About
I like simple things, creating, cycling, backpacking, kayaking, & reading. I am currently studying Graphic Communications @ Clemson University. I am currently reading Arguing with Idiots by Glenn Beck. I would like to describe myself as a minimalist or simplistic. Check out the new print projects: vdp postcard, display graphics, & vdp brochure

Goals/Dreams:
Take up rock climbing
Complete a marathon
Compete in 10k & 5k races
Hike the John Muir Trail (211mi)
Climb Mt. Rainier (14,410ft)
Visit Yosemite & The Half Dome
Hike the Appalachian Trail (2175mi)
Hike the Pacific Crest Trail (2659mi)

Favorite Books:
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
A Tree Within - Octavio Paz
Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
The Barbarian Way - Erwin McManus
Book of Blues - Jack Kerouac

Favorite Quotes:
- "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!” — Jack Kerouac (On The Road).

- "If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." — C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity).

- "When the power of love, conquers the love of power, then the world will know peace." — Jimi Hendrix

Favorite Poems:
"I speak of the city" - Octavio Paz
"Howl", "Sunflower Sutra", & "America" - Allen Ginsberg

Favorite Music:
Adele
Album Leaf, The
Animal Collective
Bon Iver
Broken Social Scene
Citizen Cope
Damien Rice
Death Cab for Cutie
Do Make Say Think
Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton
Explosions In The Sky
The Flaming Lips
Gregory & the Hawk
Ingrid Michaelson
Iron & Wine
Jay-Z
Jose González
Kanye West
Kate Nash
Kings of Leon
Lisa Hannigan
M.I.A
M83
Manchester Orchestra
Margot & The Nuclear So And So's
Maserati
mewithoutYou
MGMT
Mogwai
My Morning Jacket
Pedestrian
Pelican
Pink Floyd
Priscilla Ahn
Radiohead
Regina Spektor
Right Away, Great Captain!
Sara Bareilles
Shane & Shane
Sigur Rós
Sound Tribe Sector 9
Stardeath & White Dwarfs
This Will Destroy You
Thursday
Trace Bundy
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Underoath
William Fitzsimmons
Yeah Yeah Yeah's

Favorite TV programs & Movies:
TV - Planet Earth
Movies - Green Street Hooligans & 28 Weeks Later