Gary Yost
American filmmaker and software designer
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| September 2024 | The foundational video from the 'Songs from the Last Place' project was featured at the Bolinas Film Festival. |
| September 2024 | The foundational video from Yost's Mt. Tamalpais video series was featured at the Bolinas Film Festival. |
| August 2024 | Gary Yost released a series of 39 original musical videos about Mt. Tamalpais called 'Songs from the Last Place', inspired by Lew Welch's 'The Song Mt. Tamalpais Sings'. |
| 2021 | Inside COVID19 was nominated for the Emmy Awards in the Outstanding Interactive Program category. |
| 2021 | Inside COVID19 was named a Webby Awards Honoree and was selected to be featured in the SIGGRAPH VR Theater. |
| February 2021 | Inside COVID19 VR documentary won the Festival of International Virtual & Augmented Reality Stories 'People's Choice' award for best immersive video. |
| 2020 | WisdomVR Project launched the stereoscopic 360° documentary 'Inside COVID19', funded by Oculus, which told the story of an American ER doctor's experience with the novel coronavirus. |
| 2020 | Yost was interviewed about his life's experience in CGI on the 300th episode of the CG Garage VFX podcast. |
| 2019 | Gary Yost launched the nonprofit WisdomVR Project as a 501(c)(3) with strategic partnership support from Oculus VR and the Long Now Foundation. |
| 2019 | Won the Best Indie Filmmaker reader's choice award in Marin County from the Pacific Sun newspaper and began working in immersive cinema, serving as director of photography for 'Circle of Dreams' with The Residents art collective. |
| 2018 | Won the Best Indie Filmmaker reader's choice award in Marin County from the Pacific Sun newspaper. |
| 2017 | Received the Mill Valley Creative Achievement 'Milley' award from the Mill Valley Arts Commission. |
| 2016 | Served as a judge for the LA-based Timelapse Film Festival alongside Godfrey Reggio. |
| 2015 | Began working on documentary films documenting the cultural life of Fijians. |
| 2013 | Yost joined Rolf Herken's Mine Innovation as an engineering advisor. |
| 2012 | Created the viral video 'A Day in the Life of a Fire Lookout' about the Gardner Fire Lookout on Mt. Tamalpais, which won a Vimeo Staff Pick award. |
| 2011 | Yost's involvement with mental images wound down after the company was acquired by NVIDIA. |
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