ChiefMag.com
Online Arts & Culture Magazine (2006-2009)
Founder, Editor-in-Chief, Creative Director
I founded ChiefMag.com on September 11th, 2006, as a magazine platform focused on emerging artists and musicians. I wanted to showcase amazing, creative work and publish interviews with the creators. After producing the first two issues in Italy while working for Benetton, I moved back to Brooklyn and partnered with fellow Pratt Institute alumnus Ed Zipco. Together we worked to develop Chief into a multi-media brand that included the monthly online magazine, an independent record label and a speakeasy music venue.
Needless to say, the activities of Chief have required the hard work and dedication of dozens of individuals, all of whom donated their time and energy. I’d like to thank everyone I worked with to grow Chief over the years and particularly Jacquline Lewis and Amanda Scigaj. Most sincerely, thank you. You are family.
I have so many truly unforgettable memories from these last years… like the time we had Maggie Lee’s birthday party on the Dobbin rooftop and 600 people showed up. Or the time Tommy the Naked Man stopped by the office and left a stain on one of our chairs. Ninjasonik’s album release party at the Music Hall, the mud wrestling party, our anniversary auction at 3rd Ward, that loading dock turned rooftop jam on Roebling, the home-made Sparks experiment, all those late night drinking/brainstorming sessions…
I closed Chief and its subsidiaries in November, 2009. It was a wild ride. RIP CHIEF.
From 2006 through 2009, we published 17 issues of Chief with hundreds of interviews with artists and musicians including:
Dan Deacon
Cory Archangel
Eugene Mirman
Todd P
Man Man
Monotonix
DJ Dirty Finger
Santiago Mostyn
MGMT
Wham City
Joe Ahearn
Maggie Lee
Battles
The Death Set
Jaimie Warren
Taylor McKimens
PaperRad
Brad Neely
Space 1026
Matt Furie
Tony Millionaire
Juiceboxxx
Matt and Kim
Sam Lipsyte
Ben Frost
Dennis McNett
Todd Fisher
George Saunders
and hundreds more.
BenettonTalk.com
The United Colors of Benetton’s Global Rights Blog
Contributing Editor (2006)
Living and working in Treviso, Italy, I managed a team of 11 international writers to report and publish daily content on topics including human rights, climate change and social justice. With this team, I developed the BenettonTalk website into an engaging content platform in a pre-Twitter, pre-Facebook world.
While at Benetton, I also worked as Contributing Editor at Fab Magazine and Copyeditor for COLORS magazine.
Fabrica: The Benetton Group Communication Research Center
Catena di Villorba, Treviso, Italy
The Prattler
Pratt Institute’s Student Publication
Editor-in-Chief, 10 issues (2002-2004)
In my two years as Editor-In-Chief, I produced 10 polished issues relating to themes such as Justice, Faith, Technology, War, Post Modernity, and Freedom (with 3-D glasses).
Working at The Prattler I learned how to collaborate with a creative team of writers and designers, how to manage a production budget, and how to successfully publish five annual issues of the magazine.
Some of my Prattler articles were republished in my book, Welcome to the Land of Cannibalistic Horses (2005), including the essay “Face to Face with the Post-Orgy Dilemma: The 3rd Annual BET Awards”.
