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| 2009 | London | Planning, designing and building websites
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Using mathematics at the Open University | Oct Nov Dec | |||
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| Black & white photos | Apr May Jun | ||||||
| Pretend Office & Septivium | Jan Feb Mar | ||||||
| 2008 | Oct Nov Dec | ||||||
| Full-time course in Creating Theatre at the London International School of Performing Arts (LISPA) Devised physical theatre including: masks; Commedia dell'Arte; the grotesque; dramatic storytelling; epic drama; acrobatics; the chorus; clowns; comedy and farce; Butoh dance; and more. Also, a part-time one-year course in stage combat at the City Lit including rapier and dagger, and unarmed, passing my BASSC Fight Performance Test. |
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| Acting classes At the City Lit (one year Foundation course and other classes) and The Method Studio. |
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| WhitStillman.org | Apr May Jun | ||||||
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| 2005 | Falklands photos | Oct Nov | |||||
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| Japanese language evening classes Why not? But I eventually gave up as I couldn't devote enough time to classes. |
Avignon photos | Apr May Jun | |||||
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| 2004 | Hackney photos | Oct Nov Dec | |||||
| St Pancras photos | Jul Aug Sep | ||||||
| TheyWorkForYou.com & Serbia and Beach hut photos | Apr May Jun | ||||||
| California photos | Jan Feb Mar | ||||||
| 2003 | Portrait paintings | Oct Nov Dec | |||||
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| Creative Technologist at UpMyStreet.com, London Programming, design, site architecture, usability and stuff for the UpMyStreet website and public- and private-sector clients such as SomersetOnLine. |
Paris photos | Apr May Jun | |||||
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| 2002 | Pepys' Diary | Oct Nov Dec | |||||
| Burning Man photos | Jul Sep | ||||||
| Haddock Blogs | |||||||
| Witham | Walton photos | Jan Mar | |||||
| 2001 | SimonMortimer.com | Nov | |||||
| Burning Man photos | Aug Sep | ||||||
| Haddock Review | |||||||
| Freelance web work | Feb | ||||||
| 2000 | Houston | MS in Studies of the Future at University of Houston-Clear Lake It seemed like a good idea when I was sick of London and websites I didn't care about. It was certainly an experience. I learned a lot and you can see some of the papers I wrote. |
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| Enron Field, Clear Lake, Houston photos | Jul Aug | ||||||
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| Byliner.com | Mar | ||||||
| 1999 | |||||||
| London | Deputy Editor of Capital Radio's websites Too, too long. The shallow fun of meeting stars didn't make up for having to listen to Capital FM all day. |
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| Amsterdam photos | |||||||
| 1998 | Life drawings | ||||||
| 1997 | Webmaster at Syzygy It was OK. But everyone else ran away about the same time I did. I cobbled stuff together for sites such as Cartoon Network UK, Excite UK, Pepsi UK, the V&A, Whiskas, Wilkinson Sword and WPP. |
SW USA photos | |||||
| Burning Man photos | |||||||
| Haddock Directory | |||||||
| User Interface Design evening classes at London Guildhall University | |||||||
| 1996 | Alpha Geek at Wired UK I blagged a job as sysadmin and they were crazy days when any job title seemed possible. I couldn't believe I had a job at Wired, and it was all thanks to v1.0 going pear shaped. It was like this only more English and I've yet to enjoy a job as much as the first few months there. But eventually v2.0 also disappeared. The new economy is so fickle. |
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| 1995 | |||||||
| Bristol | Page Layout Artist, Bristol Evening Post Part-time, scalpel, hot wax, black tape. |
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| French and German evening courses at various times while in Bristol. | |||||||
| Modelmaker at Aardman Animations Freelance, and more off than on. But it was fun, and the biggest pay cheques I could then imagine. Made models for TV ads for Chevron, Lurpak, Weetos, and a couple of days on A Close Shave. |
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| Freelance Illustrator I made £100 from one illustration in GQ. |
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| 1993 | |||||||
| BA Graphics & Illustration at UWE Had a great time, and loved Bristol which was why I stayed. Made lots of friends; made many stupidly arty (as opposed to good) things; wimped out and avoided too many parties; learnt a lot; did some paintings rather than spend my time on those nasty computers; went on an amazing mystery field trip to Berlin, Innsbruck, Venice and Bognor Regis; learnt about old Dutch paintings; discovered how much I enjoy movies; made many, many things out of mounting board; discovered how much I enjoy going to gigs; got drunk; cycled up and down hills. |
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| 1992 | Work experience at a couple of theatres sometime during college. | ||||||
| Odd bits of nasty industrial temping during these years. | |||||||
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| Crittall photos | |||||||
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| Witham | La Defense photos | ||||||
| Foundation Course at Braintree College I learned how to create things other than the small black and white pen drawings of which I had previously been so proud. |
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| Witham Sixth Form Centre | |||||||
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