biography
David Bryant Perkins arrived on December 17, 1953 at 97º 33’ West Longitude, 32º 75’ North Latitude around the time when most local banks and government offices were about to close.
Growing up on B-36 and B-52 bases between Texas and California, David developed into a state champion and 3-time All American swimmer in high school and in these years became interested in science, history, human behavior, art, and the “unknown”.
Swimming under Olympic Champion Doug Russell at the University of Texas at Arlington, David graduated in 1977 with a degree in Psychology, and teaching credentials - applying the art of teaching & learning to further his education in other areas of life. It was here his interest in metaphysics & the paranormal (that began as a child often gazing at the stars) took a definite turn to thescientific approach.
Interest in the application to planetary motion in relationship to the earth began in 1975 while working on a behavioral lab project - the results illustrated the ancient art of describing behavior from ancient Greek literature outperformed the other standard methods of psychology that were currently being studied. Since this date, David has been on four different continents studying accounts in Biblical scripture, historical events, philosophy, and descriptions in other cultures on celestial events. In 1985, he completed the first ever instructional & certification course ever given for Astro*Carto*Graphy (map on right) in San Francisco by it’s developer, the late Jim Lewis for analyzing planetary vector lines intersecting on the earth.
After years of study in science & history, the late 70s & early 80s had the career path take a total 180 degree turn with invitations to work as an art director, model & copywriter for such companies as Neiman Marcus, Nautilus, Sandhurst, Schultheiss Pilsener, as well as in the same year appearing on the covers of both Texas Monthly & D Magazine - all while working with some of the most innovative photographers - such as Constance Ashley, Jeremy Green & many others in the Dallas Fashion scene during this time.
After a photography shoot while working as an art director, an invitation to sing (the photographer assistant's band practiced in the studio after shoots) led to the creation of a new song (which was exciting for all involved as they were pretty much a cover band).
This entry into the musical world led to the purchase of his favorite instrument - the synthesizer - in this case, one of the original Moog analog models. After studying the history, development & schematics of synthesizers in general, David developed his own instrument, the
Symphonic AutoHarp, the world's first instrument where the controller adjusts the time difference - or delay - between the two pickups installed on a hollowed out 16th century zither.
Since 1983, David’s work has been published throughout Europe, from technical articles in journals to magazine pieces and entertainment weekly pieces. For 10 years he was the featured in Germany’s largest weekly woman’s magazine Bild der Frau. While playing chess in a Hamburg city park, David ran across a veteran mystic who worked in the SS Department of the Occult - The Black Sun - leading to the works of Karl Ernst Krafft and other personalities who developed the occult for the Nazi war machine; thus becoming the catalyst for the historical novel & screenplay for
Hitler's Astrologer. In the 1990's David created a weekly question & answer advice column becoming Poland's version of Dear Abby by appearing in the daily Kurier Szczecinski (Szczecin, Poland). A collection of the best articles from this column were published into the book: Moja Gwieznda Therapia (“Star Therapy”) in 1998.
Picking up a Moog synthesizer in 1979 brought great joy to one influenced by Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, and Gary Numan, which he describes as the ‘music of his calling’. In 1983 David went to Hamburg, Germany, played in the band Turbary, and later learned sound engineering after the band’s first visit to the studio. Befriending & collaborating with some of the great German sound engineers & artists during the German New Wave era, he later began recording other bands who liked his scientific approach in designing effects & adding layers to their sound as well as creating one of the first ever all sampled tunes with Gerd Bessler - a piece for the 1985 Berlin Auto Show with every note in the song being sampled from automobile sounds, appropriately titled "AUTO" - which led to designing sounds for theater.
After a discussion in 1986 with a Hamburg EMI record executive on the development of FUTURE CIRCUS & the relationship between popular music trends & planetary motion patterns, a request was made if any relationship could be found in projecting future planetary movements with the flux in musical styles. Analyzing changes in popular musical culture over the past 100 years (again having planetary motion resurface to affect other areas of careers) an approximate 30 year cycle with popular music was found to correlate with the 29.7 year orbit of Saturn. A doctorate paper illustrating the qualitative study performed on this relationship is available & a brief video created at this link:
In 1990, David was invited by the Impossible Industrial Action Theater to design sounds and create the soundtrack for their Sci-Fi theatrical collaboration with Towson State University: The Pleasure Raiders. While in Baltimore, Perkins teamed up with fractal artist & animator Marcos Ferrer to further develop the visual & conceptual elements to FUTURE CIRCUS - a multi-media performance art group, that traveled throughout the United States, Japan, Germany, & Poland working with other artists as well as introducing the concept of audience participation into the production. Ironically, the show's futurist themes & Sci-Fi concerns of a society being taken over by a hidden dystopian corporate state developed over 30 years ago appear to be manifesting now.
In 1993, David was invited to Poland & worked with Szczecin’s Teatr Wspolczesny (The Modern Theater of Szczecin) creating the music, video, and animation effects for the acclaimed Moda Smierc (1996) - which was invited to & won awards at the Bonn Biennale, Germany - the bi-yearly showcase for the best modern theater in Europe.
David also assisted the theater by negotiating the rights for Teatr Wspolczesny to perform Woody Allen’s A Mid-Summer Night’s Sex Comedy, which premiered in Szczecin on September 12, 1998 and was warmly received. Other sound, music & video works created for Teatr Wspolczesny include:
“Kochan I Nas troje” (1998)
“Balllladyna” (1998) *winner of the All Polish Classics Competition
Pablo Picasso’s “Four Little Girls” (1998)
Also while in Poland, David created Student Teatr Szczecin, a theater educational institution bringing German & Polish students of the Euroregion Pomerania together to learn the various aspects of using computer technology in music & video to incorporate into their theatrical productions into their schools as well as developing & incorporating the advances in computer art into Future Circus.
