Anson Hsu is a gear whore, filmmaker, content creator, and owner of Vantage Works. He has severe adrenalin addiction and is forever in rehab being in the great outdoors.

Hsu was born into a Taiwanese/Japanese family in Queens, New York and moved to Arcadia, California in 1995 with his first generation immigrant parents. As a child, Anson tinkered in various hobbies for fun. When he became a teenager, his parents forced him to the “dark side” of Asian overachievers consisting of cram schools, after-schools, and after after-schools while attending Arcadia High School. Brainwashed and overwhelmed, his form of stress relief was confessing to his classmates that he has an “A-” in AP Biology. Hsu eventually broke down and left high school early with a GED to attend community college. Feeling purposeless, he enrolled in extracurricular classes from television & radio to engine building searching for his spark. His tool and gear collection grew steadily to keep up with his growing hobbies and his job. It was during this time Anson developed a unique set of skills that enabled him rapid learning, adaptability, and idea synthesis. His view on life is not that of a journey bounded by a fixed singular goal and destiny, but rather a dynamic ever-evolving one. Today, Anson continues to expand his skillsets and manages multiple streams of income. He embraces being a lifelong student of diverse, non-linear interests and expresses his journey through visual story-telling and hobbies. He is also a strong advocator against cram schools due to trauma.