Early Years
Foothills, curiosity, and the first sparks
Growing up in Central Virginia, curiosity became the common thread: gadgets, images, sound, and whatever new tool promised another way to make something interesting.
Autobiographical Portfolio
A Life of Obsessions
My latest obsession is coding audio-reactive psychedelic animations for live music. Past and ongoing are photography, music, video, computers, and the strange little sparks that happen where art and technology collide.
Brief Bio
Computer geek, visual tinkerer, lifelong creative explorer.
I was born and raised in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Central Virginia, then moved to Virginia Beach in 1994. Along the way, computers, cameras, music, moving images, websites, and visual effects have all taken turns becoming the thing I couldn't stop thinking about.
This page is a simple timeline of those obsessions: where they started, how they changed, and how they eventually began folding into one another.
GLSL
Shaders
Photography
Music
Video
Web Design
Creative Tech
Timeline
The Obsessions, More or Less in Order
Computers
The machine becomes the studio
Computers moved from novelty to workspace: part notebook, part darkroom, part editing suite, part laboratory.
Photography
Chasing light, texture, and accidental magic
Photography became a way of collecting scenes, moods, faces, and odd little visual moments that might otherwise disappear.
Music & Video
Sound, motion, and atmosphere
Music and video opened the door to rhythm, pacing, performance, and the emotional punch of visuals moving with sound.
Web
Twenty-plus years of websites
Web design became the practical layer: publishing, experimenting, building, rebuilding, and occasionally getting bored enough to try a different CMS.
Now
Audio-reactive psychedelic animation
The current rabbit hole: GLSL shaders, live music visuals, procedural graphics, FFT audio response, feedback, raymarching, and realtime psychedelic systems.
Portfolio Threads
Current and recurring creative work
Audio-Reactive Shaders
Realtime GLSL visuals for music, performance, ambience, and live experimentation.
Photography
People, places, texture, odd details, and the occasional image that refuses to explain itself.
Web & Creative Tech
Small sites, visual systems, interface experiments, and tools for creative publishing.
Contact
Find me around the web
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