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| So who is Eric Pratt? |
 Hradcany, Prague 2005 |
First, which Eric Pratt am I? Because there are several out there.
I am the Eric Pratt born on April 22nd, 1976 and lived and grew up in Narragansett, Rhode Island and live in North Tustin, California. But let's take a closer look at those that bear similar namesake, because there are some interesting similarities here.
First, the house and the two schools seem to sum up my basic skills; architecture, engineering, and art. I design things for a living, whether images for use in television production, or enclosures for hard drives, all have at their core a reliance on art.
And then there are the other Erics Pratt, it's unusual to find such similarity but it's not difficult to see a few loose trends here: web design, television production, programming, and martial arts. Now to be honest I'm not that good at Jui Jitsu, but I do a fair share of web design, a lot of television production, and fair amount of programming (for the internet at least). I just find it odd to share so much in common with some of the other Erics Pratt in the world.
I also travel quite a bit making frequent trips to Europe and Australia and other stops including Bora Bora, New Zealand, and Hawaii. When I go I bring my Fujifilm FinePix S2 (a 12mp interpolated digital SLR) and my Sony HDR-FX1 high def camcorder. you can check the pictures out here. You can see some of the video on my business website where I sell it as backgrounds for chromakeying.
Some say you are defined by the company you keep. I mostly keep mine with my wife, Lisa. We married in August of 2006 on the 26th at a pretty amazing ceremony at the Ritz Carlton in Laguna Niguel. I've known Lisa for 10 years now, and besides being the love of my life, she's pretty amazing in her own right. She owns and operates iStudiosTv.com where she sells computer based TV production equipment. She has two kids, Andrea and Gabriel, and she has a huge latin family many of whom I have still not met and can't keep straight still after all these years.
There's also my parents. My father is a marine biologist based out of the Florida Keys, he does nurse shark research at the Dry Tortugas where he gets in the water, and wrestles with sharks and films them having sex. My mother lives in Rhode Island still, she's an audiologist and loves to sing. If I had to take a guess, I would say I got the art from my mother and engineering from my father (who was always building things in his shop while I was growing up).
My sister Jess, her husband Rob, and my two nieces Hailey and Reilly, lived in Fallbrook for a few years while Rob worked at the Coronado navy base. It was nice having them here so I could get to know my sister, and my niece Hailey. Reilly was just born so I don't know her that well. They've moved back to Virginia since then.
Then there's our two dogs. Nothing more boring than reading about someone's dogs, but have to do it anyway. We have Lucy and Desi, a long haired Chihuahua and a Pekingese. They are a riot, like a struck beehive they tear through the house nipping and wrestling with each other while growling. There are a lot of other characters in my life, each important in some way or another but those are a few of the main cast.
I keep myself busy by trying to do something different every day, my activities include (but are not limited to), building virtual sets, painting, video editing, web design, building furniture, running, building computers, programming, surfing the net, reading sci-fi, eve online, cooking, 3d art, and trying to keep my life in order. I have a diversity of interests chromakeying, photography, videography, space, search engine optimization, XML, virtual sets, computer architecture, politics, alternative fuels, travel, cooking, and saving the human race.