Hello,
I'm Michael Barrett.
Make like a tree and bark.
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La Biennale
“Ah, la Biennale…” he responded as if that explained everything.
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Street art in Florence
She’s from Florence. You don’t know her.
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Helen Frankenthaler at Palazzo Strozzi
Helen Frankenthaler at Palazzo Strozzi
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Bumbling
Bumbling
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Florence by Train
Florence by Train
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Welcome to Venice
Welcome to Venice
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Departing and Arriving
Leaving Portland was easy. Drop off the poodle, get a Lyft to the airport. Go.
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October Photos
Lingering remenants of summer in golden afternoon sun.
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Mr. Smith tries some electric ski goggles
Electric Ski Goggles
About
I grew up in Charlotte, NC. I attended the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where I earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. After a brief stint painting murals and working in galleries, I earnd a Master of Fine Arts at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. There, I began to experiment with web development, digital imaging, and large format printing.
After graduate school, I found my way to the west coast and into a software development career. My greatest expertise is in front-end engineering but I have also worked as a full-stack web developer and web service developerusing Java, C#, and Python. I have worked extensively with cloud providers like Amazon Web Services and have worked with container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
I prefer VisualStudio Code as my general purpose code editor on macOS. I prefer Procreate on the iPad for painting. I prefer Sketch on macOS for creating icons and graphics for the web. PixelmatorPro is pretty nice too.