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Josh Sullivan moved to Nashville from So Ill to go to design school in hopes of starting a magazine and was awarded best designer of his class upon graduation.

He has both played in and worked with many bands over the last five years. After playing music unsuccessfully, he re-entered the music world by starting a music webzine called Uncommon. The zine enjoyed some measure of success and was given the "TypePad Loves You" award.

Currently, Josh works as a flash designer for a web company and is freelancing for a new design firm called Roove. He married his five-year girlfriend in 2007 and has embarked on living happily ever after.

In keeping with his entrepreneurial spirit, Josh is jazzed about the inception and direction of Loop: News & Nonsense. He anticipates much enjoyment and excitement in the coming months and years.

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• Myspace

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• Roove Media
• Noavo

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The world- renowned Lalie Kavulich-Crist is constantly in the throws of countless methods of creativity. Currently, she is the Assistant Designer and right hand woman to King of Cowboy Couture, Manuel(known as the man who put Elvis in jumpsuits and Cash in black).

During her employment at Manuel's studio she has Contributed to designs for the likes of Jack White of the White Stripes and the Raconteurs, Porter Wagoner, Brandon Flowers of the killers, Kid Rock, The Cast of CMT's "Gone Country" and many many more artists and entertainers.

Lalie’s roster of impressive attributes continues. She is an award winning Western Wear Designer and has a garment on display in the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming. She worked as a Freelance Fashion Journalist/Stylist for Nashville publication "All The Rage" From 2006-2007. She makes one of a kind, very unique accessories and jewelry out of vintage pieces...and that’s just the beginning.

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• Blogspot
• Flickr

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• Manuel Couture

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Jon is a 20-something in the Nashville music industry, employed in the field of digital music. He works with a major label, but also enjoys working with local indie artists and recording/producing demos and albums.

He has experience in digital editing, vocal tuning and editing, vocal recording, engineering, studio maintenance, producing, mixing and mastering. He also works on a syndicated blog about corporate life (for those not exactly feeling corporate) called the Corporate Hack.

He enjoys collaboration and helping others perfect their art; you can email him at jonarnold@readtheloop.com.

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• The Corporate Hack

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Aimee Shiree Romero likes literature, law, love and ligaments- among other things. Bones, AC/DC and the Russians are also favorites.

She plays in the band marrow and writes business articles for a living. This is a far cry from her initial life intent, which was mechanical engineering and medical school. She enjoys making all sorts of things including, but not limited to, cards, scarves, clothes, art, stories, songs and friends.

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• Myspace
• Facebook
• Xanga
• Blogspot

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• Marrow
• Etsy
• Flickr
• More Flickr
• Photobucket

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Ross Berry was born in Abilene, Texas. Between that January morning 23 years ago and this very moment, he has developed a taste for art, literature, movies, blacksmithing, brewing beer, climbing mountains and an extended scholastic career.

He graduated from Lipscomb University with a BA in Studio Art and minors in English and German. While at Lipscomb, he served as president of the Art Student Association. He is now attending Watkins College of Art and Design in pursuit of a BFA. He dislikes post modernism and is inclined to use stronger language than “dislikes.”

Ross’ work has been shown several times with the ASA, Untitled, Watkins College of Art and Design (exhibition juried by the curator of Cheekwood), and in the Future Now exhibition at the Frist.

His favorite books include Catcher in the Rye, No Country for Old Men and Heart of Darkness. His favorite movie of all time is Apocalypse Now, and he enjoys LOST…in addition to several less consequential television programs.

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• Ross Berry.com

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Amanda Tumblin, Nashville native, is on the cusp of finishing her BA in English and German at Lipscomb University. She was recently awarded first place in the formal essay category at the 2008 Southern Literary Festival for her piece entitled A Confederacy of Unwashed Masses: A Confederacy of Dunces and Bakhtin’s Ambivalent Laughter.

Her love of lit theory (particularly Bakhtin and feminist theory) is by no means an indication of egoism. In her own words, “I’m not pretentious in a playing-scrabble-in-public way, but I refuse to read crap.” She enjoys every era in literature, with the exception of early American. She attributes her distaste for that particular period to reading James Fennimore Cooper at a young age and being scarred by various unsavory aspects of his being.

Amanda also likes magazines as a hyper-current version of books. She considers them to be under-appreciated and is interested in fashion as a text.

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Jesse Wayne broke his left leg falling down the stairs. He was just a baby. Through a series of events, both fortunate and otherwise¹, he developed a love for film.

Currently, Jesse plays in the band Gone City, writes songs for his band and others, is in charge of projection at a local movie theater. He has done sound design/foley/score for various independent short films and one feature length film yet to be released.

