I have been heavily into Digital Art for the last four years. I love everything about it. The feeling you get when you finish creating some digital art is awesome. Being creative changes your whole outlook on life - it transforms your view of the world in which we live at the same time as it changes you. It teaches you how to re-interpret just about everything you have ever seen and to think along new paths. It’s spiritual – purely and simply !
 
I have also been a keen skateboarder for decades now - since 1974. People don't always like skateboarding and skateboarders - they think that it's a negative thing for kids to get into. But skateboarding changed my whole life and I can't find anything negative about it. Adrenaline, physical activity, meeting new people, learning to handle pain, understanding the process of learning, facing a challenge head-on, the feeling of having an amazing skate session, and so much more – all of these things are a huge part of the positive side of skateboarding. You can’t ride a skateboard for 5 minutes or even a day and understand completely what a real skater experiences once it becomes a fundamental part of who they are and what they love to do !
 
The internet is right up there as one of the most amazing inventions mankind has ever imagined and then gone on to create. It enables the flow of information and the communication of concepts. It also allows the interaction of almost the entire human race to occur online. I am very keen to be a very small part of that process of building the internet into something that enables people to find and interpret information, and to form connections with like-minded people all over the world ! So I currently have a few different places on the internet where I display my Digital Art / Design or interact with other people from across the globe.

 

Here are the Web Addresses:
Digital Cells - my Digital Multimedia Art and Design Portfolio - http://people.aapt.net.au/~jmalcomson
National Association for the Visual Arts (Australia) - http://www.visualarts.net.au/gallery/jamesmalcomson
RedBubble - Art Gallery and Creative Community - http://www.redbubble.com/people/reflector

 

I also occasionally post questions and answers on Google Groups forums as either Reflector or PixelCrush.
 
There’s always so much more to our lives than you can write down in a profile. We are incredibly complex beings – always learning and always changing.