Yup! What can I say? It seemed appropo to post a pic of myself here too.
BIO
Troy Mathisen
...began his professional career as a recording engineer in 1977.
Shortly thereafter, he expanded into providing concert sound-reinforcement and technical support services for many "internationally-renowned" performing artists.
After a couple years of doing concert sound around the Pacific Northwest, he moved to Hollywood California, to enhance his education and experience in audio and music recording and production, for the film, television and record industries.
After 5 years with Paramount Recording Studios as a technician and audio engineer, he began his education in computer music production and graphic design.
Two years later Troy was avidly educating himself in 3D modeling, rendering and animation development and production, while working as a recording engineer for Buena Vista Sound at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank California.
By 1990, he was working as a soundtrack composer and music producer, while obtaining an education in simulation and virtual reality technologies.
Two years later he was working extensively in video engineering and production, giving occasional dissertations to college students on virtual reality environment engineering and computer music development and production for film and video.
In 1995, Troy devoted his full time to learning Internet and web-based technologies.
By 1997, he was functioning as Director of Internet and Multimedia Development for a high-tech telecommunications firm in the bay-area of central California.
To this day Troy continues to design and build intelligent web application software and information distribution systems, as well as focusing as much time as possible on his two greatest loves - the arts and sciences.
Troy currently uses the following for creating visual media...
Software;
Apophysis 2.02
Blender 2.41
Chaoscope 0.2.1
ChaosPro 3.2
DeepPaint 2.0
Lightwave 8.5
PhotoImpact 8
Poser 6
Terragen v0.9
TrueSpace 6.6
VUE 5 Infinite
and others.
Cameras;
Canon Z135 Sure Shot
Nikon D50 Outfit
Olympus Camedia C-700UZ
Hardware;
Dell Inspiron 8500 Computer
HP Business InkJet 1200n Printer
HP PhotoSmart 8250 Printer
HP ScanJet 4370 Scanner
Comments (7)
hewee
And to think it would still be open if they were getting the price they get for gas now days.
Loloe
Great capture! I like the mood of the photo!
drag
I like this. It's a piece of American history. As a child I remember pulling into places like this in Kansas and buying gas for $.39 a gallon not to long ago.
ShadowsNTime
Fabulous photo! You have many wonderful images in your gallery but I chose this because its similar in time to the place I am moving to..the area of course has grown very modern but on the opposite side of the river from where I will be living. 10 years ago we were still getting gas from pumps as old as this, now the store and pumps are gone and I find that very sad. Thats why I chose this, it forever records that era for those who were not fortunate enough to be a part of it and keeps those of us who did still firmly planted. Thank you;-) and thank you for the lovely message that you left on For My Heroes, so very kind of you and so appreciated, perhaps you felt my saddness because you appreciate some of the same things. If I am able to return I hope you will still be here so I can pay a proper visit. Until then thank you and Happy Holidays to you and yours!
Denger
Nice slice of a bygone era. Good combination of textures and colors, too.
dodgeart
Fill 'er up...with Nostalgia. Good feel of a vanished un-recapturable time--except through Troy's photography that is....
babuci
This building holds many stories...excelent capture of a past!