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.