Bruce’s life and professional experience is a patchwork of diversity, and procession if not the making of a “renaissance man.” Raised in rural MO, Bruce came by “DIY” naturally, out of necessity, marked by an insatiable curiosity, and fertile imagination. His father’s workshop was the mother load for making stuff, but it was his mother, a prolific artist, who influenced Bruce’s free-thinking and fueled imagination, exposing him to a creativity that seemed to know no boundaries: poetry, pottery, painting, pen & ink, airbrush and photography. When it came time to “make a living” Bruce never divorced himself from nature in the pursuit of money. He owned a handyman business helping others “do it yourself,” which led to professional caretaking gigs where he lived and worked caring for vegetable gardens, landscapes, building and vehicle maintenance, and at times pinch-hit as chef! He discovered Permaculture gardening, primitive skills schools and spent years learning and working with a cadre of back-to-the-landers. He inspired the vision for and implementation of an heirloom seed garden for propagating indigenous, heirloom seeds from the Hopi and Navajo nations, replanting them inside Canyon de Chelly--once the agricultural and farming homeland of the Navajo, long-since abandoned for modernity and “urban” living. To support the rehabilitation of the garden project, Bruce was the founding partner in an ecotourism business-- Time Passages, conducting eco-tours inside the belly of the sacred labyrinth that is Canyon de Chelly. At Time Passages he worked closely with expert guides in archaeology, geology and anthropology of the Southwest region, together with the native Navajo guide, who together conducted week-long expeditions for eco-travelers in this sacred land. It would be some years later that Bruce found his love of new-media and film, which prompted him to pursued a scholarship at Vancouver Film School, where he was the recipient of a first-place award, garnering him a full scholarship, and where he earned his degree in New Media and is a graduate of Vancouver Film School. Uniting his love of nature with film and media skills, fueled by boundless imagination, Bruce took to backpack broadcasting, and single-handedly made a documentary film, and video shorts on eco-oriented subjects, traveling to rural and indigenous communities as diverse as Montana and post-Katrina New Orleans to Columbia South America and Darjeeling India, to learn and share what he was learning virtually with a community of like-minded others. In short, Bruce’s life is a processional one, on a quest to bring nature and “making a living” together, and where the only thing we need is imagination.http://issuu.com/bravenewearth/docs/hypervillage