I guess it all started when I was 6 or 7 years old, when my dad and I set up our very first Macintosh computer. Macintosh was our first choice because of my dad’s experience with them in college. Macintosh shipped their computers to colleges before selling to the public, and that’s how we got hooked. I was fascinated with the machine and the big boom sound it made when the power button was pushed. My Mac experience over the years involved playing educational computer games and whatever I could find. With the advancement of technology later on, Apple computers started to grow on me, as well as other hobbies, like photography. Throughout high school, I focused on photography, as well as on computers, but didn’t develop any real skills on any computer software yet. It wasn’t until my year off after high school that I learned about a great program called Photoshop. I took a class in it and learned the basics, and taught myself from there, developing an interest in graphics and image editing. Also, having switched from film to digital photography, I was able to combine both interests into one.From then on, I’ve expanded my horizons and found interests in advertising, marketing and also in film. I’m really interested in pop culture and researching the up-and-coming styles of the younger generation. In doing so I surf the web and check blogs and online magazine sites containing information from the newest sneaker line to the newest remixed song to the newest clothing line sold specifically in a small shop in Brooklyn.So the real reason I’m taking this class is to further my studies in media and it’s impact on everyone around us, specifically focusing on images, what’s hot, and internet networking.
Stephen McCombe’s Techno-Biography
- Author By Stephen McCombe
- Publication date February 13, 2008
- Categories: Techno-Bios
- Categories: Techno-Biography
- 2 Comments on Stephen McCombe’s Techno-Biography
I also learned how to use Photoshop and became so entertained by all of the tools it had to offer. Especially when you realize how Photoshopped people are on magazine covers… I took a black and white photography course this past fall and first thought about using film (because we had the option to choose between film and digital). I felt guilty about using a digital camera, not wanting my professor to think that I was taking the easy way out by not using the dark room. But I ultimately realized that as nice as the film cameras are today, the future lies in digital image editing, it is what’s relevant in today’s culture.
I think it was pretty much the opposite for me when I was growing up in terms of how I became addicted to PC’s instead of macs. I think I became hooked because my Dad would have a laptop that I would be able to play certain video games on and I would use his laptop frequently whenever he was home. For most of my life I continued using PCs and was convinced that they were much better. The only thing that I was afraid of was not being able to play games on a mac that I would be able to on a PC. So when mac said that they were capable of handling windows xp, I was convinced that macs might be the way to go since every PC that I had in the past started running super slow after the first year or so. Now I am writing this comment from my new mac which I have found to be absolutely stunning.