| I took this photo of the sock peddler in Haiti while making an experimental documentary about the history of used clothing & the immigrant experience with my filmmaking collaborator Hanna Rose Shell. The black and white element is from an old postcard Hanna dug up in her research. The origianl postcard includes some Yiddish to the effect of, "You're going to wear What?" | ||
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These days, my flickr
sets have my most recent photos.
I live in Brooklyn and work at Etsy.com,
an online marketplace for all things handmade and vintage. I run the
Community Team, and I used to run the Etsy
Blog.
My filmmaking collaborator, Hanna Rose Shell, and I have finished our
short experimental documentary movie about the history of used clothing
and immigration. It's called Secondhand
(Pepe) and it focuses on Haitian pepe dealers and turn-of-the-century
Jewish rag peddlers.
I'm
married to the extraordinary artist
Mickey Duzyj.
I was a grad student at MIT's Comparative
Media Studies program. My thesis research is about the history of
unschooling and participatory media. I did interviews with unschooling
families who use and make media. I also co-authored, with my professor
Henry Jenkins, a
chapter about youth participation in the arts in an anthology due out
fall '07, Engaging Art: The Next Great Transformation of America's Cultural
Life. I had a research assistantship at MIT for Project
New Media Literacies, funded by the MacArthur Foundation, where
I developed interactive tools for media literacies K-12. I made a video
portrait of my brother, Nick
who is a cartoonist, with accompanying educational materials. I was
a TA for MIT's Terrascope program, an interdisciplinary learning environment
for MIT freshmen, interested in the earth sciences. I TAed for the radio
documentary part of the program. You can listen to the students' work
at PRX.
I worked for a summer at Open
Source, a public radio show/website with host Christopher Lydon.
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