When I grow up I want to be a clown.
Being a bit nuts helps in this industry. I should know, I’ve been in it for 21 years! The first paid job I ever did was when I was 16 and it was a promotional video for a family friend’s business. Back then I used an SVHS camera and edited on my high school’s film and tv department’s tape to tape edit suite. It was just jaw dropping that you could do edge wipes and freeze frames.
Ok, so I didn’t go to film school. They didn’t let me in. But I tried. Then I went to work. For free.
At first.
I was fortunate to sit in on tv commercial shoots that were, at the time, big budgets, long days and shot on film. Bearded directors with big ego’s making shoe commercials with dancing, smiling grown men and women wearing bright, square shoulder padded jackets and permed hair. Hey, this is the early 90s we’re talking about here!
Eventually you get paid for what you do… eventually. And then eventually you get what you quoted.
I think over all these years of pushing buttons that I’m a fairly fast and clever dick, and creative. I don’t see problems, I see challenges and I provide solutions. I’ve sat in dark, small, cold rooms for so long that I’m immune to winter and I have white, soft skin from all the sunshine I’m not getting.
I edited my first video a few months ago on my iPhone. All by thumb! Keeping up with the technology is half the fun and I love computers and all the toys we are privileged to tinker with. I do believe computers have feelings and get sad from time to time, just like me. That’s how long I’ve been around them.
Oh, and as you can see from the photos above, I’m training my nephew to be a clown, just like me.
And my resume in PDF form you can download here (right-click to save to disk)