A Brief Pause From The Ordinary..., Demographics time--please just humor me |
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A Brief Pause From The Ordinary..., Demographics time--please just humor me |
 Dec 8 2006, 06:46 PM
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 Special Cookie  Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228  |
QUOTE (ustrax @ Oct 30 2006, 11:42 AM)  Hey! I remember this thread...But never introduce myself...  I'm 32, I was born in Lisbon but currently living at the "Glorious Eden" as Byron once called it. I'm creative director on an advertising agency. Space has always been an interest since childhood but more on a dreaming fashion than on a technical one. Above all I consider myself a pilgrim. And space is the way... Ultreya!  odave just bring it up again... Some adding to my personal information needs to be made... I'm still 32 but now I acummulate creative and production direction, and moving to a great new office, besides that, dog training, hike organization and giving the last touches to an official publishing company... No time for abysses... 
-------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Dec 11 2006, 05:57 AM
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 Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 82 Joined: 22-July 05 From: Portugal Member No.: 445 |
I've been a lurker for quite sometime, but seldom post. I visit everyday (usually twice a day) and really enjoy all the discussions going around (thanks all) not to mention all the absolutely amazing image work.
I'm 32 and live in Lisbon. I started out as an architect but for the past few years I've been working as an illustrator, collaborating mostly with newspapers and magazines here in Portugal (a few of them abroad). I've always been massively interested in space, although in the beginning that interest sparked more from science fiction than from space exploration. I remember watching Galactica, Space 1999, Buck Rogers and building little spaceships out of Lego, re-enacting all the adventures from the shows. The moment that really started my love for space exploration was the arrival of the first images from Pathfinder of the surface of Mars. It was late and I was watching CNN, waiting for them to be broadcasted, and then, as they finally were presented on the screen, as I marvelled at the fact that I was watching a new planet millions of miles away, little grainy black and white photographs from that lone robot far far away in the cold desert of Mars, I was hooked. Utterly and completely! Now I'm a Marsaholic and like all of you, I need my daily fix 
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Dec 11 2006, 10:38 AM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
QUOTE (Gonzz @ Dec 11 2006, 05:57 AM) I'm 32 and live in Lisbon. I started out as an architect but for the past few years I've been working as an illustrator, collaborating mostly with newspapers and magazines here in Portugal (a few of them abroad). Hey Gonzz! Tudo bem? Guess we'll have to talk about business one of this days...
-------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Dec 11 2006, 08:27 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 82 Joined: 22-July 05 From: Portugal Member No.: 445 |
Hehe, hey maybe UMSF should have a CV and portfolio section, so that members could network and get some commissions
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Dec 11 2006, 10:01 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
QUOTE (Gonzz @ Dec 11 2006, 08:27 PM) Hehe, hey maybe UMSF should have a CV and portfolio section, so that members could network and get some commissions You're laughing?!... Illustrations for a photo album book required! Preface...introduction...Close credits... Editon predicted for march 2007. But that CV idea is quite good... Doug...can we? 
-------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Dec 12 2006, 12:22 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 82 Joined: 22-July 05 From: Portugal Member No.: 445 |
Well, in the Spirit of things i'll take the Opportunity
, you can take a peek at my site here- hope this is Ok Doug, don't want to be banned from the forum for absolutely shameless advertising
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Dec 12 2006, 12:28 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
I think this is possibly the only 'anything goes' thread really - so what the hell...
if anyone is looking for a multimedia designer with excellent presentation skills and some experience in reporting from a space conference for outreach, publicity etc in the space field....you know where to find me Doug |
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Dec 12 2006, 12:57 AM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 808 Joined: 10-October 06 From: Maynard Mass USA Member No.: 1241 |
55 - hardware / software / at 3rd hi-tech startup after my life at DEC / father / Telescope builder / beer taster / ham radio / vintage PDP8 restorer ...and many more
I vividly remember WATCHING Echo-1 going over my fathers house in the late 50s. I remember the hoopla over Telestar. I watched all the Mercuries, Geminis, Apollos, Rangers, Surveyors, Voyagers, Vikings. you name it...I was there for the Apollo 15 lift off at the Cape. I've listened to the Cosmonauts on Mir chatter (in Russian) on 2 meters (141.2?Mhz) I have lurked in UMSF almost since its inception... ...Im a space nut.... -------------------- CLA CLL
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Dec 12 2006, 10:59 AM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
QUOTE (Gonzz @ Dec 12 2006, 12:22 AM) Well, in the Spirit of things i'll take the Opportunity , you can take a peek at my site here- hope this is Ok Doug, don't want to be banned from the forum for absolutely shameless advertising I already knew your work and I love it! I've sent you an e-mail. -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Jun 2 2008, 01:50 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
I think it's time to do a "bump" to this thread given the amount of people which joined UMSF during/after the Phoenix landing...
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Jun 4 2008, 07:35 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 63 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 312 |
I echo the 'bump' great to be following all the happenings in these exciting times - I'm mainly a lurker - posted my details here in 2005
Could I just give a PLUG for the UMSF 'Paypal' link that I just discovered at the bottom of the page and actually got around to making a donation ! Great to be part of this community - I just wish I had the brains to contribute a bit more |
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Jun 4 2008, 05:15 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 117 Joined: 7-December 06 From: Sheffield UK Member No.: 1462 |
I'm 30 years old, born one month before the launch of Voyager 2 (Yes, I am as old as Voyager).
I'm a freelance writer and the most likely place you may have encountered my ramblings is on SPACE.com I've always been interested in space and remember not being able to see Halley's Comet back in '86. Though i only really got hooked in 1994 with the Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacts. I've been writing for about 10 years now but have really been hammering the work out during the last 5 years and really hope to be able to write full time (My alter-ego is a bank worker). -------------------- It's a funny old world - A man's lucky if he gets out of it alive. - W.C. Fields.
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Jun 4 2008, 05:37 PM
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 Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Best of luck!
 You tempt me to rename myself "As Old As Friendship 7"...but that's just too depressing to think about! -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Jun 4 2008, 06:00 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
Yeah, well -- I could change mine to "older than Sputnik," if I wanted to. I actually could change it to "as old as the MX-774," but most people would miss the reference.
To get a really good fix that most people here would likely understand -- I was born two weeks before Marty McFly appeared in Hill Valley in his DeLorean time machine...  -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Jun 4 2008, 06:13 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
That's one of the things I like about o-Doug --- he's one of the few folks here older than me.
(I'm as old as Freedom 7) -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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