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.

all illustrations © joaquín ramón herrera.