The New York Times’ first 8-bit arcade game for their Op-doc platform. Nominated for an Emmy Award in Outstanding New Approaches: Arts, Lifestyle and Culture.
An experiment in lightweight games that function as social and political commentary.
The New York Times, Polygon, Backchannel, Fast Co., NowThis, Paper, Spin, Paste, Mic., Fusion, The Next Web, Slate, Kotaku, Guardian, Boston Globe, Daily Dot, Mic., Kotaku, Business Insider, The Verge, The Next Web, Mashable, Elite Daily, Kill Screen, GOOD, Kotaku, Polygon, New Scientist, The Fader, Paste, A.V. Club, The Verge, BoingBoing, NY Post, Curbed, amNewYork, Gothamist, The Outline, Pix11, VICE, NBC, NY1, Mashable, The Verge, and more
Built in under three days and launched after the Orlando shooting, over 80 million thoughts and or prayers have been sent with no discernible effect on gun violence.
Rolling Stone, CNN, BoingBoing, Slate, Paper, Spin, Paste, Mic., Fusion, The Next Web, Slate, Kotaku, Guardian, Boston Globe, Daily Dot, Mic., The Week
An interactive music video that shows you how far radio waves have traveled through space.
Drunk Shopping
Made with Mike Lacher and Tiger Wang
A somewhat charming bot that texted you dumb shit to buy late night on Saturdays, you know, when you’re hammered. Acquired by Super Deluxe.
Wired, Refinery29, Business Insider, The List, DailyMail, Buzzfeed, Spook Magazine, Food and Wine, The Frisky, Wired, HuffPost, Mashable, Nylon, Yahoo, Engadget, Nasdaq, PSFK, Gizmodo, and some funny threads on imgur
A browser extension that removed baby pictures from your Facebook newsfeed by replacing them with something better, like cats.
The New York Times, VICE, Breakfast at Ten, The Today Show, Good Morning New York, Good Afternoon America, NPR, The New York Times: Media Decoder, Ricki Lake, Sam Shepard, CBS, Boston Globe, Forbes, NY Daily News, LA Times, Slate, Washington Post, The Week, Techcrunch, Jezebel, CBS, Complex, MSNBC, tosh.0, Mashable, Gizmodo, and hundreds more
Seeing Eye People
Made with Buzzfeed and ImprovEverywhere
A helpful service for people who wanted to more efficiently walk and text.
A website that only allowed verified Twitter users inside. Some notables who got in: Jerry Bruckheimer, Ryan Seacrest, Kim Kardashian, and hundreds of other assholes.
Cloak was an app that used location data from your social networks to let you know where all your friends were so you never had to run into that special someone. Think of it as the antisocial network.
Bloomberg, Fox Business News, Jimmy Fallon, LA Times, CNN Money, Wall Street Journal, CNBC London, CNN, Fox Business News, The New Yorker, New York Times, Engadget, The Washington Post, BBC, The Week, Fox News 21, Fast Co. Design, Newsweek, NY Daily News, CBS News, Forbes, CNN, Entrepreneur, Telegraph, Boing Boing, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Time, Wired, The Daily Beast, NPR, and hundreds more
Troll the NSA
Made with Mike Lacher and Richard Baker (yep, my dad)
Built and launched in the wake of Snowden’s spying revelations, Troll the NSA was a call to arms to get people to jam up the state surveillance apparatus by collectively sending an innocuous sounding letter filled with possible terror “keywords” to each other. In under 24 hours, millions of emails were sent and Anonymous used it to bring down NSA.gov in a DDOS attack.
A somewhat real time feed of people paying for sex, drugs, and booze on Venmo. Surreptitiously sourced from their website.
Privacy Chicken! with NYT
A game that you can only win by giving up more and more of your personal information. You probably should not play this
Oil Paintings from China
Did you know you can hire a Chinese oil painting factory to paint pretty much anything you want?
The Equal Pay Day Project
We used a water jet machine on FB Live to literally show the gender wage gap
The Blink-182 Film Festival You Didn’t Know You Entered
A music video for blink-182 made out of fan videos who technically violated copyright laws
Buzzfeed
Helped build and grow the creative department of this company whose stock you should not buy lol fail