I am pleased to present this body of work. I am a driven person, straddling both artistic pursuits and engineering pursuits. Most of you know me from my work as the bassist/flutist/songwriter for the band Shadow Gallery. But while I was doing that, I also worked as director of engineering at a large commercial studio mixing The Allman Brothers, Bob Marley, and Ludacris. I have been a post production engineer, managing the post facility on six major motion pictures for director M. Night Shyamalan. I was the engineer for Will Smith’s father at his east coast home studio in Philly for a very long time, and helped install many studios including Jon Bon Jovi’s home studio. After the absolute 80 hours a week madness that was large commercial studios, I went into the world of audio/visual as a senior systems design engineer. There I found myself becoming an architect of advanced collaboration, innovation spaces, and the classroom of the future. This had me consulting with FEMA/DHS and growing the global campus programs of some of the largest universities in America.
All this brings me to the present, where my artistry and previous experiences coalesce with what I hope is the best work of my life, my “pièce de résistance” - a major motion picture screenplay titled “SkyWatcher”. This is my response to the greatest challenges I believe we as humans will ever face - the intersection of climate change and skyrocketing international debt. Sorting out what is truth, in a world where social and mainstream media are destroying truth, has been a challenge. I am beyond moved with the unbiased support I am receiving from the academic community in helping me recognize fact from fiction, and understand the reality of multi-faceted uncertainty tied to some of the near certain pillars of truths.
I feel very strongly that political divide will be the biggest hurdle to fixing these problems. I believe if I arm myself with the best in obvious, inarguable, rigor supported earth and economic science - presented with honesty - it will be a unifying call to the rationale middle to rise up and act. To be clear, this is NOT A POLITICAL STANCE. This is an emotional plea for good people to lay down their arms, and in unified fashion begin the hard work that is in front of us. Although crafted as an action filled character study and dialog piece, SkyWatcher at its true heart is the message of demonstrating personal responsibility, and using it to care for others more than we care for ourselves. If we do not have empathy, we have nothing. If we take advantage of others, we are not a good people. Period. If any of this resonates with you and you have a skill or a knowledge base to contribute, we may be in need. Please use the contact page to let us know - it will take a village.
Lastly, I use AI all the time as a research tool. I refuse however, to use it for creative structure. That is on me - on all of us - to carry forward the flame of the human spirit, of which art is intrinsically weaved into.
Let’s see where this one goes...
Thank you for visiting my site and I hope you enjoy it. Stop back often for updates on the progress of “SkyWatcher”