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My name is Jack Tupac Pennington and I was born in Zwolle, Louisiana. If anybody asks me to describe Zwolle I would tell them that as the name suggests it is a strange, deranged country side town where the South meets the Mid-western Texas Star. The nature like the people is rough as country as is cornbread and milk on a winter day.
I grew up in some of the biggest cities in the United States. I spent a good number of my years as a growing youth in HoustonTexas. My life in Houston is probably one of those mystery stories that as I used to tell a friend, are conversations for the forest.
Leaving the United States would have only been at least for vacation, but as my family has always been spread out over the vast lands of the planet I did finally get a chance to flee the United States in pursuit of a wider vision of the world. A wider vision that would carry my words to new horizons.
My arrival to Europe was full of hope and I took it upon myself to root myself down in Frankfurt Germany where I only began the first chapter in the book of my life as a writer. I had no prior knowledge of the language or the culture other than pre-conceived ideas imbedded in me through historical education provided by the United States Educational System. This would prove most difficult learning these misconceived ideas through first hand knowledge of living with the Germanic people of Germany. I published my first book by hand, independently,on the Gutenberg Press in MainzGermany. In 2002 I received a diploma as a bookbinder and typesetter.
After my trials in Germany I traveled around Europe finding myself in the very heart of the western world, Switzerland. During my travels throughout Europe I embarked on yet another book that I published in 2003 with an artist from Japan.
From 2003 until my departure in 2006 I lived in Basel, Bern, and Lausanne. I was and still am fascinated with the mix of political ideas found in the Swiss Culture. Its political prowess appears neutral but then again money has never been a neutral commodity!
In 2006 I went to England to do an undergraduate course in Professional Writing. Living in London was a story unlike any other that I had thus embarked upon, but I was weary of a similarity in what the Pilgrims who left the monarchy behind felt during my stay on the 0 axis at Greenwich University. Later I would go to the outskirts of London to Guildford which is regarded as a town similar to Freiberg in Germany, but I must say I found no similarity. I embarked in further studies of Media in hopes of acquiring more guidelines and structure for publishing more of my literature at Farnham University for the Creative Arts taking a BA in Journalism.
After having studied various disciplines in media I am still passionate about my writing and the publishing of my writing under my own terms. The structure I have created is not unique in the sense that it has not been achieved before, but that I use an interdisciplinary publishing structure unique in the form of production included at all levels. More recently I have become more open to using less orthodox methods of publishing. My material is often published on my own steam. I still strive to live from my writing as much as I write to live.
You might say that these "rebel" publishing tactics come in a serious critic to the ever growing publishing methods and standards used by the mass media that combines technology with professional standards. I strongly believe that in recent centuries publishing material has not been about the art of production as much as the industry of production. As a result I continue to publish my work and ideas when possible either completely independent, where cash flow is available, and or when the oppurtunity presents itself.
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