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DavidWu10

About me

Gender	Male
Industry	Marketing
Occupation	Creative Director
Location	CHARLESTON, SC, United States
Introduction	I was born and raised in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and attended North Carolina State University where I majored in Ancient Near Eastern History. It was during this time that I met the director of the North Carolina State Archives Search Room, who invited me to work as an assistant to those individuals who regularly crowded the room with their notebooks and the occasional computer (back when laptops - which weren't really laptops so much as portable word processors - were a bit bulkier than they are today). I was one of the fortunate few to have access to tens of thousands of archival boxes chocked full of original wills, deeds, estates papers, military (Revolutionary War and Civil War) pay records, etc. It was here that my own fires for personal genealogical research and heraldry were fueled. Through a fortunate marriage of one of my maternal ancestors to a Plantagenet, my lineage took off into ancient history, and thus I devoted every waking hour, for a number of years, to tracing every famous, infamous, notorious, and mundane ancestor I could locate in the historical record.
Interests	The American College of Heraldry (where I serve as Executive Director); various Heraldry Societies (UK, Australia, Scotland, Zimbabwe, and Southern Africa); Fellow of The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacture & Commerce (Royal Society of Arts) [FRSA]; as well as Fellow of the Royal Society for Antiquaries of Ireland [FRSAI] and Fellow of the Society for Antiquaries (Scotland) [FSA (Scot)]; and a member of the South Carolina Irish Historical Society. Further, I am a member of the Society of Heraldic Arts. I also served as Specialist Editor (Heraldry) for The New Oxford Dictionary of American English, Oxford University Press, 2001. I also run my own website and graphics design firm, 9august.com, so if you're in the market for a website and/or graphics for your business, be sure to check out my work. I also edit and publish journals and newsletters for several organizations. Through my CafePress store, Eclecticon (www.cafepress.com/eclecticon), I sell a wide variety of products, from mousepads to t-shirts to posters to ball caps to calendars to magnets to sweatshirts (and lots more!), in such shops as A Thousand Words is Worth a Picture, Irish Road Bowling, Slower Traffic Keep Right, Charleston Light Artillery, LowCountry Piper, Real Men Wear Kilts, Sister Fidelma, USS Prairie AD-15; Heraldry and Heraldic Art, Heraldic Bookplates, Genealogy, brunette, Chivalry, History/Archaeology, Handguns/Target Shooting, Wine, Cigars, Netsuke, Motorcycles, the Skeptic Society
Favorite Movies	Lots of 'em... Serenity, Dr Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh (1964 Disney flick starring Patrick McGoohan - as stuck with me all these years - finally got it on DVD); 2010, Scaramouche (Stewart Granger version), Pink Panther (all with Peter Sellers), Bond (most all of them, especially the newest), Star Trek (most of them), Star Wars (most of them), Three and Four Musketeers (Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Charlton Heston, more - not the Disney flick), Where Eagles Dare, Repo: The Genetic Opera, Smokey and the Bandit 1 & 2, Cannonball Run, Gumball Rally, Stripes, The Replacements, Superman Returns. More recently, V for Vendetta, The Dark Knight, Wall-E... the list goes on and on...
Favorite Music	Chicago (the band, not the musical); Beth Patterson (her music kicks ass!!! If you're in New Orleans, you HAVE to see her play live - www.littlebluemen.com); Catherine O'Connell (www.catherineoconnell.com); Split the Dark/Hotel (a band out of Birmingham, AL from the 80s, now defunct - probably one of my favorite semi-sad songs of all time is "Praying for a Rainstorm") - if you can find their music, buy it!; Nantucket (great band out of Raleigh I used to see and listen to while at NCSU - find their CDs on amazon.com and buy them - you won't be disappointed); Pablo Cruise; Evanescence; Within Temptation
Favorite Books	The Sister Fidelma Mysteries - if you're a fan of mysteries, these are can't-put-down tales of 7th century Ireland - the world-renowned author is a good friend - http://www.sisterfidelma.com