mike vvhistler
mw@firecode.net
previous pseudonyms
Owner and Improprietor (Firecode Core, mostly a chicken farm)
Vice President, Creative (coincident.tv, interactive media)
Data Concierge (Electronic Frontier Foundation, civil rights organization)
Vice President, Creative (RespondTV, interactive television)
Creative Director (B3TV, interactive television)
Stunt Designer (Construct, virtual reality/internet)
Online Developer/Designer (Ikonic, kiosk media/internet)
System Administrator (Midcom, ISP)
Advanced Program Counselor for Schizophrenics (Foothill Mental Health and Rehabilitation)
clients be like
Adina Beverages, Alternative Tentacles Records, American Institute of Architects, American Movie Classics, American Society of Media Photographers, Bloomberg Television, Dockers, Coca-Cola, Columbia/Tristar, Comedy Central, Daimler Benz, Disney, Don King Productions, Doubletree/Hilton, ESPN, Foote Cone & Belding, Ford Motor Company, HGTV, International Olympic Committee, Levi Strauss, Lucasfilm, Mastercard, Macromedia/Adobe, Netscape, New Line Cinema, PBS, Silicon Graphics/SGI, Sprint, Turner Broadcasting, US Army, WeMix, Wolfgang's Vault, ZDTV
keepin' it 505
Art Is Gallery, Art Market Santa Fe, Bad Dog Design, Baron Wolman Photography, Belle Gold Jewelry, Billhook Wine, Blame Her Ranch, BOTH Consulting, Cauldron Hot Tubs, CCA Santa Fe, Cinnafilm, Destination Services of Santa Fe, Diane Cohen Schneider, Evans-Malone, Farmers' Market Institute, The Fence NM, Four Seasons Chimney Cleaning, Gabriella Marks Photography, Hampton Sides, Izanami at Ten Thousand Waves, Jacona Village Bakery, Jean MacFarland, Jill Abernathy, KM Gallery, Los Alamos Concert Association, Marty's Meals, Michael Stewart, New Voices Otero, Paloma Santa Fe, Peggy Lee Baker Designs, PhotoSummer, PixelStrings, Red Mesa Meats, RelationaLearning, Santa Fe Boys Educational Foundation, Santa Fe Farmers' Market, Santa Fe Film Festival, Santa Fe Mentoring and Tutoring, Santa Fe Mountain Center, Santa Fe Stone, Santa Fe Watershed Association, Sun Mountain Capital, Susan Otero, Suzani Santa Fe, William Haskell
awards from / featured in
AIM Gallery, Los Angeles
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York
Digital Delirium (Palgrave/Macmillan)
Deconstructing Web Graphics (New Riders)
Elements of Web Design (Peachpit Press)
Hotwired's RGB Gallery
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
The Limn Gallery, San Francisco
Odyssey Magazine
Pause and Effect (New Riders)
Rhizome
San Francisco Examiner
San Francisco Weekly
SIGGRAPH, New Orleans / Los Angeles
Time magazine, "Top 50 Cool Websites"
VRML97
West Coast Performer
Western Cable Awards
Wired News
ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
culinary
Chef du Livre, Texas Q: 100 Recipes for the Very Best Barbecue from the Lone Star State, All Smoke-Cooked to Perfection, Cheryl Jamison
Chef du Livre, The Barbecue Lover's Big Book of BBQ Sauces, Cheryl & Bill Jamison
Smoke Wrangler, Smoke & Spice, Cheryl & Bill Jamison
audio
composition, performance, sound design
multi-track production, numerous album credits
forensics & restoration, mastering/re-mastering
digital compression & distribution
visual
videography, NLE, motion graphics, conversion
onscreen performance & misbehavior
photography
2D/3D graphic & interface design
layout, print/prepress
ligature mark enthusiast, on both typefaces and clients
verbal
words
punctuation
occasional Capitalization
buzzword dilation & curettage
kint
deep.nerd
iOS app development
network/server administration
database architecture/design
e-commerce, encryption
WordPress, Drupal, Django, Joomla
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Perl
Python, SQL, Ruby, JSP
ObjC, Swift
Flash/ActionScript
Apache, nginx
MacOS, Linux, *BSD, Windows
AWS, Google Cloud, Azure
acronym-friendly, OS agnostic
time, she moves on
adventure
motorcyclist, mountain climber, biker, runner