With the Russians leaving Poland in the early 1990's coinciding with the Polish Ministry of Education's decision that English was then to be taught as a second language, David was elected Vice-President of the Szczecin English Speaking Association, toured schools throughout the region, bringing together students, teachers, and the business community to assist all parties in mastering English for their specific goals.
Returning to the United States in 2000 to Las Vegas, David earned a master's degree in Special Education from UNLV while teaching special need students in all areas of curriculum. He also started the district's first chess club for elementary students, having an unexpected 200 of the school's 700 population sign up (which was managed by rotating days, online instruction & tournaments).
Later teaching high school History, English, Government and serving as the school's chess & swim coach, David continued to handle a case load of Special Education students. Learning to write SCREENPLAYS himself, a program was developed to experiment on how screenplay writing could help in his student's writing proficiency. Applying this artistic aspect of writing for film into the regular English curriculum, every member of his case load passed their writing proficiency exam each year this was required.
Also while teaching high school David created the first ever Aquaponic Club in the state of Nevada, teaching students to raise their own fish & grow their own vegetables as well as learn the symbiotic relationship between fish & plants - and how a system can be created in the home to utilize the exchange between these two environments to conserve water & enhance the production of crops. Skills were also taught so the students could consult others world wide in this rapidly growing method of alternative food supply. Another club formed was the Music Technology Club, to supplement the already existing music curriculum found in most schools, allowing for students to learn the fundamentals of sound design for music, theater & film - as well as the fundamentals in sound engineering, recording in live & studio settings.
During the final years of teaching, David was accepted into the doctorate program for the field of Instruction Design for Online Learning (IDOL) at Capella University, making the President's List each year with the desire to design interesting & innovative online classes for this new field of education that has exploded in recent years. The dissertation earning his PhD was the development of an online foreign language learning program where any school may offer a number of foreign languages - no matter the classroom size - since the teacher will be in the country of the language being learned. One of the questions answered in this study was how often an instructor was actually needed to teach a foreign language in such an online environment.
While visiting the town of West, Texas (the town), it was discovered the trains running right through the middle of the downtown area were not only causing the local residents to lose sleep, but also interrupted the communication for many of the downtown stores & offices (which can certainly happen when a trains blasts a 120 dB horn only 25 feet away from the place of business).
An idea occurred for a theoretical solution involving the construction of a noise cancellation device - similar to what is found in noise reduction headphones - but applied to a larger space such as a room or entire house. Upon sampling the various train horn sounds occurring in the town through several seasons & researching past studies in this area, it was discovered the leading institution in this field of engineering was ironically David's first alma mater - the University of Texas at Arlington. A conference was held to bring together all the specialists in noise cancellation research & experimentation, with the expertise of each member being shared to develop a procedure to solve this noise problem.
Upon retiring from teaching, David spent several years traveling from one end of the USA to the other, giving lectures on his books, screenplay writing, and for a time working with his daughter Amanda reporting of film festivals all over the world as well as interviewing filmmakers for Film Festival Today magazine.
An honor was bestowed in 2018 with an invitation to the 28th International Astrological Conference in Kolkata (Calcutta) India to speak on How the Third Reich used Astrology & the Occult during WWII being recognized as the authority on how the occult & astrology were used by the Nazis before, during & after WWII.
Later, in 2019 another honor was received with an invitation to represent Christianity at the World Religious Conference in Gorakhpur, India, where the associations between current events & recent history were analyzed using the Book of Revelation, as well as describing the astronomical elements found with in Biblical Scripture, other antediluvian books & ancient writings.
Unfortunately a recording of this lecture is not available, however the report of the event as seen on Indian national TV can be seen here:
Retirement has allowed for the completion of several film scripts, all of which can be seen on the SCREENPLAY page. David also has experienced some wonderful collaboration writing with other screenplay writers, as well as scrip consultations such as THE ALL AMERICAN with Bontrager Twin Productions.
The "teaching" mode is still active, for besides writing, David also lectures on screenplay writing & created an online course in this media for students to improve their writing proficiency.
Also created is Screenplay Writing for Veterans as Therapy - to meet the needs of those with PTSD with the therapeutic benefits of screenplay writing. As well as a support network, so those who have completed the course may then turn around to act as facilitators for others for guidance, support and collaborations.
RAINS COUNTY RADIO.com
Another project in development is an online radio station providing,
- INTERVIEWS
- NEWS
- GLOBAL STATIONS (where you can listen to any radio station in the world with just a click!)
and other FEATURED SHOWS we're sure you will enjoy...
Check it out.....!
INTERVIEWS with ALTERNATIVE NEWS CHANNELS
Occasionally when an area of David's expertise hits the news, one may hear him on some of the alternative news channels. In this interview, Sean wished to discuss what occurs when the worshippers of Baal infiltrate the music & film industries creating our current "culture".
We also discuss how the Dulles brothers for nearly a decade controlled nearly all of America's foreign policies, one running the State Department (the official side) and the other running the CIA (the unofficial side). Of course, many other areas are covered....
JUST FOR FUN
With two tabasco plants from his 2022 garden producing over 80 quart jars of tabasco sauce (that was naturally shared with friends all over the world) was met with a positive response, when it was discovered HEB has a "BEST in TEXAS" contest for such items.... well, why not...?
A proper label was made (since the handmade labels looked rather...well, homemade) and a required 2 minute entry video was recorded as per the contest rules, which you can see here:
Thank you everyone who assisted in the video & making something that tasted (& looked) homemade into something that can be presented somewhat professional...!
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