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Making Beautiful Media Together

Hootmedia is a collective of media professionals working together to make compelling media for ourselves and select clients. We offer a strategic range of services enabling our partners to bring ideas from inspired conception to productive maturity.

 

As a technologically empowered team of creative practitioners, we respond to opportunities in a rapid and efficient manner. We bring appropriate expertise to bear on any project from a pool of members experienced in working together collaboratively. Our clients gain access to a diverse range of skills and talent assembled specifically for the job at hand, coordinated through cutting-edge collaborative and management structures.

Individually and collectively, members of Hootmedia have worked in some of the most challenging production environments for clients such as A&E Television, TIAA-CREF, professional sports leagues like the NFL and NHL, The New York Stock Exchange, TimesSquare.com, and for Hollywood productions such as The Royal Tannenbaums. Together, we’ve consulted and produced online media for James G. Elliott, a leading national magazine advertiser, a prominent New York-based real estate developer, and the initial Learning@Whitney website. We are committed to producing client- and target-driven interactive tools to enhance understanding among media users of all ages.

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Basem Aly recently graduated with a Masters Degree in Media Studies from the New School in New York City. There he augmented his media design and marketing skills developed at the Near East Foundation, the McCann-Erickson advertising agency, and a variety of performance & arts groups. He's currently a web manager and editor at the Whitney Museum of American Art, as well as the web producer for a weekly news program broadcast on Freespeech TV.

Basem's skills include media design and management, video editing, database and web development, and editorial skills. He enjoys the basics: reading, writing, and 'rithmatic.

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Dorey has a Masters in Interactive Design from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU, where her thesis project was designing an interactive museum exhibit for younger children exploring sound.

She worked for 2 years at ESI Design, a premier museum exhibition design company, where she worked on interface design for interactive media projects. Check out Dorey's projects at her site, paper-dollz.com

Visit Dorey's website: paper-dollz.com

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Andrew holds a PhD in computer science from Columbia University. He is the author of several research papers on robotics, 3D modeling, and physical interactions in virtual space.

Andrew recently released GraspIt!, an interactive 3D simulation system that facilitates analysis and visualization, and planning of the grasps of a wide variety of robotic hands.

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Kalin Mintchev is a versatile programmer and 3D designer. He has completed several large-scale data processing and delivery projects, including the back-end infrastructure for RatRaceUSA.com, a prototype service that delivers live traffic information to cell phones from sensors across the Virginia State highway system.

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Shanti is an accomplished designer and project manager of interactive tutorial software. While at Boxer Learning, Inc, Shanti supervised 4 graphic designers, 3 programmers and 8 content managers in the production of an award-winning online interactive suite, www.boxermath.com, with 150 stand-alone activities in six subject areas. Shanti is also a gifted graphic designer and user interface consultant.

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active members

Nancy Browne Mat Kane
Andrew Scully Mike Reed
Dorey Edinger Andrew Miller
Kalin Mintchev Shanti Durkee
Basem Aly Richard Rhodes
   

 

Andrew Scully was most recently employed at Ann Taylor, Inc. as a Marketing Manager. In this position, he developed seasonal strategies for their online division and oversaw the creation of all online content. Andrew has held positions ranging from Content Manager to Copy Writer to Copy Editor for various companies including Ann Taylor, J.Crew and Chase. In addition, he also works as a freelance writer.

 

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Mat Kane's music career began at the tender age of five when he first started to play the violin. For years after nothing really interesting happened in his music career (or his life for that matter) until he went to college where he minored in music and majored in Asian studies, which was an ideal combo for his future music career in Beijing. While in China, Kane played electric violin with local Chinese funk and hard rock bands. At one point he played at the Beijing International Jazz Festival and even performed a few times with Chinese rock legend Cui Jian.

Since then, Kane has moved back to New York and has built a decent recording studio. He also frequently plays plays gigs with the Cajun band The Doc Marshalls. His own project, Mat Kane and the Trophy Wives, is three years in the making and will seemingly never get off the ground. If the band ever does come into being, Kane would be seen playing the violin, electric guitar, mandolin, percussion, drum machine, washboard, gamelon gongs, bass and er hu. Mat is currently Collaborating with Andrew Miller on a musical video game.

 

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Mike Reed has extensive knowledge of information processes and project management. Having worked for the New York Stock Exchange’s Enforcement Division, he’s developed an eye for detail and the patience of a methodical investigator.

Since then, he’s taught programming at the Devry institute and has built a variety of web sites. He currently develops applications for the Whitney Museum of American Art and a few other fine institutions.

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Nancy Browne is a fine artist who's at least 6 months and several hours ahead of her time. While the world catches up with her vision, she demeans her art by working with computers and schlumps like us. She graduated from SUNY Purchase in 1997. She came down to New York City and got certified for desktop publishing and all manner of printing. She practically ran a couple of high- end printing houses for five years and recently decided to trade in her measly paychecks for some real action.

 

Nancy is a one- woman printing army, and takes no prisoners! If you have something to paint, pour, print, etch, sew, build, smear, or mold, she's your gal.

 

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Richard Rhodes has been writing quietly since 1995, when he graduated from Hamilton College with a B.A. in… writing. Several of his verses and stories have been published in literary magazines you’ve never read. He doesn’t write poetry or short stories much anymore; these days he tends more toward technical software manuals and training presentations - for which, he claims, people actually pay him money.

Richard works for CompTutor - a computer training firm in New York’s capital district - where he plays with PCs and teaches classes at the local community college. When he’s not working or talking about himself in the third person, Richard spends lots of time driving aimlessly around the northeastern United States, visiting friends and family along the way, playing bass in a rock ‘n’ roll band you’ve never heard, and occasionally eating bagels.

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