About
Damien Mason
Age: 27
D.O.B: 30/09/1980
Employment: Flash Developer, Good Dog Design
Current Obsessions: My iPod, RedBubble and childrens illustration.
Interests: Designwire, Hokushin Shinoh Ryu Iaido, Adelaide United, zen buddhism, toys, music, film, my 80s childhood.
Reading: Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert, Zen Mind Beginners Mind by DT Suzuki
Just read: The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, Naked Lunch, Fables book 1 by Bill Willingham, Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Just watched: Iron Man, Juno, Across the Universe
See me online at: RedBubble, Flickr, Facebook, Mojizu, Listal, MySpace, Linked In, Del.icio.us
experience
2007 - 2008
Flash Developer, Good Dog Design
Administrator, Designwire
Member, the c42 collective
Website Manager, Hokushin Shinoh Ryu Iaido
2005 - 2006
Flash Developer, Good Dog Design - Tasks including graphic design, web and css development, illustration, animation, game concept and development and flash and actionscript development.
Member, the c42 collective
Administrator, Designwire
Secretary, Hokushin Shinoh Ryu Iaido (2006) - Tasks including Minute keeping, creating quarterly newletters, occasionally opening and setting up the dojo, occasionally taking money and recording student attendance, website updates.
2000 - 2004
Employed as a Flash and Web Developer, Lightfoundry and Bendigo Senior Secondary College
Worked as Director of Photography on the short film Vespaman
Participation in 2003 Noise Festival, with works on screen, in street press, and a very scared-sounding radio interview.
Attended the following seminars: “Advanced Actionscripting” with David Emberton, “Dealing With Conflict” with Gavan Podbury, an “Instructional Design Symposium” at RMIT, and a HISER run course “Building Applications”.
Completed several Macromedia University including Flash, Dreamweaver and XML
Certificate II and IV Multimedia from RMIT