As any young, impressionable young man in Hollywood, I had to find a job! I had lined up an entry level job at "The Record Plant". As a "runner/ assistant engineer". I mainly got to go pick-up food for, and clean-up after the studio's customers. But occasionaly, the engineers or the artists themselves would pull me into the studio and let me throw-in my 2 cents.

When I wasn't working there, I started surfing the Internet looking at all the "new" websites that started popping up all around. At some point, it clicked in my head that maybe there was something to this. I became obsessed with learning how to make a web site. I began deconstructing different pages source code and reverse engineering in order to understand. Right around this time I got my first copy of Macromedia Flash 3.0, and Adobe Photoshop 3.0. It wasn't long before I was making graphics, animations, and publishing my first HTML pages.

Then comes the story of Blackbeard! Garrrr... Ye be workin' for a pirate now!

I responded to an ad in the paper looking for an entry level customer service person with some web design experience. I was asked to report for an interview, which I did. Blackbeard was there in full pirate dress ready to interview me! Turns out he ran about 30 websites from his office (which was quite large), in his home. Most were adult in nature, with subjects as diverse as the population, (use your imagination).

So I took the job and thus began a legacy. The web legacy of one designer. 7 years, 4 jobs, and countless freelance contracts later, this designer is still slingin' the web and managing to stay alive.