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Chestnuteast.com is the home on the web for the photography of James Orr, and Kathy Wells' site, Kathryn of the Hills.
Along the way he's been an Audio/Visual Technician for some of Pittsburgh's finest convention destinations, managed a one-man video production and post-production unit, and has been the videographer for literally hundreds of weddings... He has edited thousands of hours of video, struggling through the early days of computer-controlled video editing, built a video non-linear editing system 'in his garage', and still uses it's 'great-great grandson' and the 'colony' of other computers and peripherals (and miles of cable) it has spawned on a daily basis...
Partner Kathy Wells is known as a Fiber Artist, Stage costumer, seamstress, and a student of social history, specializing in early methods of producing usable fiber - which includes wool harvesting and preparation, dying, spinning, and weaving. She is often called on for demos of natural dying and drop spindles at various local festivals and events.
| Galleries | James Orr's Resume | Chestnuteast.com Main page | Little Lake Theatre | Kathryn of the Hills All images, graphics, page designs, and photographs Copyright 2006 James Orr |
James
Orr first became interested in photography as a kid, bought his first
Hawkeye X-15 instamatic with green stamps when his age could still be
counted in single digits. Much later, he immersed himself in it for
2
yrs
at
AIP, where he also
studied the
multi-projector
slide shows and the simple special effects that were a mainstay of
"Multi-Media" at the time.
Primitive by today's standards,
the
possibilities
sparked
his
interests
in
moving
media,
animation,
and
the
potential
for
the
use
of
computers
in
visual
production.
He's
worked
with
3D Animations (starting on an Amiga-based VIdeo Toaster system!), graphics
for
video
and
the Web, and has been a support
tech
and
web
developer
for
a
small
ISP, designing, writing and maintaining
numerous sites.