Colophon
col·o·phon n.
An inscription placed usually at the end of a book, giving facts about its publication.
[Late Latin colophn, from Greek kolophn, summit, finishing touch.]
Ok, so this isn’t a book, and who’s to say what the end of a website is? But colophon is, I guess, more accurate. Facts about publication seems to work pretty well wouldn’t you say?
About Gregory Wild-Smith.
Gregory was born in the United Kingdom the year John Lennon was shot, when Hewlett-Packard released their first PC, when Microsoft entered the Unix market, and the month that the Iranian embassy was laid siege to. If that doesn’t date him effectively, then here’s the full text: April 1980.
Over a quarter decade later and he’s had a film in Cannes, moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, been the Lead Designer at 20six (Europe’s largest blogging company), developed educational software for the UK government, coloured comic books, and many other things. Currently… well he does a lot of things, check out his LinkedIn profile for more.
Gregory used his first computer at 4 years old — an Atari 800XL — and became hooked on this fabulous thing with its pokes’s and BASIC. It could, after all, play Light Cycles just like Tron. After frequently using a 286 borrowed from his mothers school during the holidays (schools only having one computer in those days) his family got their first PC — a beast of a 386sx with 25mhz, a whole 85mb hard disk, and a cd-rom drive. Truly this was the future. Around this time he got addicted to the Monkey Island series. These two events are not entirely unrelated.
Around the time school got serious, Gregory realized he liked creating things, he wrote plays and short films while bored, and even got some of these produced locally. He also made some bad attempts at computer games. Later he decided acting was too much like a really awesome hobby that no-one would pay for, and saw creative potential in computers. Gregory went to University and achieved a BSc in Multimedia Computing. He taught himself as much as he could, and still does, about what he was interested in — An intellectual sponge.
After a 2 year long distance relationship with the stunning Miriam, Gregory moved from England to Oakland, California in 2006. He is now happily married, a fact that still weirds both of them out.
Why Twilight?
From the horse’s mouth:
Twilight is the name of my pet project – a large sprawling visual sci-fi epic that I may one day actually get around to making. Twilight is the universe in which I set the story. Yeah, its that kind of story.
From time to time you’ll see parts of this pop up on the site, hopefully more and more. Stay tuned.
Bits & Pieces…
I reserve the right to be wrong, and change my mind. I am after all, only human.
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