I’m a Williamsburg, Brooklyn-based writer, critic and cultural worker. I am editor-in-chief and co-founder of Hyperallergic. I serve on the board of the Triangle Arts Association.

This blog was born out of my passion for art, culture, human rights, literature, multicultural issues and the Internet. It is also a resource of where I stash & play with my words/images/tweets?&c.

One Brooklyn poet used one of my Brooklyn Rail articles as source material for his poetry (I love this!), he turned my “article about architecture…into a TV thriller through poetry” called “Made-For-TV”:

Made For TV
by Erik Von Ploennies

The grave of a KGB ruler.
His death, odd.
Designed to highest international standards.

An integral role in protocol.
A dictator telling them what not to report.
There were few examples.

A moral quagmire and politics.
It is no coincidence.
Invented propaganda.
The cinematic masterpiece.

http://www.erikvp.com/poetry.html

Who has heard my blogging screams on the World Wide Web? Well, these folks for one:

Art Fag City, BushwickBK, C-Monster, Eyeteeth, Flavorwire, Heart As Arena, Global Voices Online, Modern Art Notes, New York Observer, Rebel:Art, UTNE Reader, Village Voice, Walker Art Center’s Off Center,

Some people even like my tweets — UTNE Reader — I guess there’s no accounting for taste.

Then there are my thousands of photographs on Flickr, which I post with a Creative Commons 2.0 license, so that anyone can use them with proper crediting. They’ve showed up everywhere, incl. Brooklyn Rail, Business Week, UTNE Reader.

Btw, my bio on Wikipedia is a little out of date.

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