Bryan Koeff:  

**** Quick Rundown **** Hi friends, THE NUTSHELL: For twenty years I traveled the country working with severely disabled children. I am also an author, artist, digital artist, AI animator, and photographer. I have two new children's books on Amazon, "Clouds at Play" and "Let's Find Funny Faces!" Check out my artwork too on FineArtAmerica.com under my pen-name, Brian Jay. I lived in Alaska on and off for twelve years, where I had three children- Kyra, Kimberly, and Bryan. As of 2026 their are ages 44, 47, and 50! My son Bryan's daughter Kalahi is now 31. Kalahi is half Native Alaskan/Athabaskan Indian. My daughter Kimberly has a girl named Trinity, who is half Lumbee Indian. My daughter Kyra has to sons, Taj & Zayn, who are half 'India', Indian. How this coincidence came about, I will never know. THE DETAIL: On my first travels in '75, I lived in Pecos, New Mexico with monks in a place called "The House of Joy". We had strict vows of poverty and did what we could to help those in our community. In exchange, the people took care of our needs. I later returned to Cali, where I made plans to travel to Alaska with Mark Web, Jackie Bester and Korine Leyden. We drove the Alcan Hwy, which was two thousand miles of rough and dusty dirt road. Once in Seward, I married Korine and had the three kids. I worked in a fish cannery, bakery, and a State run Vocational Technical School, where I became a recreation aid and then librarian. For a short period, I was a drawing instructor for the Kenai Peninsula Community College. I then taught myself computer programming, briefly corresponded with Steve Jobs, and became one of the first producers of computer programs for preschoolers. In 1984 I divorced and moved back to Riverside with my son, where I began traveling often to Hollywood. I got involved with movie special effects at MGM Studios, but because of the toxic environment, I decided not to continue in the field. I then began a company called Heritage Videography, where I videotaped and edited hundreds of weddings and sports events. At the same time, I met a guy named RJ Cooper and began creating software for his special needs company, RJ Cooper & Assoc, Inc. RJ and I traveled the country, where we used our software and hardware inventions to help make breakthroughs in the lives of children. It was then that I became one of the first (if not the first) to create a fully computer generated talking character. In 1988 I married a woman named Devin VanHorn, but divorced in 1994. Other things I've done: Dug dinosaur bones in Wyoming for a university in TX, served on a Christian mission in the Amazon region of Brazil, became a carpenter, technology specialist, became a senior helper, worked with the Union Pacific Railroad, drove luxury busses, transporting miners to the gold mines in Nevada, and also drove cab in Alaska. In all, I've worked for fifty companies in these past fifty some years. THIS GETS CRAZY: For twenty years, I bounced around from Riverside to Dana Point, to San Clemente, to Imperial Beach, to Malibu, to Lake Arrowhead, until making a big move to Texas in 2006, where I worked with senior citizens for 6 years, moved back to Alaska for three more years, working on the Alaska Railroad, moved to Dade City, Florida for close to 2 years creating paintings, spent time in Bellingham, WA, Florence, OR, Elko, NV, back to the mountains in CA, then to St. George, Utah, bac...Expand for more