I do a bunch of different stuff, but my main gig for the last 21 years has been making art out of license  plates. I have also dabbled in acting. I hosted a home makeover show for HGTV called FreeStyle. I did stand up comedy for a while back in '09 and started back at that full time in March of 2023.  

Back in 2011 I moved to Boulder and started a company that makes an all-natural sports drink (www.skratchlabs.com).  You know, because that's not a competitive market at all.  I like to keep things interesting is what I'm saying. In 2015, I opened a small restaurant in the mountains of Northern California, food + drink. (www.thefoodanddrink.com) It's closed now (too small and too seasonal a town) and in 2020, just a few weeks before Covid hit, I opened a place in Reno, NV. Yelped named us that #12 restaurant in the country for 2021, but I have since sold it and like I said above, gotten back in to stand up.

But let's get back to what this site is manly about; the art work.  Every piece is made almost entirely from recycled license plates.  It is not a social commentary.  It is not a statement about America's dependence on the automobile or foreign oil or any such nonsense.  It's just supposed to be cool to look at and maybe make you smile a bit.  That's it.

In 2001 I was trying to figure out how to impress a woman I had a huge crush on.  She was an artist and I thought, hey, I'll just make something cool and show her that I can be "artsy," too.  So I made her a USA Map out of license plates and while it was never the Plan, I haven't stopped since.

In the last two decades I've created thousands of pieces from hundreds of different designs.  My work has found its way to the Smithsonian Institute, the American Folk Art Museum, the Sundance Catalog, as well as your local Big Box retail stores like Target in the form of prints and reproductions.  I've also done major projects for companies like Twitter, the NFL, CNN, and Santa Fe Natural Tobacco.  Plus, Stephen Colbert has one of my pieces in his office at the Late Show, which is pretty damn cool.  I even used to have a TV show of my own, but I got canned from that a while back so let's just move on, shall we?  However you look at it, it's been a Good Run.

What else?

From 2011 to 2015 I was living in Boulder, CO, helping start a new company, Skratch Labs.  I had a great time helping get that business get off the ground but left in 2015 to pursue... well, I wasn't really sure at the time, just the next "thing."

A year later, I found that "thing" and it turns out to be food.  Specifically, pizzas and tacos.  I spent time training with the man, the myth, the legend when it comes to pizza in America, Tony Gemingani, in San Francisco. While I'm certainly not anywhere near his level, I am a certified pizzaiolo and make a damn good pie.  I also spent some time in the mountains outside Mexico City working on my taco recipes and, well, they're super yummy, too. In fact, if anything I make isn't the best you've ever had, I'll be disappointed.

And just in case you're a producer or a director looking for an inexpensive actor, or a reasonably priced host (hey, I've got experience at that), let me know that, too. 

Now here's a few short films I star in. I even wrote two of them.