I help folks tell their stories with pictures and words on the web.

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Portfolio

Author, Blogger, and Speaker

I’ve used blogging and social media to build a fanbase for my Newspaper Blackout Poems. As a result, HarperCollins published a collection of them, Newspaper Blackout, in April 2010. I speak about being an artist online and working the web for art and commerce.
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Newspaper Blackout
Harper Perennial, 2010

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Newspaper Blackout Promotional Materials

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Newspaper Blackout Book Trailer

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Newspaper Blackout Tumblr
Launched in February 2010 to promote Newspaper Blackout by giving readers a space to share their own poems, by the end of the year it had 12,000 followers

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PBS Newshour Feature on Newspaper Blackout

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TEDx Talk, “Reinventing Poetry”
Presentation on my experiences with publishing and social media

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Cartoon Journalist, Visual Note-Taker, and Illustrator

I’ve drawn for folks such as Austin City Limits, SXSW, TEDxAustin, TEDxPennQuarter, and The Austinist.

Live Event Cartoons and Drawings
I draw at music shows, readings, talks, and other events

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Visual Note-Taking
Notes taken in real-time at meetings and events

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TEDxAustin on Sticky Notes
Notes taken live, then shot and edited into an online video

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Austin City Limits Tote Bag
The ACL folks commissioned me to draw a tote bag to sell at their tapings

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TEDMED Pioneer Notebook
Illustrations for a notebook given out to attendees of the 2010 TEDMED conference

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Visual Note-Taking 101 Notebook
Produced in collaboration with Scout Books and passed out to attendees of SXSW Interactive 2010

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Interactive Copywriter

In January 2011, I took on a new gig as copywriter for Springbox, an digital agency here in Austin. To get an idea of why I made the move from design over to the content side of the web, you can read my post,
“The Builder and the Keeper.”

Central Market’s Burger Revolution
Online campaign for Texas’s best grocery store

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Central Market – Eat The Heat
Online campaign with integrated Twitter / Facebook promotion

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Springbox – Mobilizer
Promotional video (yes, that’s my sexy voiceover) and website for Springbox mobile preview app

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Web Designer

In a previous life, I designed and built standards-based websites both freelance and full-time for The University of Texas School of Law. I’m handy with XHTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript, and Adobe Creative Suite on Macs and PCs. I specialize in themes for the WordPress and Tumblr blogging platforms. My emphasis is always on the clear presentation of content.