Charting the ECCO of VALIS / Analyzing GAIA'S DREAMS
Accomplishments & Past Projects
38th annual National UFO Conference organizer - Host, Organizer and Producer for this great UFO event that never happened, due to the tragedy of September 11th, 2001.
Acknowledgments / Print References
Beast of Adam Gorightly by Adam Gorightly. Page ii of Intro.
Mothman & Other Curious Encounters by Loren Coleman. Page 200 of Third Edition.
Project Beta by Greg Bishop. Page 271.
The Riot Act - Stories by Stephen Romano.
Anomaly Archives: Scientific Anomaly Institute founder - Realized my life-long dream of having an anomalous lending library. Currently we have over 2000 volumes of rare books, magazines and paper files.
Austin Anomalous Experience Group leader - Originally the Austin Abductee Support Group and later the Austin UFO Experiencer Support and Study Group.
Austin MUFON leader - Past Official State Section Director for Travis and Williamson counties.
Lawsuit against Viacom and an animation company sub-contracted for Mtv's THE MAXX cartoon series that we helped Sam Kieth get by creating a demo using our comicbook soundtrack and video by our friends at ComicBook TeleVision - CBTV.
Spawn - planned to put a flashy CD comicbook soundtrack behind each action figure sold in stores.
WildCats - we actually did a prelim casting call for this project.
Savage Dragon - Larson was our first prospective at Image comics.
Spiderman: Torment - Todd McFarlane's popular Marvel Comics title was the basis of our initial demo recording. Our voice talent for Spidey was a character voice in our MAXXimum Sound production.
Community Groups
ABORDC - Austin Bill of Rights Defence Committee
Anomaly Archives / SAI - Founder and current President of the Scientific Anomaly Institute.
Austin Abductee / UFO Support & Study Group - Past leader.
Austin IONS - Past committee member.
Austin Mufon - Past leader.
Human Potential Center - Past board member.
INACS (Institute for Neuroscience And Consciousness Studies) - Past Secretary and current Vice President on the board of directors.
Gaming Industry
Software Librarian at Origin Systems, Inc. - Before and after buy-out by Electronic Arts.
Independent RPG Developer - SciFi and Fantasy RPGs.
ProAm Hand Model
Bigfoot Lives: Deal With It by Chester Moore, Jr. - uncredited hand modeling for cast size comparison in Figure 4, page 22.
Soon to be released book by Stephen Romano - uncredited hand modeling for various gun holding poses.
Current "not-to-be-named" film poster by Stephen Romano.
Professional Pseudonym
Project Beta by Greg Bishop. Inspiration for "Lew Miles" pseudonym applied to actual UFO insider that is not me.
Public Lectures
"Flying Saucers 101 - MediaMatrix & the Men In Black" at the Human Potential Center, September 26th, 2003.
"Why Anomaly? Informational Approaches to the Exploration of the Unknown, Unexplained, and Unidentified." - IONS Austin May 20th, 2003.
"Encounters with the Fantastic: The Transformative UFO Paradigm"Speaker at the 1995 Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness conference on the Berkeley Campus in sunny California.
Published Photography / Videography
Parapolitics: Conspiracy in Contemporary America by Kenn Thomas. Uncredited digital still photograph of parapolitical researcher John Judge from 2002
Guido O'Brien - Ed Hall. Videography for this music video featured on the Love and Napalm video collection produced by Trance Syndicate Records.
Who's Ed documentary - Videography for this and at least two other mini-documentaries on the Austin based band who produced over 5 albums.
Talking Book Program
Beta Tested Telex's LCM digital recording system for the Library of Congress' NLS program (National Library Service for the blind...) 2003 / 2004
Coordinated more CSRs (Community Service Restitution volunteers) than any other Travis county organization as Volunteer Coordinator for Texas TBP's Circulation facility. 2002 / 2003
NLS Biennial Conference: Portland, Maine 2006 - Panel member for PreConference Roundtable on Telex's LCM digital recording system.
Network Guideline: #1-2006; Requirements for Digital Audio Master Recordings of Magazines Originated by Network Libraries; April 28, 2006. Participated in Task Force development of this national guideline for regional network libraries.
Texas Ghost Lights Conference - Master of Ceremonies for event sponsored by the Scientific Anomaly Institute's Anomaly Archives lending library. Featuring guest speakers Paul Devereux, Nick Redfern, James Bunnell and Rob Riggs. June 11th, 2005
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