I'm into animation, art of all sorts (I especially like street art), watching documentaries, cello, meditation, compassion, taking photos, and science.

Here's an animation I created (hopefully it will make you smile):

http://vimeo.com/20452240

Here I am in an interview at an art show I had:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGkflypUpmY

Time-lapse of me actually painting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9k7qDxW33Q

I used to work at Google and am glad to have escaped the cubicle. Now I'm at WFMU and love how non-corporate and off-beat it is, and I'm also grateful for more time for art.

I go to a weekly meditation group (in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh) and have started doing yoga recently. Dharma Punx is awesome, too. I like to watch TED talks instead of television.

I love meeting people from other cultures and seeing the world outside of the US. I've mostly traveled to other countries for animation festivals (which are a blast!).

In college I studied computer science and psychology. I focused on neuroscience and worked in a lab with zebra finches, where I mostly counted neurons (yes, it was a bit tedious).

Also in college I was a DJ at my school's radio station. I think the best thing I did on the air was a sound collage of Nintendo music, but normally I co-hosted the electronic music show.

I'm trained as a scientist (my dad's a statistician and mathematician who's worked in public health for years, and Richard Feynman and James Randi are heroes of mine), so I'm highly skeptical of ideas that lack evidence, but foremost I try to have compassion for everyone.

I really appreciate creativity.

Earning money with programming skills. Laughing. Holding cats and petting dogs. Making art (paintings and animation). Taking photos and sometimes video. Sleeping. Meditating. Spending time with friends. Riding my cheap bike. Learning cello.

Drawing my cartoons. Spotting interesting graffiti. Listening. Computer stuff. Massage.

Big hair, big smile?

But besides that, I would guess my friendliness or my enthusiasm or my laugh. A nice lady at work once told me I have an infectious laugh.

Books:

Non-fiction:
- Weekends at Bellevue
- Don't Sleep, There are Snakes
- Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way
- At Hell's Gate: A Soldier's Journey from War to Peace
- Dharma Punx
- The Animator's Survival Kit
- Keith Haring art book by Jeffrey Deitch
- Talking Animals & Other People
- That's Not All, Folks

Comics:
- The Push Man & Other Stories
- Harvey Pekar
- Jeffrey Brown
- Best American Comics series

Movies:
- Bellevue Inside Out
- Kinshasa Symphony
- Vernon, Florida
- God Grew Tired of Us
- Who the @#% is Jackson Pollock?
- Les Triplettes de Belleville
- Mindgame
- Cat Soup
- Okie Noodling
- Hand on a Hardbody
- Philip Glass: A Portrait in Twelve Parts
- Dancing Outlaw
- White Diamond (and almost anything by Herzog)
- Chain Camera
- Any animation by Nick Cross or John R. Dilworth
- Sita Sings the Blues

Music: Too much to enumerate. Recently: Bach, traditional Indian, big band and swing, old blues, hip-hop, weirdo classical (Philip Glass, Max Richter)... For several years I was obsessed with Aphex Twin and that kind of music.

Foods: Indian, Korean, Chinese, Thai, Japanese, Ethiopian

Things I wouldn't want to do without: touch, friends, comfortable living space, art, music, my hands, animals.

How I should draw, paint, animate, and practice cello more.

Recently, meditating with a group.

In Atlanta, I started a "drawing fun-time" night on Fridays with my friends in which we gathered at one of our houses to sit around and chat and draw- I love this and may attempt to recreate it in NYC.

My left ear doesn't really work for hearing anything above low frequencies. Being basically deaf in one ear makes sleeping really easy, though!

You should message me if you'd like to, but especially if:

- You like to watch documentaries and can recommend any
- You're creative in some way
- You are kind, warm, and/or affectionate
- You like my art
- You can use your/you're and its/it's correctly
- You value compassion
- You meditate and/or do yoga or are interested to start
- You love animals
- You're down for going on a date in person rather than exchanging lots of messages