Intro

I grew up playing in the mine shafts and tailings of a Superfund Site. 
My devotion to technology is deep but I know the destruction that enables it.
So I track patterns below the surface that tell a hidden story. 

Life is the Ultimate UX (User Experience)

Despite a childhood surrounded by waste rock in a Montana mining town, books and films were my window on worlds beyond everyday life. 

I knew education was my best road out of hardship.  And thanks to the luck of endless curiosity and a few solid genes, I escaped my fear of being trapped.  Still, an origin deep as a hard-rock copper mine lives within me. 

Most of my work has involved digital technology though I came to it indirectly through animation and film production in the 1980's. Then, computers were introduced as a marvelous relief from the tedious time-consuming effort, such as rotoscoping, stop-motion, and matte painting, of creating early movie magic.