Name: Elizabeth Popolo (Liz, Poppy, Pley, Skyscraper)
Birthday: October 26, 1986
Location: Boston, MA / Ithaca, NY
Hobbies: Sailing, sketching, cartooning, animation, ornithology, jewelry-making
Tools: Konica Minolta DiMage Z2, Adobe Photoshop 7.0, Wacom graphire2, Pilot Precise V5 ballpoint pen, Pigma Micron felt-tip pens, Bic .07mm mechanical pencils, Prismacolor markers, charcoal, tempera, oil pastel, gel medium
Job: 3D modeler/texturist/researcher/film editor, cartoonist
Dream Job: Texture artist at Blue Sky

Likes: Pasta, coyotes, fossils, palindromes, fingerpainting, the smell of fireplaces in cold weather, passive perfect participles, parallel sentence structure, student comics, crossword puzzles, coincidences, the sun, the Maryland state flag, lace, skirts, rice, couscous, inventing holidays, playing computer games in my underwear, being really tan, aquariums, Smart cars, limeade, the Sun Microsystems logo, Flat Eric, dinosaurs, scarves, hedge apples, David Elsewhere, coelacanths, orange sherbet, warm weather, barrel curls, sunsets, soup, graffiti, Boston, farmer's market, helping people, Snapple lime green tea, opals, henna, watching seismographs, bad puns, North Six, monsters, having my feet tickled.

Dislikes: Cold, syringes, the orange glow of city streetlights, babies, allergies, endives, loud vehicles, lossy jpegs, calculus, clip art, having my blood pressure taken, sour things, vague pronoun references, people who think they're too cool for life, reality shows, alcohol, people who just sit around and talk about alcohol, camera phones, iPods, mindgames, seafood, clay/chalk/chlorine, CNN, Fox News, people who spit on the sidewalk, the fact that I worry too much, the electoral college, pine needles that get stuck under my windshield wipers, the perpetual grit at the bottom of my purse, egoists, people who take themselves too seriously, Paris Hilton, soap operas, drama queens, conflict, bell peppers, and people who don't check their email daily!

Favorite...

Color: Brown
Number: 17
Element: Copper
Word: Truncate
Shape: Circle
Boat: Laser
Biome: Chaparral
Food: Rigatoni with Trader Joe's vodka sauce
Candy: Reese's cups
Song: Chocolate Lovely by Amon Tobin
Animal: Coyote (Canis latrans)
Fish: Ocean sunfish (Mola mola)
Bird: Elephant bird (Aepyornis maximus)
Pick-Up Line: Have you registered to vote yet?

Artists: John Singer Sargent, Jasper Johns, Jackson Pollock, Matthew Ritchie, Andy Goldsworthy
Comic Artists: Tony Millionaire, Don Hertzfeldt, Bob Scott, Joe Martin, Lulu Berylium
People: H. H. the Dalai Lama, Moby, Hurf Sheldon, my high school teachers
Comedians: Slovin & Allen, Nick Swardson, Demetri Martin, Eugene Mirman, Groucho Marx, Gilbert Gottfried, Jon Stewart, Upright Citizens Brigade, The Lonely Island, Maria Bamford, Kids in the Hall
Comics: Maakies, Underverse, Eagle-DNA, Toothpaste For Dinner, Elftor, When I Am King, Homestar Runner, Weebl and Bob, Mister Boffo
Cartoon Characters: Owlie, Vinni Puh, Wallace & Gromit, Homsar, He Who Kills
TV shows: Sifl & Olly, Tom Goes To The Mayor, Dr. Who, Samurai Champloo (fansubs), The Office, Prison Break, Bones, Mythbusters, Monk, Kablam!, The Angry Beavers, The Brak Show, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Twilight Zone, The Daily Show, Jeopardy, Firefly, Arrested Development, The IT Crowd, Da Ali G Show
Music: 808 State, Aesop Rock, Amon Tobin, Aphex Twin, Atmosphere, The Avalanches, Beastie Boys, Beck, Boards of Canada, Chali 2na, Chemical Brothers, Cut Chemist, Daft Punk, Dan The Automator, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, Dieselboy, Diplo, DJ Shadow, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Fatboy Slim, Four Tet, Freestylers, Gorillaz, Greyboy, Groove Armada, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Herbaliser, Infected Mushroom, Kid Koala, Lemon Jelly, Marilyn Manson, Meat Beat Manifesto, MF Doom, Moby, Mr. Scruff, Mu-ziq, Nine Inch Nails, Ochre, The Orb, Orbital, Prefuse 73, The Prodigy, Q-Burns Abstract Message, Q-Bert, Quarashi, Rage Against The Machine, Rahzel, Ratatat, RJD2, Sabrepulse, Sasha, Saul Williams, Stereolab, They Might Be Giants, Trancenden, Zero 7
Movies: The Animation Show, Waking Life, The Incredibles, It's All Gone Pete Tong, Spirited Away, Paprika, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, Clerks, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Monsters Inc., Master and Commander, The Life of Brian, Office Space, PCU, The Transporter
Shorts: Das Rad by Chris Stenner et.al., When The Day Breaks by Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby, Minue by Rami Kim, Bath Time by Carlos Fernandez Puertolas, For The Birds by Pixar, Just 2 Guyz by The Lonely Island
Books: A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr., The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, The Odyssey by Homer, The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Jester, La Cantatrice Chauve by Ionesco, Giraffes? Giraffes! by Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey
Games: Black & White, Monkey Island, Myst, notpr0n, Lemmings, Starship Titanic, Commander Keen, Odell Down Under, Orisinal games, Malarky, Full-contact Pictionary, Apples 2 Apples

Fun Facts
> Liz has never broken, fractured, or dislocated a bone.
> Liz got D+'s in high school calculus and still got into Cornell.
> Liz wears glasses all the time because her vision is around 20/600, meaning she can't see 1.0095 feet in front of her face.
> Liz would like to learn to speak Icelandic fluently.
> Liz has earned her New York State Bowhunting license.
> Liz is currently on level 54 in notpr0n, and has been playing since March 2005.
> Liz has a freckle on the sole of her foot.
> IT'S SODA, NOT POP.