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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Illustration/Graphic Design |
| Location | Springfield, Missouri, United States |
| Introduction | Mark is an old soul from the suburbs of Kansas City. Some of his greatest inspirations are Jazz, Blues, Movies and Barbeque. His artistic heroes include Pablo Picasso, Al Hirschfeld, Thomas Hart Benton, Stanton MacDonald-Wright, Diego Rivera and Miguel Covarrubias. He explores color, shape and movement from Cubism, Futurism and Synchronism. He loves faces and how a humorous portrait or caricature can reveal so much more about a personality than any posed photo ever could. He is a strong believer that illustration will once again rule the world (in his lifetime). He still works and lives in the Midwest with his family. He eats dry ribs and takes the family to a movie every year on his birthday. He makes mix tapes for them on Valentine's Day. |
| Interests | Americana, music, posters, harmonica, mandolin, art, barbeque, not necessarily in that order |
| Favorite Movies | Blues Brothers, O Brother Where Art thou, The Jerk, Napoleon Dynamite, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Indiana Jones trilogy, Back to the Future trilogy, Star Wars trilogy, Zoolander, Ocean's 11 trilogy, Bourne Identity trilogy? |
| Favorite Music | Nickel Creek, Punch Brothers, Mandolin Orange, Grizzly Bear, Sufjan Stevens, The Shins, White Stripes, Wynton Marsalis, Louis Armstrong, Mumford & Sons, North Mississippi Allstars, R.L. Burnside, Jimi Hendricks, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, U2, Beck, Radiohead, Regina Spektor, old hymns and folk songs, Rend Collective, Gungor, Ennio Morricone, Wynton Marsalis, Art Blakey |
| Favorite Books | The Art of Rock, Genius Moves-100 Icons of Graphic Design, To Kill a Mockingbird, any art book with pictures |