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Andrew Skwish, Twisted Illustrator

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Tinged with unexpected textures and twists, Andrew's quirky Photoshop illustrations compel and delight. He served as Art Director at San Francisco Examiner and recently returned to the world of freelance. Clients include the The New York Times, Washington Post, Village Voice, Rolling Stone and MacAddict. Andrew's Website was singled out by Print Magazine as one of America's most inventive promotional sites.
Andrew teaches at Florida's Poynter Institute.


Shekhar Rules Database Roost

Shekhar is the code warrior who figured out how to deliver showtime and theater location info for 90 percent of the nation's movie theaters. As lead programmer for moviequest.com, which morphed into Zap2it.com, Shekhar made access to this data so intuitive, so easy and so fast that within the eight months of its launch, the site attracted over 300,000 subscribers and nearly 100 newspaper webiste affiliates. He programmed E commerce capabilities for EthnicGrocer.com, a specialty site which has earned the gratitude of falafel lovers worldwide.


Collage Madness From Mark Shepherd

More Mark Shepherd art at www.brutalgiftland.com
Work Songs. A one-of-a-kind eccentric with ideas to spare, this Chicago artiste re-cycles "found art" pieces include ash trays from the Appalachian saloons and turn-of-the-century grade school text book, recycling these fragments to create mind-blowing compositions. He has a project coming on Nickelodoen next summer and has contributed illustrations to Talk, Chicago Tribune, Raygun, Mondo 2000, Adbusters, Playboy and Speak. Mark also creates fonts with a hand-crafted feel including Bucket Noodle and Sadist.


Howell Malham, Manic Wordsmith


Howell Malham, film-maker, critic, and Brad Garrett look-alike.

This Greco-Assyrian filmmaker/journalist has written for in the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Reader and a host of other publications, some of which are still in the black.
In 1999, Howell received his first Grammy nomination for a series of public service announcements for Chicago Public Schools. Later that year, Malham wrote and co-produced "The Lost Files" a cable television pilot which may one day air on a big-shot network to-be-announced. "Goodbye, Spaceship Al" (Flatlander Films, 1999) marked his feature film debut as a producer/writer/actor. His work with Flatlander Films can be seen in the opening credit sequence of Steve Martin's upcoming feature "Novocaine," released October 2001.


Dancer-Slash-Designer Jessica Wallenfels

Jessica Wallenfels -- not Bridget Fonda -- AKA soulgeeklive.com

She appeared in the original "Twin Peaks," morphed into a Los Angeles actress, appeared on sitcoms and lived to tell the tale. Her choreography was featured in a production at the Mark Taper Forum, L.A.'s leading theatrical venue. .
Jessica designs Web pages, creates online graphics and covers show biz for Tribune Company Websites, She's also she's produced graphics for several Disney projects in the past year including the site for Hyperion Books' Read2000 campaign on behalf of Industrial Street Productions.


Jed Elinoff, Funny Scripts R Us

Jed worked on "Seinfeld," produced scripts for NBC sitcoms like "Boston Commons" and written bits for Conan O'Brien. Jed also assisted Peter Mehlman on the 1999 ABC sitcom "It's Like You Know." He is currently developing a series of mini-dramas for broadband distribution.


Janice Littlejohn, HTML Cowgirl

Janice writes for Vibe and TV Guide and contributes a regular column for Blackvoices.com, the largest African American Website in the country. Janice can work a room like a hurricane. People skills, verbal flair and HTML smarts all wrapped up in one talented bundle - yeah!

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