Challenge #1 – Intro

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1. Introduce yourself with a recent picture and 15 interesting facts

Here’s my pic:
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Here’s the facts:

1. I once served Carole Pope oysters at a party.

2. I was “witness” to a knife fight between two quarreling lovers in a flat somewhere in south London. Blood, but nobody died.

3. I have very little passion for anything. I’m pretty plain. I generally keep my opinions to myself.

4. Oh I do have a passion for Science Fiction. Mostly pulp stuff, not much into the new wave of Sci Fi writers and stories, but I can get into the odd new story from William Gibson.

5. I’m a coward. I’d rather run than fight. I’ve never thought fighting was intelligent anyway.

6. I touched a boobie once (not a Galapagos bird). That’s as far as I got with a woman. Though, I did love one once. Like… romantic love.

7. I’ve travelled to London, Paris, Barcelona, Amsterdam, and various places in the US. I’ve taken 4 cruises on large ships. I’d still like to travel like a hosteller, with a pack and one pair of jeans, but in my old age, I’m becoming dependent on a nice private bed and private hot shower.

8. I’m a Disneyphile. I don’t care what you think about that. I find that people who judge unfavorably about anyone over 30 going to Disney usually haven’t been themselves. That or they just don’t “get” Disney.

9. I have over 200 robots in my TV room.

10. I have a special relationship with art. I tried to get into the Ontario College of Art when I was 20 but was refused because the teachers on the judging board thought I was too plain. Too white. Too middle class. This made me travel (see #7).

11. I was trained as a Classical Animator and when I discovered that drawing the same things 1000 times as a career actually sucked, I took on Graphic Design. Then web design.

12. I may change careers when I hit 50 or sooner. Graphic and Web Design has lost it’s importance to me with age. I fantasize about changing careers because my father did when he was 57.

13. I enjoy photography. I would love to photograph erotic art but all I can muster the courage for is a really sharp focus image.

14. With all this art in my life, I harbour a secret from my bosses: I am red/green colour blind. I use HEX colour numbers and identifiable PANTONE codes to get colours when clients ask.

15. I still have nightmares about my father’s death.

3 thoughts on “Challenge #1 – Intro

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  2. MMSLH

    Stick your neck out. Change careers. My inspirations for doing so in my mid-30’s were both Da and Grandma Perini. Da, because he did it, in spite of the security of the projected pension he could have had. Grandma, because she didn’t have the guts to stand up and make a change in her life’s direction and subsequently suffered for decades with an abusive husband.

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