I started AndrewSwihart.net in July 2006, as a place to host my music, movies, and photos, all free to download. Since then, I’ve started writing articles about topics I have researched and other things that interest me. I’ve integrated a lot of social-networking services. Flickr, along with a great Txp plugin called vdh_flickr, powers my photo gallery. I use del.icio.us to keep track of interesting sites, news stories, and articles that I come across, and these are displayed under “New Links” on the sidebar and as a tag cloud on the “links” page. I also use del.icio.us along with Digg and StumbleUpon (all through Feedburner’s Feedflare) to track the popularity of my articles on those social bookmarking sites. Textpattern is the Content Management System for my site. My website is continuously evolving as I add new plugins and play with the interface and styling. I will continue to improve the way you experience my movies and music on this site and make it as easy as possible to download everything to your own computer.
I’m a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (Class of 2006), specializing in Radiology. I just finished a year of research as a post-doc in Dr. Gregg Homanics lab at Pitt, and now I’m living in the booming metropolis of Johnstown, PA, doing my Transitional Year internship at Memorial Medical Center. I will begin my Radiology residency next year at UPMC in Pittsburgh (four more years in P-burg, yay!). When I finally become a Radiologist, I will have a total of 14 years post-high school education and training, lol. Lately, I’ve been spending my free time learning about website design, recording music, and studying all sorts of medical stuff.
I have a well-equipped bedroom recording studio where I make all of my music. Keyboards are my primary instrument, having taken several years of lessons in classical piano. Cubase has long been my DAW sequencer of choice, and I recently upgraded to Cubase 4. My other gear includes several software synthesizers, a Roland JX-10 analog synth, a Yamaha P140 digital piano, and a few guitars played through my Peavey Classic 30 tube amp. The music I make up is very chill and easy to listen to. Please download as much as you want and send my website on to your friends.
I also have some history in making movies. My friend Aron Majic and I used to make movies when we were little, most of them being too embarrasing to share publicly. But our best movie production ever, In the Line of Blood, has been released to the public for the first time and is available here on my website. My recent movie, Final Rotation, was made at the end of medical school. The exceptional film quality is a demonstration of the progress made in home camcorders in the decade since “In the Line of Blood” was made. While my friend Alex Ryan directed and wrote almost the entire thing, I did all of the video and audio work on my computer using Sony Vegas, my favorite video editing software.
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