About frank ^pro

Freelance graphic designer, illustrator, contract artist.
Below-average bass player and guitarist. Open-minded
sceptic, marxist (of the Groucho variety).

“We make a special art in an environment hostile to dreamers.” (Frank Zappa)

“Once upon a time – or maybe twice – there was an unearthy paradise
named ‘Pepperland’. Ninety-thousand knees beneath the sea it lay – or lie.
I’m not too sure ... ” (from Yellow Submarine – the animated cartoon)

“And when there’s no future how can there be sin?” (Sex Pistols)

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Activity:

Illustrator, graphic artist

Interests :

Amrum, Frankfurt, bicycling, Fahrradfahren, E-Bass, E-Guitar, Bass Guitar, E-Gitarre, Kommunikation, Kontemplation, Konfusion, Black Humour, Schwarzer Humor, Langsamkeit, Küchenphilosophie, Sarkasmus, Sillyness, Albernheit, Nachdenken, Alleinsein, Schwarz, Black, Zeichnen, Drawing, Grafik Design, Graphic Design, Moderne Lyrik, Poetry

Favorite music and artists:

Jazz Guitar, Hard Rock, Fusion, Dub, Downtempo, Ambient, Dark Ambient, Noise, Experimental, Bill Laswell, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, The Grassy Knoll, krill.minima, Wes Montgomery, Barney Kessel, Funkadelic, Nils-Petter Molvær, Oysterhead, Bohren und der Club of Gore, T.J. Kirk, Nils Petter Molvær, Jingo de Lunch, Herb Ellis, Herbie Hancock, Ramones, :zoviet*france:, Poison Idea, John Scofield, Will Bernard, Frank Zappa, Melvins, L7, Rollins Band, Motörhead, ...

Favorite movies and actors:

Groucho Marx, Forest Whitaker, Detlev Buck, Jim Jarmusch, Cléo Uebelmann, BBC documentaries, Kottan ermittelt, Jaques Tati, Elliott Gould, Karl Valentin, Hellzapoppin’, Terminator 2, In The Heat Of The Night, Memphis Belle, Monty Pythons’ Flying Circus, Die Zwei, Tex Avery, Die fabelhafte Welt der Amélie

Favorite books and authors:

Hugo Pratt, Ernst Jandl, Robert Gernhardt, Gottfried Benn, Ellen Ullman: Close to the Machine, Jaime Hernandez, Boris Vian, Rotraut Susanne Berner, Astrid Lindgren: Karlsson vom Dach, Moebius, Andreas Eschbach, Ulysses, Jürg Schubiger: Als die Welt noch jung war, Stanislaw Lem: Solaris, Ray Bradbury: Der illustrierte Mann, John Lennon, Erich Kästner, Douglas Adams, Peter Glaser, Georg Quedens, Franz Kafka, Theodor Storm