Ben

History

Biography: Ben recently graduated with a BA in Theater Arts from UCSC, working for years as an theatre electrician and sound designer (for no pay), and is moving toward a career in video work for non-profits. He is particularly interested in media (video editing, compositing, animation, audio, graphics, as well as video and audio set-ups for theatre), and has geeky knowledge in that field. One of his favorite books is the Yamaha Guide to Sound Reinforcement. Favorite topic? Maybe differential signalling, or video compression (it's all SO COOL!). Recursion is another incredible topic that can always entertain (in programming of course, but also in video, music, graphics (Escher), and mathematics). A perpetual packrat of firefox tabs (thank you Mozilla team for reliable tab restoration), Ben never stops reading. But the result is that Firefox is always taking up over 400 MB of my RAM. It could be worse -- I could be using IE... °shudder°
Interestes: video editing, filming, video compositing, media software (FCP / AE / PS / etc), live video mixing, audio editing, audio recording, live audio mixing, electrics (theatre), lighting design, rigging, computers, hardware, storage devices and solutions, teaching, learning, reading, smiling, enjoying life!, everything else that I forgot to list (there's a lot!)