Ryan J. Nicholson
1.) What is your name and where in the WWW (Whole Wide World) do you live?
Ryan: My name is Ryan Nicholson and I live in the United Kingdom.
2.) What do you do for a living, what pays the bills? And what is the thing you do when you are not doing the thing that pays the bills?
Ryan: I am a college student/amateur photographer. As I’m a student studying Media & Photography, and am only 17, I don’t need to pay any bills for the moment.
3.) How much of what you do, personally or professionally, gets done at the work space featured?
Ryan: All of my Photography work is edited on my MacBook Pro using either Aperture 3, iPhoto ‘11 or Photoshop CS5. My Media projects for college are also edited on the MacBook Pro using either Final Cut Studio, iMovie ‘11 or Adobe Premier.
4.) Typically, what time of the day do you normally find yourself at this desk, and for how long? Night owl, early bird?
Ryan: Apart from the hours I spend at college I’m at my desk pretty much all the time, either editing my photos, watching YouTube videos, or listening to music in Spotify.
5.) How much of what gets done at your desk is for work, how much is it to scratch your own creative itch?
Ryan: The majority of my work is done just to fulfill my own creative passion, some teenagers go out smashing things up and causing trouble, I like to take photos & edit them.
6.) What are the essentials that can be found on your desk more times than not? How about those items just out of reach or out of sight? If it’s not on top of your desk what are the things you most often grab out of a top draw or cabinet?
Ryan: On the desk; my 13” MacBook Pro, 500GB Iomega External Hard Drive, iPhone 3G, Rotel RA-400 AMP with Panasonic speakers, and an Apple 17” Studio LCD Display. Just out of sight I have an external Blu-ray player for disk backups, Olympus E-420 DSLR, iPod Touch 8GB, iPod Nano, Kodak ZX1, various Apple boxes, and a chrome desk fan.
7.) What beverage/food/snack can one usually find at your desk, and why?
Ryan: I wouldn’t want to eat or drink anything near my Macs or other equipment.
8.) Do you have any reasoning or anecdotes that lend some insight into why your desk is setup the way it is, or the thinking behind certain item(s)? How about the things around your desks? Decoration, wall art, figurines, statues, etc? Any particular reason behind those?
Ryan: I have a lot of nick-nacks on my shelving unit attached to the desk, the majority of which are DVD’s/Games, as well as models of cars. I love Rally Cars so I have a few different models. I also love old 1950s & 60s American Cars and so have a “largish” model of a Chevrolet Corvette.
9.) How much of what you do, or aspire to do, influences your desk setup, tangibly and intangibly.
Ryan: I would have to say the influence for my desk is similar to the design of Apple retail stores. At first I was even considering a Maple desk, but it turns out they are quite expensive, £600-£800 for a good one, so in the end I settled for an IKEA design instead, which is still very minimalist.
10.) Are you a Mac or are you a PC? What machine(s) are setup and used at your desk? If you are a little bit of both tell us why. How about any other tech gear that can be found at your desk or in your home?
Ryan: I am a Mac guy and I am glad to say I do not own any WIndows PCs, nor does anyone in my household have a PC anymore. The whole house is finally Mac based!
11.) What’s the one piece of gear you could not live without?
Ryan: I would have to say my MacBook Pro.
12.) What piece of gear cannot be found on your desk, but you wish it could be?
Ryan: A Mac Pro.
13.) Software; what do you use more often than not. What helps you get the job done? And what do you not use, but hope one day to incorporate in your workflow?
Ryan: Being a Photographer I try and use what best suites my needs so I use Aperture 3, iPhoto ‘11 and Photoshop CS5 for photo management and editing. For my video projects I use iMovie ‘11, Final Cut and Adobe Premier CS5.
14.) If you could change one thing about your desk, or the room it is currently in, what would that be?
Ryan: I would to eventually buy a 27” Apple Display for the MacBook Pro and also try in time to get a Mac Pro tower.
15.) Workspace Breakdown;
Think of as many things as possible that comprise the setup of your office or workspace, anything from the paint color on the walls to the floor mat your chair rolls on, and list them out. Who makes your desk, how about the cabinet next to your desk, your lamp, the overhead light fixture? Anything and everything you can see in the pictures shown, give as much color and background on these items as time and memory permits.
Ryan:
- IKEA Desk and Shelf Unit
- IKEA Sideboard
- IKEA black desk lamp
- Vintage Candle Stick Telephone
- Various Mac & Apple Mugs, stickers etc
- Designer Black Vase
- American Number Plate
- Computer Specs
- 13” MacBook Pro: 2.53Ghz C2D, 8GB RAM, 500GB HD
- eMac: 1.42Ghz G4, 1GB RAM, 80GB HD
- Power Mac Quicksilver: 800MHz G4, 1.25GB RAM, 250GB HD
- Mac mini: 1.83Ghz C2D, 2GB RAM, 160GB HD
- Power Mac Graphite: 733Mhz G4, 512MB RAM, 40GB HD,
- MacBook: 2.4Ghz C2D, 4GB RAM, 120GB HD
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