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About Me:
I am currently accepting short freelace design and animation projects.
Profession:
Teacher/Lecturer
Specialty:
Language teaching and learning pay the bills but I have a variety of interests, every kind of art, from napkin drawing to chainsaw scuplture to digital design. I speak English, Chinese, Vietnamese and
Education:
I went to university where I majored in everything and graduated with a bachelor's degree in univers
Employment history:
I have been a camp counsellor, concrete pumper, bus boy, shoe salesman, English teacher, Art teacher, TaiChi teacher, fortune cookie salesman, TV actor, tree trimmer, corporate consultant and pizza delivery guy (though not in that order).
Software knowledge:
Flash, Illustrator and Photoshop as well as more office related programs.
Resume/CV:
Funny, all the things I am truly proud of and have made me who and what I am, nobody every wants to see on a resume.
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Interests:
Art, writing, hiking, Taichi, music, Spirituality without the interference of religion, Ukioe prints, Miyazaki Hayao, Webteaching myself web design and sometimes just sitting doing absolutely nothing. And never TV
Music:
The best music? It would have to be a tie between
Movies:
Labyrinth, the old Star Wars, The Dark Crystal, Fly Away Home, The First Matrix, Wizards, My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, Figth Club, American Beauty, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Pan's Labyrinth... more to come.
Television:
Sorry guys, life is too short to watch the boob tube.
Books:
Okay, start with Richard Bach. Jonathan Livingston Seagul should be everyone's first book. Read the Poems of Hafiz translated by Daniel Ladinsky, Rumi by Coleman Barks. Love Issa and Basho, Hanshan and Dogen. Read Ecclesiastes, ponder Mark and the Dahmapada. Re-read the Dhamapada. Chase Osho and tackle the Gnosticsand what you can of . Find John D MacDonald. Pick up Lawrence Block, Elmore Leonard, Carl Hiaasen and Stephen King. Trust no one, treasure the truth where you find it and leave the rest behind you.
Influences:
Ross Ward in Art there will never be another like him.
Use what you have.
Start now.
Never hurry, never rest.
And Andy Goldsworthy
and Bill Plymton check him out as he works http://www.plymptoons.com/anicam/anicam.html
Addictions:
What an unfortunate category.
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