President and Creative Director
ttowers@farmboyfinearts.com

WORK OF ART THAT HAS LEFT THE BIGGEST IMPRESSION:
It's a toss-up between the 15 collected works of Mark Rothko,
in the Rothko room in the Tate Modern, and the northen lights
environment art I have seen on my ranch.

VIRTUES:
Creativity and resilience (OK, stubbornness).

VICE:
Vice? The recipe is this: 2 parts coffee, 1 part bad action movies, 2
parts sugar sweet additives. Self-improvement? Time. My father tells
me I will be late for my own funeral.

NATURAL TALENT YOU WISH YOU WERE GIFTED WITH:
Photographic memory.

FAVOURITE PROJECT:
Since 2000, Farmboy has been my favourite project. Seriously, this is
an amazing company with fantastic people, projects and clients that
have enriched my life and continue to do so. I am very thankful.

VP Finance & Operations
tgudewill@farmboyfinearts.com

WORK OF ART THAT HAS LEFT THE BIGGEST IMPRESSION:
Dale Chihuly Glass installation.

VIRTUES:
Organized, considerate, genuine, caring and intuitive.

VICE:
Impatient.

NATURAL TALENT YOU WISH YOU WERE GIFTED WITH:
Super Healing Powers.

FAVOURITE PROJECT:
Helping build Farmboy Fine Arts.

Art Director
esum@farmboyfinearts.com

WORK OF ART THAT HAS LEFT THE BIGGEST IMPRESSION:
One that comes to mind immediately is Dali's anamorphic
skull painting.

VIRTUES:
Curiosity. I ask lots of questions.

VICE:
I question everything.

NATURAL TALENT YOU WISH YOU WERE GIFTED WITH:
Write music. When I was thirteen I had a song in my head, and
with no technical training except a brief violin stint when I was
eight, I decided to make up my own notes. I had three pages
of archaic symbols but when I looked back at them the next day, I
couldn't hum the tune - so I danced instead.

FAVOURITE PROJECT:
A charcoal portrait of a baby I did for a children's hospital a million
years ago. Went for a visit and noticed a candied lip stain on
the glass above where the baby portrait's lips were. Someone liked
it enough to kiss it. Art affects people.

Design Project Manager
agruelee@farmboyfinearts.com

WORK OF ART THAT HAS LEFT THE BIGGEST IMPRESSION:
Too hard to pick just one. Top 3 are:
1. Kirchner's Artillerymen, 1915 at the Guggenheim, NYC.
2. The Unicom Tapestries in the Cloisters, NYC.
3. Antony Gormley's Blind Light at the Hayword Gallery, London.

VIRTUES:
Optimistic, generous, diplomatic and I can convince most people of
most things most of the time, but only try to use this power for
good...most of the time...

VICE:
Talking too much, being bossy, extravagance, control-freakish behaviour
at times, embarrassing addiction to US Weekly without subscription.

NATURAL TALENT YOU WISH YOU WERE GIFTED WITH:
Mad accounting skillzzz.

FAVOURITE PROJECT:
Taking an industrial design course one summer, learning my way around
an exacto knife, building a rad cardboard chair, having it to be one of my
more permanent items of furniture...until it got recycled.

Account Manager
zmackoff@farmboyfinearts.com

WORK OF ART THAT HAS LEFT THE BIGGEST IMPRESSION:
La Danse (Second version) by Matisse at the Hermitage.

VIRTUES:
Intuition.

VICE:
Guinness.

NATURAL TALENT YOU WISH YOU WERE GIFTED WITH:
Hockey skills! I wanna skate like Bobby Orr and shoot like Gretzky.

FAVOURITE PROJECT:
Project Runway.

Designer
ftravassos@farmboyfinearts.com

WORK OF ART THAT HAS LEFT THE BIGGEST IMPRESSION:
The ceiling of Antoni Gaudi's Sagrada Familia - particulary the
hyperboloid interior structures.

