Rob Beschizza | |
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Nationality | American, British |
Alma mater | Goldsmiths College |
Occupation | Writer |
Known for | Boing Boing, txt.fyi |
Spouse | Heather 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]