Rob Beschizza

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Rob Beschizza
NationalityAmerican, British
Alma mater Goldsmiths College
OccupationWriter
Known for Boing Boing, txt.fyi
SpouseHeather Beschizza [1]

Rob Beschizza is a British-American writer, artist and journalist, the editor of the culture website Boing Boing [2] [3] [4] and the founder of txt.fyi, a publishing platform described by Wired as an example of "antisocial media". [5] His works include minimalist video games, [6] [7] [8] [9] short stories, generative software that produces psychedelic art, [10] wine descriptions, [11] and journalistic euphemisms, [12] [13] among other subjects. [14] Beschizza has appeared as a news commentator on television networks including NBC, CNN and Al Jazeera. [15] [16] [17]

Beschizza, formerly a technology correspondent and a crime reporter, is a graduate of Goldsmiths College and became a naturalized US citizen in 2015. [18]

In 2014, Beschizza produced an unauthorized edit of David Lynch's 1984 motion picture Dune with the dialogue systematically removed, which was itself taken down after a copyright claim. [19]

References

  1. "Swiffer Ad Uses Rosie The Riveter To Encourage Women To Clean The Kitchen". HuffPost . 3 June 2013.
  2. Walker, Rob (30 November 2010). "Inside the Wild, Wacky, Profitable World of Boing Boing". Fast Company.
  3. "How Boing Boing adapted to the social web". 13 May 2019.
  4. "Boing Boing's Rob Beschizza: "We're not big on cat videos anymore"". The Daily Dot . 4 May 2012.
  5. "This Stripped-Down Blogging Tool Exemplifies Antisocial Media". Wired.
  6. "Half-Half-Half-Half-Half-Elves: TinyHack". Rock Paper Shotgun . 23 June 2011.
  7. "Surely this is the smallest adventure game in the world". 20 June 2011.
  8. "Best Free Games of the Week". Rock Paper Shotgun . 11 March 2017.
  9. "Dying Bit By Bit: A Compilation Of Retro Video Game Deaths". Creators. 28 March 2011. Archived from the original on March 24, 2018.
  10. "The Psygnosis generator will remind you how great game box art can be". Kill Screen. 19 September 2016.
  11. "Every Audiophile Review Ever". BuzzFeed . 6 December 2012.
  12. "'New York Times Torture Euphemism Generator' Introduced By BoingBoing". HuffPost . 25 October 2010.
  13. "How a BoingBoing editor created a "New York Times Torture Euphemism Generator"". 26 October 2010.
  14. "White supremacy euphemism generator for struggling journalists". The A.V. Club . 15 November 2016.
  15. "Web Sites Aim to Join Protests While Keeping Their Mojo". 18 January 2012.
  16. "Lawmakers withdraw support of anti-piracy bills after online protest". CNN . 19 January 2012.
  17. "MSNBC: What's at stake with SOPA". MSNBC . 18 January 2012.
  18. "British Invader Turned". 15 May 2015.
  19. Lamar, Cyriaque (18 July 2011). "David Lynch's Dune Improved With No Dialogue". io9.