Writing
The Little Guys: Pocket Pets in the Public Imagination
For Dawnja Burris’s “Animals as Media” class, I discussed the cultural importance of small mammals.
The New York Waterfront and Nostalgia For Mud
A video essay written and assembled for my Media Infrastructures class at the New School. The original West Side Highway in Manhattan (previously called the Miller Highway) and the High Line are case studies that offer interesting examples of how infrastructure influences a city’s idea of its past and what is possible for its future.
The Dream Of New York's Forgotten Elevated Subway
A reported story I wrote for Jalopnik about a forgotten piece of NYC infrastructure.
FA Non-Jerk’s Guide to Sidewalk Etiquette
A fun little piece I wrote for CityLab from the perspective of a stymied pedestrian in NYC.
What Does It Mean To “Live Like An Artist” In New York?
For the Awl, on the history of loft living (a very personal topic for me), and its changing definition.
Writing for PSFK
Over 3 years, I produced 300 pieces of content about art, technology, innovation and business for PSFK.com.
Here are some posts, some involving original reporting, that are now paywalled:
SoHo Goes Multisensory With a “Portable Historical Society”
Inside Scoop on Mad Men‘s Mystique at the Museum of the Moving Image