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FORREST CAMERANESI – GEEK OF ALL TRADES

Forrest Cameranesi – Geek of All Trades:
 * Resumé
 * Web Development
 * Graphic Design
   * Emblematic Jewelry
   * Infographics
   * Logo Design
   * Game Design
   * Digital Arts
   * Print Design
   * Traditional Arts
 * Photography
 * Marathon Eternal
 * The Codex Quaerentis
   * Introduction
   * Metaphilosophy
   * Commensurablism
   *  
   * Against Relativism
   * Against Dogmatism
   * Against Cynicism
   * Against Transcendentalism
   *  
   * On Language
   * On Rhetoric and the Arts
   * On Logic and Mathematics
   *  
   * On Existence
   * On the Mind
   * On Knowledge
   * On Education
   *  
   * A Note on Ethics
   *  
   * On Value
   * On the Will
   * On Justice
   * On Governance
   *  
   * On Empowerment
   * On Enlightenment
   * On Action
   *  
   * Summary
 * Other Essays
 * The Chronicles of Quelouva
   * Introduction
   *  
   * The Magic of Antiquity
   * The Children of Antiquity
   * The War of Antiquity
   *  
   * Lievus Meij
   * Darak Meij
   * Meij Endaren
   *  
   * Nurbal Colony
   * Nurbal Legacy
   * Nurbal Enemy
   *  
   * Pantheon Genesis
   * Pantheon Exodus
   * Pantheon Synthesis
   *  
   * Shadow of the Foundation
   * Veil of the Foundation
   * Light of the Foundation
   *  
   * Columbia Resurgent
   * Terra Resurgent
   * Sol Resurgent
   *  
   * Birth of Another World
   * Life in Another World
   * Death and the Other World
   *  
   * Falling of the Darklight
   * Nadir of the Darklight
   * Rising of the Darklight
   *  
   * Virtuality Transcendent
   * Virtuality Incarnate
   * Virtuality Immanent
 * Other Stories


ABOUT ME

My name is Forrest Cameranesi. I am a self-styled "Geek of All Trades" from
Ojai, California.

I do web development and graphic design for work.

I occasionally do independent consulting for computer support and tutoring. I
was very briefly a student teacher at an elementary school. For a while I was an
all-purpose technical and administrative assistant. I was once co-founder and
lead designer of a small, short-lived computer game company. Before all that I
was an Apple-certified Macintosh technician and salesperson.

I have an Associate's degree in Multimedia Arts and Technologies, with honors,
from Santa Barbara City College; and a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy, with
highest honors, from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

In my spare time I am an amateur philosopher, author, and game developer,
legacies of professional lives I almost lived. On this site you will find the
slowly-in-progress editions of my two original magnum opera, the Codex
Quaerentis and the Chronicles of Quelouva, as well as the project I'm probably
best known for, my game mod Eternal.

I do a lot of hiking in the beautiful nature that surrounds me. I take pictures
as I go, and collect the best of my photography to share here as well.

I used to sing karaoke, and people kept telling me I should sing professionally,
but I don't have anywhere to do so any more. And I used to perform in the Rocky
Horror Picture Show with Big Purple Onion Productions in San Luis Obispo,
California.

I used to play (and at one time was in charge of) a sword fighting game called
Amtgard at the Shire known variously as Feanga, Eternal Coast, or Silver Sun, in
Santa Barbara, California. And I used to run a guild at the Renaissance,
Shakespeare, and Pirate Faires at Lake Casitas in Ojai, California.

I have a third degree black belt in TaeKwonDo from the Ojai Valley TaeKwonDo
Academy, though I'm decades out of practice now. And once upon a time, in
another life, I was a young Boy Scout in Troop 501 of Ojai, California; but I
haven't been involved with that for even longer.


PORTFOLIO & RESUME

Galleries full of examples of my creative and technical work in various fields.


 * WEB DEVELOPMENT
   
   Examples of my work in web development & design.


 * GRAPHIC DESIGN
   
   Examples of my work in various subfields of graphic design.


 * PHOTOGRAPHY
   
   Examples of my photography, mostly of natural landscapes.

My complete resumé is also available for viewing.


ETERNAL

Beyond Infinity Lies Destiny.

Eternal is the closest thing to a video game I've ever actually released. It is
an extensive mod for and expansion of Marathon, a '90s first-person shooter game
from Bungie, the people who brought you Halo and Destiny.

It has been slowly in development, off and on, since 1996, when the final
installment of the Marathon series was released along with editing tools. After
four years of intermittent development on my own, I abandoned the project in
2000. When broadband internet finally became available to me in 2004, I uploaded
the scraps of the old project for others to make use of, but with the
encouragement and help of others in the fan community who could finally see what
I had made, we managed to finish off a rough first release version of the
project that same year.

We intended to quickly polish that off and release a final version shortly
thereafter, but that instead became another four-year complete overhaul of the
project, resulting in Eternal X 1.0 in 2008. Never being completely satisfied
with the quality of the finished product, we released a much-renovated 1.1 five
years later still in 2013, and then an even more dramatically improved 1.2
another six years later in 2019. Many of these improvements would have been
impossible without the volunteer help of many people over the years, and over
time a project I had begun as just my own hard work has instead become an
eternally ongoing community project with me as its creative director.

Aside from my work on Eternal, I am also more generally a prominent old member
of the Bungie fan community, helping run both the Marathon and Myth sections of
Bungie.org, a Bungie fansite.


THE CODEX

A Pragmatic Analysis of Philosophy from the Meaning of Words to the Meaning of
Life.

The Codex Quaerentis is a series of essays describing my complete system of
philosophy, arguing for my positions on virtually every subject – from abstract
language, through reality and knowledge, morality and justice, and on to
practical meaning of life stuff – and relating them all to each other in a
systematic way.

This began as early thoughts on various subjects such as physics and political
science, that then were integrated in a philosophical thought-journal I kept at
the beginning of my formal academic study of philosophy. When I once thought I
would go on to get PhD in philosophy, I thought this might become my
dissertation. Since I didn't pursue that path, I have instead turned this into a
mere series of essays; but still, a series of essays exceeding 100,000 words in
total.

Various other essays I've written are also available to read here, mostly old
school assignments, mostly philosophy papers, but also some more recent essays
on other subjects.


THE CHRONICLES

A epic tapestry of tales about alien space wizards, prehistoric nanotech gods,
and a virtual reality afterlife.

The Chronicles of Quelouva is a large series of interconnected stories set in
the same fictional universe, involving an ancient alien empire, human mythology
and future history, and the life of a virtual world.

These stories began as backstories for various video game projects that some
friends and I attempted in the late '90s and early 2000s. None of those panned
out, but as the main writer behind most of those projects, I had tied all of
their otherwise unrelated stories together into a shared universe, and long
after everyone had given up on doing game development, I slowly morphed those
interconnected stories together into an enormous work of fiction of its own.
That is still very much in progress, and all that exists to read of it so far is
basically an outline, not proper writing; but it's such an enormous project that
even the outline is the length of a small novel, totalling over 60,000 words.

Various other stories I've written are also available to read here, mostly
fanfic ideas for reboots or spin-offs of popular media I'm fond of, but
occasionally some more original writing.

forrest@geekofalltrades.org