Rob Beschizza

Rob Beschizza
NationalityAmerican, British
Alma materGoldsmiths College
OccupationWriter
Known forBoing 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. ^ "Inside the Wild, Wacky, Profitable World of Boing Boing". 30 November 2010.
  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". 28 March 2011.
  10. ^ "The Psygnosis generator will remind you how great game box art can be". 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". 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. ^ "David Lynch's Dune Improved With No Dialogue". 18 July 2011.


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