Mark Foster: Founder of Heroin Skateboards. Active since 1998 this small company took off appearing in skater magazines and promoted in various websites. For 25 years now it continues to carry a loyal fanbase. From his dad trying to talk him out of an art career, to losing both his house and girlfriend, to taking a chance with nothing to lose is leading his company to great success.
By: Tony Baeza
By Kahu Ekalani
Stacy Spikes was born and raised in Texas. After graduating high school, he was supposed to go to college but instead joined a band and moved to Los Angeles. In L.A he got a job at Motown Records working in the marketing department, then by the time he was 21 he was managing Boyz II Men, Queen Latifah, and Eddie Murphy. Later he managed Stevie Wonder as well.
He went on to work as the Vice President of Marketing at Sony, Miramax and Focus Features. In 1997 after noticing the lack of diversity represented in film and being told by Sundance film festival in response to his concern with the lack of diversity being showcased that “if it was good we would show it” Stacy founded The Urbanworld Film Festival, one of the largest internationally competitive festivals representing diversity in film. Urban World is held in New York City annually.
Link to my full report: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P3PqUz5ZUimhB3fTIxyiKNuq8KDZxmxOHPUpv7CBm-g/edit?usp=sharing
By George Hendrickson
John Richards is a Radio DJ at KEXP in Seattle, Washington. He had no idea what he wanted to do with his life, but he did always want to do something with music. So one day at the University of Washington he went to the local radio station on campus and volunteered as much of his time as he could, then the KEXP door opened up for him from there.
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Wayne works as a character animator at Disney. Making an impact on people is very important to him, and is one of the things that he loves about his job there. He started college as a graphic designer, but he decided that it wasn’t for him. He takes great care of the art he makes and he likes to think of the characters that he animates as though they were his children, and I think that the time and effort he puts in is admirable.
– Violet M.
By: Kyrsten Crittenden
Toilet Paper
A Chair
Ice
A Washing Machine
Shoes
Tree
Car
Couch
Coffee
Mirror
by: Tonari Abiori
By Jacob Bates
After about 12 years as an engineer, I transitioned into education and joined Austin Community College as an electronics professor.
Mason, they, them, Multimedia student (Animation focus)
I like to perform In media of all forms although I’m not confident my performances are good because I need experience to refine the craft. I love to brainstorm, especially with teams. I will always have suggestions if you ask me, although I only interject my input when I feel it’s important to the current conversation so I don’t tend to mix things up on my own without prompting. I also enjoy post production although, like performance, I feel I need to make more personal projects to refine my craft before I consider my current final work to be actually finalized in my eyes. I haven’t made many personal projects because my love for filmmaking was formed mostly by taking these classes about it, so I’ll need time outside of college to create something at all, let alone make something good.
Oh yeah another interesting thing to note, I already took every other class for my degree and missed this one so now I’m taking a 101 class at the end of my second year like a professional. And even funnier than that is that taking all the classes I did wore me out to the point where just getting up to do a 101 class is difficult. I would rather lie in bed and try to recover some years of lifespan stolen away by math classes and *shiver* writing classes.