Vision Wise

Tim

President / Producer / Creative with Nachos

Having to paint over my cartoon graffiti masterpieces on the back of my bedroom door at the age of 14, it appeared that choosing to be creative was going to be hard work. After leaving school without achieving scholarly riches, then working my way up through a young computer company (this was the early eighties), I realized one day in June as I was sweating in my suit while riding to work on the tube (I’m English), that this was not the path I wanted to travel. So I set out on my real travels. I got fired from my job, sold everything I owned, sailed a few yachts and ended up in Hollywood. I worked on some film productions and thought, “This is better”. My travels came to an end when I met my wife and decided to stop for awhile. Eighteen years later, Vision Wise, the company I founded (freelance doesn’t pay the bills for long) has completed thousands of creative and technical projects for companies all over the world, melding artistry with the pragmatic honesty of how to deliver a working project on time and within budget. I have chosen to work with lots of talented, creative individuals who stretch my outlook beyond my own ideas and expand what is possible for me and for Vision Wise. I now am happy knowing that people actually choose us to “paint on their bedroom door”…well, something like that anyway.

Ryan

Art Director / Techno Shaman

I have always been a weird kid with an overactive imagination. While people were following with the teacher in their schoolbook, I was drawing pictures in the margins. Something was different in the way I saw things when I was a kid and as I grew up nothing changed except I figured out new ways to share what I saw with others. Growing up, I was kind of a pain to teachers and my parents, but somehow they saw I was different and appreciated it a little bit . . . well, at least my parents did. Then, when I got to college I found the professors actually understood a lot of more where I was coming from. I ended up spending my high school years in a Benedictine Monastery, which was a pretty interesting experience, to put it mildly. There, besides dealing with high school politics, I discovered a unique spiritual and analytical perspective on life and finally got serious about my gifts as an artist. Art is in my blood . . . it’s who I am. In everything I create I strive for originality and creating works that help give birth to engaging perspectives and concepts. I have vowed since being in high school that what I do in art must come from my own imagination and/or the life around me. To me, that is the only way to develop a unique style, and it also challenges me intellectually. It’s a way to somehow grasp the answers to the big questions that exist all around us. I’m fascinated by the true magic and mystery of life. I’ve also found that a creative mind can create in any medium. The form and manner of the medium is just a tool; it’s the idea that is the true nucleus of expression. I am committed to growing as an artist and a spirit for as long as I am around, understanding things in new ways, and sharing with others . . .

Wes

Producer / DVD Programmer / Stationary Fractal

I once sat in temples above white beaches and studied Hindustani music for a while. In thousand year old forests I fasted and counted the timbers of the Columbia. Then I fell in love with a woman. She left the region. I traveled south and heard the cathedral bells in town squares across Mexico. I tasted fruits of the earth and sun, roasted corn, desert flowers, and fried cactus. When the festival of summer rain was over I headed back north, catching trains to New York City. There, the winter blew blizzards and on dark frigid nights I looked deep into the eyes of warm, mad love. The love that you only find in the City, the love that whistles singsongs across rooftops and clotheslines, shuffles tin cans in alleyways. Taking my partner in crime back to Texas in Springtime, I two-stepped, living in poverty for a couple years and drinking beers and enjoying paellas on sunny afternoons. I played banjo, found kittens, mettled verbs, made things pop out of computer screens, thought about the conduits of culture and learned to write in the form of video. I take all processes my lungs and heart exist in as serious and occasionally laugh about ultra-violet light and the decaying coffee in coffee cups. My 2 cats, Pinky and Blue, have taught me more than my university education peppered with Federal research fellowships, academic awards, and Rhodes Scholar review boards . . . the sum of all carbon-based life:
love others

Curly

Bow Wow/ Ruff Ruff

I’m the dog round here, its an easy position and I’m pretty good at it. No pressure, I just sleep under the desks, play with my ball, and bark at the FedEx guy when he comes in.