10.02.11 - Hello
Hello. My name is Mike, and (in the vaguest terms) I am a creative professional. Digital media is my forte.
I’m not so much a jack-of-all-trades as a person exploring all of his passions, pushing his skills in each field as far as he can. I concentrate on producing the best work possible, regardless of form or function. I sometimes (half) jokingly refer to myself as a “digital renaissance man:” I make websites, visual effects, designs and animations; I create soundtracks and scores; I write, record, and produce music.
My father, a graphics professional, gave me my first copy of Photoshop 5 when I was around 12 years old; the rest is history. I tailored my skills in photo manipulation and graphic art during high school, and went on to Syracuse University’s Department of Transmedia to study Computer Art. I always knew that, even if I wasn’t sure just where my career would go, my life would be somewhere in the vast realm of digital media.
At age 14 I fell in love for the second time when my parents sprung for my first electric guitar. I have been a passionate guitarist, composer & songwriter ever since. I am co-founder of the band Magari. After briefly contemplating majoring in music, I decided to expand my digital media skillset instead. Ultimately, the choice was the right one and led me to understand a very pivotal truth: I wasn’t making a choice between music and art, I was learning how to make the most of both sides of my creative self.
Music, and later sound in general, became a major playing factor in all my work. I even spent the latter half of my college career studying sound and music production intensely.
Now, as a recent grad with a totally nebulous career in front of him, my only immediate goal is experience and improvement. I want to create animated and visual effects-based music videos and shorts, I want to produce albums and score films. I want to do it all.
Welcome to my blog, which will chronicle my process as well as talk about the things that inspire and move me: music, cinema, and art.
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