Joseph R. Carr

• Endeavors (fancy word for projects and activities)
• Work: Employment, Internships, and Volunteer Work

For an official full high school transcript including SAT scores click here

• Ranked 1st (out of 202) in my graduating class
• Scored 560 on math, 610 on verbal and 530 on writing on my SATs
• Student Government: I was a member of student government and worked on many projects including fundraisers, socials, family movie nights, student issues and outreach.
• Journalism and Yearbook: I have worked in the making of 4 yearbooks, both printed book and digital format. Including writing, photography, typography, layout design, internet digital interface and pre-press work.
• Tech Lab: As an employee of the school district I worked as Tech Lab liaison for faculty and students. This included inventory control, staffing the lab, training on the use of school equipment, maintaining equipment and maintaining the school website with regular updates and creative content.
• Videography Class / Club: As a member of the videography team for three years I have been involved in numerous wonderful motion picture projects (a couple are listed in my portfolio section), including camera work, directing, storyboarding, editing, sound work and processing.
• The summer of 2015 I am embarking on a distance education program. It will take me to various locations in Europe from Paris to Venice, exploring art and history from the source.
• I am participating in the AP portfolio art program for year 2014 / 2015
• I have participated in various art shows including an official selection for the UAA Mat-Su College community juried art show January 2015.

• Maker: I have been a part of the maker movement (based on a series of wonderful philosophies like “if you can’t open it, you don’t own it” and building and making based on your own needs and unique self vision) since I first started reading Make Magazine in 2005. However, I have soldered, taken apart, and have been an overall maker since I was very young. Due to the explorative nature of my making, I have worked with a variety of materials and processes.

• • Solid state and circuitry projects: including micro controllers, advanced circuits, interface and control.
• • Extensive soldering and fabrication experience.
• • BEAM Bots: a series of autonomous primitive robots with no “off” button that come to life with solar power.
• • hacking, modding and building everything from LEDs to PCs with some mild coding experience
• • 3D fabrication (more on this below and in the HG fab section)
• • Drone building, flight and photography: I have had experience through my Employment at the MSC Tech Lab and their drones. Including flight control and digital photography and film uses.

• Literature: I love books, resources, classical works to modern day. Since my first book I have been an avid reader. I am always digesting wonderful written stories, histories and information. It is now, and has always been, a major facet of my personality.

• Film and Cameras: one of my hobbies is the collection, restoration and use of vintage film equipment. I have quite a collection from a beautiful Revere projector to my pride and joy: a perfect 16mm Bolex kit used by an Alaskan wildlife documentarian for a lifetime. They represent this beautiful era where precision in mechanism aligned gracefully in form and use. Completely analog systems with no electronics capable of everything from filming to presenting. While I haven’t had much experience actually creating films with the camera, it is a great ambition of mine and something that I hope to do in college.

• Photography: Through my high school I have been a member of my schools yearbook, journalism, cinema and photography labs and courses. In addition, I was employed by the school to work the MSC tech lab and instruct students on how to handle and operate such equipment as DSLRs and Go Pros. I have many hours logged in the hardware and software involved in digital photography, and have taken courses in photoshop. My own personal equipment includes a Canon 5d mark III, 16mm film equipment, and HD video capabilities. I took all the photos and content on this website and HG fabrications.com. (excluding the work by Grace Quinn)

• Writing and Epistolary: In addition to being an avid reader, I am also a writer. I cannot help but be inspired to imagine stories, situations, heroes and the like. I love to convey a message or feeling in a tale, using all it’s devices and characters to portray a message with many wonderful facets. In my time at Sitka Fine Arts Camp I took an epistolary course and enjoyed it thoroughly. I see chronicling, making notes with my sketches, and communicating in letters as a vital component to my projects and my life.

• Software and Digital: I am supposed to list off all the software I am confident in. Like Microsoft word and excel and that sort of thing. I feel like it would all become just a bunch of white noise to list all the software I am confident in, let alone exposed too. I will just list my favorite software that I feel I am somewhere between confident and proficient in. That seems reasonable and appropriate. Only thing I can add is that I am absolutely on the Macintosh side of things (with a slight dash of Linux). I do feel there is a difference, and 95% of the work I do is on a Mac.

