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PURPOSE/vision/Desire
This is just the beginning and we are going to grow into
ourselves. pawky is all about creating an army of artists and
interesting individuals. As it is true with artists of all capacities,
our beliefs and creed are the constant but the form which our ideas
take on shifts from moment to moment. At this particular moment, our
belief in independence and the power of the moving image and
communication of like-minded individuals has taken on this red, black
and white form. We would like to share this form with you and see what
happens. We don’t have any expectations as to what this site will be
for people. We can only understand and cherish what it is to us. We can
only hope that it will expose you to new ideas and change you in some
meaningful way.
TEAM
chief executive officer
Paul Birman was born in Nsoc, Equatorial Guniea in Western
Africa and raised in nearby Cameroon in the bathroom of his family’s
sock factory. Eventually, Paul traveled to the U.S. to promote the full
bodied sock he had invented. It was in Dubuque, Iowa that he discovered
his love of hedgehogs and started a hedgehog and llama farm in hopes of
obtaining a cross breed of the two animals. After he had exhausted that
project, he went on to design and market a software for magicians that
projected a magicians lifespan with prophetic accuracy. He dabbled in
politics when he represented himself against the Canadian city of
Toronto for assaulting a border guard while promoting the software. He
resides in the same building as Alexander in the Chicago suburb with
his spider Lolita and Mila, a personal trainer and nutrition expert.
They enjoy hosting sumo matches and are avid collectors of rare
peanuts. He brings an exciting charisma and an indescribable
awkwardness to pawky.
chief operating officer
Alexander Oleynikov was born in Zhezqazghan, Kazakhstan and
raised in the Omnogovi wilderness in Mongolia, which straddles northern
China. He came to the U.S. to study horticulture and cycling at The
University of Maine. He picked up English well enough to open the
notorious Hore ti Culture Brothel in Las Vegas, Nevada. After training
in interpretive and pole dance under the employees of the brothel,
Mystique and Destiny, he starred in six Broadway plays, eventually
replacing Reba McIntyre in Annie Get Your Gun. After his wildly
successful six month run, Alexander went on to hold the mayoral office
in Springfield, Oregon and Grand Forks, North Dakota the same year. He
currently shares his suburban Chicago abode with his colt Marla and an
obstetrician named Don Juan. They like to take long walks along the Des
Plaines River and watch bootlegged Chinese commercials promoting
Alexander’s idol, Mao Tse-tung. He brings his unbridled love for the
moving image as well as an undeniable stench to pawky.
technology
We
don't know much about Pavel Korenevsky. He is just the tekkie, one of
those guys who you know is doing something really twisted when he gets
home and you start pools to guess of what it is. He's really socially
awkward and reclusive. The only time we talk is to remind him that
there exists such a concept as personal space and he is painfully in
yours. There was this one time we tried to take him out with us. We
went to a concert at the Metro in Chicago. He downed seven light beers
on the way to the show and tried to salsa with some of the waitresses
there. He then got into a fight with a gay biker clad in a leather vest
and cowboy boots. A little bruised, he thought it was a good idea to
get on stage where he was tackled by a bunch of mean looking security
guards and tossed out back. He waited for us for two hours until the
show was over out front and then attempted to make out with a light
post and fell on his head on the way to the cab. We did the only thing
we could. We wrote "pawky" on his forehead and let him sleep it out on
the pawky couch. He has a picture of two bunny rabbits and Hulk Hogan
in the server room, where we store him. We think he likes Tina Turner
songs and that is all he has on his iPOD. We think his favorite food is
cream of broccoli because he is always wearing it after he eats lunch
in the server room and goes to the bathroom at the same time every day.
He has black hair. Other than that, he is a mystery.
content management
Elina Miller was born in Gammel Sukkertoppen, Greenland. At the
tender age of twelve she wrote a heartfelt tale of a old woman
afflicted with pancreatic disease trying to raise her sixteen
grandchildren in Northern Ireland. The book quickly skyrocketed to the
top of the New York Times Bestseller list and she was given a six book
deal with Parody Publishers. She arrived in America with her family
where it was discovered she spoke little English and could only discuss
whale blubber in that language. She had plagiarized the story from a
19th century women’s weepy brought by a team of explorers the Millers
had cannibalized twenty years earlier. Before the publishers could send
Elina back to her snow and ice encrusted homeland she escaped and
joined a traveling all Mexican circus as an accountant. She then
settled down in Half.com, Oregon where she sewed satin underwear for
the city’s only lingerie shop. She resides with her cat, Phatty Phat
Phat near Chicago and enjoys staring at yellow birds and other people’s
children. She brings the desire to mangle the written word as well as
lots and lots of over-salted mashed potatoes to pawky.
business development
Marla Zinger was born in Ana Kakenga, Easter Island, Chile. She sold
her own bracelets made out of caterpillar dung and bark. At the ripe
age of 20 a curious American tourist inadvertently married her at a
traditional tribal feast and she made her home in Hilda, North Carolina
with the confused traveler. The marriage did not work and she was to
transfer planes to head back to Easter Island at LAX, but she suffered
sudden onset amnesia and got off the plane and stepped into California.
She lived behind a trendy apartment building in Calabasas and picked up
a little English by stealing her neighbor’s Us Weekly and rifling
through it while she hung laundry or tap-danced. She eventually moved
to a retirement community where she peddled her dung jewelry. A buyer
for Lisa Kline smelled her jewelry on her grandmother and bought
Marla’s remaining inventory. She was then smelled by a movie producer
who cast her in her Oscar winning performance as a Japanese-American
suffering with a bad head cold and intense stomach cramps at the turn
of the century. Getting back to her country roots, she resides in a
small shack with her laptop and Sidekick. She brings an unorthodox
sense of style as well as an oversized painting to pawky.
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