David perry biography

David Perry is an Australian experimental film and video-maker, and was a founding member of Ubu Films (1965).1 Previously he trained in the graphics arts (the printing trade) and aspects of graphic arts techniques can be seen in some of his works.


From 1964 he worked for the ABC in their film labs and then in 1968 moved to the Federal Engineering section which was responsible for the tele-recording of all ABC broadcasts. A colleague showed him the effects of a magnet on a damaged camera pick-up tube (image orthicon) and this led to the film Mad Mesh (1968), which is a film recording, with electronic sound track, of the electronic image generated by the distorted grid mesh in the tube.


In 1971 he moved to Great Britain where he took a technical job at the Hornsey College of Art, and he was later asked to teach film and video. Perry had heard of the newly available video portapak, and convinced the college to buy some video equipment and created a live video process installation in a corridor using delayed playback shown against the current live display. This provided his stu

David Perry (game developer)

Northern Irish video game designer

This article is about the game developer. For the co-commentator on the UKvideo game television show GamesMaster, see Dave Perry. For other uses, see David Perry (disambiguation).

David Perry (born 4 April 1967) is a Northern Irishvideo game developer and programmer. He became prominent for programming platform games for 16-bit home consoles in the early to mid 1990s, including Disney's Aladdin, Cool Spot, and the Earthworm Jim series. He founded Shiny Entertainment, where he worked from 1993 to 2006. Perry created games for companies such as Disney, 7 Up, McDonald's, Hemdale, and Warner Bros.[1] In 2008 he was presented with an honorary doctorate from Queen's University Belfast for his services to computer gaming.[2] He was the co-founder & CEO of cloud-based games service Gaikai, which was acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment. In 2017 Perry became the co-founder & CEO of a customer intelligence startup called GoVYRL, Inc. developing a new advanced brand dashboard called

David “Dave” B. Perry

Dave Perry grew up racing a variety of small dinghies out of the Pequot Yacht Club on the north shore of Long Island Sound. In 1971 he won the Clinton M. Bell Trophy for having the best junior record on Long Island Sound. In 1973, he was accepted to attend Yale University and was captain of the team when they won the Intercollegiate Nationals in 1975. Dave was named an All-American Sailor twice.

Fundamentally, Dave Perry has three attributes: he is a great sailor, is a passionate teacher and one of the top authorities on The Racing Rules of Sailing. He has excelled in all three areas and has provided unparalleled inspiration to thousands of young sailors. Between 1986 and 2006 he served as the Director of Athletics at Green Farms Academy, an independent day school in Westport, CT. In 1977 he worked with US Sailing conducting Advanced Racing Clinics and Sailing Instructor Seminars around the United States.

One morning, Dave was giving a rules seminar to roughly 25 sailors. To emphasize key points, each sailor held out a stick that was about eigh

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