Spencer Cross, a.k.a. 5000!, is a Los Angeles-based artist and graphic designer. Formerly a designer and team leader at both House of Blues and Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, he founded his own creative services practice, Tokyo Farm, in 2005. Spencer is also the creator and organizer of KERNSPIRACY, a unique effort to foster community and camaraderie among Los Angeles creative professionals via a combination of social and educational events and discussion forums. More recently, he helped to co-found the art collective PopRocks+Soda, who are intensely focused on the study of the issues surrounding the eating of fermented milk and the drinking of fermented grapes. Yay, fermentation.
Spencer began blogging four years ago as an author and former city captain for blogging.la and art.blogging.la, and is a longtime behind-the-scenes volunteer for the global Metroblogging network.
