Rob
| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Architecture |
| Occupation | Graphic designer, architect-in-training, semi-self-proclaimed geek/beer snob |
| Location | Dobbs Ferry, New York, United States |
| Introduction | I graduated from Binghamton University in May 2008 with a BA in geology, and am currently pursuing a Master of Architecture at the City College of New York. I'm into politics, and i'm a liberal who thinks a lot about the world. I really enjoy art and photography (both creating and observing). |
| Interests | Photography, architecture, the environment and nature in general, sustainability, art, design, stargazing, video games, writing (prose and poetry), guitar (real and air) architecture, graphic design, sustainable design, sci-fi, activism, history, humanism, altruism, sports, good beer, philosophy, other languages, hybrid cars, driving stick, tree climbing, polar bears, meditation, sleeping, reading, existentialism, hanging out, linden trees and the way they smell, swing dancing poorly, the Food Co-Op, sarcasm, bubble tea, green tea, white tea, lots of tea, concerts in the rain, people with awkward but unique personalities, soda from the fountain, walking along the beach, walking in the rain, thunderstorms, thundersnow, laser tag, paintball, orange juice with pulp |
| Favorite movies | Fight Club, Children of Men, Star Wars, Serenity, An Inconvenient Truth, The Matrix movies, The Fifth Element, Saving Private Ryan, United 93, Black Hawk Down, Superman Returns, Jarhead, War of the Worlds, The Simspons Movie, The Shawshank Redemption, Swingers, Juno, The Constant Gardener, Transformers, 300, Idiocracy, Super Troopers, Wedding Crashers, Superbad, Batman Begins, X-Men (all three of them), Shaolin Soccer, Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle, Minority Report, Cloverfield, Inherit the Wind, Troy, Sin City, Contact, Lord of War, Mission Impossible (all of them), The Bourne Identity/Supremacy/Ultimatum, Pulp Fiction, The Rock, Garden State, American Beauty, Inside Man, The Big Lebowski, Enemy at the Gates, The Siege, The Rundown, Grosse Pointe Blank, Lord of the Rings, Garden State, The Ref, Clerks, Clerks II, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Old School, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Office Space, Snatch, Braveheart, Gladiator, American History X, K-PAX, Dr. Strangelove, Crank, Hook, The Boondock Saints, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, The Punisher, The Chronicles of Riddick, Starship Troopers, Equilibrium |
| Favorite music | Green Day, Pennywise, Bad Religion, Incubus, Autopilot Off, Ataris, Fall Out Boy, soundtracks to the new Battlestar Galactica, Dashboard Confessional, Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish, Suburban Legends, Something Corporate, No Use For A Name, System of a Down, OAR, Hoobastank, Dispatch, Rancid, Offspring, Thrice, Sugarcult, Starting Line, Brand New, Boy Hits Car, John Mayer, 311, Jack Johnson, Maroon 5, Joshua Radin, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Atomic Fireballs, Panic! At the Disco, Save Ferris, Paramore, Simon and Garfunkel, Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan, Nirvana, Nonpoint, Trapt, Yellowcard, AFI, Anti-Flag, Bouncing Souls, Rage Against the Machine, Panic! At The Disco, Metallica, Radiohead, Papa Roach, Linkin Park, Breaking Benjamin, Paul Oakenfold, Alanis Morissette, Jedi Mind Tricks, Immortal Technique, lots of political stuff, Juno Reactor, John Williams, any good international music...something with duduks and guitars and taiko drums, and i've recently developed a penchant for different types of Middle Eastern music...traditional..rock..pop..rai. whatever |
| Favorite books | Fight Club, Choke, I Robot, The Kite Runner, The Outpost, The Elegant Universe, Foundation, Johnny Got His Gun, Hyperspace, Faster Than the Speed of Light, Halo: First Strike, The Fall of Reach, The Places In Between, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Starship Troopers, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Prey, Warrior: En Garde, Fahrenheit 451, Childhood's End, well-written sci-fi books with interesting realistic concepts and provocative social commentary, the Tao Te Ching, The Basic Writings of Chuang Tzu, Zen Reflections, The Sutra of Hui-Neng |
Your people want to make a statue in your honor. What will it be made out of and what victory will it commemorate?
Titanium...and when I traveled back in time to help Charles Martel defeat the Umayyads at Tours. What isn't in the history books, though, is that after I tried to ask for a rightful place for Jews in the Carolignian Empire, I got the boot and was sent to the Moors, naked and on a mule, for running my mouth too much.