http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1874068/ - David A. Shirk, a 1989 B.F.A. Illustration/Film recipient from Pratt Institute received an Oscar, or Academy Award, for Best Visual Effects on the film "Gravity".
Notice, that in 1989, there were no graduates of the new Computer Graphics program. This did not occur until 1990.
The 1995 Pratt Institute Alumni Directory states that he graduated in 1989 with an undergraduate degree in FILM. He was working as an Animator for Softimage, and living in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. The entry does not state that he is married to anybody. His phone number, at work, was 908-889-7030.
http://lancasteronline.com/elanco/entertainment_and_lifestyle/new-holland-native-up-for-oscar/article_e7589c4c-9b42-11e3-a2be-0017a43b2370.html - this is an article in his hometown paper on February 21, 2014.
I found this obituary posted on October 7, 2014: http://lancasteronline.com/obituaries/mary-h-shirk/article_7b351170-4de0-5e6f-916e-a370a1ac5701.html - a relative, who died, and others mentioned, is my guess.
The 2005 Pratt Institute Alumni Directory states that he is a 1989 B.F.A. Media Arts graduate, and was working as an Animator for Industrial Light & Magic in San Rafael, ,California. He was living in Sausalito, CA, and married to a woman with a first name of Catharina. He had work phone number 415-448-9000 and e-mail dshirk@ilm.com.
I had never heard of Softimage until the 2000s, and, still, do not know of anyone who had the software in this St. Louis, Mo. area. Softimage was created when Alias and wavefront ended, and Maya was created/developed to replace them. I read this online. I don't know of any production companies in the St. Louis, Mo. who would know any other story. Bankruptcy is what I know.
Who did David Shirk know? Who called him from Microsoft to work in California? Windows was reduced, in the mid 1990s to the tiny windows we know today.
Who cares to know that? I'm called a liar everywhere else. I did this work, and, am shown the door. I'm asked where the guy is who can do that work, that's in my portfolio. I'm accused of stealing from a room that I've never been inside of, by someone who I've never spoken to, ...you, too? Those are not normal behavior and decent actions for someone to know.
3December
Maya Video Products, Inc. published an article in the Westchester County Business Journal, on December 3, 1990, which contains some errors. I worked for this company, as a consultant, at the time, and was the only computer 3D modeler employed there. See: http://www.highbeam.com for more information.
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Visual Effects Oscar Winner not a Computer Graphics nor a Digital Arts major from Pratt
My name is Theresa Marie Bextermiller, R.A., M.F.A. I am a Registered Architect, and have a Master of Fine Arts (Computer Graphics)[and Interactive Media]. As a FIRST GRADUATE OF A NEW PROGRAM and the first single-nationality American to receive this new degree, on 10/1/90, I HAVE BEEN TOLD BY ABET, INC. THAT "FIRST DON'T PAY". THE STUDENT LOAN DEBTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE NEW DEGREE cannot be legal - attended from 1/88 - 10/1/90. The School of Engineering was placed on probation, and discontinued, in 1993. The Department of Computer Graphics was started in summer '88, for graduate students, to replace the existing undergraduate Computer Science program, School of Engineering. The undergraduate Computer Graphics students had been admitted prior to the graduate students. The year 1986 has been celebrated as the beginning year. Nothing had been reported to accrediting bureau N.A.S.A.D. prior to the early 1990s. The School of Art and Design had been accredited by the N.A.S.A.D. E-MAIL: 26twosix@att.net
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Suspected poacher kills ranger in Zambia park : News
My name is Theresa Marie Bextermiller, R.A., M.F.A. I am a Registered Architect, and have a Master of Fine Arts (Computer Graphics)[and Interactive Media]. As a FIRST GRADUATE OF A NEW PROGRAM and the first single-nationality American to receive this new degree, on 10/1/90, I HAVE BEEN TOLD BY ABET, INC. THAT "FIRST DON'T PAY". THE STUDENT LOAN DEBTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE NEW DEGREE cannot be legal - attended from 1/88 - 10/1/90. The School of Engineering was placed on probation, and discontinued, in 1993. The Department of Computer Graphics was started in summer '88, for graduate students, to replace the existing undergraduate Computer Science program, School of Engineering. The undergraduate Computer Graphics students had been admitted prior to the graduate students. The year 1986 has been celebrated as the beginning year. Nothing had been reported to accrediting bureau N.A.S.A.D. prior to the early 1990s. The School of Art and Design had been accredited by the N.A.S.A.D. E-MAIL: 26twosix@att.net
Friday, May 23, 2014
Computer Graphics World - 2014 Student Academy Award Winners
Computer Graphics World - 2014 Student Academy Award Winners
2 winners from NYU, and one from USC!
