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Biography
Andrew Nemeth biographical info
Highlights
| 2009 | In February start work as a Science Teacher at Penrith High School • Shoot some new material for the Blue Mountains VR project • Aquaman extended: fifty push-ups every morning; swim 1500m once a week; improve tennis; lose 30kg between July '08 and March '09 |
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| 2008 | Complete a Master of Teaching degree at the University of Western Sydney • Prac teach Year 7-10 Science at Cambridge Park High School • Prac teach Commerce, History, Geography and HSC Society & Culture at Colyton High School • Postgraduate Research Assistant work for the UWS School of Education • Guest lecturer for a class on "Photography: legal, business and marketing issues" at the Sydney Institute TAFE in Ultimo • In November start playing tennis |
| 2007 | One of the four panellists at the Australian Centre for Photography's "Privacy, Panic and Paranoia" seminar • Interviewed by ABC Radio's "Morning Show" to discuss legal issues surrounding public photography • Designed and wrote a 24,000 line PHP5/ SOAP/ XHTML web-application for a travel software company in Ultimo Sydney • My "Photo Rights" article is studied by the Ellenbrook Christian College (Perth) for their HSC Applied Information Technology course, also by the James Cook University School of Creative Arts Digital Imaging course • The bookend to a programming career: in December the release of my free online Court Interest Calculator |
| 2006 | Photographed and authored interior and exterior VRs for the General Motors Holden Captiva SUV • The Photographer Rights article attracts increasing media attention • Lawson GWH shops linear panorama • In December, mothball my "nemeng" VR authoring business |
| 2005 | Founded Blue Mountains VR • 4020 stills and VR images studied at Stanford University as part of their Winter 2005 PWR2, Writing and Rhetoric 2 class • Photographed and authored 23 hi-resolution QTVRs for the Warner Bros Superman Returns (2006) website(s) • Resumed swimming after a fifteen year break |
| 2004 | Set-up dedicated nemeng.com and 4020.net servers and name-servers • Google "Adsense" now pays all online costs |
| 2003-4 | Design, code and maintain John F. Williams and Ingeborg Tyssen Australian photographer websites • One of the judges for the Family of Man 2 documentary photography project |
| 2000 | Founded <4020.net> • Interviewed by Don Norris for Adobe international websites' Motion Gallery Profile |
| 1999 | Founded Leica FAQ • MF-CTCL cancer "episode" (Aug 1999 — Nov 2001) |
| 1998 | Start Sydney Unposed candid photography project • Injury scare to (good) left eye |
| 1996-00 | Alongside nemeng.com projects, intermittent contract HTML, Java and PERL coding for Aquent Partners |
| 1996 | Left full-time employment to start <nemeng.com> sole-trader business, specialising in commissioned QTVR and contract CGI programming |
| 1995-6 | Wrote and photo-illustrated a couple of articles published in US Mactech Magazine |
| 1994-6 | Employed as a Macintosh C++ Applications Developer at Jam Software, Leichhardt Sydney |
| 1993 | Relocate to Warrimoo in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney |
| 1992-4 | Self-taught C++ object-oriented programming • Design, code and sell "Pre Judgment Interest Rate calculator" Mac and PC application |
| 1992 | My own Annus Horribilis: April — Rae Street Heartbreak; July — resign my job as a first-year solicitor at Blake Dawson Waldron; By December — eight close friends depart to pursue careers interstate and overseas |
| 1991-2 | ex-Eastern Bloc tour and revisit Hungarian relatives: Moscow, Budapest, Szombathely, Bucharest, Warsaw, Krakow, Brno |
| 1988-91 | Graduate Law degree (LLB) from the University of New South Wales |
| 1986-88 | First (and last) novel — "Hidden Variables" — 250k words, unpublished |
| 1986-7 | Employed as an Organic Chemist at Surfactant Services, Leichhardt Sydney |
| 1985 | Short-listed for the film-director's course at the Australian Film, Television and Radio school (top 50 of 400 applicants, but missed the final cut of 25) |
| 1984-90 | UNSW student productions: eleven Law, Med and AUJS revues • UNSW Photography Club President in '84-5 • First experiments with sound and video recording/ editing |
| 1982-6 | Honours degree in Industrial Chemistry (BSc Hons), University of New South Wales |
| 1980 | Started taking photos and skipping HSC General Studies classes to experiment in school darkroom |
| 1977-89 | After school (and university) employment in a large number of part-time jobs. Everything from an evening milk run (best job ever! brilliant sunsets!); HSC tutoring; A/V installation technician; clothing store sales assistant; pharmacy delivery boy and even a stint at Blakehurst Nursery throwing rotten plants onto a dung heap (seriously) |
| 1978-80 | School, local and representative rugby union (as prop-forward) |
| 1977 | Father dies at home, two days after family returns from a South Pacific cruise |
| 1976-81 | Sydney Technical High School Bexley North |
| 1975 | Moved to St Georges Pde, Hurstville |
| 1974 | Second trip to Hungary, again by ship (the "Guglielmo Marconi"). This time circumnavigate the globe via the Panama Canal and S.Africa — during European summer |
| 1970 | Travel to Europe by ship (the "Galileo Galilei"), via South Africa and then Hungary by train from Genova. Meet relatives for the first time — during European winter |
| 1969-75 | Seven years of being bullied at Carlton South Primary School |
| 1969 | Diagnosed with 50% right-eye vision loss due to amblyopia |
| 1964 | Born in Kogarah to expatriate Hungarian parents Karoly and Klara. Only child, no other relatives in Australia |
Favourite books, movies and music…
See the "Thirty Favouries" article elsewhere on this site.