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Age 19 - Savannah, Georgia - At my drafting table finishing an acrylic painting - a recreation of the movie poster for "Heavy Metal" (1981). |
The drive to express myself through
creative outlets was never a choice for me; it is
simply how I am wired.
As I grew older my
interests turned from crayon to pencil, from pencil
to pen and ink, from pen and ink to painting, and
from painting to photography, animation, and
eventually cinematography.
I was born in
Nashville, Tennessee and spent my childhood there
and in Savannah, Georgia. By the time I graduated
high school I'd been awarded several scholarships to
art school for commercial/graphic/fine art. Art
school should have been a simple choice but I was
drawn towards non-creative careers.
The reason I
chose the human brain as the main graphic theme for
my website is because as I progressed through school
it became clear that my brain wasn't typical. I now
know that I have an equal ability for qualitative
and quantitative thinking. You hear of people having
either left or right brain dominance. I have neither
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I am able to utilize both
sides of my brain equally. I can shift between
associative and linear thinking on the fly and I
have an abnormally strong (Wechsler Intelligence
Scale) sense of hand-eye coordination and spatial
perception. This made choosing a creative profession
difficult for I was equally drawn to
analytical/scientific professions.
I decided to
decline my art school scholarships and focus my
attention on medicine. I
attended college in Georgia and eventually found
myself working in several hospital clinical
environments; yet creative things somehow always
became a part of what I was doing. I became
operating room certified and started going into the
OR with my trusty Nikon F4 to shoot surgeries on my
days off.
In
1995 I had the opportunity to help develop the
website for the local daily newspaper ( The Savannah
Morning News) as part of its coverage of the 1996
Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Several of the Olympic
venues were held in Savannah.
I would eventually leave
medicine to work with Morris Communications
Corporation, a large media conglomerate based in
Augusta, Georgia. I'd develop the revenue/business
side of
SavannahNOW.com - the Savannah Morning News
on the Web.
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Circa 1995, Savannah,
Georgia - Candler General Hospital OR
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2014, Anaheim, CA -
Shooting corporate video at the annual
NAMM
(National Association of Music Merchants) Show
with Luthier Mike Lull
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I'd leave the newspaper
industry on the eve of the new millennium to start a
digital marketing and multimedia development company, iDesign
Studios, Inc.
A
primary focus of iDS was top-shelf branding, marketing,
and advertising design with a digital focus. I'd
sell my interest in iDS in Q4 2006 and sign a
non-compete. This allowed me to focus on attaining a
formal education in film/video production.
I
relocated to Southern California Q1 of 2007 to
attend the Brooks Institute of Photography. I
graduated top of my class in 2010 with a BS in Film
Production with a concentration in Feature Film
Direction and Cinematography.
Since graduating from the
Brooks Institute I've worked as a script doctor,
storyboard developer, gaffer, camera operator,
lighting director (broadcast TV), director of
photography, and director (corporate videos and
music videos).
In addition to work in the
film industry I'm a
Nikon Professional Photographer. As a Nikon Pro I've
done hundreds of commercial shoots including product
photography, sporting events, portraits (editorial),
and museum archival photography (The Rock & Roll
Hall of Fame and Museum).
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