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    OT - besides your Z, what do you do?

    I've owned several other bimmers but never encountered such a tight knit facet within the BMW community as the Z owners. This is literally the only section of bimmerforums i stop in to in my daily rounds on the interwebs.

    Made me curious...
    besides the obvious interest - our cars, what does everyone else in here do? We know you have good taste in automobiles but Im sure all of you guys do some pretty interesting stuff!
    -post pics
    -post stories
    -whatever

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    Ill start -

    I work half my time for a children's marketing agency designing kids meal toys. Some of the places you may have seen my work are del taco, sonic, arby's, among others.





    I spend the rest of my time divided amongst my ever growing list of personal projects...

    i do freelance illustration -





    i started and run a designer vinyl you company called mutt -





    within the designer vinyl thing i used to do an absolute ton of custom toys for gallery shows -





    my true passion is my painting / fine art though, i usually do 6 or so gallery shows a year so it keeps me busy...











    and most of you already know i just started doing the car parts thing under "never done" (no pics necessary haha)

    looking forward to see what you guys do, and get to know the community a little better!

    cheers!
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    Beautiful work man!!!


    On my spare time, when I'm not surfing the bimmerforums, I'm a dental surgeon.

    Actually a military commander of a dental practice in our officers school. Like your west point.

    Cheers,
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    Quote Originally Posted by DrSasha View Post
    Beautiful work man!!!


    On my spare time, when I'm not surfing the bimmerforums, I'm a dental surgeon.

    Actually a military commander of a dental practice in our officers school. Like your west point.

    Cheers,
    Captain Dr. Sasha
    Owner of the only M coupe in Israel
    (I prefer that title ;-)
    nice!

    oh, and thanks for not posting any pics of dental surgeries haha
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    LOL
    I'll upload some pics later...
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    Tyler, I like your work a lot. I have a bit of toy design in my history too.

    I too am an "artist".

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    Oh, and all three of you guys do really amazing work--very impressive.

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