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 (12)
claudialee
Wow!!! Shopping? Is this the beginning of a K-Mart? With gas prices as they are now, it's nice to see that people od the area are taken care of. LOL AND hugs!!!
NekhbetSun
Is this beautiful downtown Glenview, or just part of the sprawling suburbs? ...nice slice of urban decay ;o) I did check out the opposite tho...both are cool photos Troy hugs
ICM_photo
Love old places like this, Great shot!
tmathise
Yup, this is pretty much downtown Glenview. At least it is the main intersection in the community, where Highway 481 meets Highway 48. No traffic signal here though, just two stop signs for vehicles traveling on Hwy. 481.
Valerie-Ducom
The City of ghost or ghost of City ? LOL... excellent image for this one too... Hugsssss
Richardphotos
I remember pumps like this one at a gas station I worked at as a teenager. so much history in these buildings. marvelous work Troy.
TwoPynts
I'm packing my back and on my way to paradise -- this shot of it sold me! ;] Great character here.
Enmos
Wow this is cool !! Nature wins in the end huh ? ;) Superb !! :)
WiserAngel
This is really neat...I can picture it alive again!
jcv2
Oh wow, love this mood here, good old stuff! Terrific work, Troy!
glennn23
Excellent image! You mean this is actually a living community? wow - love the composition Troy! +++
dodgeart
Sure wish these old buildings could talk. One can just barely see the outline of a Coke bottle on that rusted out round sign...from the days when a soda pop would cost 5 cents. Nice work Sir Troy.