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Guy Marsden
biographical
info
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Community work: I am on the board of Maine Interfaith Power & Light Board president of the Midcoast Green Collaborative Member of the Midcoast Meeting of Friends Active in town committees in my home town: Woolwich, Maine |
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| One measure of a man is what he reads. Below is a list of the magazines and periodicals that I read regularly, and my favorite books of all time. | |||
| WIRED | Technology Review | Nuts & Volts | Solar Pro |
| Electronic Products | Electronic Product News | Popular Science | Home Power |
| Analog | Discover | Science Illustrated | Solar Today |
| Inventor's Digest | |||
| Favorite science fiction books: | |||
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"Blood Music" Greg Bear Kim Stanley Robinson: "Forty Signs of Rain", "Fifty Degrees Below" and "Sixty Days and Counting" trilogy |
John Varley: "Titan", " Wizard " and " Demon" trilogy "Red Thunder", "Red Lightning" and "Rolling Thunder" |
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1955 - Born Boston Massachusetts |
| 1959 - Family moved back to England (yes, I'm English) |
 Family home in Yorkshire and a Very Proper Young Man!
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1962-68 - Dubious benefits of British private
education
system (boarding school) |
1968 - Moved to Baltimore attended Friends high school
(I was raised a Quaker and remain an active Friend) |
1972-76 - Maryland
Institute, College of Art, BFA in Photography and woodcrafting
 My student ID card and thesis project -
"Behemoth View #1" 11 X 14" view camera
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| 1976-78 - Photoprocessing engineer and AV
production, BL labs 1978-79 - Display engineer, Maryland Science Center 1979 - Moved to Venice, California, to work in special effects field 1979 - Visual effects engineer "Star Trek, the Motion Picture" 
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| 1980-84 - Various effects productions including: "Ghost Busters", "2010 The
Year We Make Contact",
"Brainstorm". 1983-85 - Partner in FX company, YFS productions, various TV shows and movies  1985 - Pace Colorprints. I worked for 6 months making Cibachrome and Dye Transfer color pints with one of the industry's best color printmakers; Bob Pace. |
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1986 - present - Self-employed
electrical engineering consultant. 1986 - First sculpture exhibited at the Museum Of Neon Art (MONA) Los Angeles  
 "Dodeca Rockola" neon plasma art jukebox. 6 ft. X 30". Interactive working jukebox with neon light show. This began a 6+ year exploration of large blown glass artwork with choreographed neon, and also electronic art. 1986 - Built a dye transfer print lab in San Francisco for Frog Prints color lab. |
| 1994 - Moved to artist studio loft Oakland, CA 1996 - Married my beautiful and talented wife, Rebekah Younger - see her clothing designs, personal web site, and blog.  |
1997 - Started my wood crafting
business. |
1998 - Bought our first house in Vallejo, CA |
2001 - Moved to Woolwich, Maine in August.  Country living in in beautiful rural Maine. (photo from 2003) |
2003 - Began marketing my
Magnetic Levitation Kit from my web
site. Turns out to be a big success selling hundreds of kits a
year. |
2006 - Installed
solar domestic
water heating system on our house.
And began maunfacturing Solar Differential Temperature Controllers - another surprise success.  2008 - Formalized my business as ART TEC LLC in order to take my solar products to the next level. 2009 - My wife Rebekah completed her MFA in interdisciplinary arts from Goddard College.  Tired but happy Rebekah |
2009 - Installed a
3.2kW solar power system on the
roof of my workshop. This system produces about 50% of the
electricity needed to run our home and 2 home based businesses on an
annual basis. Introduced new solar differential temperature controller product:  2012 - Expanded our solar power array to 5.2kW and purchased a Chevy Volt electric vehicle that we charge from our solar array. 
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I try to live a simple life in keeping with my Quaker beliefs. I work to raise awareness for a sustainable life style and to help others to reduce their non-renewable energy consumption. My wife Rebekah Younger and I live as sustainably as we can. We also own a 2006 Ford Escape Hybrid SUV (purchased used) which gets 29-33 MPG. Guy |
