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I want to find what can't be found.

I broke my heel on a trip to Thailand.

I got bullied in Junior High School.

I'm not a social person by nature, but I try.

I've watched the sunrise over Monument Valley.

I don't like that I want people to like me.

I like that I'm part Swedish and a designer.

I've walked on the Great Wall of China.

I was in Seventeen Magazine.

1996 was the year that I bought my first computer, fell in love with the internet and designed and coded my first website.

I've had a beer bottle broken over my head.

I have seriously thought about packing it all up and becoming a monk.

I used to be in a pop punk band called The Beat Downs.

I used to be a tagger in the 90's.

I once had my pants fall down in front of my girlfriends parents, at their dinner table. I was meeting them for the first time.

I gave up becoming a fine artist like my heros because I never found my unique voice.

My tattoo was featured in Tattoo Magazine, I composited it over a weekend.

I fell in love with skateboarding the moment I stepped on my first skateboard, I was 6.

I used to want to open a tiki bar on a beach called Sandbar.

I once partied with the band Kid Rock at their show.

I had a flop for longer than I probably should have.

I constantly feel like I have to many ideas and not enough time.

I used to be emo.

I used to be a Nebraskan.

Sometimes I feel more at home in a hotel room than my own home.

The first bands I remember being introduced to were The Police and Wham! when I received their cassette tapes for Christmas, I was around 7.

I want to become a famous designer and that concerns me.

I used to daydream of roaming the earth like Caine in Kung Fu.

I've been known to throw one person dance parties in elevators.

I need to stop saying no to things I want to say yes too.

I sometimes wonder what it would be like to live in a world without mirrors.

I hope to one day create something as beautiful as The Moody Blues song Nights in White Satin.

I'm glad I grew up before cell phones and the internet. I remember having to memorize my friends phone numbers and calling them from pay phones.

I want to be big in Japan.

I had a family of mourning doves living in a flower pot on my balcony for 2 years.

I wish I could have stayed 7 forever.

It makes me sad that animals kill each other.

I eat my cereal with a fork.

I want to stare at my phone less and into nature more.

I used to want to be a park ranger.

I miss having 3 month summer vacations as a kid. I should have been a teacher.

As I sat and listened to two musicians playing different John Lennon songs for tips at the John Lennon Memorial in Central Park, my eyes began to tear.

One of the ways I learned Photoshop by creating emo portraits of myself for my MySpace profile.

I used to have dreadlocks in the 90s'.

I hate how technology has made me more impatient. I used to get compliments for how patient I was.

I dislike pushy people and being pressured to do things. In a world losing it's patience, this is becoming more difficult to deal with.

I used to be a representative for a variety of punk and emo record labels.

I used to mosh and skank.

I once had a girlfriend steal an entire outfit of mine when we broke up. Years later I ran into a friend I had not seen in years. He told me he saw my clothes in an art show in another state. The piece was titled with my name and he made the connection back to me.

I grew a mustache for Movember once.

I used to run an online zine addam.com where I'd write record reviews and post photos from the bands shows I'd attend.

I used to shoot band photography in Nebraska.

I think I think too much.

I play air drums.

I used to run a social network that pre-dates Facebook. It was aimed at artists, musicians, outcasts, punks and other subcultures.

I wrote Winona Ryder a letter when I was young. Still waiting for a response.

I used to own the .com's for IHeartRadio & IHeartMedia. I used them to run a private radio station for my friends. Our server was in my friends livingroom

I founded a photography magazine with release parties in NYC and SF.

I started a skateboarding club in High Shool. It was made up of me and my friends.

I started spelling my name Ad[d]am after seeing the Addams Family movie in '91. I spelled it that way for 29 years and even had it legally changed.

I am very sensitive to people getting made fun of for looking different.

I think I'm over empathetic in some ways.

I don't like working with uninspired designers who phone-it-home, yet I always seem to have one on my team.

I think I'm over empathetic in some ways.

I don't like bullies.

I don't like feeling self obsorbed.