Digital Tectum
Digital Media Photographer and Graphic Artist
Digital Photography and Videography
Digital Imaging and Retouching
Digital Painting and Drawing (Fine Art)
Digital Graphic Design and Web Design
CADD and Space Planning
Associations and Certificates
I am the The Prodigital Son TM
National Association of Photoshop Professionals
Member
Web Graphic Design Certificate
Harford Community College Continuing Education and Training
Small Business Management Program Certificate
Loyola College Center for Professional Development
I am differently-abled due to Charcot-Marie-Tooth Syndrome. I have an adult on-set version of this hereditary sensory motor neuropathy.
In my previous life, I was an Athletic Trainer and a Fitness Specialist at a large metropolitan fitness facility. In addition to being the supervisor of the evening shift, my responsibilities included fitness testing, monitoring of the cardiovascular fitness center, strength and conditioning coaching, and personal training.
During my vocational rehabilitation, I rediscovered my artistic talents for photography, painting and drawing, and graphic design. I have since gone more and more digital in those and other pursuits.
I advocate Green, Wired, and Universal design. Especially Universal Design, it is usually very simple and very cost effective to make most things useable to everyone. Not to incorporated Universal Design in space planning and industrial design is thoughtless ignorance at best and vindictive stupidity at worst.
Architects, Developers, and Builders should take note: For all their documented education and/or self-proclaimed experience, they all usually fail miserably when it comes to accessibility and they usually blame it on the almighty dollar. It is not a "luxury item" to be able to open and go through your own front door - DESIGN LIKE YOU GIVE A DAMN!
Stop Corporate Internet Command and Control
Whether you are a webmaster or a casual blogger, please, join the Save the Internet Campaign! Do not let some corporate puppet decide how you are going to use your Internet access, that YOU actually pay for, directly and indirectly, (not them). How about some corporate flunky telling you what search engines you had to use or whether your webpage is worthy of being accessed? Who do they think they are ... China? Of course, your webpage would be "worthy" enough, if you paid enough for it to be worthy - so much for Free Speech and Free Enterprise.
The Save The Internet Campaign
Your Personality Is Rational (NT)
You are both logical and creative. You are full of ideas. You are so rational that you analyze everything and this drives people a little crazy! Intelligence is important to you. You always like to be around smart and/or talented people. In fact, you are often a little short with people who do not impress you or who embrace mediocrity. You seem distant to some but it is usually because you are deep in thought. Those who do understand you best are fellow Rationals. In love, you tend to approach things with logic. You seek a compatible mate. One who is either very intelligent and/or possesses unique talents or skills. At work, you tend to gravitate toward idea building careers such as like programming, medicine, or academia. With others, you are very honest and direct. People often cannot take your criticism well. As far as your looks go, you are coasting on what you were born with and dislike affectations such as trendy hair styles. You think fashion and fads are silly, as well. During your downtime, you spend most of your time thinking, experimenting with new ideas, or learning new things.
The Three Question Personality Test
Your Five Factor Personality Profile
Extroversion: You have medium extroversion. You are not the life of the party, but you do show up for the party. Sometimes you are full of energy and open to new social experiences. However, you also need to hibernate and enjoy your "down time."
Conscientiousness: You have high conscientiousness. Intelligent and reliable, you tend to succeed in life. Most things in your life are organized and planned well. However, you are borderline on being a total perfectionist.
Agreeableness: You have medium agreeableness. You are generally a friendly and trusting person. However, you also have a healthy dose of cynicism. You get along well with others, as long as they play fair.
Neuroticism: You have medium neuroticism. You are generally cool and collected but sometimes you do panic. Little worries or problems can consume you, draining your energy. Your life is pretty smooth but there is a few emotional bumps you would like to eliminate.
Openness to experience: Your openness to new experiences is high. In life, you tend to be an early adopter of all new things and ideas. You will try almost anything interesting and you are constantly pushing your own limits. A great connoisseur of art and beauty, you can find the positive side of almost anything.
The Five Factor Personality Test
Your Values Profile
Loyalty: You value loyalty a fair amount. You are loyal to your friends but only to a point. If they cross you, then you will reconsider your loyalties. Staying true to others is important to you but you also stay true to yourself.
