i bought a beautiful book yesterday. Story and illustrations by Audrey Niffenegger. she wrote the time traveller's wife (never read).

and a deftones album :) i heard it once and picked it because of the artwork. good choice.

finally: some reserach has been done tonight:

patrick gildersleeves - http://www.wowoutrageous.com/

edward boyles - http://www.edwardboyles.blogspot.com/

Jason Polan - http://www.jasonpolan.com/ (this man is really interesting)

aaaaah!