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Sean creates art in Charleston, West Virginia, U.S.A for clients all over the United States and as far away as Mexico, Canada, China, Hong Kong, The Philippines, Japan, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand and Australia. View what I do here.
Sean would say his career began when he won a gold medal in an international art competition in Tokyo, Japan when he was in 2nd grade. In a professional sense, his career began in 1996 when he started Cycline3.com and released SCD, a state-of-the-art music and video player for Microsoft Windows.
In 1997, Sean wrote and released Jesse6, a program for creating web pages. It's low cost and tool set made it extremely popular in the early days of the Internet when such tools were hard to find or extremely expensive.
The highlight of a diverse programming career came in 1999, shortly after the launch of a little known site called eBay. Sean realized the enormous potential for online sales and eBay's lackluster selling tools. Cycline3 Auction Listing Creator was born; a tool to allow anyone to create graphic ads on eBay without knowing the computer code that made it happen.
This software was the first released for Apple's Mac OS X operating system and was one of the most successful tools for eBay, being available for Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS 9 and OS X, as well as the open source operating system Linux. After 10 years, Sean discontinued servicing the shareware community to focus on his professional career and spend more time with family.
As an artist, Sean has sold paintings and photographs via the Internet and has met and worked with Homer Hickam of the Rocket Boys, the rock group The Donnas, Allan Ginsburg and Bill Cosby. He created images for BeOS, a company spun off from Apple Computer, Inc. and he has created web sites for companies across the United States and abroad.
As an educator, Sean worked with doctors to create an educational CD-ROM and software for The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Active Kidz is a learning tool for kids that teaches the benefits of exercise. The software was released for free for Macintosh and Windows.
Sean has taught computer science at Bell University in Jiangyin, People's Republic of China. He was the graphic artist for the film Duara, an AIDS awareness film made in Tanzania, Africa and the West Virginia films Shades of Gray and Romeo Must Hang. He has volunteered with the elderly to teach them computer skills and provided computer resources and volunteer time to the Geri Olympics program.
Over the past few years, Sean has worked on great design, promgramming and video projects for clients such as the West Virginia Secretary of State, West Virginia University Hospitals and many more.
Education
West Virginia State University - R.B.A. Graphic Design; A.A.S - Computer Science
Previous Clients
This is a partial list of some of the clients large and small I have worked for either freelance or though an agency:
- West Virginia University Hospitals, Morgantown, WV
- Marshall University Foundation, Huntington, WV
- United States Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA
- Coldwell Banker Realty, Kitty Hawk, NC
- West Virginia Bureau of Senior Services, Charleston, WV
- West Virginia Department of Human Resources, Charleston, WV
- West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, Charleston, WV
- West Virginia Division of Corrections, Charleston, WV
- West Virginia State University, Institute, WV
- Melnor, Winchester, VA
- Create West Virginia, Charleston, WV
- West Virginia Democratic Party, Charleston, WV
- Rain Riders Industries, Charleston, WV
- DiscreetFX, Aurora, IL
- 3AM Clothing, San Francisco, CA
- Bucci, Bailey and Javins Law Firm, Charleston, WV
- White Brothers Cycling, Grand Junction, CO
- Paradise Film Institute, Charleston, WV
- Bass Guitar Strings.US, Merrick, NY
- Points of Health, Nashville, TN
- Web Star Gems, Bauang, Philippines
- West Virginia Geri Olympics, S. Charleston, WV
- Meyer and Ford Attorneys At Law, Charleston, WV
- Michael Switzer Design Works, Charleston, WV
- Tridea Group, Charleston, WV
I literally let the computer write this for me. And it's so me.
Work of Post-Modern Art in the Age of Symbiotic Reproduction
The mind creates, the chaos profligates. In the synoptic reality, art objects are reproductions of the imaginations of the mind — a mind that uses the chaos as a parallax to deconstruct ideas, patterns and emotions. With the evolution of the electronic environment, the mind is reaching a point where it will be free from the chaos to transcend immersions into the machinations of the delphic reality.
Work of Post-Modern Art in the Age of Symbiotic Reproduction contains 10 minimal flash engines (also refered to as "shopbots") that enable the user to make fanatical audio/visual compositions.
- measuring chains, constructing realities
- putting into place forms
- a matrix of illusion and disillusion
- a strange attracting force
- so that a seduced reality will be able to spontaneously feed on it
Sean Rose's work investigates the nuances of vibrations through the use of slow motion and close-ups which emphasize the Symbiotic nature of digital media. Rose explores abstract and zealous scenery as motifs to describe the idea of cyber-intuitive reality. Using not-so-ordinary loops, cathode rays and allegorical images as patterns, Rose creates meditative environments which suggest the expansion of art...
...uhm, I couldn't have said it better myself.
About the Creative Hardware
What did you make this stuff with?
I get lots of questions asking about what I use and how I learned so here is a quick answer to those questions.
I started photography in 1988 in Glen Toler's SCHS photography class sponsored by Union Carbide. I learned to shoot on a Pentax K-1000 using Tri-X 400 and T-Max 400 film that I developed myself. Of course I shot film for years and years and I went through 35mm and 120mm cameras from Minolta, Yashica, Pentax, Canon and finally Mamiya. The Mamiya was the last film system I had and it was the best.
However, being the computer geek I am, I simply couldn't resist the draw of a digital workflow and I switched to a full digital system in January of 2004. I only use the Canon EOS DSLR system now. I shoot exclusively in RAW. There simply is no reason to shoot in JPG mode. Many people ask if I miss or regret getting rid of the film gear and the answer is simply, "not for a single second."
I personally own a Canon 300D and a 30D. The main lenses I use are the 50mm f/1.4, 24-70 f/2.8L, 70-200 f/4L, and the 10-22 EF-S. However, where I have worked with numerous photographers and agencies, I have used or get to use a wide array of gear, but namely the Canon bodies are the 10D, 20D, 30D, 300D, 350D, 400D, 5D and the 1Ds. I do write about those experiences online, so now you know where they/that comes from. Worthy of note here is: every agency and photographer I know is using Canon DSLRs. Not one is using Nikon. Nikon is a little late to the game, but the latest camera from them looks pretty hot. If you are thinking of going digital, my vote is for Canon. But check out the Nikon gear too. Competition is good for us all. (Since I originially wrote that, Nikon has seriously upped their game, which as I said, is good for us all.)
As for computer gear, I prefer using a Mac and OS X, but most of my programming work and clients are on Windows. So I run both platforms and am quite capable on both.
That said, my home work area has a good basic computer (all you need!):
- An Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8Ghz with 3GB Ram running OS X 10.5 Leopard and Windows 7
That's it for now, I may write more later. If you have questions or comments, just let me know.
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