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Guy Marsden
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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 Science Illustrated
Electronic Products Electronic Product News Popular Science Inventor's Digest
Analog Fine Woodworking Solar Pro Home Power
Robot Magazine Yes! 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

 
1955 - Born Boston Massachusetts
Age 3 helping a friend
1959 - Family moved back to England (yes, I'm English)
Young Guy
Family home in Yorkshire and a Very Proper Young Man!
1962-68 - Dubious benefits of British private education system (boarding school)

Hurworth House Preparatory School for Boys
1968 - Moved to Baltimore attended Friends high school

(I was raised a Quaker and remain an active Friend)
 
1972-76 - Maryland Institute, College of Art, BFA in Photography and woodcrafting
Guy with view camera
My student ID card and  thesis project - "Behemoth View #1" 11 X 14" view camera
 
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 - Visual effects engineer "Star Trek, the  Motion Picture"
Posing with the Enterprise
Security badge + posing with the  Enterprise model + the "wormhole" effect that I helped create
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


YFS Productions crew filming "In Search of  The Holy Grail" episode for "In Search Of..." TV series.

 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.
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,
personal web site, and blog.

The happy day!  3/9/96
1997 - Started my wood crafting business.
Craft Show Booth
My furniture booth at a crafts show.  (see my designs)
1998 - Bought our first house in Vallejo, CA
Suburban home
The suburban artist's loft!
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 my solar products to the next level.

2009 - My wife Rebekah completed her MFA in interdisciplinary arts and graduated on Feb. 1.  Yaaay!

Tired but happy Rebekah
2009 - Installed a 3.6 kW solar power system on the roof of my workshop.  This system produces about 50% of the electricity needed to run our home and 2 home based businesses on an annual basis.


Introduced new solar differential temperature controller product:

I try to live a simple life in keeping with my Quaker beliefs.  I work to raise awareness for a sustainable life style and to help others to reduce their non-renewable energy consumption.  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.

My workshop is heated largely by solar and wood in the winter, while the Rebekah's business in the daylight basement of our home is heated with wood. All our appliances are high efficiency types.  We get about 50% of our electricity from the solar panels on the roof of my workshop.

Guy