heathervescent

Futurist | Technologist | Cacophonist!

I am a blank canvas, and my life is the painting.

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Biography

I am a futurist, a technology product creator, a writer, a strategic planner, an evangelist, an internet strategist, a marketer, an organizer, a philosopher, a researcher, a believer, an instigator, an artist, a creator, a performer, a race car driver and a human. I create and sometimes drink the kool-aid. I'm constantly pushing my own limits and often those around me. I live in the place where chaos becomes order - which looks exactly like chaos to the untrained eye.

Look for your own. Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.

– André Gide, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

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We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality.

– Vaclav Havel, Award winner Czech President and Essayist

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The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

– Arthur C. Clarke, Writer, Inventor and Futurist


  • I am pursuing a Masters of Technology in Future Forecasting at the University of Houston, where the first Futures program was started across from NASA in the 60s. I have focused my studies on disruptive technology in financial markets (lending, transactions and alternate currencies), positive wildcards and the long-term adoption of paradigm shifting technology.
  • Some of my Impossible Futures.
  • I head up the Product Development department at a Financial Start-up in Culver City that is focused on bringing transparency to the financial markets while fulfilling the long seated professional and power needs of those in that industry.
  • I wrote about science, technology, culture and cacophony at Suicide Girls.
  • If you want to learn more about my professional side, check out my LinkedIn profile.
  • I am The Purple Tornado and sometimes I have business clients through this entity.
  • I relaunched the LA Tech Community in 2006 by founding the Los Angeles Geek Dinners.
  • I have an dada-aburdist zombie cabaret performance troupe, Zombies without Borders, that has performed sporadically since 2006.
  • I am inspired by Pippi Longstocking and Aeon Flux.
  • I live with my boyfriend, S and dog, Romeo in "dreams come true" Hollywood.
  • I often escape to the desert because I love the silence, beauty, the harsh environment and because there are few people there.
  • I am a fan of 70's manrock and ambient electronica. (Jean Michele Jarre meets Def Leppard pls)
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