born: 1980, sacramento, CA
lives: brooklyn, NYC
- morningagaininamerica.com, t-shirt designs based on classic political slogans. i'm designing printing these t-shirts and printing them professionally at inkmonkey, the screenprint shop i used to work at. the truth is i'm in a little over my head, but its still exciting. i'm really proud of some of these designs. who knows, maybe i'll make a little scratch. or maybe i'll lose a bunch. either way, its a learning experience.
- web producer for fair game with faith salie, a nationally syndicated radio show from public radio international. my job was to edit and optimize the audio from each day's broadcast for podcasting, and edit copy and photos for the website.
- web producer for fair game with faith salie from PRI.
- created website for aa painting by jamie, a fancy paint finishing company in connecticut.
- created website for jersey walz, photographer.
- painted a mural at a house in englewood, NJ. the idea was to create a sort of headboard for a bed, with a picket fence and a variety of flowers growing around it. all in all, i'm pretty happy with it. hadn't painted anything in years, but i guess it's like riding a bike. or something. picket fence | detail
- created website for laura baran, a new york-based painter.
- i've been writing and recording a bunch of new songs, as well as putting together a new band and playing shows.
- website for the papercut zine library, a non-profit lending library for self-published magazines, in cambridge, MA.
- created website for indian style, my sister's band. they're based in boston, MA, and are really cool girls and have a cool folk-pop sound.
- fell off my fire escape, spent six weeks in the hospital. not that this is any kind of accomplishment, it's just that it might somehow help explain why more stuff didn't happen in 2006.
- west coast tour with the wild kindness, which is my new band, featuring two thirds of the playboy millionaires (me and griffin walker), as well as laura baran on drums. the bands we're playing with include sunshine, the every thing, the nova testament, sholi,and gris gris.
- computer technician at tekserve, an independent apple computer service center in manhattan. basically, people would bring me their broken macs, and i'd have a look and see if i could fix them or not, diagnosing problems and recommending repairs, or actually fixing them right there if it was an easy fix.
- senior designer at inkmonkey wearable graphics, a screen printing shop in davis, ca
- underwriting director at kdvs 90.3fm. responsible for sponsorships and ad sales.
- created a biannual music festival, 'operation: restore maximum freedom', sponsored by kdvs. the first event, held in may, featured over 20 bands over about 14 hours. we drew a crowd of about 500 people, managed to pay all the bands that came from out of town, and provide free pizza for all our volunteers, and broke even. the second one was held in october, featured 12 bands, all from out of town (as far away as NYC or Scotland) we broke even again, and managed to pay all the bands the second time.
- designer at inkmonkey wearable graphics, a screen printing shop in davis, CA. my job involved working with customers to develop their ideas into concrete designs on paper, then creating those designs in adobe illustrator or photoshop, and creating color separations output on film transparency to be used for screenprinting.
- publicity director at kdvs 90.3fm, a free-form, non-commercial radio station based in davis, ca. i've been designing their t-shirts, flyers, and other promotions. also the editor-in-chief for the quarterly program guide, a 32-page publication with a circulation of 6000 copies per issue.
- created website for the san francisco field hockey league
- created website for yorkville caning, inc, a new york-based high-end furniture repair company
- designed and hand-printed t-shirts for birds & bees, flowers & trees, a teaneck, NJ landscape architecture business
- designed posters for kdvs 90.3 fm, davis, CA
- created website for judith k. brodsky, an accomplished NJ artist.
- painted signs and interiors, cassie's pizzeria, englewood, NJ
- painted mural (mickey mantle) for a child's room, englewood, NJ
- created website for 'internity: a digital rock opera'
- housepainting and light construction, van go painting, englewood, NJ
- painted mural (view from GWB) for cassie's pizzeria, englewood, NJ
- created website for 'the dodge project: latino artists in NJ'
- graphic & web design, pathfinder.com, time inc. new media