1. David B Coons is a computer graphics professional and CGI pioneer.
10 Facts About David Coons
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David Coons is the president and owner of ArtScans Studio in Culver City, California, where he uses a scanner of his own invention to serve a clientele of celebrity artists and fine artists.
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David Coons was a pioneer in the art of digital printing reproduction of scanned and computer generated artwork, specifically adapting the large format IRIS printer, a machine designed to work solely with proprietary prepress computer systems, to this task.
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David Coons wrote software to print works created on desktop computers such as Sally Larsen 1989 Transformer series and a 1990 photography exhibition for Graham Nash of Crosby, Stills, and Nash.
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David Coons went on to become a business partner with Nash, helping found the Manhattan Beach, California, company Nash Editions, a fine art digital reproduction company based on a $126,000 IRIS printer Nash had purchased.
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David Coons has been involved with motion-picture technology since he was in junior high school, where he was one of the "Audio-Visual Team" that handled the equipment for educational films and shows.
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David Coons has made a number of "amateur" films, in addition to several student-style efforts.
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David Coons was the cameraman, cinematographer, craft services and technical consultant on John P McCann's The Glendale Ogre.
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David Coons is widely regarded as a "connector" in the sense Malcolm Gladwell wrote about in The Tipping Point, though some see him as a Gladwellian "maven".
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David Coons has been identified as the title character in Po Bronson's non-fiction book on Silicon Valley workers called The Nudist on the Late Shift.