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Blake Edward DeCarvalho (born November 25th, 1991) is an American author, poet, and Audio/Visual artist. Originally from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, DeCarvalho began his career in State College, Pennsylvania where he started creating videos and writing. He is currently based in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

As of 2017, DeCarvalho is working on a project entitled UIBK.

Early Life
DeCarvalho was born in Abington, Pennsylvania. His father is a parking consultant, while his mother is a teacher. He attended the Pennsylvania State University, originally intending to be an author. In his younger years he experimented with Gimp, a open-sourced version of Adobe Photoshop. He has told audiences that he was forced to learn it to achieve better photos, due to not having enough money to purchase a good camera.

Audio/Visual Career
DeCarvalho began with visual career in March of 2014 with a clip entitled "The Walk" designed to be an opener to

an ARG mystery for Who Is Jeremy Ward. Originally intended to have a large story arc, he continued using it as a poetry-reading platform due to other life demands, leading to the site www.WhoIsJeremyWard.com. After audiences began to follow and he found himself in a better financial situation, he revived the idea of the ARG, bringing hints to something that was amiss during the series. In December of 2016, it was edited to a more dire situation in the series, with it being changed to "Where Is Jeremy Ward?" This led to a collaboration on the site, Reddit, to have users solve mysteries within the series. In January 2017, the location was determined by user "Mark Reeves" and the series returned to its normal narrative. As of January 2017, DeCarvalho is pursuing a new project entitled UIBK which he describes as "a series to shock the masses into leaving reality." Hint have been made using visual typography on the artist's instagram.

Style
DeCarvalho is known for his use of distortion both in visuals and audio format. Visually, his cinematography is often mirrored once or multiple times, sometimes making a kaleidoscope effect. Furthermore, his use of a GoPro Hero camera has led to him chopping up ultra-wide landscape shots, even while using it to videotape portraiture. Some of his work is enhance by frames closing in, leading to a claustrophobic effect, most notably for his most famous video, a rendition of one of Charles Bukowski's speeches "on Loneliness."

Writing Career
In January 2017, DeCarvalho published his first book, entitled The Parable. This book is literary translation of his online Parable project, in which micro-narrative stories were published to a following audience of over 10,000. As of January 2016, the book is in its third edition, and organized in such a way to be a self-help story, hoping to motivate those to continue through hard times.