| Below are some visual artifacts and accomplishments from my upbringing in the former steel town of Sydney, Cape Breton Island. "These are a few of my favourite things." |
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Victoria Road in Sydney, where I lived for 14 years. |
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A
photo published in the Cape Breton Post, covering students returning
to school. I'm at the front left. |
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Dressed
for a church function circa 1975. |
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A
page from my grade school scrapbook, where I wished for a Super-8 film
camera and projector from the Easter Bunny. It would take over a decade
for me to earn enough money to afford a camera on my own. |
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My
cat, Wuff. |
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With
a bigger cat: a cougar cub on display at a local car dealership. |
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A
water safety drawing win from Atlantic Television Systems ("ATV")
in 1980. Little did I know that I would be in Halifax working at the
ATV art department from 1989-1990. |
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Another
poster win from 1980, this time from the Women's Institutes of Nova
Scotia. |
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A
national essay win in junior high school for the Women's Temperance
Union in 1983. |
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Another
poster contest win for the Knights of Pythias, later in 1983. |
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A
hand-drawn "envelope of the week" win for CBC Halifax's "Switchback"
TV show in 1985. I would end up having one stint as a CBC Halifax court
sketch artist in 1989. |
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My
Sydney Academy (high school) Grade 11 student ID card. |
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A
10+ marked high school paper for my computer studies class in 1985 for
teacher J. Shaw. My interest in CGI went way back. |
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The
Sydney Academy Television ("SATV") crew, with me at the far
left. We just had the one VHS camcorder from 1985-1986, but it was my
start in video production. |
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My
final job working for Cape Breton Cablevision: the 1987 Canada Games
as a camera/production assistant. I would return to Cape Breton for
a week in 1989, then move to Toronto from Halifax in 1990, which turned
into an nine-year stretch away from home. |
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