Interviews with interesting people
Alki is a little peninsula with beautiful view of Seattle. It’s a great place to be an artist. And it’s the place where Jennifer Carrasco paints murals. As a child, she learned to paint on large pieces of newsprint. It must have been formative because she continues to paint large, up to 30×40 feet.
This is the story of how a smart girl from the farmland of New Zealand goes off to explore the world. On the way, she learns to surf, starts a travel biz, gets a Harvard MBA, and becomes CEO of her own marketing software company. Wildfire Interactive is the name of her company, and not a bad description of her life.
You may have seen the video Michele and her dog Listo doing a free-style routine (if not, check it out). It’s a great example of animal training that would be impossible without using a clicker and reinforcement theory. Free style is Michele at play. For work, Michele is the Director of Research and Development for Guide Dogs for the Blind.
If you like the cover art on the cover of New Yorker magazine, you like Mark Ulriksen’s work. He is an artist, painter, illustrator, and lover of baseball and dogs. His subjects are often famous people. And I’m going to commission Mark to paint my portrait…just as soon as I’m rich and famous.
