and I am a student at Lane Community College pursuing my AAS in Multimedia Design. I was a jack of many trades with a ridiculous amount of ambition in my twenties, but now going into my early thirties I am quickly realizing my true passion is in design and concept. My goal is to help create a design company with a group of fellow students with hope within a few years I lead the design strategist department with plenty of portfolio work under my belt.
I figured instead of explaining my history, interests and future plans in depth, I would list ten things about me that I find interesting and hopefully you do as well:
10.) I have ran and started two successful businesses in my lifetime (pool service, DJ/KJ) I once sold a company I started for $2000 to another company for $40,000. I currently own and run a lotion bar company by myself. Super Natural Lotion Bars
9.) I once was obsessed with Texas Hold-Em poker and ran a league for three years, I also won a seat and played in the world series of Poker in 2009. Now you know where the $40,000 went (for reals).
8.) At the age of 19, I was cast to star in a MTV reality show called “FM Nation” it ran one season and it was terrible. The silver lining here was my introduction into acting and multimedia. Link to show
7.) Since high school, I have created various song parodies and humorous rap songs (20 total). I won a battle rap competition in the year 2000 and was a semi-finalist various times on rapbattle.com. Trust me, it was always satirical and not serious. My father raised me around 1980’s metal. (explicit content) One of my songs
6.) I constantly strive to enter the YouTube comedy market. I spend a lot of time writing and producing pilot shows with hopes they get picked up by online comedy syndicates.
Here’s an example of a show I wrote, directed, produced and directed(explicit content)
5.) My grandmother on my mothers side was Italian (rest her soul) and on my fathers side was okie-Cherokee. During her lifetime it was not acceptable to be native american, therefore she was ashamed and hid it from the government. Alas, I am not allowed to receive native benefits (but I still love and miss her dearly nonetheless). My combined heritage is; Italian, Cherokee, Danish and Irish.
4.) I was the lead in a full feature length comedy movie called “Border Brothers”which is due out this year and will most likely be on Netflix. I also helped with parts of the screenplay, stunt driving, and edited the unofficial trailer.
The movie trailer (explicit content)
3.) I grow four different types of hair color due to my mixed genetics. I started to grey at 20, my hair also shows black and brown, my beard grows red (ginger) with some brown. I share a good amount of my gene pool with my grandfather on my mothers side.
2.) My biggest dream in life is still to write for a sketch comedy show or a sitcom, I was voted in high school “most likely to be on SNL”. For over ten years I have been writing, directing and producing YouTube skits. I was in theater for 6 years between high school and early college, as well as choir and pursed stand up comedy for 4 years with a decent amount of success.
1.) I moved to Eugene to better myself, I wanted to start over with school, make more friends and expand my creativity. Though I miss my friends and family, it was the best decision I’ve ever made so far in my life. I have a little one of the way and I take my career path more serious than ever.
I am very excited to expand my knowledge and network with my fellow design students!
