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Mark Fullmer grew up in mostly sunny Southern California, spending his carefree youth singing hippie-inspired church music and drawing pictures on the recycled dot matrix paper his father brought from the office.
The former led him to discover he loved music. The latter led his mother to discover, when her son kept drawing pictures of people with greenish-yellow flesh, that Mark was colorblind. Bidding farewell to a career as a portrait artist, he picked up the trumpet at age 10. Two years later he began studying with David Washburn, principal trumpet of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. In 1998 he matriculated at USC on the school's Presidential scholarship, studying with Boyde Hood of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. After receiving his music B.A. in 2002, he moved overseas to Oxford and worked, read a lot, wrote a little, and snuck into Oxford University classes. When he returned to the US in 2003, Mark rented a cozy attic in a cheery home and worked variously as a math tutor, construction worker, office manager, and hotel night watchman. In 2004 Mark began his M.A. studies in English Literature at Boston College, where he conducted archival research at Harvard and Yale and participated in the Radcliffe Graduate Consortium for Women's Studies. In 2005, he founded New Comm Ave, a literary journal for first-year college writing. He also joined filmmaking forces with Emre Safak, co-founding an independent film company, Olive Barrel Productions, where three of his screenplays are in various stages of production. Mark now teaches writing at Fullerton College and Irvine Valley College while spending his free time making artsy fartsy t-shirt art and recording melancholy music. |
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Perhaps my most favorite song
Mark, this was a provocative
Mark, this was a provocative discussion. I suppose as devil's advocate I would be less enthusiastic about some of the points you made, such as the reconceptualizing of knowledge. I think of the Atlantic Monthly cover article a few months back with the lovely title "Is Google Making Us Stoopid?"
Perhaps in the panel in June this might be what I should be doing: asking the philosopher's questions about the implications of Web 2.0.
WOWZERS, James's brother...
WOWZERS, James's brother... you have such a talented singing voice! And your Mandarin is excellent! As a native speaker of the Chinese language, I am very impressed. Mad props to you! :D
That's a cool thing.
That's a cool thing.
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