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August 29, 2010

Jacob Garbe

A nomad, writer, designer, nerd and fairly athletic derelict musician, Horizon Media Group hottie Jacob Garbe is all that and more. Check out his long-haird hippiness and his video, brought to us by Innovations Branding House!

Jacob Garbe, you are cute, cute, cute, no doubt about it! Here we go!

In a nutshell, I am…

1. A nomad: I was born in Montana, grew up in Virginia, went to college in Indiana and have also called Michigan, Oregon, Ireland and now Kentucky my home.
   
   
2. A writer: I have a few things published, a novel that doesn’t deserve to live but refuses to die, a short story that’s a finalist in an international competition, an interactive narrative environment that’s languidly metamorphosing and a bunch of stuff just itching to be rejected.
   
   
3. A graphic/web designer: I work at Horizon Media Group and aspire to one day make it look like I didn’t get my Bachelors in Literature.
   
   
4. A derelict musician: I used to be a classically trained pianist, currently fiddle around with playing guitar and studied playing the bodhran and tin whistle while in Ireland.
   
   
5. Creative: To me art — be it visual, auditory, or conceptual — is one of the highest callings one can pursue. I have to be engaged in some sort of creative project (or 10) or I start feeling like I’m wasting my life.
   
   
6. A hippie: I grew up on an organic specialty farm that was part of a co-op. I have long hair and am active in recycling/buying locally and organically. I occasionally burn some patchouli incense. Yeah, I know.
   
   
7. A nerd: I’m obsessed with technology and using computers to do crazy things that are totally impractical. My current obsession is programming my iPhone to augment reality using art and historic photos combined with map overlays and customized graffiti markers. Trust me, it’ll be sweet.
   
   
8. Fairly athletic: I bike everywhere and love hiking and finding the hidden places, as well as playing off-key sports like Ultimate Frisbee.
   
   
9. A sesquipedalian: I apologize if that discomfits — it’s an ineluctable outgrowth of my pernicious tendency towards verbosity and love of language, not through condescension of a common tongue.
   
   
10. Voracious: I read, listen and watch things omnivorously. Things like Dictionary of the Khazars, Vurt, House of Leaves, The Secret Life of Puppets, Lord Dunsany, Tom Waits, Those Poor Bastards, Devendra Banhart, Radiohead, Joanna Newsom, and any movie involving Charlie Kaufman, Darren Aronofsky, Terry Gilliam,or Christopher Nolan.
    
    
11. Locally-Minded: I take Tai Chi down at Paducah Yoga Center, work with RecycleNow Paducah, Maiden Alley Cinema, Rivers’ Edge International Film Festival, and love going to local music shows and gallery openings.
    
    
12. Quirky: Up until I moved here, I wore only blue. I usually stay up until 2 a.m. learning about things that captivate me, or riding my bike around town, or writing. I lucid dream, and sometimes get that mixed up with the waking world. I have a really atrocious memory for things like names or how old I am, but a good memory for the way light hit the leaves of the oak tree in my backyard last Tuesday.