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Hello everybody!
My name is Manuel Donada, a freelance graphic designer/artist from Madrid, Spain. Close people and friends call me Lolo and my sister Laura is the only person on earth that calls me Ima (dont know why).
Some might know me under the name of LeCadavre, nickname I have been using to sign my work for the past 7 years or so. Now that name is no longer part of me. I have done interesting things, ennjoyed it doing art, graphic design...etc but right now I feel like taking a further step, opening a new Pandora´s box, spreading my wings and fly in a different direction. From now on I will be using my real name, surname in this case, for everything I do making no exceptions or dividing my art into different names and entities so DONADA is what you will see from today.
I have worked as a freelancer for quiet a long time now with people and clients such as: Cartoon Network (which I will not be posting anything since I never worked as a freelancer there. It was more a job than me being creative), Alfaguara Books, Magazines, bands...etc. You can check out all the stuff I have posted here. A collection of things I have been doing for the past years. Its kind of crazy, I know...its been hard to chose all the things I thought could be interesting. Lots of new stuff that will be raplacing old things I guess...Go navigate!.
Im the founder and curator of what nowadays is called LaGsshaus!
This are some of the reason I do what I do the way that I do it: |
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- When I was around 4 years old I told my mum that a friend from school popped my eye off and I had to glue it back to be able to come back home without her noticing. She didnt believe but I was pretty serious.
- I saw an old ladie´s head being run over by a bus when I was at highschool and I can only remember a frozen picture in my head of the granny´s legs , the smell and the noise of her cranium exploding against the concrete under the wheel.
- I also remember when I was younger entering an old house with a friend and destroying forniture and stuff with a hockey stick and a baseball bat. We got caught and we went to court. Nothing happened. We were too young.
- I used to kill cats in Ireland when I spent the most terrifiying year in my life at a boarding school full of psychos and potential serial killers. I broke my leg there and had to wear crutches for a million months. The only thing I learned there was english and I speak it worst as the days pass by.
- When I was around 20 I got beaten up by 5 "supposed" RedSkins in the street that sent me to the hospital. 2 friends found me in the streets bleeding like hell. Broken nose, cheeckbones, teeth, lips, eyebrows, bruises all over my body, lost 10% of vision in one eye and spent a month in my bedroom afraid of hitting the streets again. My wallet and money got stolen when I was unconscious.
- One night at my very close friend Miguel´s wooden house in the forest we did Ouija board and I SWEAR to Satan thatl it worked somehow. Dont know what happened but that glass moved. I saw it and felt it. I slept under a matress with a friend on top of it. I was so scared I couldnt close my eyes.
- I remember my dad crying while having dinner. They only time I have seen him cry. |
- When mys sisters and I where little kids we cried out to our dad for a pet, a dog, a cat, whatever...almost everyday. Sick of us being a pain in the ass, he went to the fishmarket and bought a lobster for us which we kept in the bathtube for a while . Ive been told that my sisters and I used to throw coins at it so it could go and buy food. After a couple of months when we got bored I guess we ate it.
- I saw a man stealing money from a Candy store cash register once. I was ridding my bike and the alarm near where I was started. I came closer to the window and saw a man looking at me with an iron bar in his hand. We looked at each other for 5 seconds just before I took my bike and headed my way home pdealing as fast as I could. I told my mum and she never believed.
- I crashed a new BMW against a street lamp when I was 14. Obviously the police caught me again.
- My sister tryed to kill me when I was a baby.
- I broke my 2 thumbs at the same time at a water park. They are still broken.
- I remember cleaning our new house that got on fire the night before we where supposed to live there with ALL of our stuff inside. Start from zero.
- I have seen friends dating girls I think I have loved and now I know I didnt.
- I have been lost in NYC for 3 months where I almost slept on a bench on the street, met midgets and great people that helped me a lot.
Some people and friends know about my theory about extraterrestials being evoluted humans, different levels we have created, how little messengers come to take laboratory samples of the chosen ones and how planet earth recycles itself with a big explosion every X years.
I promise I will write about this as soon as I have my ideas cleared and written them somewhere. Too much to explain. Sorry.
...to be continued.
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