published author, artist, photographer, and cinematographer. practicing painter, filmmaker, and self-produced musician. aspiring martial artist, father, and human being.

homeless at 15, quit school at 16, educated by a life on the move and the people he's known, and lastly, by new york university's film school. descended from mexicans and indians and jews and russians and outer space aliens. always ready to throw down. and break out. and crack the hell up.

recently reviewed some film on pacifica radio. currently mtv's 2008 "choose or lose" street team rep for oregon. soon to pen a regular column in a mexican newspaper. next, to adopt brad pitt and his whole family. because we owe them a better life.

all illustrations © joaquín ramón herrera.