I’ve been doing this website, and variations of it, for almost 13 years.  It started, as most websites do, as a way to promote myself when I started working back in 1996: The website was a fucked-up compilation of animated gifs resembling the tentacly art-nouveau and gothic art-style I was doing back then, and it was hosted on the now  as exciting as sandpaper, tripod.com

When I left my first job to pursue something on my own I formed A Little Off The Edge Productions and thus www.alote.com  My mascot was a laughing pumpkin and the site showed a gallery of my work in broadcast design, update with each new job.

By 2000 I had decided to move into the games industry and once I had snagged my first job as a 3D artist at Pseudo Interactive, I registered www.feltham.ca and began the first of many incarnations of this website. The site continued as a gallery of my work and was very rarely updated: in fact the main reason for registering the site was to have a consistent email address.

When The Wife was pregnant with our firstborn, and Pseudo was becoming a little more infamous in the industry, I decided to start a blog and create my own personal photo gallery. The former was fun and something I started through Blogger when I went to GDC in 2003. The latter started as something fun that all my family and friends enjoyed but ended up, with the technology I had at the time (this is pre-Flickr) it cost a lot of time. By 2006, the year my second was born, I unfortunately abandoned the gallery.

The last 3 years have seen a surge of blog posts on the site and over time I started to see a few common things I liked and a few that I didn’t. Those posts that insist on detailing minuta about my life are better left for twitter; feature articles and editorials on games, gadgets, music and movies will continue and more common; more information about the projects I’m working on (the stuff I can tell about) will be available.

And there are a few new article-types I have in the works to make this a site that people want to come to for entertainment, for information, for fun.  Look for guest writers, interviews and the like in the near future.

So welcome to Shut Up and Read This, your one-stop place to hear a guy bitch about the game development industry, talk about gadgets and blather on about music. We’re angry here, and we like it.

Dave Feltham

Sr. Designer

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