Jayar Bass

I'm a digital artist and musician in the Philadelphia area with over 25 years of experience in technology and visual art.

When I was six years old, I taught myself to program Basic on a TRS-80 hooked to my cabinet TV in the living room. I made a few simple animations, my favorite being a "RADAR" screen with a spinning "scanning" line and random dots that would move around the screen while I played with my GI-Joe's and little green army toys.

My love for computers exploded in the 90's when I had access to my first IBM 8086 with a modem. In high school, I was proficient enough that my computer classes became tutoring sessions. I could finish my work within minutes, and then walk around the room and help others, while the teacher did other work. I also figured out how to network the entire chain of Mac's so that the class didn't have to battle over one machine to print something.

During the end of my senior year of high school, I joined a company called Dash Network, created their logo, taught myself web design overnight to ace my interview for a position as Webmaster at one of their sister companies, CyberNet Technologies, the day after. My career took off from there. Within a very short time starting with the company, I was building computers, managing servers at our ISP, and creating websites and graphics for all clients.

Since then, I've been a backbone for many startup companies creating ads, websites, animations, videos, corporate branding, as well as visuals for sales teams. I've learned many scripting and programming languages and have utilized them for and beyond their own capacity for clients and personal projects. Two of my favorite 'hacks' were; 1) creating the first character animation in Bryce 3D, and 2), creating the first mouse-over GUI with mIRC scripting.