Mac Hillenbrand is the founder of the infamous underground Artspace warehouse rock club and speakeasy The French Fry Factory (03’-05’ Oakland.) He is the leader of his own surf gang The Coalition for Sharping and a former resident of Baja’s East Cape. He is Disk Jockey Old Spice the vinyl only northern soul and oldies DJ. A solo through hiker of the John Muir Trail and the owner of the marquetry art business Amber Waves of Grain. He holds a C-33 painting contractor’s licensing and lives, works, and surfs in San Diego. Above all, he is working to be the first person to use marquetry wood veneering techniques specifically to explore the aesthetic organic parallels between wood grain characteristics and oceanic textures.