Adrian

Trained as a science teacher, with eight years classroom experience, he has been writing professionally since the age of 15. He was the youngest person inducted into the Illinois Academy of Science at 17 as a result of a paper he wrote suggesting a revision in the science teaching curriculum. This was his first piece criticizing a system and proposing an improvement. This has been a hallmark of his writing.

During his college years he worked on the school newspaper, primarily as a photographer and did an occasional feature, some of which caused him to be called to the Dean's office. "You don't like the way we do things here?" was the usual opening remark followed by the expected suggestion.

After his third year, exhausted and feeling rudderless, he left for one year, but returned, when Sputnik and Admiral Rickover's books documented a crisis in American education. He felt called to the classroom and completed a B.S. in Physical Science at Illinois State University with a major in chemistry, minors in biology, physics and education. He did graduate work in both Illinois and California completing a California Life Diploma teaching credential in 1962.

While teaching he saw many needs and opportunities in educational publishing so he wrote and produced educational materials, primarily filmstrips and sound recordings. He also wrote for photographic magazines as film work put him in touch with many photographic and production problems. He has 325 screen credits in educational, industrial film and filmstrip as a writer-producer. In 1976 he won the Learning Magazine “Best of the Year” award for his “You in the Universe” filmstrip series and the New York Film and Television Festival Silver Medal for “An Introduction to Cells” filmstrip series.

For a nearly complete database of Adrian’s school market publications you may click on http://www.worldcat.org/search and you will see them listed by series title and publisher. Each series title included four to 30 filmstrips and all are not fully listed in this database. The grand total is 325 titles.

Over that 30 years Mr. Vance also wrote other material: two books, published in New York: “UFO’s: The Eye and the Camera” for Barlenmir House and “Audiovisual Production” for Amphoto Books. He wrote and illustrated over 100 features and columns for photography magazines. He was a Founding Contributing Editor for Peterson's PhotoGraphic Magazine and the West Coast Editor of Popular Photography from 1974 to 1978, writing a monthly column for the magazine. As a result of underwater photography work he contributed to SKIN DIVER magazine in the 70's. His "Timing Waves to Enter The Sea" article, first appearing in SKIN DIVER is now a chapter in a classified U.S. Navy Seals training manual. It was the only militarily useful surf entry system developed from the landmark "Waves and Beaches," by Dr. Willard Bascom. The Bascom book is highly theoretical where the Vance surf entry system is a practical sport diving and military tool.

His book "UFO's, The Eye and the Camera" documents his "Two channel information theory for the analysis of events simultaneously seen and photographed." It is the first comparative analysis of vision and photography written with the idea of combining information from both sources into a single analysis that can be used scientifically and forensically.

Mr. Vance is also credited with solving the mystery of how complete maps of Earth were drawn in antiquity and rediscovering the secret of Captain Cook's method of locating Pacific islands so well their positions have only recently been improved. He is cited with rediscovering the method by which the maps could have been drawn in the seventh edition of "The Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings," by Dr. Charles Hapgood and later contributed to a definitive article on cartography in antiquity for The Smithsonian Magazine confirming the method from data on the maps.

On February 19, 1976 Mr. Vance received a “Certificate of Appreciation” award from the Los Angeles Police Department “in grateful recognition of his generosity in make available to officers of this Department the talents and training of his German Shepherd, “Boris.” The ready willingness of Mr. Adrian Vance to become involved and to make available his valuable dog in a potentially hazardous situation deserves the gratitude and approbation of the entire Los Angeles Police Department. This incident was critical to the LAPD administration’s realization that trained dogs could be of value in police work.

When the computer replaced film the school market audio-visual field he switched horses at full gallop and produced 460 computer educational disk systems for the Apple II computer over 15 years. During that time he became a professional broadcaster in the 90's to promote the State Water bond issue in Santa Barbara, California as he felt it was critical for the town. He was publicly credited for having been one of the top ten reasons the measure passed.

The collapse of his software business when Apple Computer discontinued the "II" machine line in 1995 crystallized the failure of his second marriage. With no clear direction in the school market supplemental materials field he sought a career in broadcasting in Las Vegas, Nevada doing shows on both KDWN and KXNT. This was unsatisfying due to the "star" economics of commercial radio where a few performers make millions and everyone else starves.

Mr. Vance has also been a day trader, strategist, system developer and author on the equities markets and trading. He now trades stock, land and develops residential property. His website and trading information service, "The Stock Surfer" was a leading Internet service for seven years. He has been developing “The Young Americans” series of Young Adult novels promoting conservative values as well as a personal memoir, “A Long Way From Normal.” You can buy Mr. Vance' books at http://www.lulu.com/adrianvance and they are available in downloadable form very economically.

His most recent project has been to invent agricultural and automotive systems to support a carbon economy in response to the global warming issue. You can see full disclosure websites regarding his inventions at: http://SCAF.i8.com and http://fuelfarm.i8.com