When it comes to technology, no one can touch Pat Brady, because he has used technology to make himself intangible. After graduating from Dartmouth College in 2005, Patrick went on to excel in video editing, motion graphics and special effects. As a freelancer, he has created motion graphics spots for Footlocker and MetroPCS. He has also served as a consultant for rotoscoping, greenscreen and VFX design with Full Stealth Films and Nolej Studios, all while pursuing a law degree at Fordham University (J.D., 2008). In 2007, VOIG Entertainment and Full Stealth Films recruited Patrick as the animation director and co-writer for the trailer and pilot of MMOvie, an original World of Warcraft machinima series. In the world of Therefore Productions, Patrick is a head writer in addition to being an animator and VFX generalist. In his free time, he can often be found with his Russian kettlebells, performing dangerous-sounding exercises such as “The Full Body Attack.”

This story he submitted will probably tell you everything else you need to know about him:

I’ll always remember my first crush. As children, we watched Fraggle Rock together and built forts out of sticks in the woods, or out of pillows in my living room. Over the years, Fraggle Rock changed to Buffy: The Vampire Slayer and we abandoned our forts to mess with strangers in chat rooms that you had to tie up a phone line to get into. When we started junior high, I realized that I was looking forward to our hangout sessions in a way that went beyond enjoying the company of a friend. While I was still trying to understand these new feelings, her father got transferred to a job in New Hampshire, and she moved away. I didn’t keep in touch because I was afraid she’d figure out how I felt, and that it would turn out badly. It was the biggest mistake I’d ever made, but I didn’t realize that until it was too late.

Years later, I logged on to Facebook and saw that I had a new friend request. My heart jumped; it was her.

Without a second thought, I clicked Deny. This was back when they still had a “Deny” button. I really miss that button. Ignore is so passive-aggressive. I wish I could have had that Deny button send her a message laying out why I did it:
“You came into my life because we were neighbors, and dropped out of it because we weren’t. I still remember when you pushed me down the stairs and convinced me to pretend I had tripped. We were four and you were so conniving. I wish you had stayed that way. I wish we had been each other’s first lovers, and that you had jilted me because you matured faster and didn’t have my attachment issues. I wish I could have hated and desired you at the same time to this day, but your dad robbed me of that. Now you’re some grown-up on the other end of a high speed connection and I don’t know you. I know you even less than we knew those strangers on Compuserve, and even though we could only talk to them at 2400 baud, at least those conversations were dynamic. With all this speed the only thing you can do is send me a friend request, and all I can do is send you an overcomposed denial. It’s more like chess than tennis, and as with chess, my moves take too long and leave me more vulnerable than I realize. I love tennis. You feel all of the struggle and pain and frustration right there, in the moment, and then it’s over. I didn’t discover that until the 10th grade, so you wouldn’t know anything about it, but by that time we should have been estranged anyway. I want to hold on to that fantasy instead of accepting that you’re a perfectly nice person I used to know who remembered my name and had a passing interest in checking up on how I was doing. This is how I’m doing: DENIED!”.