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BRIEF BIO
Guess what... overall, I am a web nerd. But before I
became addicted to this web thing, there were other facts
of interest such as:
- I was born and grew up in Moscow, Russia (at that time
USSR) where I went to school, studied Dostoyevsky and
Chechov, went to college, did sports; received a BS in
Engineering and a BA degree in Theater Directing; in the
late 1980's, I worked on Soviet Television making comedy
TV shows in the style of the British Monty Python and
American Saturday Night Live.and wrote, directed and performed
comedy/variety/theater shows in Russia.
- In 1991, I moved to the United States where I gained
50 extra pounds, grew mustache; received a MA degree in
Mass Communications and Visual Arts from Emerson College
in Boston, MA; produced, wrote and directed over 200 documentaries,
corporate, educational and experimental videos, received
various awards at national and international film/video
festivals and exhibitions (not for all 200 of these productions,
of course) and...
- On some rainy day in 1994 (don't remember the date,
unfortunately) fell in love with the new medium that people
call the Internet.
Well, it's a little lie... It might sound good
but it didn't happen at first sight. The Internet and
the web were definitely an immature medium at that time
compared to well established television and films. But there
was a great potential in it and a really great feeling about
the on-line community of enthusiasts involved in something
that later became the Web. For me, it was a learning time
when I realized that
- Java is not a coffee, but a computer language
- Mosaic is not a video effect, but a browser
- Javascripting has nothing to do with film scriptwriting
- HTML is not a barely pronounceable term from rocket
science and
- Graphic design can become somehow trickier than in films
because of this web bandwidth
Anyway, that was the beginning. And the rest is the history.
I became a web nerd, which in the Strictly
Business section of my Digital
Me-Mix I would call a web guru. The same thing but sounds
nicer, huh?
S e l f - P o r t r a i t *
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