Meet the
Wishfarmers
Arbitar Basiat
Arbitar specializes in unusual uses for built-in facilities, also known as the “elegant hack”.
Also versed in web and database development, he’s often a contributor to Wishfarming integrations.
Gary Douglas (SL: Gary Bukowski)
A professional with 15+ years in engineering, development and info security at Wells Fargo, Yahoo, PeopleSoft, Oracle and many others, Gary is a lifetime technology nut. Yet he is also a published artist with a background in drawing, painting, writing and photography.
Obsessed with both virtual realities and fine art, he was predestined as a diehard metaverse evangelist.
Founding “Chief Executive Wishfarmer” and designer, he also serves as a principal systems developer. Find his blog and more in our links section, or contact him directly at garyd@wishfarmers.com
Max Case
Max codes. Max invents. Max dreams. Max integrates.
His love of virtual spaces, and ability to stretch the limits of technology, led him to co-found the Wishfarmers with the aim of blurring the lines between real and virtual. As our Chief Technology Farmer, he does precisely that.
Fade Dana
Fade Dana is an Art student and famed Hat Mechanic, with a reputation for gritty urban environments and a wide range of virtual fashion and texture work. As our Director of Wishfarming, her unyielding attention to detail and keen aesthetic sense guide our most critical works. Fade was raised by wild vegetables.
Shadeac Darracq
Wishfarming Lead Machinimator, “Shade” is a full-time student dual majoring in Film and English. Her work is vital for capturing Wishfarmer concepts and creations for viewing outside the metaverse, and her vision extends far beyond the camera. She is adept in Final Cut Pro and Flash animation.
Blackthorn Hare
Hare has created sculptures and interactive environments in Second Life since July ‘04. His work is featured in many commercial, public, and museum settings in-world.
As a K-12 educator, he integrates technology closely with traditional creativity. Working on his master’s of art, his thesis is entirely within Second Life. The show of sculpture and environments will be on exhibit in Spring ‘08.
Dash Hax
Hax is a published technology consultant, and an accomplished entrepreneur and manager. He brings a wealth of experience managing teams and developing business internationally for his own start-ups and for Fortune 500 corporations. Dash currently studies Applied Economics at the University of San Francisco.
Fedor McNally
Though he is not actually a recognized “attourneh” in his locality, Fedor is nonetheless our chief counsel - in the invention of fun stuff! Equipped with his impervious head colander, Mr. McNally, esq., is part of The Wishfarmers’ secret sauce.
Adenoraque Qin
Wishfarmers co-founder and Creative Director, “Aden” is inventive, specializing in in-world effects and a unique organic design style. His distinctive work was as central to our lauded ‘05 GDC entry as it is to his own line of in-world arts and artifacts
His popular panoramic system ‘SceneGlobe’ is considered an example of the next wave of virtual-world innovation
Lisa Rein
Lisa is a prolific creator, smashing boundaries and bending genres every day as she goes from wide-angle to macro focus on matters of community, law and politics, artificial intelligence, technology, music, fine arts and more.
When not dissecting concepts like intellectual property, reporting election fraud, or writing noxious zombie theme songs, Lisa guides our strategies in promotion, community engagement, and media. We could put “marketing” in her title, but really she deserves better.
In between changing the world, she practices Perpetual Swimming.
KStarfire Rich (Christopher Fisher)
Web developer, computer geek, creator: If it’s done on a computer, founding member KStarfire has probably done it. He combines this knowledge with imagination to help us produce our virtual creations.
“KS” earned a Business degree from Cal State Polytechnic University Pomona, and serves Wishfarming as a project manager, communicator and developer.
Steve Sekiguchi
Steve is a professional technologist and entrepreneur, who serves a key role as advisor on business and strategic matters.
A Wishfarmers co-founder, Steve is also VP of Managed Services at Dorado, Inc.
Somatika Xiao
“Soma” is a thinker, a futurist and possibly a “now-ist”, too. Charged with our research projects, he constantly crosses diverse techniques and technologies, while pursuing his own artistic evolution as one of our most senior modelers.
