Mark Doenges:  

Life Hi folks, My “then” shot was taken a full 7 years after high school. I was in Acapulco on my honeymoon. I don’t have any high school shots scanned, but I’ll look around. My “now” shot was taken while living in New Jersey. I’m on the shore at Ocean City. **** After high school, I started at University of Illinois in Architecture. My interest in music was pulling at me though. In fact my roommate, Ken Carlbourg (studying Musicology), made more of an impression than the Architecture program. While I loved architectural design, after hitting three miserably bad instructors at U of I in the same semester, I dropped out. Then I worked to save some money and moved down near Carbondale hoping to get closer to a viable music scene. In the end, I fused my passions for visual and audio creative pursuits by getting a degree in Photography and Filmmaking from SIU. During college I played in a band (Breathless) and became very interested in Audio Engineering and sound synthesis. After moving to Seattle in 1980, wanting to understand sound technology, I went back to school for electronics and computers. After working in that industry for a few years I forme...Expand for more