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LEIGH

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About Me


Looking for "the next big thing" is shortsighted. When I grow up, I want to be a memetic engineer.

My Interests


Illustration, Animation, Experience Design, Architecture, Technology, Bioethics, Human Factors, Cognitive Psych, Techno, Emerging diseases and their vectors of infection, Books, power tools...

Narrative, storytelling, dj sets, anything that requires the 4th dimension...

Here are characters I created for an edutainment web animation on school bus emissions. I will post screen shots and other images as they are completed.

I'd like to meet:


People who love good design of any type, other djs, tech-heads, MCAD students, industrial designers, furniture fetishists, futurists, architects, and nerds.

ATTENTION marketers and scammers, don't bother trying to add me. I already work from home legitimately, I already have an iPod, and I'm not foolish enough to believe that you're giving away iPhones or any other product for free.

Music:

Blips, bleeps, and bass. Electro, techno...

Movies:

Naqoyqatsi, Powers of Ten, LOTR, Frida, Star Wars Trilogy, Spirited Away, The Cook the Theif His Wife and Her Lover, Ghost in the Shell, Akira, Kill Bill volumes 1 and 2, Europa Europa, Delicatessen, All About Eve, A Clockwork Orange, Children of Men, Pan's Labyrinth

Television:

Project Runway, The Tomorrow People, Aeon Flux (original animation series), Connections (BBC Docs with James Burke),

Books:

The Tipping Point, Virus Hunters of the CDC, Silent Spring, Gehry Speaks, Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency, Affluenza, Pattern Recognition, Art and Physics, Breakfast of Champions, A Man In Full, Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Holy Fire, A Pattern Language, The Visual Display of Quantitive Information, Envisioning Information, Visual Explanations, Guns Germs and Steel

Heroes:


My parents for all the help they've given me.

Others: Wendy Carlos, Joan d'arc, Tina Turner, Samuel Mockbee, Richard Feynman, Watson and Crick

My Blog

No Internet Access

Starting tonight, I won't have internet for a couple of days. Not to worry. I will be back on June 1st. If you contact me and I don't reply, that's why.
Posted by Leigh on Mon, 28 May 2007 11:50:00 PST

Rant on Medical Incompetence

I went to the doctor for a sinus infection. The doctor prescribed Levaquin and Nasacort.He gave me samples and NO PRODUCT INFORMATION on the anitibiotic.I had already taken my first dose of each when ...
Posted by Leigh on Thu, 24 May 2007 06:04:00 PST

The crazy times

I have 3 weeks to:find a new apartmentpackmoveget my Minnesota Liscence (I'm finally retiring the AL one)buy a carIf I don't respond to messages for a while, it means I am out doing one of the three.C...
Posted by Leigh on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 07:05:00 PST

Where is the 'design' in Art books?

I just received a bunch of books from Amazon today. All of them describe traditional animation techniques in detail. I purchased them as reference material for the CGEE projects I am working on right ...
Posted by Leigh on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:43:00 PST

Book Cover

So here's the link to the book for which I designed a cover. Except that the cover isn't pictured on Amazon yet. Hopefully soon. http://www.amazon.com/Felix-Berezin-Death-Mastermind-Superma thematics/...
Posted by Leigh on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:11:00 PST

Realizations

I had some realizations today. I thought I would share.First: Spring is a million times more glorious after a Minnesota winter than the comparatively balmy Alabama winter. The sky is brighter, the air...
Posted by Leigh on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:33:00 PST

Exhaustion haiku

5th Birthday PartyPirate Theme, cake, and six boysI need a spa day.
Posted by Leigh on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 07:09:00 PST

Wacom

I love my Wacom tablet. I have had it for, oh, approx. 2 months now, and I can't imagine giving it up. Over the years I have gotten really good at drawing with the mouse using the bezier pen tool. A f...
Posted by Leigh on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:38:00 PST

Life is Bizarre

Yesterday I taught a world renowned former Soviet particle physicist how to use Adobe Illustrator. That is all.
Posted by Leigh on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 10:44:00 PST

Myers-Briggs - What are you?

I had to do this for a class a while back. Very interesting... pretty acuate.Y'all should do it, and let me know what kind of results you get.http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htmFYI, I'm an...
Posted by Leigh on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 03:40:00 PST