Issue 12 Out Now

Though I'm not in the new issue of Swindle Magazine, I thought I'd just alert you all that it's available now and with a smashing cover. What might you find inside it's crisp firm pages? A profile of the Brooklyn-based street art collective Faile, as well as stories about opium addiction in Afghanistan, a history of Detroit's hardcore music scene and a celebration of Ghana's 50th anniversary of independence. That is a diverse collection of stories and that's the groovy thing about Swindle - good words on good paper with good images, all smashed together with good design. I'm looking forward to reading it. And, don't forget, coming soon in Swindle, my story about necrotourism and the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Digipen Story in Swindle Magazine

In Issue #11 of Swindle Magazine there's a feature story I wrote about Digipen. Digipen, located in Redmond, Washington is a well-respected college that offers degrees in video game making (the first in the world to do so). Located near Microsoft and Nintendo, many Digipen graduates go on to work for Microsoft and Nintendo, as well as Activision, Valve Corporation (makers of Half-Life), and other top video game design companies. Though I know very little about video games (the last time I was good at a video game was in 7th grade at the Gold Mine arcade playing Marble Madness), I enjoyed researching the story as well as meeting and interviewing some of the students and grads who are deeply committed to video games and their design.

Interesting factoid learned: The Entertainment Software Association says that 69% of American heads of households play computer or video games.

The link to the magazine:
http://www.swindlemagazine.com/