My name is Sam

Keen coder and development team lead…creator / builder and sometime breaker of software and websites.

• Programming language of choice is C#
• Other interests include cinema, photography, physics and electronics
• Films of choice are classics made by Stanley Kubrick or films by David Fincher, Darren Aronofsky and Christopher Nolan
• Music of choice varies greatly but keeps coming back to the stalwarts - Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Joy Division, The Saints…the list goes on and on…as it should…

Although software and web development is my main passion, I’ve had a few side-projects making short films. More details can be found on pedrerafilms.com.au.

What is pedrera...?

La Pedrera is the unoffical name of Casa Milà, one of Antoni Gaudi’s architectural works in Barcelona.

This modernist-styled apartment building was built between 1906 and 1910 and is a great example of artistic & engineering creativity coming together to build something that hadn’t existed this way before.

I visited in 2006 and was struck by the organic feel of the building, like it was all one creature, with its lack of straight lines.

Afterwards, when I was looking for a symbol to represent my own artistic endevours (film-making, at the time), I was drawn to the espanta bruixes (witch scarers), the ornate chimneys on the rooftop.

Interesting facts about La Pedrera…

• La Pedrera means the quarry in local Catalan.
• It was Antoni Gaudi’s final work.
• There’s a distinct lack of straight lines - inside or outside of the building
• He sacked himself from the job because the family did not allow him to build the enormous statue to Mary he had planned.