Why Do you use a Handle or nickname here?

Well my porn star name was Ironstrike Mcbiscuit and so....
Just kidding. Or am I ????
Ironstrike was an ai program I wrote a long time ago, which was a precursor to my learning of CG. I was interested in robots (yes I was one of the cool kids.)

"interested in robots"
You know that is the stuff rumors are made of....

Jake you make robot sex sound like its "perverted"
I suppose you don't think clown midgets are erotic either.
I hear this kind of stuff all the time from my grandma I don't need you doing it too.

I am the weakest link.. goodbye!

Initially, I used the handle, smudlack. Dale Smudlack was the plumbing and heating contractor down the hall from the anarchist work collective I had joined in the mid 70's. This fiction as we needed phony names in case of arrest and interrogation by "the man". I used this for a couple of months here on P5 while my exclusive contract was being terminated at BrandX, INC. I normally use the handle, tbmpvideo as in Terry Barksdale Media Productions, this being the less than snappy name I chose exiting film school.

Luxor
Lu= Lucy my companion for the last 20 years
x = union
or = Orlando my name
Luxorpyramid.com = I am waiting one day for the Luxor Hotel to offer me $1 million for this domain. ;-) .

"I am waiting one day for the Luxor Hotel to offer me $1 million for this domain."

You may not get it as the copyright law applies to domain names too. They might take you to the court and even though you decide to cease the domain they might ask for a million. It all depends on the law of the country you live in and on the international agreements between your country and the hotel country. Sad, but true.

So, perhaps they are waiting for you to make that million and then :)

I always theought the words "anarchist" and "work" were mutually exclusive.

In 1995 when I bought my first PC I wanted to set up a Hotmail address. As part of the reason for using Hotmail was to uhhh, mask my real name, I thought about an alias. I recalled a character from Kenny Everett's "Captain Kremmen" radio comedy series called Gitfinger, and decided to use that as it was unusual. I have since found out that Kremmen's science advisor Dr. Heinrich von Gitfinger had Neo-Nazi tendancies, but it's too late now as I use the same ID all over the place.

I am thinking about a change of user name here, to better reflect the sort of stuff I shoot.

Gitf... Paul.

GrayScale is the name of my company and, yes, I use the same handle across most, if not all, sites I sell on

Why the name VaderVideo? well let's just start from the beginning. Many years ago when the internet was just really getting started, a friend of mine told me about this new thing called, well, the internet. He took me on a quick tour, showed me some pages, at which time the most exciting one happened to be www.timex.com. Unfortunately that site really no longer exists today. But it was the first site to show motion graphics, or what was called an animated gif. In any case, AOL was off to a good start and hence, I decided to sign up. Of course the ever painful question came up while signing up, "What do you want to use as a user name?" - hey this was a tough one. I pondered on that one, took a nap, while Star Wars was playing on the tube. I suppose there was some subconscious reaction at this point. Hence, I became the very first Vader on AOL. Of course everyone thought I was either very evil or their father. But the "handle" stuck with me and still is my predominant name in several industries. By definition though, vader means "father" in dutch. So over time, I suppose the name/handle just stuck with me. So if you are wondering, no, I do not have a helmet, I do not breath heavily, but I am a father for sure. On a side note; it is a great ice breaker though. I do need to point out however, "Darth Tator", does have a home in my office.