Artist and journalist growing up (college scholarships in each), BFA in Painting & Drawing from U of GA. Was educated on film by my grandmother, who was born in the 1880’s and saw the entire industry develop. Assisted a couple of experimental filmmakers on their projects, or became their first outside eyes viewing edited footage (they say I have a natural and unbiased ‘eye’). Exhibited my own artwork in eight museums. After engineering software and databases in California for 25 years, have semi-retired in the west Georgia mountains to devote my time to reading, art, film, composing, blogging. I currently have over 20 active blogs (starting with one for my artwork, my only gift to the world), including two for films – one is short reviews of only good films, one is lists of award winners, critics polls, internet surveys, and my own compendium of all surveys; and another one for photos of film goddesses, and a few gods as well.