The Mind Creative JANUARY 2015 | Page 4

Contributors Andrew "Android" Jones is a U.S. visual artist. He has created live art around the world, including digital visual art projections from the Sydney Opera House in Australia to the Ghats in Varanasi in India. Starting his career with George Lucas at Industrial Light and Magic, he later worked as a concept artist for Nintendo and became creative director and founder for the entertainment development company Massive Black Inc. In 2002, Jones helped found a non-profit online art community, conceptart.org, along with Jason Manley and artists like Coro Kaufman, which has attracted more than 80,000 registered users and more than 1.3 million international visits per month. His fine art features in The Shooting Gallery in San Francisco and he has work published in the Expose and D’Artiste art books. In 2007, his art is featured on the cover of the annual Spectrum magazine – a selection of the best fantasy art. He has worked with fashion designer Tiffa Novoa. As of April 2007, he has started to perform digital live painting at concerts. His artwork has been featured on album covers of several electronic, psybient and rock music artists such as Papa Roach, Bluetech, Beats Antique, Sporeganic, Phutureprimitive, and Tipper. Website: http://androidjones.com/ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (29th January 1860 – 15 July 1904), was a Russian physician, dramaturge and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practiced as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress." Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theater. 4