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About Me Senior Member Deviant of Many Talents robertMale/United States Recent Activity Deviant for 7 Years
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On my way to Rotterdam next week..

Fri Sep 11, 2009, 8:59 AM
I'm giving a keynote at eDay in Rotterdam on Thursday. "The Future of Mobile"

Should be fun. Back home Friday. I'll try to take some photos and post (finally) when I get back.

  • Mood: Wow!
  • Listening to: Royskopp
  • Reading: Mistborn Trilogy
  • Watching: Fringe
  • Playing: The startup game (not easy bootstrapping)
  • Eating: Kinder Eggs (best chocolate, EVER)
  • Drinking: Cinammon coffee.

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Hi everyone! My name is Robert and I am the former Director of Prints here at deviantArt.

Background: I have over a decade of experience in a variety of areas including business (executive level), game design and development (I've done everything but code), large format digital printing, and some other stuff I can't talk about that requires security clearance. I also ran a digital print shop for a while, so I know my way around both digital and standard printing.

I authored a book about MMORPGs. Please buy a copy, I need money to buy a magical leoplurodon. The book is titled MMO Evolution and is available at LuLu.com and on Amazon.com.

Personal: Oh, so many things. Here is the short list:

• Reading! I read everything! I also like really old books.
• Photography. Not as good as I like, but I love it all the same. I
really need to find some models to work with. My gallery needs work!
• Kyudo: Ancient art of Japanese Archery. You should be impressed.
• Digital Art. Well I like art in general, but digital art, especially
fractals, give me a nice buzz.
• Anime. SUBBED, never ever dubbed. Anime is good for you. Watch some.
• Saxophone. I play alto, tenor, and baritone. I prefer Tenor.
• Fencing. Yes, I fence competitively and I am a member of the USFA. I
fence epee and foil. Real sword fighting, not that boffo crap the SCA
geeks play around with.
• Travel! I've been to about 15 countries.
• I have a black lab named Phoebe and a calico cat named Sicily.
• I can't stand people that don't know how to drive, or use "their",
"there", and "they're" inappropriately. Deal with it.
• I am learning to play GO. Very cool stuff.

Other random stuff:

My first job in the game industry was as a "multimedia engineer". I was given Deluxe Paint (no manuals!), and 3D Studio (R1!) and told to figure them out haha. I did, and then hired and trained the entire art staff. When I was done, they put me in charge of the sound department, and I sorta had to do the same thing. Note: This was back in uh, '91 or '92. Old school!

I know a LOT about business, technology, and running small to medium sized companies. I am also an industry expert on MMO games (design, development, production, operations, and administration).

I am an INFJ, I hate mayonnaise, I read all my mail (even if I don't have time to respond), I have a great sense of humor, and I will do what I can to make the DA prints program as great as it possibly can be. Which is going to be pretty damn impressive once we get Prints II fully launched.

Devious Info

  • Current Residence: North Carolina
  • Interests: ART, Technology, Fencing, Kyudo, Fractals, Anime, Old Books, Game Design, Cryptography, Photography
  • Favourite movie: Buckaroo Banzai. Shut up and go see it.
  • Favourite genre of music: House, Trance, Electronica, Taiko, Jazz, whatever...
  • Favourite artist: James Sanborn.
  • Favourite poet or writer: Kurt Vonnegut, Orson Scott Card, Eric Frank Russell, Fritz Leiber, Jorge Luis Borges, Doc-Hammer....
  • Operating System: XP :P :) XO ;| *<8+)
  • MP3 player of choice: WinAmp. The Llama rocks.
  • Shell of choice: Conch.
  • Wallpaper of choice: I prefer to just paint my walls. In pretty colors.
  • Skin of choice: Healthy, somewhat tanned. Nubile.
  • Favourite game: Stormriders Online, Gemstone IV, Wasteland, Mechwarrior, Monkey Island, Freespace, Doctor.
  • Favourite gaming platform: PC! Consoles are for kiddies.
  • Favourite cartoon character: Toss up: The Monarch and Dr. Orpheus!
  • Personal Quote: "Kneel before Zod!" and "Bring me my blue windbreaker!"
  • Tools of the Trade: Photoshop. Kai's Power Tools. Big Crayons.

Comments


:iconrobert:
Hrmm, quit requesting a password reset on my account please.

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I wrote a book! MMO Evolution
:iconamoebabloke:
looks like exiting things are afoot, thanks for the watch much appreciated
:iconmakaku777:
what happened to you?????

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:iconrobert:
Working on the digital revolution.

Example: [link]

and

[link]

Seriously. This will change everything. Including the way you think about art.

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featured here --> [link] :hug:

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Flagged as Spam
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could i use candy picture?

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Not with a spam account and no gallery or profile.

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