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Who
is Mick?
Born in Queens, New York in 1957,
Mick has returned to the borough of his birth after
a brief four-decade stay in bucolic Staten Island.
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One of the benefits from emerging
from childhood's cocoon into the mid-1960s was that
freewheeling spirit of exploration and creativity, which
seemed to grow in contrast to the ensuing chaos and
violence of the decade.
Acting, photography, writing and other
arts were all given the same encouragement for personal
growth as were organized sports and academics, if not
more. It was actually quite a lucky time to be alive
...
High school, it turned out, was the
apogee of this prevailing spirit for me: gaining admittance
to the (as of yet unheralded) School of Peforming Arts
in Manhattan was a life-changing event, rewards from
which are still being reaped to this day.
College, too, maintained this, at
least for a time; albeit the tuition-free experiment
of CUNY was soon ending. Yet, a classic liberal arts
education could still be pursued, and could still equip
me with the values needed to succeed for a time in a
world that -- alas, was changing as well...
After college, and several encouraging creative writing
seminars therein, my entry into the adult workforce
was delayed a year -- thanks to a foundation grant,
during which the obligatory "first novel"
was written.
The early 1980s was a heady time for
entry-level jobs in publishing in New York City. The
old guard was still in power, and the squads of hungry
and devoted (and totally disposable) drones felt, as
only youth can feel, that a difference could be made;
that new ways to do old things could be found.
Once tasted, the zest and thrill of
publishing were not easily be forgotten, and my eventual
journey from trade publishing to trade magazines to
newspaper syndication, brought great promise into the
expanding publishing empire. I delivered: flourishing
under typically tight deadlines and self directed explorations
into new technology, new media, typography, and refining
all available electronic production techniques.
Since the dawn of the 1990s I've worked
and thrived within the Mac environment of desktop publishing,
and now bring my experience and devotion to the communication
arts into the dual spheres of print and HTML, for you.
Want to see some funny pix?
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