About Me
I’m an independent writer and editor, and occasional curator. I cover arts and culture broadly, typically focusing on innovation in film, design, art, music, and new media.
In early 2000, after working several dot-com jobs at the tail end of the boom, I became the editor of the pioneering curatorial mp3 site Epitonic.com, which won a Webby award in 2003 and was, in many ways, the predecessor to the kinds of music sites and mp3 blogs that have become so common today. In 2002, I began contributing regularly to the bimonthly print magazine RES, an early investigator and champion of emerging digital culture. Later, I later become the magazine’s senior editor, and then its co-editor until its demise in late 2006. I was also a programming consultant and the Web editor for the international touring film festival RESFEST.
At the end of 2006, I started working with the Tribeca Film Festival, where I helped conceive and program a bicoastal event called the Creators Series, and built and briefly operated this short-lived progressive culture site; since late 2007, I’ve been working with the company on their own site, publications, and newsletters. I’ve also programmed music videos and short films for the Webby award-winning VOD site Sputnik7, and served as a freelance curator for Gen Art. I’m a contributing editor for the venerable design magazine I.D., and I’ve served as a contributing editor for the quarterly nonfiction journal Topic. I also contribute to the social news site BuzzFeed.
I grew up in California, Connecticut, and Washington state, and attended Wesleyan University, where I wrote a thesis about race, class, and geography in midcentury American literature, for which I won a cash prize that allowed me to settle up with the registrar’s office and walk in my graduation ceremony in 1999. I live in Brooklyn with my cats, Punch and Judy. I’m a Capricorn and I was born in the Year of the Snake. Here I am on MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, Del.icio.us, Flickr, Last.fm, and GoodReads. This is my resume, and here are some samples of my writing. You can email me here.
