NYC Playtest Alert: "Immodest Proposal"
Hello my adventurous friends,
I'm very excited to announce my first in-person playtest for a new work!
Immodest Proposal (working title); a psychological thriller for an audience of one.
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November Highlight - “Kind of like a Texas Chainsaw Massacre”
[Don't hit play yet - I'll tell you when]
TIME. IS. PASSING.
Which is what my brain screams every time I begin to type the sentence “November’s almost halfway done!” This Month, I’m revisiting o...
November Updates
Happy November folks!
As the Halloween recovery period comes to an end, I'm doing some prep on a secret project that will become un-secret before December arrives (Spooky Season may be over, but something wicked still this way comes…). As...
October Highlight - "It's Just Enough to do Nothing"
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Read of the Month: Citizen; An American Lyric
Hello all,
This is your regularly scheduled reminder that time is passing.
More specifically, since the Archive Highlight this month is a doozy, I thought I'd drop the Read of the Month a little early — especially since I can now r...
It's (been) October (for several days)!
Hey everyone!
The madness of Fringe has passed, which means the madness of Spooky Season has now begun in earnest: Gigs on gigs on gigs. IF WE WIN was a great time, and I learned so much from building my first in-person gallery of User gene...
September Read of the Month
Hey everyone,
Sliiiiiding in just at the end of the month - we'll be switching to the Book Club Format for Reading Lists and Read of the Month for the foreseeable future, but since the season is just right, I thought I'd throw out...
What Do You Think? - Reading Lists Moving Forward
Hey Everyone,
A little extra mid-month check in for all of you. Now that we're in our 6th (!) month of working together on Patreon, I'm interested in exploring the format a bit. Currently, the reading list I send at the top of every month i...
September Updates
Hey Everyone,
It's September, which means I'm
- waking up from stress dreams about going back to middle school
- here with fresh-baked content.
The September Reading list can be found in your inbox and as a pdf ...
2021-09-01 22:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostAugust Reading Excerpt
Just a quick something to celebrate the end of the month - another reading excerpt. Between the maintenance break for Telelibrary and the upcoming launch of IF WE...
2021-08-29 01:42:26 +0000 UTC View PostAugust Highlight: "Paint by Numbers"
“Now What?”
The wonderful thing about taking in data before you know what to do with it is that you get to be surprised by the work you end up making, and the stories you find yourself telling. The horrible thing about taking in da...
August Updates
Hey Everyone,
August is here, which can only mean two things:
- Time is an unrelenting torrent pummeling us all into submission
- Your regularly scheduled content and updates have arrived
The August Reading ...
2021-08-02 21:48:58 +0000 UTC View PostJuly Highlight - “What makes Some Love True?”
Seeing as we’ve been pretty deep in the world of finance, negotiation, and money, I thought we could all use a break from the numbers with a very different kind of currency. This month I’m looking back at a very different exchange that I r...
2021-07-21 23:20:01 +0000 UTC View PostSomething Extra
Hey Everyone,
As I'm finishing up this month's Archive Highlight, I thought I'd share a little something extra.
I was asked to prepare a reading excerpt on another job, and after making it, it occurred to me this may be another way t...
July Updates!
Happy holiday weekend everyone!
Reading Lists have gone out to your emails, along with...
2021-07-04 00:18:59 +0000 UTC View PostFirst Playtests for IF WE WIN
Hey everyone,
Very excited to finally announce the first of a few rounds of playtesting for a remote version of IF WE WIN. These tests are serving double duty for me. IF WE WIN requires me to have a pretty intense mastery of a ...
June Highlight - “The Dotted Line”
Continuing our theme of exchanges, this month I wanted to highlight the role that contracts have played in my past works. While some of the exchanges in my work are more implicit, or even non-verbal, I started exploring exchanges with audience...
2021-06-19 04:37:01 +0000 UTC View PostA Quick Update and a Thanks
I'm very excited to share this month's Archive highlight with you all - so excited in fact, that I've gotten a little too into writing it; you can expect it before the top of next week, along with the first round of playtest times for
June Announcements!
Welcome to June everyone!
The June reading list has hit your inboxes, which you’ll want to double check anyway if you’re at the “Get Hands On” or “Pay it Forward '' levels, because exclusive Telelibrary sessions have also been se...
May Highlight - The Telelibrary
An ongoing interest in my practice is creative data - I try to think carefully and expansively about what data my exchanges create, and what can be learned or made by applying it creatively. The trade off is that data collection can be fairly ...
2021-05-17 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate on Shortlist Distribution
Hey folks,
Thank you again for your input on shortlist sessions! You can follow the discussion at my previous post.
Once again, I ran my favorite random nu...
AMA Recording
Thanks again to everyone who joined us for the AMA this past Sunday, or submitted questions! We had a ton of questions, and a lot of fun, so it seems like something that may be worth doing again.
Let me know in the comments:
Want...
April Archive Highlight; "If We Win"
Thanks to your support, I've been able to dedicate time to exploring and reactivating research from my 2019 project If We Win. This is the first of what I hope to make several features on this project. If you’ve got questions in the mea...
2021-04-16 15:30:18 +0000 UTC View PostAMA Update
Hey everyone,
I have exciting news about our AMA, happening this Sunday, April 18th at 12pm EDT / GMT-4.
First off, you can log in on the day of here:
2021-04-16 15:29:30 +0000 UTC
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Submit Questions for the AMA
Photo: Questions from "Ask Us Anything" - April, 2011, Abu Dhabi, UAE*
Hey everyone,
Based on your input, the AMA to celebrate reaching our first goal will be held Sunday April 18th, 12pm EDT / GMT-4.
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Setting a time for an AMA
Hey everyone,
Welcome to April!
UPDATES:
- The Reading list for April has been sent to everyone at all Tiers - check your emails!
- Exclusive Session invitations have been sent to those randomly selected fr...
An exciting update!
We've already hit 5/5 supporters at the "Pay-It-Forward" level!
[cue all available air horns]
While we've hit this m...
Distributing Exclusive Telelibrary Sessions
Per tier benefits and User requests, I'll be adding some exclusive sessions, reserved for Patrons at my two highest tiers. I'll make sure there's at least 1 session/month for every 5 folks at these tiers (6 would unlock 2 sessions, etc.), so you s...
2021-03-23 17:25:27 +0000 UTC View PostHighlight From the Archives: [_______] (Peter)
[Don't hit play yet - I'll tell you when]
In 2013, I was tumbling through my final year of college at NYU in Abu Dhabi. We were asked to prepare a Capstone graduating project, so—displaying my usual over-eagerness—I opt...