3 weeks late or 1 week early depending on which doctor you where speaking to, i was born 20th august 1984, 1am. My dad naming me after a film director, whos film he had been watching earler that evening. Born to an English mother and Italian father i was brought up in Liverpool, living in Wavertree. Which later on i would realize that this time would be the best years of my life. There was always something to do, we were coming up to the end of the 1980's even tho england was in a decline there was so much the rest of the world had to offer. Technology from the far east(which would end up taking most of my teenage years off me) America had everything England had but bigger, better and brighter colours, well thats what it seemed to me at the time, Amercia was cool while England just sat there and drank tea. As a kid i would jump on every bandwagon that rolled right into town. There where ones that stayed longer than others and others that never left me. I only really know about this time of my life though picture's, old toys and the thousands of story's people have told me over the years, like putting the cat in the washing machine, mum only relizing the cat was in there when she went to do a load (sorry benny). Relatives, famliy members, and friends not wanting to come around to the house because i would most likly be "swinging from the lights." Lets just say i wasn't the best behaved kid on the block. I would walk around the house stomping around and my mum would ask what i was doing reply "nothing it's just me and my-elf" insted of self. It's at this time i was never seen without a pen in one hand and paper in the other. I always drew no matter where i was i was drawing normally cartoon characters, or just whatever my head would let me. So i guess this were it all started this is what put me on the path i'm on today. As fast as the 80's became the 90's we where off. A move that took away everything that i took for granted, the world just seemed to open up and get a hell of alot bigger. 21st July was move date, the Simpsons had just started to air, the Turtles where in full swing, He-man was on the way out and took everythig 80's with him, hiar cuts, style everything, When we where moving i thought that ment we had to leave all are possessions in the house and who ever moved in got to keep them, so i went around writing my name on everything that i owned, seems a bit stuiped now. What i didn't know that 6 months later i would never see my friends from childhood again, i guess thats just how it is. you just move on. When we moved we got sky tv, and that changed my life forever, and not the good type of change ether. What happend was the fact i moved but not moved school ment having no new friends to playout with so when i came home from school i had nothing to do but watch tv and eat. and oh did i eat and eat and eat, and with the food came the fat. By the time i moved school 9 months later and meet a whole new buch of people i was set in my ways. I still drew but i was about stop in 1994 Aladdin was out on video and the tv show was appering on itv sunday morning. While i had the film on video i was only taping the series off tv i would draw a cover to stick on the box but when i had the two tapes next to each other on the shelf the gloss and finish of the film made my home made pictures of aladdin, well look like a 10 year old kid had drawn them and in my world this wasn't good enough, So that was the end of that, after that moment i put my drawing and designing behind me. Untill i could get the professionalism i was after. Years passed and the only drawing i did was my school art class. After my school told me they would not let me back i had to look at myself and be honest, what the fuck i'm i going to do. A night i'll never forgrt, the only thing i could do was as i saw it design things that looked cool, art was an option but i knew it was not for me, it looked like there was no money in it, and i was looking at my whole life, i wanted money but more importantly i wanted to do something that didn't feel like a job, somthing i really wanted to do, like a hobby i do, but they'll pay me.(who doesnt) The other option was graphic design. And to be honest i didn't know what that was(i only found out this week what that is, 25th december 2006). I had two books in my hand Essential Art and The End of Print by david carson, and that was it, thats all it took as i looked at the end of print everything seemed "fun" it was all the "cool" things i had seen my whole life. It as like my whole life has been me collecting research, SO graphic desgin it was. School was helpfull they gave me a list of colleges in Liverpool, but i only phoned one, and on the 2nd July 2001 had my interview and that was that. 10th September 2001 one day before the attack of the twin towers, i started the college, I was kid again this time i would do graphic design for fun but this time i could make my designs, look and feel professional, which is all i wanted all those years ago.
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