It is odd to compare current gig to LFL, one was a true dream job that most people would call just that, this one is as a camera man and animator for a start up but to me it is more then valid.
Not many people get a second chance, let alone TWO second chances, but that is what I feel as if I have gotten of late.
The FIRST second chance came when I got a chance to work at VELOCE MOTORS WEST, working on a lot of amazing vintage race cars for some really nice people. Unfortunately I was not up to the task with that job, it was a dream that had come true some 23 years too late. It is not that I believe in the agist mantra that drives our society as such but it is a simple physical fact that hanging upside down in the cockpit of a Chevron sports racer trying to feel your way to removing a stuck 1/4"-20 Nyloc in a piece of $4000 fiberglass is something of a young man's job.
When I realized, back when Carter was in the White House, that I wasn't going to be the next Niki Lauda I sold my race car and went back to college. What I went back to college to study was video production, filmmaking and communication. So it only seem right that the next second chance I got involved all those things.
I made my first regular 8 movie when I was about 11, won my first award for editing when I was 17. I went to Santa Monica in 1987 to try and get into the film industry. I took my original job at Lucasfilm with the hopes that I would find my way from the games side to the film side (didn't happen).
When I got back to California after my adventures in Austin I got involved with a WEB series for my pal Taunya Gren. The work I did was not my best but it served to re-light the flame of my interest. Special effects, merged with film...that was where some smoldering embers of passion remained in my heart, still burning in the part of my soul where they were ignited during an evening showing of JASON & THE ARGONAUTS at the WESTERNER drive in Rialto California (located at the end of Route 66).
