Professional Writer / Editor / Photographer / Filmmaker / Networker / Blogger / Webmaster
Greater San Diego Area
- Current
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- Associate Producer & Technical Advisor at Nantascot Films
- Owner / Webmaster at ShyCloud.com Web Site
- Owner / Chief of Creativity at Shy Cloud Productions
- Past
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- Founder / Director at San Diego Catholic School Alums
- Independent Representative at ACN
- Publicity Director at "La Jolla DNA"
- Owner / System Operator at Pro-Harold.cts.com BBS
- Owner / Publisher / Editor at HAROLD Newsletter
- Publications Designer at St. Augustine High School Alumni Association
- Journalism / Yearbook Adviser at Academy of Our Lady of Peace
- Paste-up / Proofreader at Qualitype / DPR-Pegasus Graphics
- Production Photographer at Covenant Ark Theatre Company
- Assistant Editor at Southern Cross Catholic Newspaper
- Staff Writer / Photographer at Life-News Newspaper
- Creative Assistant at Prisoners of Peace
- General Distributor at Sta-Power / Action Industries
- Education
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- San Diego State University-California State University
- San Diego Mesa College
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David Matt Green’s Summary
Right now I think I'll just quote my old friend Ozzie Gontang, who offered to write the first recommendation I received here:
“David is a true Renaissance Man living in the 21st century. His work, creative ear, creative eye, and metaphoric mind has continued to create and recreate himself and his art and the art of others for as long as I have known him. A view of his portfolio of sight/site and sound speak for themself. With David the muses continue to work through his soul and manifest in the way he sees the world. There is always something new and fresh in the way David sees what is in front of him."
David Matt Green’s Experience
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Associate Producer & Technical Advisor
Nantascot Films
(Motion Pictures and Film industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
I am Associate Producer, Technical Advisor and Lead Stills Photographer for David Fresina's "Return to Dwight and Nile: The Story of PSA Flight 182," a documentary film about the 1978 PSA plane crash that killed 144 people in San Diego. I was a newspaper reporter and photographer at the scene on that tragic day. Our crew filmed about 40 hours of interviews with various people who were involved with the disaster, as well as a lot of location shots, during August 31-September 7, 2008, and September 21-28, 2008. The documentary now is in the editing stage, and hopefully will be out by late Summer or early Fall, 2009.
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Owner / Webmaster
ShyCloud.com Web Site
(Internet industry)
December 1996 — Present (13 years )
Offering Moral Support For Creative Sorts online since 1996! Featuring hundreds of my blog entries about music, theatre, sports and whatever else catches my attention, as well as dozens of galleries containing my music and theatre photographs. Visitors to the site can purchase CDs created by my musical friends through CDBaby.com.
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Owner / Chief of Creativity
Shy Cloud Productions
(Entertainment industry)
1970 — Present (39 years )
Professional writer, reporter, editor, photographer, proofreader, publicist, videomaker, blogger and webmaster. My first writing sale was in 1970, while I was still in college, and I sold my first photographs in 1974.
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Founder / Director
San Diego Catholic School Alums
(Civic & Social Organization industry)
November 1985 — August 2005 (19 years 10 months)
Founder and Director of a social organization devoted to promoting the connections between people who went to any and all local Catholic schools. Edited and produced an SDCSA News e-newsletter in the '90s, then created and became Webmaster of SDCSA.net in January of 1997. Organized an outing that saw 137 SDCSA members, families and friends attend future Hall of Fame member Tony Gwynn's final game with the Padres on October 7, 2001, which also featured Ricky Henderson's 3,000th hit! Organized two more SDCSA Padres events during 2002 season. While probably not gone forever, SDCSA and SDCSA.net haven't been given any attention since August of 2005.
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Independent Representative
ACN
(Telecommunications industry)
July 2000 — June 2003 (3 years )
A 1990s B-movie actress named Rochelle Swanson got my name and number from a friend of my friend Dana Williams, then convinced me to join a Network Marketing System called ACN. I liked the company because it offered a ground floor opportunity to sell natural gas and electricity, as well as long distance calling plans. The gas and electricity sales were eliminated fairly soon after I joined, however, so I eventually lost interest in what therefore will be my final Network Marketing venture.
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Publicity Director
"La Jolla DNA"
(Performing Arts industry)
January 2000 — February 2001 (1 year 2 months)
Served as Publicity Director for a new musical called "La Jolla DNA," which was written by Jonathan Michael Licht, Douglas Foxworthy and Gary Hyde. The play had two Showcase Performances on May 3-4, 2000, at the Museum of Contemporary Art's Sherwood Auditorium in La Jolla. I photographed auditions and rehearsals, then videotaped the second performance. After the run of the play, I produced archival photos and video content for the show's web site, http://LaJollaDNA.com, which is still available. Proofreader for Showcase Performance program.
