Favorite visual artist Alphonse Mucha Favorite movies Howl's Moving Castle Favorite bands / musical artists The Glitch Mob, BT, Professor Elemental, Daft Punk, Deadmau5, Azymuth, Uakti, Parov Stelar, Justice Favorite books The Well of Lost Plots, One of Our Thursdays Is Missing, Quenta Silmarillion, Last Chance to See, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul Favorite writers Jasper Fforde, J. R. R. Tolkien, Douglas Adams Favorite games Uru, Myst V, Portal 2, Anachronox Tools of the Trade Photoshop CS5, Photoshop, and more Photoshop Other Interests Bioinformatics, Iron age and elder-days retrocomputing, classical history, Victoriana, linguistics