I'm probably one of the few people in the world that don't like to talk about themselves, but I'll give it a shot. I always loved being creative in school, and eventually it led me to pursue a career in graphic design. I took this Photoshop class back in like 7th grade and had a lot of fun messing around and cutting out photos. There was a competition at the end of the year where each student had to come up with a design to put on a snowboard for a local company (Never Summer). They would select 1 winner from the class and they would actually make that kid's  design into a snowboard. I didn't  win. But if anything, it pushed me to keep trying and to experiment with other things. As it would turn out, I became a professional graphic designer a decade later.

I haven't really changed all that much over the years. I am still into the same kind of things now that I did back then such as skateboarding, snowboarding, mountain biking, motorcycles, fishing, hiking, collecting records, film photography, and lets not leave out chinese food. I've come a long way since then, and if I could talk to that 7th grade me, I'm certain he'd be proud of everything that I've accomplished up to this point. I've made mistakes, I've learned, I've grown, and I'm ready to take one whatever life throws my way next.

-Paden