7 Things
There is a chain-like blog posting happening and although everyone admits that it's kind of lame, we are still all participating. Patrick Finch past it on to John Slater (Creative Director at Mozilla), who sent it to Steven Garrity (Creative Director at silverorange), who sent it to me.
The rules:
- Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post.
- Share seven facts about yourself in the post.
- Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
- Let them know they’ve been tagged.
The fact that this is not email, some how makes it seem alright to continue the trend. Seven random facts about me.
- I grew up in two big families. If I have my numbers right (and I'm sure I don't), 1 sister, 37 aunts and uncles, 35 first cousins and 12 second cousins. Everyone still gets together in a single location during holidays and almost all of them live in Prince County, PEI.
- I graduated high school with a mark of 105% in fine arts. It's a far fetch from a formal art degree but whatever, half the class failed. The 3 year class was primarily inks, paints and charcoal. However, a single day class last year on oil painting remains to be the only time I've held a brush in probably 5 years.
- While in high school I created an online fantasy hockey simulation game. I've been the only developer (with management help) on this project and after 10 years, the site is still very active with participants from around the world. One of those participants is a producer at EASports who gave me the opportunity to tour the studios campus.
- I studied computer programming in College that covered C++, Visual Basic, Powerbuilder and Java. This some how helped me get a job with a hardware (sales and repair) company that was in talks with silverorange to build a website. Upon failed negotiations, I left that company to work for silverorange on a temporary HTML markup project. That was 7 years ago.
- As a hobby photographer, I have never shot film. In fact, growing up I had very little interest in cameras despite the fact my mother went through roll after roll on a regular basis (point and shoot family events). My first camera was a $1000 3MP Toshiba in 2001. It had full manual, aperture priority and time value but I had no idea what that was until I bought a Canon SLR in 2005. Oh, I also spent the first 3 years with that 3MP camera shooting at 1024x768 resolution.
- I'm a book collector. I say that because as I write this, I'm looking at my book shelf full of books that I have never read (years worth) but I continue to buy more. All of these books are either design, photography or photoshop related. I guess I feel smarter by just owning them? (and hoping to read them one day)
- My name appears in the Mozilla archives due to an initial drawing I did that eventually became the Firefox logo. Full credit belongs to Jon Hicks but I'll still continue to plug my part when I can.
- I was 21 when I traveled for the first time by air. With my limited experience, I still find travel to be incredibly fun and addicting. I have still never been outside of North America.
* update edit: Upon proof reading, it also turns out that I can't count.
Everyone I know personally with weblogs seems to already be participating so I'll pick a few sites from Google reader that I think may participate. This is assuming they even see my email.
- Bence Kucsan: A designer for silverorange working remotely from Hungray.
- David duChemin: A traveling photographer who is currently traveling around the world writing a book. I met David on a recent trip to Vancouver.
- Chase Jarvis: Successful commercial photographer and active blogger. I don't know Chase but have exchanged a few emails and bought his book.
- Rannie Turingan: Photographer from Toronto who attended our recent Zap Conference.
- John Nack: Active blogger and product manager for Adobe Photoshop. Don't know him but I'll tag him anyway. I exchanged one email with him about this.
- Moose Peterson: Wildlife photographer and another weblogger I don't know but have exchanged emails.
- Dave Cross: Author, Instructor and Speaker for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. I attended his class at PhotoshopWorld.