Rob Beschizza is a British-American writer, artist and journalist, the editor of the culture website
Boing Boing
''Boing Boing'' is a website, first established as a zine in 1988, later becoming a group blog. Common topics and themes include technology, futurism, science fiction, gadgets, intellectual property, Disney, and left-wing politics. It twic ...
and the founder of
txt.fyi, a publishing platform described by
''Wired'' as an example of "antisocial media". His works include minimalist video games, short stories, generative software that produces psychedelic art, wine descriptions, and journalistic euphemisms, among other subjects. Beschizza has appeared as a news commentator on television networks including NBC, CNN and Al Jazeera.
Beschizza, formerly a technology correspondent and a crime reporter, is a graduate of
Goldsmiths College
Goldsmiths, University of London, officially the Goldsmiths' College, is a constituent research university of the University of London in England. It was originally founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by the Wo ...
and became a naturalized US citizen in 2015.
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.
References
External links
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Profile at Muckrack2017 interview with Rob Beschizza2015 Interview with Rob Beschizza
Living people
American male bloggers
American bloggers
British bloggers
Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London
21st-century American non-fiction writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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