VIRTUES:
Ability to continually surprise the people that think they know me
the best.

VICE:
I keep having these vivid dreams where I am attempting to fly and
skate simultaneously. I want to master this seamlessly in that dream.

NATURAL TALENT YOU WISH YOU WERE GIFTED WITH:
I'd love to be a white hat hacker.

FAVOURITE PROJECT:
A public art collaboration for the City of North Vancouver whereby
I donated my artist fee to Leukemia research.

Designer
jhilliard@farmboyfinearts.com

WORK OF ART THAT HAS LEFT THE BIGGEST IMPRESSION:
Seeing the statue of David in person in Florence, Italy.

VIRTUES:
My imagination.

VICE:
I need to work on my mental telepathy.

NATURAL TALENT YOU WISH YOU WERE GIFTED WITH:
Telekinesis would be a great gift to have.

FAVOURITE PROJECT:
Growing my beard for the purpose of a student film.

Designer
moconnell@farmboyfinearts.com

WORK OF ART THAT HAS LEFT THE BIGGEST IMPRESSION:
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat.
I learned about it in grade two and thought it was such a neat way to paint;
then when my parents took me to see it at the Art Institute of Chicago,
I was blown away by the size of it. Of course, I was pretty small.

VIRTUES:
I will make you laugh. Then I'll organize your closet by colour.

VICE:
I like things to be the way I like them. I could go easy on that.

NATURAL TALENT YOU WISH YOU WERE GIFTED WITH:
Choreographer for theatre and music videos. Dancing. Singing.
Clothing design. Electrician. Carpenter. French cooking. Cat burgler.

FAVOURITE PROJECT:
Recently I just worked on a piece for one of the Kimpton Hotels
(some of my fave!) for Palomar in Chicago. The concept was so fun to
work with and allowed me to pull from lots of my interests -
photography, typography ...and cocktails!

Operations Manager
smullaney@farmboyfinearts.com

WORK OF ART THAT HAS LEFT THE BIGGEST IMPRESSION:
Beethoven Frieze: Die Sehnsucht nach dem Gluck (The Yearning for
Happiness) by Gustav Klimt at the Belvedere Palace in Vienna.

VIRTUES:
Follow through, carrying projects/tasks until they are fully completed.

VICE:
Caf? Santo Domingo!

NATURAL TALENT YOU WISH YOU WERE GIFTED WITH:
Break dancing, 'cause I've got the shoes!'

FAVOURITE PROJECT:
Organizing the 2002 Ibero American Summit of Heads of States and
Government in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic was fantastic!

Account Manager
cread@farmboyfinearts.com

WORK OF ART THAT HAS LEFT THE BIGGEST IMPRESSION:
It's a tie between Peter Eisenman & Buro Happold's Holocaust
Memorial in Berlin and Brian Jungen's Cetology, a 40-foot whale
skeleton made with white plastic lawn chairs.

VIRTUES:
Empathy, sense of humour and my ability to stay positive. Do to
others what you would have them do to you.

VICE:
The need to have music playing all the time. Wish I could stop putting
unrealistic amounts of stuff on my to do list. Saying no.

NATURAL TALENT YOU WISH YOU WERE GIFTED WITH:
The ability to play an instrument.

FAVOURITE PROJECT:
Creating a comic strip in French to propose to my wife. That and
planning a 7-month trip to follow the sun, surf, wine harvests and
music festivals around the world.

Account Manager
yyeganegi@farmboyfinearts.com

WORK OF ART THAT HAS LEFT THE BIGGEST IMPRESSION:
Sagrada Familia in Spain.

VIRTUES:
Eternally optimistic & very patient.

VICE:
Indulging my sweet tooth.

NATURAL TALENT YOU WISH YOU WERE GIFTED WITH:
Ability to predict/control the weather!

FAVOURITE PROJECT:
Starting a pizza box advertising company when I was 22.

