Although Phoebe and I have at least three dozen friends in common, it’s only just recently that her name has come up–once, twice, three times in the last month. So I was like, ok, who is this woman? (Everyone is like– oh my god, how do you not yet know Phoebe?) A few weeks back… Read More One I Watch: Phoebe Tickell
Zach Norris interviewed DeVone Boggan for We Keep Us Safe, which features (among other stories) the brilliant renegade plan for combating gun violence that Boggan dreamed up for the beleaguered city of Richmond, California. Here’s the story from We Keep Us Safe: When I meet with DeVone in 2018 to interview him, he’s sporting an… Read More One I Watch: DeVone Boggan
I tell folks to reckon with an absolute minimum of 18 months from inception to birth of a nonfiction book or memoir. Better to plan for two years if you want to make it solid. Note that this is based on working with traditional publishers, who (still) require at least 6 months after the manuscript… Read More Congrats to Storia grad Naomi Ryland!
I met Anna Borowy at the opening of her solo show “Let’s Get Lost” in 2016 and was immediately enchanted both by her paintings but also by her magical free spirit. In advance of her new solo show “Darkest Birds” I visited her studio and had a conversation with her about her life and work… Read More Faraway So Close: an interview with artist Anna Borowy
Last night I attended the welcome for the Spring 2018 Fellows at the American Academy in Berlin. One of the Fellows was my dear friend, painter Ran Ortner. Six years ago this marvelous interview– a conversation between myself and Ran–appeared on the pages of the venerable magazine out of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, The Sun.… Read More Yes I Will Witness This: my Interview with Ran Ortner in The Sun
I’ve mentioned Francesca before, here after returning from OuiShare Fest 2016, where she and I led a session on Sharing Grief and Loss, and here, quoting her powerful 2014 interview with Sharing Economy thoughtleader Rachel Botsman. It’s no surprise to any of us who observed her holding the entire 15-country OuiShare network together with few… Read More One I Watch: Francesca Pick
Winston Chmielinski is a Berlin-based artist of Chinese-Polish parentage. Best known for his paintings, Winston also works across performance and new media, and has exhibited extensively in North America and Europe. Canvases like wallflowers lean against the studio’s edges in cobalt and purple, jungle greens, and lots of the peachy-pink Crayola once called “flesh.” We’re… Read More Birds of Paradise: my encounter with Artist Winston Chmielinski
adrienne maree brown is a futurist and science-fiction scholar, a doula (for actual human babies, not books!) and a facilitator. She’s also a prolific writer, with regular appearances at the feminist playground that is Bitch magazine–here’s one of my favorite essays there–while her social media streams are a riot and a joy. Once upon a… Read More One I Watch: adrienne maree brown
I met Alanna at POC21 (Proof of Concept 21, about which I wrote here), where her clear, accessible and passionate way of talking about technology immediately set her apart. Alanna was presenting Loomio, a platform that enables collaboration and decision-making among large numbers of people who may or may not be in the same space. … Read More One I Watch: Alanna Krause Irving
What a great name, I thought when I met this fellow German-American at OuiShare Fest in May, and how he seems to be living up to it. To live right. Tim’s doing an interesting tightrope walk. In written form and speaking live, he shows up in all kinds of business and tech spaces, like Fortune… Read More One I Watch: Tim Leberecht
