The team that makes up Fat Sand has grown slowly but surely, and its the close friendship between us all that ensures that we can continue to work hard but have fun each day.
| Rob Claisse | |
| Co-Founder + CEO | |
| Best bit of your job: | Wanting to come to work everyday, which comes from knowing you have the freedom to come up with ideas/projects and make them happen. That and going on holiday knowing that my guys back in the office are turning out great work (and making me money!) |
| Top 5 Films: | The Matrix, Grosse Pointe Blank, Billy Madison, Dazed and Confused, You can count on me, Everything by Kevin Smith |
| Whats on your iPod: | Feist, Rage Against the Machine, Jimmy Eat World, Juno Soundtrack, Willy Mason |
| Favourite book: | Anything by John Irving |
| Favourite TV Show: | West Wing, Firefly, South Park |
| Other stuff: | For me living by the sea is essential, so Brighton is an ideal place to live and work. I still love to kitesurf, though I get out on the water far less than I'd like to. I'm also really into climbing. I'm also a total geek who loves technology, computers and all gadgets that have electricity pumping through them! |
| Joe Coyne | |
| Business Development + Marketing Dude | |
| Best bit of your job: | Working with people who love what they're doing, that and traveling the world and getting paid for it. |
| Top 3 Films: | Ferris Buellers Day Off (the first movie I ever saw with swearing in), White Men Can't Jump + Amores Perros |
| Whats on your iPod: | The Black Keys, Queens of the Stone Age and Ray Lamontagne |
| Favourite book: | a tie between The Alchemist and any Chuck Palahniuk book, satirical genius |
| Favourite TV Show: | Family Guy or Big Cat Diaries |
| Favourite Skate Parks: | Stoke Plaza, Mulhausen in Germany and the Richard Taylor Park in Wales |
| Jon Muschamp aka 'Musch' | |
| Production Manager, Editor and Cameraman | |
| Well, I would say getting bullied by everyone is my top job description. After that would be filming, editing and sometimes arguing with after effects to do something good. | |
| Best bit of your job: | Out of all the jobs, editing is my favourite. We made a low budget music video and that has probably been the best thing I've done in production. |
| Top 3 Films: |
1)Back to the future as i watched this a million times when i was a kid and have always wanted a floating skateboard.
2) Amerros Perros - I like how all the stories intertwine, well made movie 3) Pulp Fiction - Its just cool 4....) and all the classics from Hitchcock (Rear Window, North by Northwest, Birds etc) just cant choose that kind of stuff |
| Whats on your iPod: | Panda Bear/ animal collective, battles, the cribs, El guincho, broken social scene, caribou, atlas sound, black lips |
| Favourite book: | I mainly read stuff to do with my job as theres a lot to learn, but i have enjoyed stuff by alex garland, very simple cinematic kind of style and liked 1984 (practically the only books I have ever read) |
| Favourite TV Show: | South Park, Sopranos, Curb your enthusiasm, Boosh |
| Other stuff: | In my spare time I play in a band called richard and judy, play football (get rid of the beer belly), see live bands, cinema etc. The rest of the time, chatting shit with my friends at the pub - followed with a swift dance at one of the local disco halls. And also promoting my profound love for nickelback. |
| Chris Kyle | |
| Office Manager + Progression Sales | |
| Best bit of your job: | 1) Fat Sand's close proximity to Yo Sushi 2) Being able to eat my way through the kilo's of Chupa Chups that cover my desk daily. The worst part of the job would be having to work through the recurring toothache... |
| Top 3 Films: | Raising Arizona - Annie Hall - Being John Malkovich - Mike Leigh's 'Naked' and 'Nuts in May' |
| Whats on your iPod: | Adam Green, Black lips, Jeffrey Lewis, The Fall, Money Mark, Wire, Pere Ubu |
| Favourite book: | 'The Hunger' by Knut Hamsun |
| Favourite TV Show: | Curb your Enthusiasm |
| Ed Inglis | |
| Editor + Cameraman | |
| Top 3 Films: | Run Lola Run, Akira, Nikita, Pi, Day Of The Rope |
| Whats on your iPod: | 90s hip hop, 60s folk |
| Favourite book: | Remains Of The Day |
| Favourite TV Show: | Baywatch |
| Other stuff: | I once got stuck on a train for 18 hours with Wizadora and Poe from the tellytubbies. Best moment of my life. |