I was a geek before it was fashionable to be one. All of my past, professional experiences were in the field of quantitative psychophysiology. You see, I told you I was a geek! But today, I am an artistic geek. Always creative, but now I create digital art.
My current focus is on vector based expressions of beauty such as flowers and ballet dancers, but my dry sense of humor frequently trickles in. I consider building websites to be another expression of art and have indulged in this many times through Muse, Wordpress, Edge-Animate, and a bunch of other non-coding types of easels. This departure from coding is quite humorous since I spent my entire scientific career writing statistical code. I also enjoy writing html and css routines.
I savored my career through 2004 as a quantitative psychophysiologist when I worked around the clock with joy and enthusiasm . Up until that time, a long term research position was maintained at a major university where I was involved in grant and manuscript preparation documenting relationships between psychological factors and HIV, cancer, and the cardiovascular system. I loved the details of my work and would frequently be found at my desk on mornings after night all-night parties of figuring out the best way to communicate statistical results through creative graphs and tables. It was extremely dramatic when I was struck down in 2004 from the effects of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and early retirement became necessary. Feel free to visit my blog at http://MyBrainsAreInMyButt.net where I discuss this in greater detail.
Despite serious, physical limitations from my illness, I still manage to stay active and enjoy life by riding a specially outfitted recumbent tricycle. I have also directed energies toward encouragement of pro-active coping in the face of chronic illness within my local community, as well as internationally, through the internet. But it is from being bedridden for 2 1/2 years that I was able to become acquainted with my passion for digital art. My training is based on the thousands of tutorials available online. I am grateful to the myriad of teachers who's ideas came to me through grains of sand in the form of computer chips.
My current focus is on vector based expressions of beauty such as flowers and ballet dancers, but my dry sense of humor frequently trickles in. I consider building websites to be another expression of art and have indulged in this many times through Muse, Wordpress, Edge-Animate, and a bunch of other non-coding types of easels. This departure from coding is quite humorous since I spent my entire scientific career writing statistical code. I also enjoy writing html and css routines.
I savored my career through 2004 as a quantitative psychophysiologist when I worked around the clock with joy and enthusiasm . Up until that time, a long term research position was maintained at a major university where I was involved in grant and manuscript preparation documenting relationships between psychological factors and HIV, cancer, and the cardiovascular system. I loved the details of my work and would frequently be found at my desk on mornings after night all-night parties of figuring out the best way to communicate statistical results through creative graphs and tables. It was extremely dramatic when I was struck down in 2004 from the effects of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and early retirement became necessary. Feel free to visit my blog at http://MyBrainsAreInMyButt.net where I discuss this in greater detail.
Despite serious, physical limitations from my illness, I still manage to stay active and enjoy life by riding a specially outfitted recumbent tricycle. I have also directed energies toward encouragement of pro-active coping in the face of chronic illness within my local community, as well as internationally, through the internet. But it is from being bedridden for 2 1/2 years that I was able to become acquainted with my passion for digital art. My training is based on the thousands of tutorials available online. I am grateful to the myriad of teachers who's ideas came to me through grains of sand in the form of computer chips.
I must say, I'm glad to have been stricken down by illness during this age of technology, particularly telecommunications, instead of prior to 1986. That's about when my brother and I first messaged together on mainframe computers from our respective Universities!