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I was born in Bellshill Maternity at the tender and unimpressionable age of 0. Since then I've been getting bigger; growing physically and mentally and spiritually and lots of other ways too. Academically I began my learning habit at Bothwell Tower Nursery in my home town. It was here that I perfected the art of He-man and Thundercat sand-box wrestling with my friend Stuart Howie. Most of my time, as I can remember, was spent riding around on my bike and playing soldiers with my then best freind, David Latham.

Proceeding through Bothwell Primary (with great help from my friend Barry Jones) I eventually reached Uddingston Grammar School at the age of 12. For the first couple of years I transformed into a total pr*ck (just like 90% of the other pupils). I shunned my friends and found newer, cooler, crapper ones. I stopped caring in class and even began "dogging it" with idiots who smoked. However, this is where I realised learning what people told me to learn wasn't any fun. In fact it was extremely boring.

I used this revelation and started exploring other things. I developed opinions, had discussions and eventually made friends for the right reasons. This is the period when I met Martin Montgomery, my best friend, and became a much fuller character than before. I made friends with Barry and Stuart again and we are now in a band together with me at the drums. I made more friends; Craig White, Steven Toner, Miriam Anderson and Alastair Buckle. I was who I needed to be, less shallow and more confident, and was happy with everything around me. I experimented and observed, chose morals and seeked inspiration. I found art; which was developed with the assistance of a very great artist and now great friend, Richard Price. I found computers (or rather the family finally got one for the house). Finally, when I had turned 18 I found a way of combining the two. I left school after being voted the funniest person in the year group and went to Uni to learn once again.

At Glasgow Caledonian University I began studying for my (haaaaauuuhh, deep breath) University Diploma in Multimedia Visualisation and Product Design. A course which seemed to be 80% exact to what I was looking for. This is because product design is just far too boring for me. Student life opened my eyes to a new world, a world of beer and other fine beverages. Until my freshman period I had only drank on one or two occasions at the oblivious age of fifteen when I fell in love with the digestif known as Jagermeister. University had its greats and its not-so-greats; I got a girlfriend, I moved out, I got a job in a cinema, I got poor, I moved back home, I quit the cinema. Sounds pointless, but I still have my girlfriend, ha ah! Hello Emma, xxx. Back home and with a new job I was once again the ever-commuting student with very little free-time.

University was a peice of cake and without much effort I found myself sailing through first and second year before I knew where the library was. A year later I found myself with a degree in Applied Graphic Technology. Although that wasn't hard to get, honours took a bit a work. In the end the important achievements from these years were my new friends; John Maguire, Eilidh Blacker, Martin McGookin, J. C. Plunkett and many more. Great people I couldn't have wished to meet. Unfortunately I also achieved a massive beer gut which I have now decided to work off.

I then moved onto my Masters year, still at Caley, studying Digital Media Design Techniques. This year was the best year of all. I felt free to express myself; I developed a love for animation that was sparked by my great lecturer, Lesley Adams, and discovered stop-motion was a greatly important part of who I am. However the reason this year has been so great is through meeting more stupendous people; Gilgannon, Craig Reid and the legendary Andy Nutt Andy Nutt. I also made good friends with a couple of old classmates from the first couple of years; David Logan and George Craigmyle (who may just be the most creatively talented person I've met).

I am currently living in Edinburgh and freelancing quite a bit thanks to my good friend and amazing contact, Tom McCrorie, who has been feeding me with some extremely exciting projects. Unfortunately, the task of writing my dissertation proved too much for me at this stage in my life, and I ended up in hospital with a stress ulcer. I quickly recovered and graduated with a Post Graduate Diploma.

The rest, as they say, is... now.

For more information, or to contact me; drewnotweird@googlemail.com
or call me on +44(0)7515 060 253.