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Ryan Bliss (1972 - present) is the creator of Digital Blasphemy.

Life
He spent a good portion of his early teenage years either reading fiction or writing fiction. He dreamed of being a writer when he grew up. He chose to attend the University of Iowa so he could work with the Iowa Writers Workshop. He graduated from the University of Iowa with a bachelors degree in Computer Science and a bachelors degree in English. Bliss got his first PC in late 1994. It came with Aldus PhotoStyler and Kai's Power Tools. Bliss loved his PC so much that he wanted to make a living out of it. In Feburary 1999 he left his day job as a programmer at ACT inc. so he could concentrate fully on making 3-D images. Bliss met his wife in 1996 and has been happily married since. He lives in his hometown of Bloomington, Illinois with his wife and two kids.

Career
Ryan Bliss is the creator of Digital Blasphemy. Digital Blasphemy was created in 1997. It became Bliss's full time job in 1999. Bliss finished college with a bachelors degree in English. In 1995 in Iowa there were a limited amount of jobs for a newly graduated English major. While working at a bookstore for a while, Bliss also took a job working as a preschool teacher. He worked 70 hours a week for around $6 an hour without progressing within his job and life. He then took out huge college loans and re-enrolled at the University of Iowa for a Computer Science degree. Mathematics was not Bliss's strong subject but he figured it out after awhile. In the computer classes that Bliss took he enjoyed coding and enjoyed making 3-D graphics even more. If he was in school at Iowa right now he would be working towards a degree in informatics.

Family
Jessica(Bliss's wife) was born in Vietnam where her father was an operative in the South Vietnamese army during the war. He was held in a reeducation camp after wards for six years. They all managed to escape the country when he was released and they were sponsored to the US by a church group in Cedar Rapids. Her story is really quite amazing and deserves a lot more space than I have given. Suffice it to say that a million different circumstances in two continents had to align perfectly so that I could meet her in an Iowa City preschool in 1996. Thank goodness she said yes when I asked her out! When she isn't working hard to keep the family unit running efficiently; she enjoys working out, fund raising for non-profits, and reading books on her iPhone Kindle. Her favorite author is Jane Austen and she is a sucker for stories from the Regency Period.

Ian (2003 - present) Ian was born in 2003. He loves math, art, video games, and Star Wars. He is much like his father. He also likes waking up at the crack of dawn (the apple must have rolled downhill a little bit). When he grows up he wants to be an artist/photographer/water taxi captain. He's currently learning Tae Kwon Do and enjoys playing baseball and soccer.

Jason (2006 - present) Jason was born in 2006. He loves Dora the Explorer, pirates, superheroes, and iPhone games. He inherited his father's and mother's stubbornness.

http://www.digitalblasphemy.com/

http://ryanbliss.com/