Pratt's entry was in the running, but, didn't win this year.
When I had my thesis to enter, in 1991, a SIUE entry had won, in 1989 - "Achievement: The Yuppie, John H. Behnke, James M. – Southern Illinois University", but, in 1991, I had been at NYU working with Maya Video Products, Inc.; and, in 1992, lived near the USC campus, in an all-girls dorm, working with Tad Technical Services, and Alias Animator.
I'm from Missouri, but, relocated at a young age. In 1991, I was forced to return back because of lack of money at the new program at Pratt Institute.
I would like to relocate and work. Is there money and work out there, in 2014?
2 winners from NYU, and one from USC!
Pratt's entry was in the running, but, didn't win this year.
When I had my thesis to enter, in 1991, a SIUE entry had won, in 1989 - "Achievement: The Yuppie, John H. Behnke, James M. – Southern Illinois University", but, in 1991, I had been at NYU working with Maya Video Products, Inc.; and, in 1992, lived near the USC campus, in an all-girls dorm, working with Tad Technical Services, and Alias Animator.
I'm from Missouri, but, relocated at a young age. In 1991, I was forced to return back because of lack of money at the new program at Pratt Institute.
I would like to relocate and work. Is there money and work out there, in 2014?
My name is Theresa Marie Bextermiller, R.A., M.F.A. I am a Registered Architect, and have a Master of Fine Arts (Computer Graphics)[and Interactive Media]. As a FIRST GRADUATE OF A NEW PROGRAM and the first single-nationality American to receive this new degree, on 10/1/90, I HAVE BEEN TOLD BY ABET, INC. THAT "FIRST DON'T PAY". THE STUDENT LOAN DEBTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE NEW DEGREE cannot be legal - attended from 1/88 - 10/1/90. The School of Engineering was placed on probation, and discontinued, in 1993. The Department of Computer Graphics was started in summer '88, for graduate students, to replace the existing undergraduate Computer Science program, School of Engineering. The undergraduate Computer Graphics students had been admitted prior to the graduate students. The year 1986 has been celebrated as the beginning year. Nothing had been reported to accrediting bureau N.A.S.A.D. prior to the early 1990s. The School of Art and Design had been accredited by the N.A.S.A.D. E-MAIL: 26twosix@att.net
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Computer Graphics World - 2014 Student Academy Award Finalists
My name is Theresa Marie Bextermiller, R.A., M.F.A. I am a Registered Architect, and have a Master of Fine Arts (Computer Graphics)[and Interactive Media]. As a FIRST GRADUATE OF A NEW PROGRAM and the first single-nationality American to receive this new degree, on 10/1/90, I HAVE BEEN TOLD BY ABET, INC. THAT "FIRST DON'T PAY". THE STUDENT LOAN DEBTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE NEW DEGREE cannot be legal - attended from 1/88 - 10/1/90. The School of Engineering was placed on probation, and discontinued, in 1993. The Department of Computer Graphics was started in summer '88, for graduate students, to replace the existing undergraduate Computer Science program, School of Engineering. The undergraduate Computer Graphics students had been admitted prior to the graduate students. The year 1986 has been celebrated as the beginning year. Nothing had been reported to accrediting bureau N.A.S.A.D. prior to the early 1990s. The School of Art and Design had been accredited by the N.A.S.A.D. E-MAIL: 26twosix@att.net
The realm of Maya as written in Chapter 6 in Paul Tillich's book "The Courage to Be", published 1952, Yale University Press - 34th printing 1970
Chapter 6. Courage and Transcendence [The courage to accept acceptance]
