The S’more Explorer S’mores Lab
The classic s’more is beloved thanks to the nostalgia it conjurs up: gathering around a campfire, sharing the experience with new friends and old, telling stories and laughing late into the night. We love s’mores because of these feelings, these moments, these memories. But do we actually like the classic s’more as a snack? I’m not so sure. Couldn’t there be room for improvement? Absolutely.
And the S’more Explorer S’mores Lab was born. A combination of food science and participatory art, the S’mores Lab provides willing subjects with a wide range of ingredient for assembling never-before-s’mored creations, then conducts fashion-style photoshoots with them. See their creations below and at @smore_explorer.
The Pickle Ball
As part of Shadow Traffic’s Lost Horizon Night Market in May 2023, I co-produced The Pickle Ball, a pickle-themed gala held in a 26-foot box truck.
@HuffPoSpoilers
In 2012, frustrated with the clickbait clogging my Twitter feed—most glaringly from @HuffingtonPost—I created @HuffPoSpoilers. In April 2013 the account caught on, and in the years since has lead to press coverage, imitators, and I would like to think, a wider push back against the scourge of clickbait. The feed has evolved to included occasional broader media criticism as well.
By @HuffPoSpoilers
Panelist, SXSW Interactive 2017: Gone Fishing: How to Not Let Clickbait Reel You In
L.A. Weekly (Sept. 12, 2013): An Open Letter from @HuffPoSpoilers: We're Not Gonna Click it Any More [ed note: we've kept clicking anyway]
Medium (June 13, 2013): A Glossary of Words and Phrases the Huffington Post Needs to Ban from its Twitter Feed
About @HuffPoSpoilers & Clickbait
New York Times (April 28, 2013): Turning the Tables on the News Media Tease
[ed note: online and in print; and yes, I have a laminated copy at home (a gift from a friend, I swear)]
Daily Beast (July 14, 2014): Saving Us From Ourselves: The Anti-Clickbait Movement
Politico (née Capital) New York (June 30, 2014): Alex Mizrahi, HuffPo spoiler
HyperVocal (June 2, 2014): Clickbait-Ruining Kings: Q&A With @SavedYouAClick and @HuffPoSpoilers
Think Progress (June 2, 2014): The Way One Man Is Waging War On Clickbait Will Blow Your Mind
Digiday (May 30, 2014): Spoiler Twitter accounts. RT @Digiday The rise in clickbait has created a crazy phenomenon you won't believe.
Politico (July 19, 2013): 50 Politicos to Watch: Alex Mizrahi
Slate (May 10, 2013): Follow Friday: The Clickbait Destroyer
Aol Video (June 13, 2013): At the 7-minute mark, Andy Cohen tells Jerry Seinfeld about HuffPoSpoilers
DailyDot (June 3, 2013): @HuffPoSpoilers delivers all the news and none of the clickbait
Adweek (May 7, 2013): @HuffPoSpoilers Gives In To Huffington Post Click-Bait So You Don’t Have To
ABCNews.com (April 30, 2013): NY Man's Tweets Spoil News Stories
Daily Caller (April 30, 2013): Meet the HuffPost employees who don’t fall for their own clickbait
Muck Rack (April 29, 2013): @HuffPoSpoilers: A flavor of the week that highlights an awkward truth
HuffingtonPost (April 25, 2013): HuffPoSpoilers Makes Fun Of Huffington Post Twitter Account
AdHawk Blog (Sept. 3, 2015): MisMarketing: 5 Twitter Profiles that Help You Avoid Marketing Snafus
The Wireless (Nov. 11, 2013): Buzz and Substance: You’ll never guess which major news site has been beaten to the punchline
usvsth3m (August 8, 2013): @HuffPoSpoilers is great. They take the linkbait tweets and rewrite them with the missing details
Medium (April 25, 2013): Readers are exhausted by pageview hustlers RT @HuffPoSpoilers Why are we so awesome?
Community and Service
Poll Worker: NYC Board of Elections
I helped run voting sites for the 2020 and 2024 general elections and the 2021 mayoral primary election.
Volunteer and member: Jew For Racial and Economic Justice
For 30+ years, JFREJ has pursued racial and economic justice in New York City by advancing systemic changes that result in concrete improvements in people’s everyday lives.
Member: The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation REALITY community (participant, REALITY Impact 2016)
A global community of changemakers with a passion to take what they have learned in Israel and make a lasting difference in their communities and the world.
Volunteer: Burners Without Borders
A grassroots, socially innovative, community leadership program whose goal is to unlock the creativity of local communities to solve problems.
Volunteer, member and participant: Kostume Kult
Volunteer: FIGMENT NYC
A free participatory arts event that celebrates creativity by challenging artists and participants to find new ways to create, share, and dream.
Other Fun Stuff
GIPHY: Check out my profile to see some GIFs I’ve made, including →
Medium (Jan. 24, 2017): Marching was Just the Beginning
Tumblr (April 15, 2016): Golden State’s Notorious Nine
Sports Illustrated's The Cauldron (April 6, 2016): The Greatest Moot Points In Sports History
Tumblr (March 17, 2016): When March Madnesses Converge
Hillary Clinton (2) vs. Bernie Sanders (15)
Medium (March 2, 2016): A Spotlight Delight: Journalism on the Screen, Past Present & Future
Tumblr (April 1, 2015): Brother Orange Needs Some Juice
Mashable (Oct. 31, 2014): 35 #HallowMEME costumes more intense than your Internet addiction (I went as potato salad)
Mashable (Sept. 18, 2012): 10 Twitter Header Images Done Right; I came in second, directly ahead of Ryan Seacrest
BuzzFeed Community Post (Sept. 9, 2013): NOAA’s Ocean Explorer: Revealing The Secrets Of The Sea Floor
My blog (Oct. 16, 2012): my contribution to the "Binders full of Women" meme; it amassed more than 2,000 notes on Tumblr in the week following Mitt Romney's comment at the Presidential Debate.