David Coons - Biography

Biography

David B. Coons was born in 1960, and grew up in Santa Monica, California. He attended Santa Monica High School while living in a highly unconventional family arrangement: he alternated between his uncle's apartment (where he actually had a bedroom) and his father's apartment (which was his sister's official residence), several blocks away. During his high school years he was a member of the "Olive Starlight Orchestra" (not an orchestra at all, but rather a social circle akin to Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury Group), that included other legal, creative, mathematical and scientific luminaries such as Kate Sanford, Wendy Sue Lamm, David Eadington, Eric Enderton, Greg Turk, Sandra Tsing Loh, Susan P. Crawford, and entrepreneur Christophe Pettus (founder of the company Blowfish). His did some work on films including a vampire movie entitled Murder in Vein and a short called The Juggler, which starred Keith Goldfarb.

At the main Siggraph Convention every year, Coons can be identified by the job description on his badge, which invariably reads "Mad Scientist."