As written on page 157, and continuing to page 158: "It seems that in India, for example, courage is considered the virtue of the kshatriya (knight), to be found below the levels of the Brahman or the ascetic saint. Mystical identification transcends the aristocratic virtue of courageous self-sacrifice. It is self-surrender in a higher, more complete, and more radical form. It is the perfect form of self-affirmation. But, if this is so, it is courage in the larger though not in the narrower sense of the word. The ascetic and ecstatic mystic affirms his own essential being over against the elements of nonbeing which are present in the finite world, the realm of Maya. It takes tremendous courage to resist the lure of appearances. The power of being which is manifest in such courage is so great that the gods tremble in fear of it. The mystic seeks to penetrate the ground of being, the all-present and all-pervasive power of the Brahman. In doing so he affirms his essential self which is identical with the power of the Brahman, while all those who affirm themselves in the bondage of Maya affirm what is not their true self, be they animals, men, or gods. This elevates the mystic's self-affirmation above the courage as a special virtue possessed by the aristocratic-soldiery. But he is not above courage altogether. ...
...Doubt is directed toward everything that is and that, according to its Maya character, is doubtful. Doubt dissolves the veil of Maya, it undermines the defense of mere opinions against ultimate reality."
This book was written, "As based on the Terry Lectures delivered at Yale University".
As written on page 157, and continuing to page 158: "It seems that in India, for example, courage is considered the virtue of the kshatriya (knight), to be found below the levels of the Brahman or the ascetic saint. Mystical identification transcends the aristocratic virtue of courageous self-sacrifice. It is self-surrender in a higher, more complete, and more radical form. It is the perfect form of self-affirmation. But, if this is so, it is courage in the larger though not in the narrower sense of the word. The ascetic and ecstatic mystic affirms his own essential being over against the elements of nonbeing which are present in the finite world, the realm of Maya. It takes tremendous courage to resist the lure of appearances. The power of being which is manifest in such courage is so great that the gods tremble in fear of it. The mystic seeks to penetrate the ground of being, the all-present and all-pervasive power of the Brahman. In doing so he affirms his essential self which is identical with the power of the Brahman, while all those who affirm themselves in the bondage of Maya affirm what is not their true self, be they animals, men, or gods. This elevates the mystic's self-affirmation above the courage as a special virtue possessed by the aristocratic-soldiery. But he is not above courage altogether. ...
...Doubt is directed toward everything that is and that, according to its Maya character, is doubtful. Doubt dissolves the veil of Maya, it undermines the defense of mere opinions against ultimate reality."
This book was written, "As based on the Terry Lectures delivered at Yale University".
My name is Theresa Marie Bextermiller, R.A., M.F.A. I am a Registered Architect, and have a Master of Fine Arts (Computer Graphics)[and Interactive Media]. As a FIRST GRADUATE OF A NEW PROGRAM and the first single-nationality American to receive this new degree, on 10/1/90, I HAVE BEEN TOLD BY ABET, INC. THAT "FIRST DON'T PAY". THE STUDENT LOAN DEBTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE NEW DEGREE cannot be legal - attended from 1/88 - 10/1/90. The School of Engineering was placed on probation, and discontinued, in 1993. The Department of Computer Graphics was started in summer '88, for graduate students, to replace the existing undergraduate Computer Science program, School of Engineering. The undergraduate Computer Graphics students had been admitted prior to the graduate students. The year 1986 has been celebrated as the beginning year. Nothing had been reported to accrediting bureau N.A.S.A.D. prior to the early 1990s. The School of Art and Design had been accredited by the N.A.S.A.D. E-MAIL: 26twosix@att.net
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