Honesty: You value honesty a fair amount. You are honest when you can be but you are not a stickler for it. If a little white lie will make a situation more comfortable, then you will go for it. In the end. you mostly care about "situational integrity".
Generosity: You value generosity highly. So much so, you often put your own needs last. There is nothing wrong with having a caring heart but you may want to rethink your "open wallet" policy.
Humility: You value humility highly. You have the self-confidence to be happy with who you are. You do not need to seek praise to make yourself feel better. You are very modest and you desire to keep the drama factor low.
Tolerance: You value tolerance a fair amount. You are open to new cultures, beliefs, and ideas. You have very few prejudices of which you are aware. However, while you are tolerant, you do stand true to what you believe.
The Five Factor Values Test
Your Personality Type Is:
#1 Match - The Protector (INFJ): You live your life with integrity, originality, vision, and creativity. Independent and stubborn, you rarely stray from your vision - no matter what it is. You are an excellent listener, with almost infinite patience. You have complex, deep feelings, and you take great care to express them. You would make a great photographer, alternative medicine guru, or teacher.
#2 Match - The Idealist (INFP): You are creative with a great imagination, living in your own inner world. Open minded and accepting, you strive for harmony in your important relationships. It takes a long time for people to get to know you. You are hesitant to let people get close. However, once you care for someone, you do everything you can to help them grow and develop. You would make an excellent writer, psychologist, or artist.
#3 Match - The Scientist (INTJ): You have a head for ideas and you are good at improving systems. Logical and strategic, you prefer for everything in your life to be organized. You tend to be a bit skeptical and you are both critical of yourself and of others. Independent and stubborn, you tend to only befriend those who are a lot like you. You would make an excellent scientist, engineer, or programmer.
#4 Match - The Thinker (INTP): You are analytical and logical. You are on a quest to learn everything you can. Smart and complex, you always love a new intellectual challenge. Your biggest pet peeve is people who slow you down with trivial bullshit. A quiet maverick, you tend to ignore rules and authority whenever you feel like it. You would make an excellent mathematician, programmer, or professor.
#5 Match - The Giver (ENFJ): You strive to maintain harmony in relationships and usually succeed. Articulate and enthusiastic, you are good at making personal connections. Sometimes you idealize relationships too much and end up being screwed. You find the most energy and comfort in social situations ... where you shine. You would make a good writer, human resources director, or psychologist.
What is your Personality Type?
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You Have A Type A- Personality
You are one of the most balanced people around. Motivated and focused, you are good at getting what you want. You rule at success, but success does not rule you. When it is playtime, you really know how to kick back Whether it is hanging out with friends or doing something you love! You live life to the fullest by incorporating the best of both worlds.
Do you have a Type A Personality?
Your Personality Profile
You are elegant, withdrawn, and brilliant. Your mind is a weapon, able to solve any puzzle. You are also great at poking holes in arguments and common beliefs. However, for you comfort and calm are very important. You tend to thrive on your own and shrug off most affection. You prefer to protect your emotions and stay strong.
The World's Shortest Personality Test
You Are 50% Left-Brained, 50% Right-Brained
The left side of your brain controls verbal ability, attention to detail, and reasoning. Left brained people are good at communication and persuading others. If you are left brained, then you are likely good at math and logic. Your left brain prefers dogs, reading, and quiet. The right side of your brain is all about creativity and flexibility. Daring and intuitive, right brained people see the world in their unique way. If you are right brained, then you likely have a talent for creative writing and art. Your right brain prefers day dreaming, philosophy, and sports.
Are You Right or Left Brained?
Your Thinking Style:
Primary - Modifying: Super logical and rational, you consider every fact available to you. You do not make rash decisions and are rarely moved by emotion. You prefer what is known and proven to what is new and untested. You tend to ground those around you and add stability.
Secondary - Visioning: You are very insightful and tend to make decisions based on your insights. You focus on how things should be, even if you have not worked out the details. An idealist, thinking of the future helps you guide your path. You tend to give others long-term direction and momentum.
What is your Thinking Style?
