Michael W. Dean

Michael Wareham Dean (born May 1964 in Westfield, NY) is a filmmaker, novelist, non-fiction author, tech writer, musician and podcaster who lives in Casper, Wyoming.
Biography
Dean was schooled until the seventh grade at Westfield Academy and Central School, and was then sent off to all-boys boarding school Church Farm School in Paoli, Pennsylvania. Dean summered from 1969-1983 in Chautauqua Institution. He skipped 12th grade and went to Jamestown Community College in Jamestown, New York along with members of 10,000 Maniacs, failing out during his second year, in 1983. He received a high-school diploma from Westfield Academy and Central School from attending Jamestown Community College.
Dean lived in Washington DC in 1983-1984. He was homeless for the first half of that time, living in an abandoned factory in Georgetown. He lived in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1984-1986; San Francisco from 1986-2001; Los Angeles in 2001; Agoura Hills, CA in Southern California from 2006 to 2009, and moved to Casper, Wyoming in 2009.
Dean married paralegal, podcaster and author Debra Jean Dean in 2006.
Michael W. Dean's only child, blogger and musician Amelia Laine Worth, died of Leukemia at age 22 in November 2006.
Career
Dean has been interviewed by NPR, BBC radio, and featured on NBC, , and in Variety Magazine. He has been invited many times to lecture at colleges, museums and youth centers around America and throughout Europe. He was a speaker at 2007 Podcast and New Media Expo.
He was the singer with Warner Brothers recording artists, Bomb. Michael was also the singer in the band Baby Opaque, with guitarist Todd Wilson and drummer Michael Berube.
Dean is a writer (and occasional guest podcaster) for the O'Reilly Digital Media site.
Dean sings in the "feisty libertarian / anarchist punk rock band" RIGHT ARM OF WYOMING They were called a "terrorist group" by Democratic Underground
Filmography
Dean directed the movies D.I.Y. OR DIE: How To Survive as an Independent Artist and HUBERT SELBY JR: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow, and produced the DVD Living Through Steve Diet Goedde.
Dean uploaded D.I.Y. OR DIE: How To Survive as an Independent Artist to YouTube in October 2007, and has announced on his blog plans to give away high-quality downloads of the film on Zune Marketplace and Zune.net in November 2007. This is the first-ever instance of a copyright holder giving away a film in its entirety while it is still actively selling DVDs.
Books
Dean wrote the how-to books ', "$30 Music School", "$30 Writing School" (ISBN 1-59200-171-8), as well as the novels "Starving in the Company of Beautiful Women" (ISBN 0-9705392-0-7) and "The Simple Pleasures of a Complex Girl". He edited the book "DV Filmmaking: From Start to Finish" (ISBN 0-596-00848-1). He has written for Make magazine.
In April 2007, he re-released "Starving in the Company of Beautiful Women" as a free Internet download through his podcast website, "Clone The Homeless".
On 7/7/07 Dean released "Digital Music - DIY Now!" (book co-written with Chris Caulder, ISBN 0-9705392-4-X) as a free eBook under Creative Commons. Dean also made the Quark and image files available free for people to remix. "Digital Music - DIY Now!" was originally commissioned by Que Publishing, but dropped after completion because of downsizing of the book's editor at Que.
He wrote the book [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0596521146 "YouTube: An Insider's Guide to Climbing the Charts"] (ISBN 978-0596521141) with co-author Alan Lastufka. (O'Reilly Media, 2008.)
On April 5, 2009, he released his 10th book, "A User's Manual for the Human Experience." The paperback book and free eBook were both released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license 3.0. He said (on Radio Free Nestlandia) that the book is "the culmination of everything I've ever done. It's a unified field theory of life" and that "the book took me only three months of 18-hour days to write, and it's the best thing I've ever written." The book is described on its website as "a libertarian self-help and time management book."
References and footnotes
Latest updates culled mostly from Dean's podcast "Clone The Homeless" and recent Verbicide magazine interview. Also from Dean's curriculum vitae.

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