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SubscribeMarch 19, 2009 6:05 PM
Mista Barista: Keeping Puget Sound safe and caffeinated
Posted by Melissa Allison
A river hydraulics engineer in Renton is taking coffee art into a new genre.
Brad Singley doesn't make hearts and rosettas with latte foam. In his spare time, the married father of two plays with flash animation.
He has created "Mista Barista," a uniquely Northwest superhero saving our forests, power lines and Space Needle from the destruction of Lumberjerk, Dungeness and Roboctopus. The three-minute animation is in two parts, here (1) and here (2).
"I've never even tasted coffee," Singley freely admits. "I went to school in Utah, so it was a bit of a culture shock to see how much of daily life revolves around coffee here."
He came up with Mista Barista to compete in a Puget Sound superhero animation contest being held by KSTW and the Art Institute of Seattle. At one point, he was torn between drawing Mista Barista or Sista Barista, "a crime-fighting nun who works at a coffee kiosk on the weekend."
Go here to vote for Mista Barista and see its superhero competition. The grand prize is a $3,000 scholarship toward enrollment at the Art Institute, an Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection, and being featured in a promotional spot created by KSTW-CW11.
The contest was "a great excuse to use the other half of my brain for a change," Singley said in an e-mail. "I never got a chance to take an art class (too much math), so I'm hoping to win this competition so I can take a few classes at the Art Institute of Seattle."
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