Warren Stearns is a multi-hyphenate creative working at the seam where film, music, and photography meet. He has logged screen credits in independent features including Wim Wenders' Land of Plenty (2004), A Peace of History (2005), and The Absence (2010), and even spent an episode playing a corpse on HBO's Six Feet Under. Off camera he shoots fine-art, event, and session photography, publishing his work through a SmugMug portfolio, and he heads Comfortera Enterprises, Inc. Based in Frazier Park, California, he describes himself plainly as an independent contractor - actor, musician, and CEO.
Marcus Baney is a co-founder of Spec (specapp.com), a restaurant and bar inventory management and recipe costing platform, and a seasoned beverage consultant based in Dayton, Ohio. Drawing on 11 years of hospitality experience - seven years behind the bar at Nashville's most celebrated craft cocktail bars including The Patterson House, Pinewood Social, and LA Jackson, plus four years as a bar manager and beverage director - he bridges the gap between artisan craft and operational profit. His consulting work focuses on designing cocktail programs that hit 85% gross margins while being executable by real teams. Beyond hospitality, he's an avid photographer with over 2,600 images on Flickr, a guitar player, and a golfer.
Jessica Kobeissi is a Lebanese-American fashion and portrait photographer from Detroit, Michigan, recognized as the #1 female photographer on YouTube with over 1.87 million subscribers and 140+ million views. Known for viral series like '4 Photographers Shoot The Same Model' and 'Taking Pictures of Strangers,' she turned a graphic design career pivot into a media empire — shooting celebrities, teaching workshops across the U.S., and becoming famous for photographing PewDiePie and Marzia's wedding.
Advay Mengle is a San Francisco Bay Area-based tech founder, engineer, and self-taught fine artist living a genuinely rare double life. As CEO and founder of a stealth-mode startup, he brings over 25 granted patents and deep experience at Google and Microsoft to bear on whatever he's building next. Simultaneously, in 2025 alone - his first year exhibiting - he was accepted into over 18 juried art exhibitions across the US, Spain, UK, France, and Japan, earning an Award of Excellence at Magnum Opus 2026 for his painting 'The City'. Born in Los Angeles in 1989, he holds a degree from MIT and previously served as VP Engineering at Talos Robotics before founding Holvonix LLC, a game and app studio.
Declan Chidlow, known online as Vale, is a Perth-based front-end developer, writer, and photographer who champions the open web from the front of the front-end. Armed with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, he builds accessible digital experiences and publishes technical articles across Smashing Magazine, CSS-Tricks, and Piccalilli — while also shipping quirky open-source tools like BritCSS (CSS for those who refuse to spell 'colour' without the u) and Adduce, a Rust-powered static site generator. When not coding or writing, he can be found on a unicycle.