Your Brain's Pattern
You have a tempered, reasonable way of thinking. You tend to take every new idea in and meld it with your world view. For you, everything is always changing. Each moment is different. Your thinking process tends to be very natural - with no beginnings or endings.
What Pattern is your Brain?
Your Dominant Intelligence Is Spatial / Visual
You have spatial intelligence! You are good at remembering pictures and are great with colors and design. You know where everything in your house is located generally like things nice and tidy.
People with this type of intelligence are able to perceive the world in three (or more?) dimensions. They can follow intricate inter-relationships and systems, especially networks. They are good at keeping track of the disposition of various items in space, which makes them good at reading maps and charts, creating plans and drawings, and solving puzzles and mazes. They have a good sense of direction utilizing landmarks. Their note taking or note making usually includes lots of "color" and imagery. They prefer reading material that is heavily illustrated, are inveterate doodlers, and have great perceptual and visualisation skills in drawing, especially where accuracy is often essential. People equipped with this intelligence easily undertake do-it-yourself activities or any kind of work that involves stripping down and reassembling components. In school, this intelligence leads to a preference of geometry over algebra.
Professions: Artists, Designers, Architects, City Planners, and more!
Of the Seven Types of Intelligence, Which is yours?
Your Dominant Intelligence Is Spatial Intelligence
You have got a good sense of space and how the world around you looks. You can close your eyes and "see" images. You have innate artistic talent. An eye for color and shapes, you're also a natural designer. Since you think in pictures, visual aids, and demonstrations help you learn best. You would make a good navigator, sculptor, visual artist, inventor, architect, interior designer, or engineer.
Spatial Intelligence can be considered visual in nature but it does not require physical sight. It can develop in blind children. It gives us the ability to manipulate and create mental images in order to solve problems.
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You enjoy visualizing ideas and concepts in your mind
You enjoy creating art forms in a variety of ways
You enjoy performing arts and sports in a spatial sense
You enjoy working with diagrams, maps, charts, and tables
You enjoy music videos
You enjoy puzzles in various dimensions
Your Scholastic Strength Is Innovating
You are the master of new ideas, techniques, and ways of looking at things. You are talented at structuring thoughts, decision making, clarifying, and making deadlines. You should major in marketing, psychology, design, cognitive science, economics, or photography.
What should you Major in?
You Are An Artist
Watch out world! You are an artist. Filled with unlimited creativity, you help to make the world a more beautiful place. Keep doing what you do.
Artist 69%
Singer 25%
Dancer 19%
Musician 13%
Actor 13%
Writer 13%
What kind of artist are you?
Your Philosophy Is Classicism
Most prominent in ancient Greece and Rome, Classicism is one of the first great philosophical schools of thought. You believe that the universe is sensical, intelligible, and beautiful. You may want to hook-up with Aristotle or Plato because they share your sentiments. You are concerned with ethics, mathematics, and science in both a brainy and a personal way. You are smart and intelligent. You like to put these gifts to good use and do not feel intimidated by the daunting processes of logical proofs.
What Philosophy-In-A-Nutshell are you?
Your Intellectual Type Is Visionary Philosopher
This means you are highly intelligent and have a powerful mix of skills and insight that can be applied in a variety of different ways. Like Plato, your exceptional math and verbal skills make you very adept at explaining things to others — and at anticipating and predicting patterns.
What is your Classic I.Q.?
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You Are An Existentialist
Your life is guided by the Humanist concept of Existentialism: You choose the meaning and purpose of your life. If Man is to be free, then he must be responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give life a meaning. I think; therefore, I am.
Justice: A concept involving the system of consequences which are naturally derived from any action or choice. Justice, in some form or another, affects all things in the universe. In the context of human actions, this means what individuals or groups actually deserve or merit, or are in some sense entitled to, according to their actions.
Kantianism: A theory of ethics that ascribes intrinsic value to rational beings and is the philosophical foundations of contemporary human rights and the extended ascription of intrinsic value to a wide spectrum of non-human natural entities, including ecosystems.
Hedonism: The doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the sole or chief good in life.
