Lyza Danger Gardner

Professionally

Co-founder, Vice President and Creative Technology Director, Cloud Four.

I like to take creativity and technology and glue them together into stuff that works, and works beautifully, on the Web.

I reject the notion that the builders of the Web spin around into two separate spheres: the elegant but finicky Designer versus the rigid but brilliant engineer. Nope. I’m resolved to be both because I love both, and I don’t embrace the philosophy that they need to be separated.
I see Web applications and Web spaces as whole entities, not a collection of database views, mockups or error prompts. I love beauty–I’m also a freelance photographer and writer–but I also love knowledge and logic and intuitive flow.

I don’t want to think of my corpus of ability as a collection of programming languages mastered or certifications garnered, but instead a treasury of conceptual experience and expertise. The notion that one goes into a career or a project with all the skills already in place seems absurd to me–the ongoing experience and joy for me is in figuring it out. If you give me something to create and I don’t know how–yet–I will figure it out.

I am, in short, a product of the Web. I am a mashup. I strive for the intuitive and the integrated. One day I might be a writer, the next a developer, but it’s all part of a whole, a technified continuum that has been my dream and my calling for more than a decade.

Personally

Born and forever living (except for several months living abroad for Graduate School) in Portland, Ore.

Fond of:

* My husband, Mr. Pencil, a.k.a. David
* Reading (no really, it’s my favoritist thing)
* Wine (drinking, growing, making, learning about)
* Travel (ironic, the whole fear of flying thing)
* Photography (dilettante)
* Food
* Civic stuff
* Interesting things and people

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