Director of Finance
vbalberan@farmboyfinearts.com

WORK OF ART THAT HAS LEFT THE BIGGEST IMPRESSION:
Tournesols (Sunflowers) by Vincent van Gogh.

VIRTUES:
I'm incredible at solving problems. Well... at least at the office for
finance and business-related items.

VICE:
My biggest vice is having an addictive personality. I'm easily hooked
when I truly enjoy something and I usually take it a bit too far.

NATURAL TALENT YOU WISH YOU WERE GIFTED WITH:
I wish I was gifted with ambidexterity. It would be awesome to be
equally adept with both hands/arms for many reasons, but mainly
because I would be deadly at dodgeball!

FAVOURITE PROJECT:
My all time favourite project was working with my wife to plan our
wedding. It turned out to be the best day of my life (tied with the days
our kids were born).

Director of Research & Development
smah@farmboyfinearts.com

WORK OF ART THAT HAS LEFT THE BIGGEST IMPRESSION:
My daughter's first graphical story drawn in 16-cell grid on a single
page at the age of 3. It was a story of her and friend Hannah on a
mission as cats. She understood when to use the close-up and wide
shots for narrative direction.

VIRTUES:
Ideas and hard-working

VICE:
Ideas, too many sometimes.

NATURAL TALENT YOU WISH YOU WERE GIFTED WITH:
Does teleportation qualify? As in *Beam Me Up, Scotty!*.

FAVOURITE PROJECT:
Spin-out company from university research - the interactive media
company specialized in 3D animation technologies and products.

Software Developer
crodrigues@farmboyfinearts.com

WORK OF ART THAT HAS LEFT THE BIGGEST IMPRESSION:
Edvard Munch, The Scream.

VIRTUES:
Learning, planning, organizing, goal-oriented.

VICE:
Lazy to exercise

NATURAL TALENT YOU WISH YOU WERE GIFTED WITH:
Dunking.

FAVOURITE PROJECT:
FBFA systems requirement gathering and development of
software infrastructure.

Research Intern / Generative Art
nsorenson@farmboyfinearts.com

WORK OF ART THAT HAS LEFT THE BIGGEST IMPRESSION:
Marguerite Haunted by Spectres, a lithograph by Odilon Redon that
basically compresses David Lynch's Eraserhead into a single image.

VIRTUES:
I always yield my Skytrain seat to the elderly.

VICE:
Uncle Fatih's pizza by the slice.

NATURAL TALENT YOU WISH YOU WERE GIFTED WITH:
I wish I could play piano without ever having to practice.

FAVOURITE PROJECT:
Take-out Weight Curling. A video game I programmed in high school
that launched me to national semi-stardom.

Designer
fcarter@farmboyfinearts.com

WORK OF ART THAT HAS LEFT THE BIGGEST IMPRESSION:
There have been one or two, but most recently, the Alexander
McQueen Exhibition at The Met NYC. It was incredible. His method
of thinking and design ideas were so intriguing and left me wanting more.
It's such a tragedy.

VIRTUES:
I never take things too seriously (or at least I try). I like to think this makes
me a relaxed and approachable person.

VICE:
I steal spoonfuls of Nutella when I'm overwhelmed.

NATURAL TALENT YOU WISH YOU WERE GIFTED WITH:
The ability to hula-hoop well. Some ability to foresee the future would
also be handy in many facets of my life.

FAVOURITE PROJECT:
Creating a city out of cardboard boxes when I was 8. Getting so
obsessed and absorbed in the project that I was devastated to have
to return to real life in this universe. I'm always tempted to start again
when I see a good cardboard box...

Office Security

WORK OF ART THAT HAS LEFT THE BIGGEST IMPRESSION:
Fountain by Marcel Duchamp, 1917

VIRTUES:
Affection.

VICE:
Pepperoni sticks.

NATURAL TALENT YOU WISH YOU WERE GIFTED WITH:
Super-doggy sense of smell.

FAVOURITE PROJECT:
Hunter Douglas Roller Shades