Utilitarianism: A theory of ethics that prescribes the quantitative maximization of good consequences for a population - "the greatest good of the greatest number". It is a form of consequentialism. Though some utilitarian theories might seek to maximize other consequences, these consequences generally have something to do with the welfare of people and sometimes nonhuman animals. For this reason, utilitarianism is often associated with the term welfarist consequentialism. It can be an effective way of defeating prejudices and selfishness.
Nihilism: A philosophical position which argues that the world and human existence is without objective meaning, purpose, comprehensible truth, or essential value. In addition, there is no reasonable proof of the existence of a higher ruler or creator, a true morality is unknown, and secular ethics are impossible; therefore, life has no truth and no action is known to be preferable to any other.
Existentialism 90%
Justice (Fairness) 70%
Kantianism 60%
Hedonism 60%
Utilitarianism 55%
Nihilism 50%
Strong Egoism 40%
Apathy 30%
Divine Command 0%
What philosophy do you follow?
You Are Most Like A Humanist
Your ideals mostly resemble that of a Humanist. Although you do not have a lot of faith, you are devoted to making this world better, in theshort time that you have to live. Humanists do not generally believe in an afterlife and, therefore, are committed to making the world a betterplace for themselves and future generations.
20% Scientific
80% Reason-oriented
What religion are you most like?
You Are Most Like Einstein
You are a detached intellectual whose ideas will save or will destroy the world. You lead with your mind, exploring the unknown and helping to invent the future of mankind.
What Famous Leader are you?
You Were A Renaissance Painter
(just not this one)
Name: Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
Parents: Vincier ser Piero and Catarina
(unmarried because she was "low born")
Siblings: 17 half brothers and sisters
Date of Birth: 15 April 1452
Place of Birth: probably Anchiano, Italy
(near Vinci, where he was christened)
Date of Death: 02 May 1519
Place of Death: Amboise, France
Cause of Death: probably complications from a stroke suffered in 1517,
aggravated by what should have been a minor illness
Age at Death: 67
Who were you in a past life?
Your Life Path Number Is 4
Your purpose in life is to build your vision. Even though you are artistic, you are also practical and responsible. You work hard, knowing that there are no shortcuts in life. You work for a better life for yourself and for those you love. Trustworthy and honest, you also demonstrate great courage. People can count on you. In love, you are a loyal and committed partner. You are the ideal spouse. You do not give up easily and have trouble knowing when to quit. Sometimes you can be too stubborn and unwilling to make changes, being too conservative at times, which means that you can miss out on good opportunities. In addition, remember that not everyone can be as passionate as you are or work as hard as you do, as disappointing as that is to you. It is best not to be too idealistic about others.
What is your Life Path Number?
You Are The Individualist
As a "4", you are sensitive and intuitive, with others and yourself. You are creative and dreamy plus dramatic and unpredictable. You are emotionally honest, real, and easily hurt. Totally expressive, others always know exactly how you feel.
What Number are you?
Your Beauty Hides In Your Individuality
You are different from everyone else and everyone else knows it but they do not necessarily know why. The worst part of this is that everyone refuses to stop trying to change you. You do not know whether to just be yourself or put on some fake act or social mask just to get people off your back. While it is always best to be honest, you may be resentful that people are always trying to change your ways instead of improving their own ways. Do not let anything change you because in this world there is only one of you. Meanwhile, there are millions of people trying to portray themselves as something else just to keep everyone else happy.
Where is your Beauty hidden?
You Scored As One Intellectual Individual
You are a thinker. You see things from a very different prospective than the rest of the world. You probably find release and self-expression in music, painting, sculpting, or any other form of art. People see you as a deep person, full of knowledge that they do not understand. People are attracted to that, but there is a good chance you do not care.
One Intellectual Individual 88%
Earth-Child 75%
Not a Hippie 63%
New Age Hippie 50%
Original Hippie 50%
Pothead 25%
What type of Hippie are you?
You Are Most Like The Archangel Uriel
You are most like the Archangel of Transformation. You like teaching and bringing the joy of learning new stuff to others. You have limited patience for stupid people despite having an amazing amount of patience otherwise.
Which Archangel are you most like?