Why Figaro?

by Hopton, Paul 5 November 2009 in Software Development

Why have we chosen to call our new Blog Product Figaro? When discussing what the Figaro is and how it should work I had one of those high-low cultural inspiration moments.

I kept thinking of a line from Peter Shaffer's Amadeus film of 1984. there was a scene where the young mozart is trying to justify to Emperor Joseph that he is writing an opera out of Beaumarchais' Play 'the Marrriage of figaro'

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Hopton, Paul

After a stormy, turbulent youth, I found Myself Studying Fine Art at the University of Wales, Newport College of Art and Design.

It was here that I both developed a vigorous Conceptual framework for examining "Emerging Technologies", and taught myself to programme - initially with Hypercard and Macromind Director.After a stormy, turbulent youth, I found Myself Studying Fine Art at the University of Wales, Newport College of Art and Design.

I lived a double-life for a number of years after college, working sometimes as an Artist/Curator/Gallerist, sometimes as a Programmer

I was finally forced to accept that I was a more successful Programmer than an artist, but having crossed that bridge I haven't looked back. The creative process remains, as does the intellectual and conceptual challenge.

I won't bore the attentive biography reader with details of process, methodology and code snippets here, but as the blog - my own little "Figaro" - begins to grow , these things will come.

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