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Meet the people
who make Tripod
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David Reid
Design Director
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David moved to nearby Bennington, Vermont from Princeton, New
Jersey and is now in hot pursuit of a moose and/or a decent video
rental store in this area. The moose we can probably manage, but
that video store might be a problem. David's mind is still boggled
by the low, low rents around here and all of the amazing nearby
snowboarding. He may be the only one in the building eagerly
awaiting a Berkshire winter...
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Brian Fisher
Production Engineer
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Brian's kinda hardcore into recycling. Not just bottles and
cans, newspapers and cardboard, but everything from cars to shoes. He confesses to spending WAY more money on durable goods than disposable ones. He drives the conversion van his parents got when he was ten. He had a compost bin outside his apartment during college (worm bins weren't allowed inside). He only buy shoes that can be resoled. He even feels compelled to avoid garage sales lest he save things he doesn't need from the dump. Brian attributes this to the inherent fear of throwing things away that he's had since he was a kid — a fear that led to many a messy room — combined with a little personal rebellion against our throw-away society.
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Matt Quann
Senior Designer
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Wisconsin's Matt Quann is known among Tripodians for some reason
as "Little Matty Quann," although he is not short, and his expert
conditioning as a snowboarder and bicycle racer belies the
implied fragility of his new nickname. It's probably because his
tender young age (he's barely able to buy alcohol) has brought
the Tripod age curve down significantly. But according to rumor,
beneath that fresh face lurks a wealth of knowledge about servers
which he doesn't want the tech boys to know about. Sorry, Matt —
looks like the secret's out. Oh yeah: He favors tan foods, so if
Tripod starts looking a bit beige-ish to you, you'll know why.
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Jesse Milden
Designer
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Jesse's our "old school" skateboarding hipster from New York City.
He was worried about adjusting to the languid pace of Williamstown,
so we found him an apartment overlooking the busy late-night gas
station — now he sleeps like a baby. Rumor has it that he
gets stoked up on ginseng and jumps curbs on his board late at
night; all we know for sure is that he tells prospective art
staffers to "design tough or die trying."
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Siouxsie Fava
Designer
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Siouxsie is a designing queen, but few people know that she's also
a dancing queen. Yes, prior to coming to Tripod she was part of
Swedish super group ABBA. She's been looking for the right fit
since her days with ABBA, and we think she's fitting right in.
Little did we know she'd bring her own disco ball.
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Jason Patrikios
Designer
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When Jason isn't rescuing dogs or wayward iguanas, he is tattooing
himself. (He does other stuff too, he just wouldn't tell us about
it.) All we know is that he thinks a lot of things are *AWESOME*
— especially things like punk rock music, Up With People
albums, and any 'zine he can get his hands on.
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Shannon Johnson
Junior Designer
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Shannon is an obsessive dog owner... very, very obsessive. She is
so obsessive about her dog, Sebastian, that she sent his picture,
not hers, to grace this bio and ranks him above her partner Laurie
on her list of obsessions. Another of Shannon's obsessions is
religious (esp. catholic) antiques. She is currently scouring
the earth for an affordable prie-dieu for her home. When she's
not obsessing or slaving away at Tripod, Shannon enjoys lots of
music — listening to it (industrial/gothic/classical) and playing
it (alto sax and electronics) — and reading Georges Bataille. She
is currently going through withdrawal because, for the first time
in two years, her hair is not purple.
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Mark Madden
Assistant Production Engineer
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Here at Tripod Mark sits quietly in front of his computer, designing and
producing things, always with a smile on his face and a deceptively placid
demeanor. But on the weekends he becomes Grizzly Adams (or is that Grizzly
Madden?) - a man with a passion for the out of doors. Mark loves to hike
and camp out, and he has recently taken up horseback riding. The other
week the horse ended up on top of Mark, but beginners will make those
mistakes. Usually Mark is on top of the horse having grand adventures in
the wilds of upstate New York. You see, Mark refuses to move full-time to
Williamstown. He finds it way too urban for his tastes.
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