CURRENT MISSION

To fully experience and appreciate the present moment

ABOUT ME

After living in New York City since 1980, I moved to California in 2003 to begin my third career, this time as a product designer, and teacher (of design and animation). Before that I was a researcher in computer graphics and virtual environments, and before that I was an animation camera operator.

I enjoy teaching, and feel very fortunate to have a job that is primarily about helping others grow. It also gives me time to pursue my own work, which currently involves creating organically inspired cellular and kinetic structures, as well as more practical devices for storage and kitchen (see photos and my website: www.JohnEdmark.com). I enjoy living on a university campus where I have access to all kinds of interesting people and events.

PHILOSOPHY

Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you.

Interests

I started pursuing ultra-light backpacking in 2006, and have enjoyed a number of adventures in the High Sierra, the Cascades and the Olympic mountains over the past several summers.

I have been making stereo (3-d) photograph since 1991, and have focused on hyper-stereo photographs since 1999. Hyper-stereo photos are created by putting the two cameras further apart than the distance between human eyes--sometimes as much as 300 feet apart! The result is an image that has a greatly increase sense of depth. I posted a few images here in the folder "Hyperstereo Photos". You can view them by crossing your eyes. Unfortunately, they're very small, but they give you the general idea.

I've recently taken up contra dancing and English Country dancing.

• design
• photography
• coloring
• dancing
• backpacking
• hunting
• rock climbing
• animation
• teaching
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Some Books:
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Art & Fear by Bayles and Orland,
Improv by Keith Johnstone,
Authentic Happiness by Martin Seligman,
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
The Different Drum by M. Scott Peck,
A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander,
Denial of Death by Ernst Becker,
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom

Movies:
I'm particularly into documentary films right now. Some recent favorites:
State of Mind,
American Movie,
Project Runway,
Century of the Self,
Keep the River on your Right,
Crumb,
Devil's Playground,
City of God.

Some of my favorites non-documentary films:
Nashville,
Pixote,
Koyaanisqatsi,
La Strada,
A Man for All Seasons,
It's a Wonderful Life,
A Lion in Winter,
The 400 Blows,
The Elephant Man,
Manhattan,
Memento,
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.

Favorite Composers/Songwriters:
J.S. Bach
Beethoven
David Byrne
Miles Davis
Antonin Dvorak
Bob Dylan
Philip Glass
Keith Jarrett
Thelonius Monk
Joni Mitchell
Van Morrison
Laura Nyro
Dmitri Shostakovitch
Neil Young

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Climbing to the top of Half-Dome in Yosemite.
Falling asleep on the very top of a 10,000 foot peak in the High Sierra, without a tent, a perfectly clear moonless night punctuated by shooting stars.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm happy to share what I know (and learn what I don't) about:
design,
building things,
color,
animation,
stereo Photography,
hyper-stereo photography

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Peru, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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