 Days Later, The Iron Giant, The Muppet Movie, The Incredibles, Monsters, Inc, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Harry Potter, House of Yes, Party Girl, Fight Club, 12 Monkeys, 2001, Priscilla, X-Men/X2, Unbreakable, Star Wars, The Opposite of Sex, Bad Education, Lawn Dogs, The Silence of the Lambs, The Piano, The Bad Seed, Contact, Clue, Groove, The Haunting, Incubus, Airplane!, TransAmerica, Batman Begins, Superman Returns, Curious George, The Science of Sleep, Little Miss Sunshine, Monster House, Pan's Labyrinth, Children of Men ... among others. suggest a movie ...
Lost
Battlestar Galactica
Dexter
The Office
Weeds
Alias
Arrested Development
Strangers With Candy
The Simpsons
Invader Zim
Rome
Six Feet Under
Frontline, NOVA, History, Discovery, PBS.
but seriously, turn it off and take a walk somewhere.
or a bike ride. anywhere.
Patricia Highsmith, Carlos Castaneda, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, David Sedaris, Amy Sedaris, J.K. Rowling, Joseph Campbell, Madeline L'Engle, Nick Sagan, Amy Tan, Shirley Jackson, Neil Gaiman, Chuck Palahniuk, Paul Davies, Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Quinn, Daniel Wallace, Mark Doty, Paulo Coelho, Orson Scott Card, Brian K Vaughan, Kurt Vonnegut, Plato's Symposium, and a million others.
And I love comics. art + words = beauty. and superheroes rule! allan heinberg, brian k vaughan, peter david, robert kirkman, dave mckean, david mack, alex maleev, michael gaydos, jae lee, jim cheung, warren ellis, jose villarrubia, even bendis and claremont. ... runaways, young avengers, xfactor, madman, xstatix, nextwave, escapists, y: the last man, ex machina, walking dead, sandman and the like.
there be dragons here.
it's not enough to survive.
you have to be worthy of surviving.