User talk:Amy Silverman

I am born and raised in Miami, Florida. I got into photography in ninth grade at my Palmetto Highschool and started taking pictures everyday. My first camera was a canon rebel which was stolen out of my car just 3 days before I made the move to Eugene, Oregon in 2006. My first taste of Design was out of Highschool while I was living on Biscayne Blvd in a small studio apartment just blocks away from the Downtown Design District. I started taking interior design at Miami-Dade Downtown Campus. I didn't really like that major and quickly fell out of it. I knew I wanted to do something creative for a living but I didn't know what. A couple years went by and I then decided I wanted to move to Oregon with my sister who is a painter. I took classes doing graphic design and decided I wanted to be more involved with computers. Growing up I was really into Reading Rainbow. One day they had an episode that was showing kids how to do foley. I dated a sound engineer for 3 years and learned a lot about beats and sound by just listening to his recordings. The one thing he got me really into was poly-rhythms. We played in a Reggae band together in Orland, Florida where we lived while he was attending Full Sail. It was a fundraiser band for an organization called NORML. I was a djembe and got to really get a hold on rhythms and how do play the drums. I also played violin for 4 years and piano for 6 year when I was in grade school.