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Owner / System Operator
Pro-Harold.cts.com BBS
(Internet industry)
July 1991 — July 1996 (5 years 1 month)
Owner and System Operator of a ProLine Network computer bulletin board system called Pro-Harold.cts.com, which provided free Internet e-mail addresses and Usenet News Groups in the pre-web site era of the Internet. Created and managed dozens of news groups. Also created and directed The Harold Network (THN), a distribution network of about 30 independent Internet BBSs, located all over the United States and Canada.
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Owner / Publisher / Editor
HAROLD Newsletter
(Writing and Editing industry)
December 1985 — May 1996 (10 years 6 months)
Edited and published 15 issues of an eccentric newsletter named HAROLD, which featured letters, articles, poems, photographs and artwork from a couple hundred of my friends over its 10 and a half years of existence. Thousands of people received copies of the newsletters.
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Publications Designer
St. Augustine High School Alumni Association
(Graphic Design industry)
September 1985 — August 1986 (1 year )
Designed and produced newsletters and brochures for Alumni Association and Director of Development. Edited and designed school's first Alumni Directory.
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Journalism / Yearbook Adviser
Academy of Our Lady of Peace
(Primary/Secondary Education industry)
August 1980 — July 1984 (4 years )
Adviser for The Oracle newspaper, which was produced by students from both OLP and St. Augustine High School. Also served as adviser for OLP's Villa Montemar yearbook during my second and fourth years there. Last book was judged "Best Yearbook 1984" by San Diego County Journalism Education Association.
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Paste-up / Proofreader
Qualitype / DPR-Pegasus Graphics
(Graphic Design industry)
September 1980 — June 1983 (2 years 10 months)
Did paste-up work and proofreading for two related companies, Qualitype Graphics and DPR-Pegasus Graphics.
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Production Photographer
Covenant Ark Theatre Company
(Performing Arts industry)
May 1974 — August 1980 (6 years 4 months)
Production Photographer for about 10 musical plays produced and usually directed by Thomas Rusch at various schools, churches and other venues. Also served on decision-making panels that cast several shows, wrote some publicity releases, helped with creation of a few programs, and even did a little set building.
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Assistant Editor
Southern Cross Catholic Newspaper
(Newspapers industry)
December 1977 — February 1980 (2 years 3 months)
Assistant Editor, Copy Editor, Design Editor, reporter, photographer, theatre critic, dark room technician, proofreader, paste-up.
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Staff Writer / Photographer
Life-News Newspaper
(Newspapers industry)
October 1973 — May 1974 (8 months)
News, features and sports reporter and photographer.
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Creative Assistant
Prisoners of Peace
(Public Relations and Communications industry)
March 1973 — October 1973 (8 months)
Dick Shepp recruited me through an ad to help him create what would be an unfulfilled national publicity campaign and cross-country college speaking tour, aimed at securing amnesty for former Vietnam War draft resisters. Called Prisoners of Peace, the money-raising gimmick was to be an old-fashioned 3" long brass door key that supposedly was designed by Disney animator Ib Iwerks. It featured a dove at the top and the word AMNESTY down the length of it. Shepp never succeeded at bringing all the pieces together, though, so the campaign never got off the ground.
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General Distributor
Sta-Power / Action Industries
(Automotive industry)
January 1972 — February 1973 (1 year 2 months)
General Distributor for two Network Marketing Systems that began by selling automotive petroleum products, then eventually branched out in other directions. William Penn Patrick, who had run for Governor of California in 1966, created Sta-Power Industries in the late '60s as a more manly complement to his Holiday Magic cosmetics empire. Sta-Power's President, H Kay White, eventually jumped ship around November of '73 and spun off a very similar company of his own called Action Industries. It was an interesting post-college learning experience for a still pretty naive 23-year-old guy.
David Matt Green’s Education
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San Diego State University-California State University
BA , Journalism, Advertising, Marketing , 1970 — 1972
- Activities and Societies:
- Daily Aztec (reporter, chief copy editor, proofreader, classified advertising manager), Sigma Delta Chi Professional Journalism Society, Intramural Sports (softball, basketball, flag football), Aztecs Football Team (press box statistics crew during games).
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San Diego Mesa College
Journalism, Photography 1967 — 1970
- Activities and Societies:
- Daily Olympian (sports reporter, photographer), Newman Club (member, president), Car Rallies (driver, navigator).
Additional Information
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David Matt Green’s Interests:
My passions are: life, people, sports, writing, photography, videomaking, networking, music, films, theater, television, books, Apple computers, web design.
David Matt Green’s Groups:
San Diego Photography Meetup Group (Assistant Organizer), Arthouse Independent Movie Meetup Group (Assistant Organizer), San Diego Blogger Meetup Group.
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San Diego State University-Alumni & Friends of Journalism and Media Studies
David Matt Green’s Honors:
Adviser for Academy of Our Lady of Peace's 1983-84 Villa Montemar yearbook, which was judged "Best Yearbook 1984" by the San Diego County Journalism Education Association.
David Matt Green’s Contact Settings
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