Jesse enjoys bmx biking, outer space and esoterica. He is an avid mustache grower, a connoisseur of bad films, an audio engineer and has spent the last 10 years touring with and writing for various bands.

The first movie he remembers seeing was Starman in 1984 at the drive in. He doesn’t remember seeing anything after that until Leonard Part 6 came out. Jesse constantly looks for bigfoot standing at the edge of the woods when driving at night.

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•Realized at age four that it’s easier to chew when your mouth isn’t stuffed to capacity
•Tried to build a working robot at age six and failed
•Caught 50 snakes in one day
•Broke left middle finger in bicycle crash, left wrist while trying to balance on chain link fence after visiting the circus, scarred left wrist by trying to open a door pushing only on the glass, front teeth knocked out by baseball at age twelve (the threads were imprinted on his face for a week), broke right leg at height of soccer career- on crutches for a year- got good at guitar- developed OAS,
•Had a bicycle wreck in front of two pretty girls at the age of 26. Refused to go to the hospital- weeks later an MRI and CAT scan unearthed internal rib damage and a broken right wrist.
•Worked at a large chain video store until seeing boss get shot in the head during an attempted robbery

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• Whiskerino
• Moustache May

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• Gone City
• The Skate Party

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Fifi is a self proclaimed "Politics-loving, no meat-eating, art adoring, history enthusiast" who specializes in "making things right and avenging the forgotten."

Fifi paid a lot of money to an university and now owns a very expensive piece of paper that certifies that she earned a degree in special education. She currently works to coordinate services for adults with mental retardation.

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Aaron West has been working in the Web development space for over seven years. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science & Information Systems and has worked for several firms in the Nashville area in the e-learning, training, and automotive arenas. Aaron currently serves as the Development Manager at Dealerskins - a leading provider of Web applications and Web services to the automotive industry - leading a team of developers as they build the most beautiful, powerful, and distinctive Web solutions possible.

Extremely passionate about the Web Aaron has written several articles and tutorials on ColdFusion and Flash, and integrating these technologies with various database platforms. He also participated in the Deitel, Deitel & Associates book “Internet & World Wide Web Programming 3rd Ed.” as a technical reviewer. As an Adobe Community Expert he shares his technical expertise with the world-wide community through high-caliber peer-to-peer communication. He’s also a Certified Advanced Adobe ColdFusion MX 7 Developer, a certified Adobe Flash Developer, and he manages the Nashville ColdFusion User Group.

Other than immersing himself in all things technology Aaron enjoys spending time with his family, riding his sportbike, reading, and exploring the underwater worlds around us. He is available for speaking engagements and conferences and can be reached at “ aaron AT trajiklyhip DOT com.”

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• TrajiklyHip.com

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• Adobe

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Alexandra is a graduate student in NYC, a snowboarding instructor and a Writing Center tutor. She has also been known to spend quite a bit of time at GOOD Magazine.

She cares a lot about snowboarding, snowboarding slang, shoes, sewing, scrabble,stencils, spray paint, screen printing, sonnets, strawberries, silly stories, sarcasm, smalltalk, sass, salt, stick-shift, seltzer, screamo and the singer of Beirut.

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• Blogspot
• Facebook

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• Metroland Article
• Another Metroland Article
• Good Magazine

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Stephen P. Bohn was born as a baby in the greater downriver Detroit area. Growing up, he wanted to be an astronaut and until recently had aspirations of playing professional basketball. As a matter of fact he was *this* close to being drafted to play in the NBA. The only things that stopped him were his lack of height, his lack of ability and the fact that he never played in an organized league beyond eighth grade... Other than that... *this* close, friends.
He has spent the best parts of his twenties in vans and buses cris-crossing the nation for all things musical. Most of the time, he was happy to get a burrito or cheeseburger and a beer out of the deal. Actually, he's pretty happy to get a burrito or cheeseburger and a beer out of any deal. Actually, he thinks that sounds pretty good right about now.
He has a business degree from the University of Michigan and he's incredibly talented and handsome and smart and modest and can make the most run-on of run-on-y sentences work... Case in point. Professionally, he is the Director of Human Resources at a small finance company in downtown Nashville and also volunteers his time to Invisible Children, Nashville Cares and the seemingly ill-fated Ron Paul for President in 2008 Campaign.
He enjoys tattoos, all things related to the world of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' (go ahead... ask him), cheeseburgers, his beard, music, movies, being outside, climbing mountains and having adventures. He also considers running the Country Music Half Marathon to be the single best and worst decision he has ever made.

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