A famous Irish singer who goes by half of his and my (not-so-common) surname. There is a small possibility we could be related - smaller since he’s twice as tall as me!
Introduction
I’m an allround audio-visual / multimedia content creator and Audio-visual specialist with a passion to learn, and create things digitally or physically.
Originally from London, now living in Amsterdam my working background includes audio-visual, design, film and TV industries in various departments and everything in between.
I’m hoping to learn new skills, further extend ones I already have and combine them with the wide variety of experiences, knowledge and interests I have (art, design, science and technology). And ultimately make some cool stuff.
Reasons why i’m doing Fab Academy?
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My motivations are to brush-up on, expand and explore new skills in digital fabrication. In a creative environment with other like minded and diverse people (studying by yourself is less fun).
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With this training i hope to be able to make solutions myself to problems i have /see when trying to bridge the physical and digital aspects of multimedia / audio-visual world.
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I wish to follow my dream of building a kit-car. Since learning to drive at the age of 17, I’ve always wanted to build a kit-car as the best way of learning how a car works.
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Over the years “trends” in the kit-car industry have seen changes from the use of powerful car engines as the power plant , to high revving small tax efficient motorcycle engines and now to electric motors. And the Car industry in general has moved to digital fabrication techniques. All I need are the skills to do it and a garage to build it.
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I see it as an extension of what I started to learn as part of my SFX degree, which incorporated basic electronics, engineering principles, prop making, moulding and other things for practical special effects.
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I’ve been working for the last 2 years in a ”medtech” company in a building dedicated to start-ups and companies that adhere to the UN millennium goals. There I saw lots of cool products and projects aimed at improving the world that used a lot of skills in common with FabLab.
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And overall who doesn’t want to be self sufficient and make cool stuff by themselves.
Favourite TV Shows
- MacGyver
- The A-Team (the bit where they breakout of confinement using nothing but a paperclip and a chewing gum wrapper)
- Myth Busters
- How do they that?
- How it’s made
- James Bond (the Q scenes with all the spy gadgets!)