• • Adobe Creative Suite (and Creative Cloud) My favorite suite of software. Photoshop being my favorite piece of software ever (I am a raster kinda guy) I do appreciate a good vector graphic and can work my way around illustrator, as well as Indesgin, Dreamweaver, Fireworks etc. Adobe CS is absolutely incredible and the basis for all my digital art and design work.
• • Website Design - While I have used Dreamweaver mildly, the majority of my web design has been done using a program named Rapidweaver.
• • Desktop Publishing - Through my different yearbook classes, I have learned several desktop publishing tools like Ibooks Author. At the point I am now I could develop, create, publish, and promote a digital novel if I so wished.
• • 3D design - From the rendering software like Blender and Google Sketchup to the processing, slicing and prepping .STL files for printing I have extensive experience and understanding of working with 3D data and communicating it to a 3D printer.

• Entrepreneurship: I have always wanted to build my own company/business, as I come from a family of entrepreneurs and businessmen. I have partially achieved this goal with Hourglass Fabrications, a small local 3d fabrication service I built and run from my workshop/studio/bedroom. I have had all sorts of customers from family and friends to local architectural, design and construction firms. I haven’t made a fortune doing it, but I have been able to expand my equipment and tools exponentially through the proceeds from HG Fabrication.

• 2013 - Palmer Public Library Mural - Although I have collaborated on the annual summer reading program mural at the City of Palmer Public Library for 6 years (2007-2013), 2013 was the first year I did the project solo.
• 2011 - 2014 - Mat-Su Special Santa: Including continuing to regularly update website and help develop the online volunteer sign-up program, I also helped make booths and staff the Halloween Hollow program and worked in the SS workshop for the Holidays. I won Volunteer of the Year Award for 2014.
• E-nable - 2012 - 2014: E-nable is a non-profit international program that works with local independent 3d fabricators to make prosthetic devices for children at no charge. I have been a supporter and registered fabricator for the E-nable program, and have built multiple devices, I handle all the E-nable prosthetic fabrication for the state of Alaska. http://enablingthefuture.org

• 2010 - 2013: ServiceMaster Restoration Services - I was employed with servicemaster during my summers between school and other endeavors working on a restoration crew. I was primarily a laborer and crew member workingg on a team that responded to homes and businesses that experienced a disaster like fire, flood, vandalism etc. I learned how to be a valuable asset to the team and work hard to get the job done. My favorite part of Working at ServiceMaster was the satisfaction of a job well done and the camaraderie of being on a tight knit crew (even though I was the lowest man on the totem pole)
• 2013: Anchorage Museum of natural History Internship. During the summer of 2013 I worked as an Intern at the Anchorage Museum. I worked directly under the diorama creator building recreations of a beluga hunting scene and a river fish camp. During the internship I worked with large foam, resin, museum artifacts, appropriate plant reproductions and other unique materials. It was an incredible work and creative experience. The exhibit opened to great crowds and the Dioramas I worked on were spotlighted extensively. After the exhibit closed the beluga hunting scene was placed on exhibit at the Ted Stevens International airport. Read more about the exhibit at the Anchorage Museum Website
• 2013-2014 school year - Mat Su Central Tech Lab Student - I was employed by my school as a student worker specifically hired to man the tech lab; a place for students with tech questions to come and learn how to utilize different programs. Additionally, I worked as a media creator to create promotions and informational videos for the school. Over the course of the school year, I would create unique weekly videos outlining the different activities and events happening in the near future.
• 2014: Antiquated Press Internship. The summer of 2014 I worked heavily in my fathers print studio. The studio acquired all the equipment from a very old letterpress print studio, and I was tasked with cleaning, sorting and getting everything in working order. This included the cleaning and restoration of a hundred year old Chandler and Price Letterpress, and the cleaning and organizing of over 150 type cases. It was a tremendous amount of work. I ended up custom designing and printing attachments for a shop vac to carefully clean type without damaging it. The whole project took me almost two months. But the press (which hadn’t been operated for over 35 years and was completely encrusted in corrosion) is currently working perfectly and several of my portfolio pieces were printed on it. In addition to the letterpress project, I also worked with my father on his editioning of intaglio prints, preservation of art, studio maintenance and other Antiquated Press projects. I have pretty extensive experience in a working printmaking studio, including: non toxic methods, etching press maintenance, paper tearing and handling, organization and a million other printmaking intricacies.