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Date of Birth

22 September 1969

Height

6' 1" (1.85 m)

Mini Biography

Tink was born in Canada and raised in a multitude of Canadian and western European cities. Upon completion of university, he moved to Tokyo and served as the assistant to Yasuo Kondo, Japan's leading commercial designer for a year. Over the following two years, he established his own Tokyo and New York based multi-disciplinary design firm, completing projects for clients around the globe.

In 1994, Tink relocated to Vancouver in order to evolve his work into film. He wrote and directed the best selling short film "Pamplemousse" as well as "The Pick-up" and "Love is in the Air".

Utilizing his design experience and talent, Tink began Art Directing for television with the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and "Welcome to Paradox" series, plus the action mini-series "Atomic Train".

Shortly thereafter, he began to Production Design, specializing in projects with strong and unique visual images, including 2009's other worldly TV series "StormWorld", "Far Cry" the 2008 adventure film from director Uwe Boll, "Beneath", a late 2006 release for Paramount/MTV Films feature from Writer/Director Dagen Merrill and the producers of "Napoleon Dynamite" as well as "House of the Dead" and "Alone in the Dark" which are based on popular video games. Tink also designed the multi-award winning film "Finder's Fee"for Writer/Director Jeff Probst.

In 2010, Tink was nominated for a LEO Award in Vancouver for Best Production Design in a Feature Film for "Final Storm". In 2002, he was also nominated for a LEO Award - for Best production Design of a Dramatic Television Series with "The Chris Isaak Show". In 2000, at the Much Music Video Awards in Toronto, the video "Load Me UP", which Tink Art Directed for the Mathew Goode Band, won best music video of the year.

In addition to designing films and television, Tink has created StripCHEEZ.com, the very funny and fresh "youtube of Burlesque".

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Trivia

Has an older brother, Larry and a younger half brother Jevon.

Ends his films with the credit "pebo", an acronym for two dogs he grew up with; Pepper and Bootsie.

Named "Tinkle" after the sound of a small bell. Later changed to "tink".

His films all share a strong music component.

Of great influence to him is Leni Reifenstahl and the many lifetimes she lived in her 100 years.

His mother is North American Cree and father is Danish Canadian.

His mother, Elizabeth, once an accountant, redirected her life at the age of forty, returning to University to study political sciences. She now represents a number of First Nations concerns (both for Canada and Internationally) to the U.N. in Geneva. As of October 2007, she is also the Mayor of Cremona, a small village in the beautiful foothills west of Calgary.

Tink has a great passion for unique and innovative design. He vows that eventually, many of his design ideas will make cameos in his films.

Invented his own Martini - the "Tinkini", which contains the following: 1oz premium vodka 1oz blue curacao 1 oz organic cranberry juice garnish with a thin slice of star fruit.

Same birthday as Catherine Oxenberg. They worked together on a film with her husband Casper Van Dien and Uwe Boll.