About

Not sure how to do this, even after all these years, but here, hopefully it's not cringe or whatever: I've been programming since I was 10 due to unusual childhood circumstances of growing up in a cash register shop. I've been shooting photos since 8 or thereabouts, with increasing consciousness of physical reality since middle school. And I've been involved in music since I was younger still, lucking into the influence of a wildly talented musical family whose benefic contributions I'm ever endeavoring not to fritter away.

Despite these obvious paths, I was pretty sure I wanted to be a bounty hunter, mortician, or Batman, so I worked in construction, graphic design, tutoring and death counseling, and consequently studied nursing, computer science and psychology for several years before settling that on the most flexible and appropriate option: a Bachelor's of Science in "Emerging Media & Digital Arts". This Year 7 Bachelor's degree (that I was paying for out of pocket, working the whole time, attending "cheap" community colleges) amounted to a vague cornucopia of high speed communication and production technology disciplines. Basically Evergreen State's bespoke degree-design but in oversized cat eye sunglasses and a blazer. My final pursuits included Computer Science & Filmmaking, with a splash of Technical Writing, Grant Writing (thanks, Sam Altman!) and Fashion. I minored in math (thanks, Blaise Pascal!).

It was through these 9th & 10th years of my degree, and also strutting across the stage in a silly hat to collect my diploma, now $6K in debt (no way I was gonna pay for uni out of pocket, debt-aversion aside), that I realized, I didn't need a degree and could make a living out of event production, documentation and photography!

So I did for as long as I could, I did - if I may say, to profound success, a prolific career and immense satisfaction. Check out the work on this site. That is but a fraction.

But all of that was all suddenly & drastically arrested when my health took a sharp turn in 2018.

As dramatic as Klaus Nomi's Total Eclipse music video, life was summarily rendered monochromatic, I was physically immobilize and have (annoyingly) been working ever since to find footing and get back on track with determining what remains accessible as ongoing projects. Wah wah wah, whatever.

Check it out though: there are silver linings. On one hand, this has provided a lot of time to explore constructive projects and connect more with friends and family, but on the other hand, all of these things have been considerably more erratic and less sustainable with any regularity. Fortunately, there are good days, and for long running projects, I can achieve a considerable amount in a short period of time. I vibe coded this website as a CMS alternative to Wix & Wordpress, out of a hatred foaming up within me from years of gigs in web design.

I get that people probably shouldn't be defined through their work, cos cats are wonderful, and look at them. But that's never jived with me, because what else are you? 🤣 Me, at least. You're fine. You do you. Unless it's your turn to do dishes or pay rent and you're neither charming, hot, old or young enough to make up for such oversights.

But I'm a very work-driven person with very fluctuating health. I feel at my best when I can help people realize goals for self betterment, improving relational harmony or simply realizing a creative vision. To the extent that I can foster community, togetherness and the arts and support the cultivation of a more just and melioristic world, I will apply myself with full commitment to the extent that physical vitality allows. Cos I'm a human-doing, damn it.

Anyway, this site is stuff I can do when the fates align & grace my body with the animation. If it might be of use to you & you not on a sharp deadline, let's talk.

*Melioristic: okay, sorry to be didactic, but do you know this word? I learned it and it's pretty slick. It's the belief that the world can be better. That the future is not determined purely by the past. That we don't need to revert to anachronisms due to biological determinism and that society can fundamentally progress. The fact that any of this is possible is evidence in support of the idea. And I disclosed a bunch of jank here because disease is unfortunately a fact of life, but if we're lucky, life goes on. It's polite, convenient, discreet and classy to sweep it under the rug, but acknowledging these facts without dying in a hole helps open up pathways in society for people who are dealing with chronic illness. If you're dealing with something similar, hang in there, buddy. Developments can surprise you. Don't count on any authority's ultimatums as the final word on your future.