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This is the portal to both my digital life and my IRL…life.

The purpose of this site is not only to show you my work, but my personality as well. So, if you haven’t ran screaming for the door or you aren’t ROFLing, then get a drink and pull up a chair. Take your off shoes, your pants, whatever makes you comfortable and dig in and no, I won’t close my robe. Sorry.

My name is Mike Rastiello and this is my website. Pleased to meet you.

I am a video editor, graphic designer, photographer, music and movie nut, and if bugged enough, a dishwasher.

In fact, if you look at the top of this page all the photography that you see in the banner was taken by me. Yes. Me. I’m talented in oh so many ways. Actually, it’s just seven. Talented in seven ways.

Enough about me. Let’s talk about me now…

I spent the first 25 years of my life in the Garden State, New Jersey, where I grew up, learned how to navigate traffic circles, jug-handles and went to tons of New Jersey Devils games. I also practically lived at Yankee Stadium between 1999 and 2001. There was also a lot of diner food and awesome pizza in there as well. I’ve never met anyone that is in the mob, and yes I love Bruce Springsteen.

I went to college at Quinnipiac Univeristy in Hamden, Connecticut where I earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications, specializing in media production. I had to walk to class in freezing weather with snow all around and I miss it a ton. The cold and the snow, not going to class everyday. That part got old fast.

Then, in 2006 I moved to Texas to be with the awesome love of my life, Ali. We live in an old pre-war duplex in Houston in the Montrose area surrounded by tons of things to do and places to go to that I’m sure we’ll get to at some point.

I am a Mac user, currently using a PowerBook G4 hoping to upgrade once I find $2,000 laying on the sidewalk. I am also very knowledgable of the Windows platform but most days I like to pretend it doesn’t exist. Especially Vista. But hey, I’m easy to please as long as it has a monitor, keyboard, mouse and working internet connection.

I love The Office and Scrubs and I watch the DVDs over and over again like a school girl with a crush.

I enjoy long walks off of short piers, getting caught in the rain, and dancing in supermarket aisles (H.E.B. has the best music). I love baseball and hockey and live and die with the playoffs. I am also a huge comic book geek, so much so that my lovely girlfriend bought me this which still shocks me.

There is so much more to learn about me so stick around and do some reading.

I can be contacted via fancy schmancy electronic mail at mike@hellamike.com.