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Guy |
SERVICES: |
ENGINEERING PROTOTYPES |
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| PRODUCTS: |
LEVITATION KIT |
ELECTRONIC ARTWORK |
THERMAL WINDOWS |
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| SOLAR INFO: |
SUSTAINABLE LIVING |
SOLAR HEATING | SOLAR HOT WATER | SOLAR MOWER | ||
| RESOURCES: | ABOUT ME | IN THE MEDIA |
BUILDING A CANOE |
LINKS |
Guy Marsden
biographical
info
| One measure of a man is what he reads. Below is a list of the magazines and periodicals that I read regularly, and my favorite books of all time. | |||
| WIRED | Technology Review | Nuts & Volts | Servo |
| Electronic Products | Electronic Product News | Popular Science | Inventor's Digest |
| American Woodturner | Fine Woodworking | Woodwork | Home Power |
| Analog | Solar Today | ||
| Favorite science fiction books - that I have re-read at least 3 times: | |||
| "Blood Music" Greg Bear | "Titan",
"Wizard" and "Demon" trilogy by John Varley |
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1955 - Born Boston Massachusetts  |
| 1959 - Family moved back to England (yes, I'm English) |
 Family home in Yorkshire and a Very Proper Young Man!
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1969-68 - Dubious benefits of British private
education
system (boarding school) |
1968 - Moved to Baltimore attended Friends high school
(I was raised a Quaker) |
1972-76 - Maryland
Institute, College of Art, BFA in Photography and woodcrafting
 My student ID card and thesis project -
"Behemoth View #1" 11 X 14" view camera
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| 1976-78 - Photoprocessing engineer and AV
production, BL labs 1978-79 - Display engineer, Maryland Science Center 1979 - Moved to Venice, California, to work in special effects field 1979-80 - Visual effects engineer "Star Trek, the Motion Picture" 
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| 1980-84 - Various effects productions including: "Ghost Busters", "2010 The
Year We Make Contact",
"Brainstorm". 1983-85 - Partner in FX company, YFS productions, various TV shows and movies  1985 - Pace Colorprints. I worked for 6 months making Cibachrome and Dye Transfer color pints with one of the industry's best color printmakers Bob Pace. |
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1986-Present - Independent engineering consultant
at large. 1986 - First sculpture exhibited at the Museum Of Neon Art (MONA) Los Angeles  
 "Dodeca Rockola" neon plasma art jukebox. 6 ft. X 30". Interactive working jukebox with neon light show. This began a 6+ year exploration of large blown glass artwork with choreographed neon, and also electronic art. 1986 - Built a dye transfer print lab in San Francisco for Frog Prints color lab. |
| 1994 - Moved to artist studio loft Oakland, CA 1996 - Married my beautiful and talented wife, Rebekah Younger - see her clothing designs. 
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1997 - Started my wood crafting
business. |
1998 - Bought our first house in Vallejo, CA |
2001 - Moved to Woolwich, Maine in August.  Country living in in beautiful rural Maine |
| 2003 - Began marketing my Magnetic Levitation Kit from my web site. Turns out to be a big success selling hundreds of kits a year. |
| 2006 - Installed
solar domestic
water heating system on our house. And began marketing
Solar
Differential Temperature Controller - another surprise success. 2008 - Formalized my business as ART TEC LLC in order to take the solar product to the next level. |
I try to live a simple life in keeping with my Quaker beliefs. I am politically active and work for peace and social justice in the world in many ways. My wife Rebekah Younger and I live as sustainably as we can. We own 2 hybrid vehicles a 2001 Honda Insight (purchased new) which gets an average of around 57 MPG and my 2006 Ford Escape Hybrid SUV (purchased used) which gets 28-32 MPG average. My workshop is heated largely by solar in the winter, while the house is heated with (renewable) wood, and propane. All our appliances are high efficiency types and we use compact fluorescents to reduce our electrical load - we plan to install a complete solar power system in the future. Guy |
