MAN-LIKE MACHINES: art / enlightenment / the future

tableform biographical/body-of-work details, if you care

GEORGE RICHARD DALPHIN
artist, author, filmmaker, musician (attempted-polymath)

DATE	BIOGRAPHICAL/EDUCATIONAL/EMPLOYMENT INFORMATION	ARTWORK PRODUCED
December 6, 1980	Chapter 1: I Am Born. Fort Wayne, Indiana. Seventh of five.
	NINE YEARS PASS, a childhood occurs in Vermont and Maryland.
Autumn, 1990	After moving back to the midwest, specifically Richmond, Indiana, George is skipped from the fifth to the seventh grade.
c. 1990-92		Meow Town, a comic set in Animalia, in which George's brother Wil's contemporaneous comic Animal World took place.
c. 1993		Animo (False Mind) and Prometheus, George's first two pre-teen-written science fiction novels, of which only a few sparse copies of Prometheus yet exist for posterity.
Spring 1994	Studies abroad as an exchange student in Rome.
1994-6	Attends the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics and the Humanities in Muncie, Indiana. Did not graduate with his class due to not attending Latin. Begins serious work as a visual artist.	Paintings and poems, an early short film called Visions, lost to posterity.
1996-7	Attends Indiana University East, in Richmond, Indiana, with a focus on Astrophysics and Art.
Summer 1997	Wins Best Drawing in the Whitewater Valley Annual Art Competition. Visits France and Germany with his art mentor of the time, Tom Thomas, then spends the summer living with friends in Colorado Springs. In Colorado Springs, rolls four times over in a van and receives, due to this, an insurance check that buys him his first DV camera, stereo and copy of Sound Forge. Begins experimenting with making music using Sound Forge. Finally graduates from high school after finishing a correspondence Latin course.	Paintings, letters, envelopes, art booklets, mixtapes.
1997-2000	Attends Indiana University - Bloomington, dropping Astrophysics to major in Studio Art with a Painting focus.	Many paintings and drawings, and music.
Summer 1998	Wins Best Painting in the Whitewater Valley Annual Art Competition.	Wrote, shot and edited the filmette (too long to be a short at 50 minutes) Derelict with Pam Ferguson, T.J. and Beth Rivard.
1999	Is denied entry into the BFA program at IU, largely due to his inclusion of text in his paintings (being directly told - "be a poet or a painter, not both").	Wrote and shot some of, both with Joe Foster, the short (but not that short) film Ninja: Like Among the Shadows.
May 2000	Graduates with a BA in Studio Art from Indiana University.	X-COM: UFO Defense, George and Joe's first feature-film script collaboration.
2000-3	Works as a Student Life Counselor at his alma mater, the Indiana Academy, living in the dorm with the students. Here he attempts to focus the students onto matters of art, honest reflection, and defiance where necessary. In the summer of 2001, spends two and a half months formatively backpacking around Europe with friends Joe Foster and Ross Meyer.	A few paintings and drawings, but not many new ones during this period. In fact, George one day in 2002 gives away all of his old college artwork pieces to students and colleagues. Also, at some point in this period George and Joe Foster create Man-Like Machines, their umbrella art entity, and collaborate on the scripts for the feature films Bridges and Tierra Del Fuego, and the short film script How To Make a Short Film.
Spring/Summer 2003	Moves to South Bend, Indiana, where Joe Foster is living at the time.	Pre-reshuffling Headphoneboy albums The Great Masturbator, Soon Ripe Soon Rotten Gone Now But Not Forgotten, The Red Tincture and more, which will all later get reconceived into different album concepts, are largely finished during this period. Also, the first deck of the Cards is constructed.
Autumn 2003	Moves to Cape Elizabeth, Maine, where George's sister Julie lives with her husband and two boys.	Heavy Pick-Up, a short film written with Julie Dalphin, gets partially shot one weekend.
Dec. 2003 - Dec. 2004		Thirsty & Drowning's frist draft gets written. Headphoneboy music continues to get made.
August 2004-5	Moves to South Bend, Indiana, where Joe Foster still is.	Several aborted attempts at beginning large projects such as preproduction on Bridges and the creation of a local art/culture magazine focused on Man-Like Machines-style art and thought (all aborted).
Autumn 2005	Moves back to Cape Elizabeth, Maine to live with sister Julie. Soon later moves in with now-wife Anne Harris, in Portland, Maine.
2006		Begins work on second novel, The Subtle Physics while intermittently editing Thirsty & Drowning. Recompiles all his old Headphoneboy music into the seven albums The Great Masturbator (abridged), Listener, Elsewhere (The Great Masturbator Apocrypha), Act One, Act Two, Act Three and Lion Bones. Begins work on currently in-the-works album You're Dead.
2007		Begins working on some visual art again in a serious manner, focusing on black-and-white Sharpie drawings. Also begins producing mashup tracks and compiling them into Commander-Data-style mix albums. Finishes editing Thirsty & Drowning and makes it available in an online self-published sort of way. Finally gets a real Man-Like Machines website up (this one here). Begins focusing on real motions toward being able to make the films he's written and envisioned, and toward that end begins writing several short film scripts including I Was Jesus and Dracula!, Magic Bus and Infinite Dudes. Also, while still steadily continuing work on The Subtle Physics, George begins to write the novels Bob Wacszowski, Necromancer and The Histories: the Complete First Season. And then it is now!
2008	Weds the Genius of Love, Annie Harris.	Continues to work on novels and produce mashup tracks. Pre-produces and then shoots and directs I Was Jesus and Dracula.
2009		Continues to work on novels and produce mashup tracks. I Was Jesus and Dracula premieres at the St. Lawrence Arts Center in April. An article is written about me in The Bollard. Partakes of the 48 Hour Film Project in Portland, writing, shooting and editing the short film Don't Be all in one weekend. Releases the first issue of Susurrant, a quarterly compilation of serialized versions of Bob Wacszowski, Necromancer and other writing and artwork. Begins pre-production on short film Doubting Thomas.
	(claims of the future speculative)

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