Name:brenden sawyer

Age:28

Occupation:pre

Status:still kicking

--Well, welcome to my little life on the web. I think bios are a little pretentious, but I also think that your experiences are important in shaping you. So, for the interested or just plain bored here's a synopsis of my professional development.

I graduated from the University of Arizona in 2002. While I was there I studied Anthropology and Media Arts. The Antro program was great, the Media Arts program was not

In fact, It was really awful. I didn't even touch a motion camera until my senior year in ONE class, and the only web knowledge they imparted was html. Photoshop? forget it. I graduated with approximately zero marketable skills in Media. To thier credit, the program focused on film analysis and theory. So I could tell you a bit about Soviet Montage, the Kino Eye, and hispanic exploitation during the golden age of Hollywood due to the Good Neighbor Policy.

Like most of my media arts alumni, I got a job doing what I really wanted, delivering pizza. While working for Blackjack Pizza in Tucson, I met a guy named Bryan Buttvidas. Bryan was pretty dang handy with the clone stamp and showed me some photoshoppery skeeelz. After a few months of self education, and some really embarassing first steps in Design, I got a job as a in house graphic designer witha Concert Promoter in Tucson. I never want to work in the music industry...ever again. I wonder what Kiri Gragg is doing today? Hmm. I bet I make a lot more than her in any case :).

That was a great learning experience, though mostly lessons on what to aviod. I learned a great deal about working in a professional design capacity. Ergo, patience to redo a poster 3000 times because it's 'too busy'. It was great while it lasted, but tucson is a small dusty place. I wanted a new scene, and I wanted a tradiational education in design.

So, I packed my shiny new dented toyota, and headed north to Phoenix. I re-instated my pursuit of education at the University of Advancing Technology. This was ... short lived. There certainly were some important aspects of this little stop. I worked on a TV show called 'screen wars', which got me some experience working in broadcast media. I even managed to get entered into the IMDB. Go ahead, google me, I dare ya. I have a star meter. Here I made a little music video which was tragically cut down by poor time-code awareness; but in so doing I met my fiance. What an important 4 months that turned out to be in Phoenix.

Phoenix is hot, and crappy. Refusing to live in a giant strip mall, I repacked that same Toyota, and headed even further north.

I landed in Seattle in August 2005, and started a new BFA process at Cornish College of the Arts.

Cornish was awesome. In a perfect world with rainbows and gumdrops I'd really like to go back; or maybe at the very least teach some Flash. I spent a year there, and gained a ton of confidence in my traditional art skills. At the end of my first year I needed a 'summer job' and managed to get a contract Flash developer position. Said position turned into a full time job and I only look back occasionally...

Thanks for reading, and enjoy the rest of the site.