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About me.
 My name is Dermot O' Connor, though I suspect many people think of me as "idleworm", which is fine. I'm Irish, currently based in Canada or the U.S. (depending on the day of the week), and I work in animation. I'm moving to Portland, Oregon in July/August 07. I like candlelit dinners and walks in the rain. In my spare time, I hunt and kill space aliens. (See photo). Here is a short bio. Angela's Ashes eat your heart out: |
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| 1969 | Born in Co. Wicklow, Ireland. Welcome to Earth, Prisoner #5394-532-433 |
| 1973 | Crappy Irish education begins. |
| 1980 | Toughest guy in school. It took 25 other kids to beat me up. |
| 1986 | Free from incompetent Irish school system. Farcical Art education begins at NCAD, Thomas St., Dublin. |
| 1987 | Chucked out of NCAD. This is called "dodging a bullet". |
| 1988 | Hired by Don Bluth studios (feature animation). |
| 1993 | Won Green card in Lottery. |
| 1994 | Moved to America (Los Angeles). |
| 1995 | Fell into dream job. |
| 1998 | My last holiday (August, Ireland). |
| 1999 | Fell out of dream job. |
| 2000 | Started idleworm.com |
| 2001 | I would pay money to forget this year, and the one after. |
| 2002 | Created the Gulf War "Game" in October/November. |
| 2003 | Gulf war game goes viral. Interviewed by Reuters, BBC, Le Monde, AP, etc. |
| 2004 | Savings kaput. "I'm just going out for a walk. I might be gone some time." Attended David Goodstein's lecture at Caltech about Peak Oil. Great. Now I'm really cheered up. Hired by large, evil entertainment company which shall remain nameless. |
| 2005 | Called an "Angry Nut" by a member of the Cato Institute. I love it. |
| 2006 | Laid off by Moved to Canada on a 9 month contract for a small animation company in a small town. (Not evil!) |
| 2007 | About to move to Portland, Oregon, to network with crazy hippies (sometime in June/July/August). Currently working on my own animated documentary, which will be between 6 to 20 minutes long. Two years in production, with a cast of thousands (of pixels). |
For those who care, here's a radio interview I did in 2004 with KPFK in Los Angeles.
Here's what I've come to believe: the world, our civilisation, our species, is doomed. It's only a matter of time before Very Bad Things begin to happen. Take your pick: Global Warming, Peak Oil, Pandemic, Famine, War. We're a bunch of cavemen and cavewomen with nukes and nightclubs. Fire bad.
What depresses me is the likelihood that we'll take most of the world's plant and animal life with us into extinction.
If you want to email me, here you go:
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