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wow that is actually pretty cool, i wonder what other instances of thought leaders criss crossed to a different industry like that

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I nice coincidence is that Stewart Brand, who later went on to found the Whole Earth Review and other counterculture icons, was the camera man running the camera at Douglas Engelbart's famous Mother of All Demo demo in 1968 in San Francisco.

Alton Brown (celebrity chef, TV host, etc), was the cinematographer for the video for R.E.M.s “The One I Love”.

Gary Fisher (Fisher Mountain Bikes) had worked light shows for the Grateful Dead and went on to make an officially sanctioned Grateful Dead bicycle[0][1] with proper artwork.

[0] https://www.dead.net/fanphotos/gd-bike-poster

[1] https://forums.bikeride.com/thread-8750.html

Gary Fisher is a literal forefather of mountain biking. "Fisher Mountain Bikes" predecessor was just called "MountainBikes," because "mountain biking" wasn't a thing when they started.

A favorite instance of mine is Rolly Crump, who did a lot of design work for Disney theme parks but also created the iconic branding for Ernie Ball guitar strings.

Rolly! My dad worked with him at AVG where Rolly would consult in his post disney career, he art directed the LazerMaze that was a mall attraction IR gun robot shooting gallery you would walk through installed a bunch of places, Edmonton Mall, Sherman Oaks Galleria, Six Flags Magic Mountain, san diego boardwalk and a bunch of places. . https://bestedmontonmall.com/2021/01/25/lazer-maze/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU3g6wvk5jQ I think we may have the only parts of the thing left. It used an s100 bus computer with a custom designed audio adpcm board. Rolly designed the robots and the never built robot queen, before he passed I asked if he had any art left but sadly no.

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