User:Colin Jury

Colin Jury was born in Barking, Essex, England. He was the youngest person accepted at the British School of Film Technique in 1964, however he was too young to start and worked in film as an apprentice and projectionist. At 16, he decided to go into publishing and took an apprenticeship in printing. During this time, he moonlighted as a lighting technician for rock bands, getting good enough to do the lights for touring bands that included The Byrds and British bands that included Pink Floyd.

In 1969, he took spiritual initiation from His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Colin was named "Kulasekhara das". Named after one of the eight Alvars or mystic poets of their line, who was a great Emperor in South India. Kula: Dynasty, Shekhara: Crest Jewel. He lived as a celibate monk for nine years in the order of a Gaudiya Vaishnava Brahmachary, yet was able to use his printing and publishing skills to help promote his spiritual masters teachings.

Colin lived at John & Yoko Lennon's eighty plus acre estate - "Tittenhurst" in 1969 for six months with his master and a handful of disciples. His teacher would personally teach him the Mrdunga drum. He had been studying tablas with Pandit Trikha and played Tablas for two concerts on the Tabla Drums given to him personally by George Harrison when they jammed with Billy Preston at George and Pattie Harrison's house. He was one of the original devotees in the Radha Krishna Temple recording group on Apple Records. Their record "The Hare Krishna Single" went to #1 all over Europe. He often spent time debating with Derek Taylor in the Press Room at Apple Records, and once was alone with the Beatles in Abbey Road the whole afternoon after the photo shoot for the Abbey Road album cover. (His own CD was released in 2007 on iTunes: Kula - "You Are Love").

After leaving the ashram, Colin studied Photography in Pittsburgh, and Graphic Design in Los Angeles, where he was the Fashion Editor for KROQ-FM's magazine. He also produced various brochures and marketing materials for the Fashion Industry during this period. His shoots included Bongo, Carushka, Ronald Sassoon, Dior Swimwear and Guess for Men.

Colin worked in typography at one of the top Los Angeles typesetting houses. This involved running a Compugraphics typesetting computer. ["You would have to enter a half-page of cryptic commands to send a file from one hard drive to another! Very primitive, but the reason I had come to the US was to work with computers."]

Moving to the southern U.S., Colin cut his teeth on Electronic Publishing in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, receiving serial number 201 of PageMaker while re-designing Baton Rouge Magazine. Being one of the first few hundred people in the world to get PageMaker, and the 'new' Macintosh, he had to learn both from the manual. Nineteen years of experience in printing and design up to that point allowed him to grasp these and start to teach them to others.

Colin settled in Houston at the request of the Southern Region Director for Apple Computer, who charged him with the task of getting the Macintosh as a Publishing solution into the large oil corporations. This was at the second generation of the "Electronic Publishing Evolution" where most of the bugs were ironed-out and there were some decent peripherals. Working under contract as a consultant for Businessland, Colin covered the whole of Louisiana and Texas; traveling constantly, his efforts resulted in closing more than $2 million in sales in 1992 alone.

"At this time, I was a recognized consultant in my field, and many software companies were giving me their 'beta' versions to evaluate. So I have grown-up with many graphic programs since the day of their release, and helped promote the best solution at the time. It was at SIGGRAPH in 1992 that Susan Gubernat - the then Editor of Publish Magazine and the head of Marketing of Quark convinced me to try the latest version of Quark Express. I was one of seven in the nation chosen by Kodak to demo in their booth at SIGGRAPH,  demonstrating digital capture and printing technologies."

He worked as Director of Marketing for Industrial Information Resources, Inc., in Houston. His efforts in the creation of their branding, logo, marketing materials and trade-show graphics greatly enhanced their sales efforts and market visibility. They are a world leader in Information Technologies.

In 1999 Colin's art was featured at the Chromatek booth at SIGGRAPH. Four 44" panels were the highlight of the show with 40,000 pairs of glasses being distributed to view his art. In 2000, Colin created a 10" square puzzle on five levels of color depth for distribution at SIGGRAPH.

Colin added Design and Marketing Communications to his consulting practice and managed contracts in print and 3-D animation for thirteen divisions of Continental Airlines. He has managed contracts for many top companies, and in 1998 he won two Best of Category awards in the Texas Graphic Excellence Awards. He had been commissioned by the combined Printing Industries out of Dallas and Houston to create and supervise the printing of the first High Fidelity six-color process piece ever printed in Texas. It was funded by Imation. Colin also won a Bronze award in Ohio for a seven color process High Fidelity poster for Anadarko Oil.

In 2003 - 2005, Colin's company Stratege Media Group managed the account for J. Ray McDermott, taking the $3.8 billion giant from 40th place to #1 in the readership polls of Offshore Magazine. He also created their Intranet Site and banner advertising, along with all new trade-show graphics.

In 2007, Stratege Media created a dynamic global online social media newsletter for ConocoPhillips.

Colin's ChromaDepth art is due for release in 2008, a collection of seventy paintings in this new 3-D medium.