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Tate Bremenkamp

“Literally Perfect”

Some know him as that one guy that handed out business cards with the slogan “I am literally perfect.” Others know him as the guy who photoshops classmates’ faces on bird bodies. But  many simply know him as a the guy with a smile on his face and a dumb joke always in his arsenal.

How Bremenkamp achieved his popularity is fairly straightforward. He really enjoys meeting new people.

“New friends can bring so much more into your life,” Bremenkamp said, “They’re more than just a number on my Twitter or Facebook wall”.

Bremenkamp has discovered that sometimes people you didn’t think you would like turn out to be really good friends.

“There’s a lot of people I have things in common with… [Meeting new people is] really great. You can only gain from it.”

Making people feel good is the main way Bremenkamp gets people to like him.

“You shouldn’t be bringing negativity into other people’s lives,” he said.

Many students have gotten a laugh or two out of Bremenkamp’s comical and strange looking photoshopped bird-human hybrids. Like many of his outgoing and odd projects, being bored over Spring break can be the mother of invention.

After placing a friend’s face on an image of a bird and being pleased with the outcome, demands for Bremenkamp’s photoshopped bird creations skyrocketed.

After his newfound discovery, Bremenkamp tweeted the cliched line “Favorite for an honest DM” but slyly added “or your head photoshopped onto a bird”.

He eventually suspended his project because he got sick of all the demands.

“I owe people birds right now”, Bremenkamp said solemnly.

The best way to get to know people might involve becoming the star of the football team or winning the StuCo election, but there are other ways, like printing off business cards with your name emboldened on the front.

Another one of Bremenkamp’s innovative projects, business cards, received an equally enthusiastic response from the student body. Bremenkamp received his epiphany from a Vistaprint business cards ad on Pandora. Instantly inspired, Bremenkamp ordered the printing of hundreds of cards that he proceeded to hand out to the majority of his peers and teachers.

“Overall I’m very satisfied with my decision”, Bremenkamp said. “I think it worked out very well”.

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