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Ace of Harbor Bay

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About Ace of Harbor Bay

  • Birthday 01/13/1962

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    http://www.pirate4hire.com
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    Harbor Bay Island - Alameda, CA
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    Hi my name is Ace. I’m married (my wife’s name is Lisa), I have 2 daughters, one a junior in high school, the other is married and has 2 children herself. Yes, I’m a grandfather. And now the “real” bio (even written in the 3rd person! ooooh, aaaahhh) Everything you never needed to know...<br><br>Ace has always been a performer. Starting as a rogue pyrate for Hallowe’en when he was 5 years of age. Eventually making a living for 15 years as a magician, cutting people into different parts or making them float or disappear and then branching out into eating fire, swallowing swords, lying on a bed of nails, juggling everything from fire and knives to bowling balls, performing ventriloquism or escaping from straight jackets at corporate events and amusement parks. This all topped off by performances on the Disney Channel, Evening Magazine and comedy shows on A&E.<br><br>After producing, directing and performing a show for Paramount’s Great America that ran 6 shows a day, 6 days a week for 2 full seasons Ace decided it was time for a change…<br><br>Ace began his career in animation and effects more than fourteen years ago working on Disney’s “Ghosts, Myths and Legends of the Queen Mary”. From there he moved on to the game industry as a sr. animator working on titles for Atari Games such as: Virtua Racing for the Sega Saturn, San Francisco RUSH! for the N64, and was lead artist for Wayne Gretzky’s 3D Hockey.<br><br>During this time Ace also began teaching animation and 3D modeling for the Academy of Art College in San Francisco and taught 3D animation seminars in New York, California and Tokyo, Japan at industry conventions. As if he wasn’t busy enough, also wrote numerous articles in industry publications, contributed to books and produced a series of popular 3D modeling training tapes.<br><br>Ace left Atari to work as lead artist for 3D software company Newtek Inc. Aside from creating in-house animation, he also became “main stage” demo geek at Siggraph and assorted trade shows all over the world. After as much fun as you can have partying at trade shows Ace got back into doing visual effects and animation for Fat Box Films, working on everything from commercials to… well, everything.<br><br>Currently Ace is a sr. animator at Electronic Arts working on games like James Bond: Everything or Nothing and Lord of the Rings. He performs on the weekends at local festivals and fairs and after all these years STILL loves to be a pyrate and has recreated much of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride in his front yard each year for Hallowe’en.
  1. Last year well over 30,000 folks showed up for the festival. This year it is even bigger and better. Festival web page here
  2. Ahoy there bess! When ya see Treva and Vince at the event...would you thank them for Captn Spareribs? I MC'd the CHOC event up here and got a chance to hang out with them for most of the evening. Man, you could not find nicer guys....for black hearted cut throats that is.
  3. Sorry, no. I am looking eventually for something like that myself. I have had an industrial walking foot for about 20 years but back then I had no need for zig zag and that is a very nice thing to have. Let me know if'n ye find what ye seek mate!
  4. Indeed Happy day to you sir...hope it was grand!
  5. Ya know... Thar I was... Standing on Fisherman's Wharf yesterday... Gathering crowds...doing the infamous Capt'n Jack Spareribs show... Juggling knives, standing on a rolling cart and trunks above the crowd... Making my living...livin' the life... and thinking... I am standing on landfill, in THE city...on THAT date... and thinking... Why's the rum gone?
  6. Ah those are beauties!! Exellent Harbor Master and good on Jenny Red Cat too!
  7. We was all thinkin' it ...they was just sayin' it. As far as I am concerned...she was an ass to have to deal with for about 10 minutes while she tried to get me to do somethign stupid and break character, etc. So...flat-chested?..obvious and she called it out herself. Lesbian?... I doubt it...she's probably not getting much of anything with an attitude like that. Look... lets just call it like it is: A cheap attempt at humor...that didn't work. She is a wanna-be (God please don't let me go back to being an intern) MTV v-jay on a verey late, late, late, late show that just...doesn't matter. But she tried.
  8. Look! Pirate losers!! Well, I guess they say any exposure is good exposure. Man she was a pain in the arse. Last_Call_with_Carson_Daly
  9. When I get the pics off the camera I will post a few if they came out Every year we go rather large and have been doing it for a decade here. So we get about 250 kids and 20 lbs of candy later... This year I built the bow of the ship in the front and mounted our co2 cannon on it. We also decided to move from just the POTC ride theme as usual but added in another close by attraction which the undead monkeys and pirates had taken over...the Tiki Room. Unfortunatley there were only feathers left in the tiki lounge when the monkeys were done...but we had fun Candy for the kids in the ship...rum for the adults at the tiki bar :) Hope everyone had a great Haloowe'en
  10. I have that set. It's not bad. I enjoyed it. Of course it's a little cheesy but it IS about pirates. I also enjoyed the "Treasure Island" episodes too.
  11. Oh man! That is incredible! And the drum! WOW! Just amazing
  12. HAHAHA! Yep That was my daughter. The younger one (almost 20). NOT the one with my 3 grandchildren
  13. Ah Iron Bess...the Mrs. and her dog AND my daughter were there. The daugheter was the one on the basket with the swords stuck through it during our shows. And thanks to ya Iron Hand. We are about getting folks IN the encampment interacting. Digging for burried treasure or posing for a shot ... or being shot...or drinking a shot...
  14. Here are a couple of shots of our encampment. Can't see the whole thing but this was the genral feel. It became a gathering spot for picture taking and dressing in our gear and hats and posing on the treasure throne. And being our first year with an encampment there, we were proud to accept the award as best encampment or whatever they call it there Tony from Sword and the stone hung out quite a bit as his son loved shooting me with his peatnut crossbow. I also bought one of his screen used swords from POTC2&3. When I get it I'll have to post a pic in Plunder :) the treasure throne! We had a blast and can't wait until next year!!
  15. AYE! And What a fine "independant" crew you have! Best damn mates a pyrate could ask for! Yer welcome in the Pirates of Harbor Bay camp anytime! Will post pics when we can. What a weekend!
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