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Jon Kortajarena

About me

Gender	Male
Industry	Arts
Occupation	Painter, Illustrator, graphic designer
Location	Sooke, British Columbia, Canada
Introduction	Life, is why I paint. It is my vision of the world, my version of what I see. It is my drug of choice and my curse. It runs through my veins like blood and is all I think about.
Interests	painting, biking, animals, animal rights, animal welfare, sciences (including macro history and ethnobiology), culture, jogging, baseball (I'd rather play it than watch it), people, friends, technology, music, dancing, art, travel
Favorite Movies	Blade Runner, A Hard Day's Night, Camille Claudel, Best in Show, High Society, In the name of the Rose, Jacob's Ladder, Fargo The Big Lebowski, The Butterfly Effect, The Princess Bride, The Red Violin, Schindler's List, City of God, The Purple Rose of Cairo, All About Eve, The African Queen, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Casablanca, Gattaca, Soylent Green, Barbarella, Metropolis, The Maltese Falcon. Roman Holiday, Harold and Maude, It Happened One Night, Some Like It Hot, Being There, A Shot in the Dark, Lost in America, Gosford Park, Monster-in-Law, Pan's Labyrinth, The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption, Brazil, The Piano, Babette's Feast, Cabaret
Favorite Music	pop and dance, house, dance remixes, electronic, ambient, retro, some rock, even less new country, club, funk, hip-hop, industrial, new wave, R&B, techno
Favorite Books	A Short History of Nearly Everything, Generation X Tales for an Accelerated Culture, Shogun, The Sum of All Fears, If Tomorrow Comes, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Prozac Nation Young and Depressed in America A Memoir, Fragile Things Short Fictions and Wonders, The Andromeda Strain, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Still Life With Woodpecker, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The World According to Garp, The Stand, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs A Low Culture Manifesto, Being Digital, Fast Food Nation The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, Mansfield Park, The Secret Life of Bees, The Handmaid's Tale, The Hobbit, The Crucible, Meggs' History of Graphic Design, Maps of Time An Introduction to Big History, Freedom of Expression Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property, The Time Traveler's Wife, Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive