Owner

Capozzi Winery
http://www.pinotblogger.com

Josh Hermsmeyer (RussianRiver Vallely)

Josh Hermsmeyer is a new father and, in his spare time, he moonlights as the Generalissimo of Capozzi Winery. Josh is blogging the birth of Capozzi Winery, a new Russian River Valley Pinot Noir winery, over at PinotBlogger: the Capozzi Winery blog. Josh studied Economics and Winemaking at UC Davis, where he met and was swept off his feet by his lovely wife Candace.

Builder

Prion Design Group
http://www.virtualsuburbia.com

Chip Poutine

Chip Poutine is the founder of the Prion Design Group, a small studio dedicated to the craft and practice of Architecture in the Metaverse. Chip is the author of Virtual Suburbia and the first invited contributor to 3pointD.com. His Real Life avatar, a graduate of the Master of Architecture program at the University of Calgary, has been engaged in building projects, media-generated environments and collaborative technologies for over seven years. He teaches 3D modeling, CAD, and architectural design to Graduate Students of Architecture. His hobbies still include yelling at the television.

Scripting

Metaversatility
http://www.metaversatility.com

Adri Saarinen, Partner

Bridging the cultural traditions of Lebanon, New Orleans, and Texas, Adrienne Haik, known in Second Life as Adri Saarinen, is no stranger to the realities of our globalized, wired world. With deep roots in text-based virtual worlds and fandom subcultures, she likes to say that she “grew up on the Internet.” As a technologist and communication expert, Adri has established an impressive reputation within Second Life. Her activities have been profiled in several off-line and on-line publications, and she was instrumental in promoting Jonathan Coulton’s recent concert on behalf of Creative Commons and Pop Sci magazine. Exhilarated by the potential of the technologies leading us toward the Metaverse, she believes that virtual world promotions will become increasingly important as people turn off their television sets and turn on their computers.

Dr. Aaron Delwiche (Carbonel Tigereye), Partner

For more than fifteen years, Aaron Delwiche has been helping people understand the potential of digital media. With one foot in industry and the other in the academy, he has lived in Osaka, San Francisco, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Seattle, and San Antonio. In 1995, as a Project Manager with Free Range Media, he oversaw the Christian Science Monitor’s entry into the world of on-line journalism. Working closely with Tom Regan, he published and promoted journalist David Rhode’s Pulitzer-prize winning expose of the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia. From 1999-2002, as the Director of Interface Development at Lemon Asia, he facilitated Hong Kong’s leading interactive agency’s regional expansion into Singapore and Mainland China. A gamer, researcher and educator, Aaron writes a biweekly column on digital culture for the San Antonio Current and is a regular contributor to Terra Nova. Currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, Aaron teaches courses on cyberculture, game design and criticism, film studies, and propaganda. His innovative experiments with virtual worlds in the classroom have been covered by international publications ranging from Wired to The Guardian (UK).

Dr. John Plevyak (Frank Bogomil), Partner

During his senior year of high-school, while working as a NASA programming intern, John Plevyak stumbled across a copy of William Gibson’s Neuromancer. He immediately passed it on to his friend Aaron, confidently predicting that a variant of this cyberspace vision would someday become a reality. A seasoned consultant with degrees from UC Berkeley and the University of Illinois (UIUC), John has worked at Ilex, Ampex, NCSA, Inktomi, and Cray. As one might expect from the offspring of an accountant and an engineer, he tempers his visionary imagination with sensitivity to practical concerns. He has co-authored more than a dozen academic research papers, holds nine patents, and is an active member of the open source community.

Owner

Capozzi Winery
http://www.pinotblogger.com

Josh Hermsmeyer (RussianRiver Vallely)

Josh Hermsmeyer is a new father and, in his spare time, he moonlights as the Generalissimo of Capozzi Winery. Josh is blogging the birth of Capozzi Winery, a new Russian River Valley Pinot Noir winery, over at PinotBlogger: the Capozzi Winery blog. Josh studied Economics and Winemaking at UC Davis, where he met and was swept off his feet by his lovely wife Candace.

Builder

Prion Design Group
http://www.virtualsuburbia.com

Chip Poutine

Chip Poutine is the founder of the Prion Design Group, a small studio dedicated to the craft and practice of Architecture in the Metaverse. Chip is the author of Virtual Suburbia and the first invited contributor to 3pointD.com. His Real Life avatar, a graduate of the Master of Architecture program at the University of Calgary, has been engaged in building projects, media-generated environments and collaborative technologies for over seven years. He teaches 3D modeling, CAD, and architectural design to Graduate Students of Architecture. His hobbies still include yelling at the television.

Scripting

Metaversatility
http://www.metaversatility.com

Adri Saarinen, Partner

Bridging the cultural traditions of Lebanon, New Orleans, and Texas, Adrienne Haik, known in Second Life as Adri Saarinen, is no stranger to the realities of our globalized, wired world. With deep roots in text-based virtual worlds and fandom subcultures, she likes to say that she “grew up on the Internet.” As a technologist and communication expert, Adri has established an impressive reputation within Second Life. Her activities have been profiled in several off-line and on-line publications, and she was instrumental in promoting Jonathan Coulton’s recent concert on behalf of Creative Commons and Pop Sci magazine. Exhilarated by the potential of the technologies leading us toward the Metaverse, she believes that virtual world promotions will become increasingly important as people turn off their television sets and turn on their computers.

Dr. Aaron Delwiche (Carbonel Tigereye), Partner

For more than fifteen years, Aaron Delwiche has been helping people understand the potential of digital media. With one foot in industry and the other in the academy, he has lived in Osaka, San Francisco, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Seattle, and San Antonio. In 1995, as a Project Manager with Free Range Media, he oversaw the Christian Science Monitor’s entry into the world of on-line journalism. Working closely with Tom Regan, he published and promoted journalist David Rhode’s Pulitzer-prize winning expose of the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia. From 1999-2002, as the Director of Interface Development at Lemon Asia, he facilitated Hong Kong’s leading interactive agency’s regional expansion into Singapore and Mainland China. A gamer, researcher and educator, Aaron writes a biweekly column on digital culture for the San Antonio Current and is a regular contributor to Terra Nova. Currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, Aaron teaches courses on cyberculture, game design and criticism, film studies, and propaganda. His innovative experiments with virtual worlds in the classroom have been covered by international publications ranging from Wired to The Guardian (UK).

Dr. John Plevyak (Frank Bogomil), Partner

During his senior year of high-school, while working as a NASA programming intern, John Plevyak stumbled across a copy of William Gibson’s Neuromancer. He immediately passed it on to his friend Aaron, confidently predicting that a variant of this cyberspace vision would someday become a reality. A seasoned consultant with degrees from UC Berkeley and the University of Illinois (UIUC), John has worked at Ilex, Ampex, NCSA, Inktomi, and Cray. As one might expect from the offspring of an accountant and an engineer, he tempers his visionary imagination with sensitivity to practical concerns. He has co-authored more than a dozen academic research papers, holds nine patents, and is an active member of the open source community.