My name is Derek and I love doughnuts

The guy behind the scenes…

Are you enjoying the Amazeballs t-shirt…or liking the eye-candy banners and advertising at the Shaun T events? Well that’s me, graphic artist mastermind.

I’ve always considered myself a painter (art, not houses). But for “work” I find that I’m doing a lot of graphic art and photography these days…which is just as rewarding (enter shameless plug here: derekdavidbaron.com).

I’m an artist, I don’t write, especially in paragraphs, so here is a list of some things about me:

1. I’m an artist.
2. I used to be a bodyguard.
3. I love doughnuts!  No…I LOVE doughnuts.
4. I’m a father (and Tania’s husband LOL!)
5. I’ve learned that I have “amazing squats”…as Shaun T says in T25.
6. I love to collect small wooden balsa boxes.
7. When I dry off after a shower, I have to have the towel tag at the bottom when I wrap it around my waist.
8. I don’t smell books like my wife does.
9. I could stare at my son all day.
10. I live in NY!  I used to live in LA and before that, I lived in Kankakee, IL.
11. I proposed to my wife through a painting I created especially for her…that you can now see in the T25 infomercial. #proud
12. I moved to California from IL when I was 17.  I had $100 in my pocket!
13. Have I mentioned I love doughnuts?
14. I’m extremely patient.
15. I’m not superstitious.
16. I shaved my head most of my adult life, but now I have hair…but my wife made me cut it.
17. I love to paint all night until I fall asleep (in my clothes) then wake up and keep painting!
18. I don’t like cucumbers.
19. I’m flattered when people don’t believe I’m 45 (46 in October this year).
20. I’m famous for buying shoes online and returning them.  I like to think I’m a size 12 but really I’m a 13.
21. I find I don’t give a sh#t about the small stuff…and 95% of it is small stuff.
22. My favorite movies are Amelie and The Illusionist.
23. I used to illustrate pictures in the Book of Shadows on the TV series Charmed.
24. I’m ADDICTED to Grand Theft Auto Liberty City…no, really!  I learned my way around NY from that game!
25. My favorite food, spicy tuna sushi.
26. I use to read a lot of books about physics and Richard Feynman.
27. I’m a black belt in Hapkido and have over eight years of Brazilin Jiu Jitsu training.
28. I don’t kill insects; I’ll catch them and set them free outside…no matter what they are.
29. I can’t hear for sh#t (ringing in my ears) and it REALLY annoys my wife! Or maybe that’s just “selective hearing.”
30. I keep a container of Play-Doh at my art desk and smell it when I have “artist block.”
31. I was ranked #5 in IL when I raced BMX as a teenager.
32. I know someone who is a vegetarian but he doesn’t like vegetables.
33. Favorite junk food: Doughnuts (of course), Grimaldi’s Pizza and Twizzlers.
34. I blame my wife for my extensive knowledge of women’s handbags!
35. Proof reading this makes me think I have a few “issues”…LOL!

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