How I quit painting and became a computer geek
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For those of you who knew me as a painter (up until about 1999), you may be confused to hear that I quit painting completely and I'm now working as a software engineer.
So here's the deal: My junior year in college at Cooper Union (an art school), after having already spent close to 7 years painting seriously, I went online for the first time- did some email, played around on the web. I decided in order to prevent myself from becoming a total Luddite, I should learn some stuff about using computers to make art. So I started with photoshop, a little illustrator and flash. After a semester, it occurred to me that this might lead to a reasonably comfortable day job to help support my painting habit.