Fimoculous

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Hey look, I wrote a book!

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The Internet Really Has Changed Everything. Here’s the Proof. — Backchannel

A writer returns to his remote hometown — once isolated, now connected — and answers the unanswerable

This story starts with a question: "How have technology and mass media changed us?" To find an answer, I travel to an unusual place — my hometown on the prairie, where the economics, politics, demographics, and geography are static.

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It's all a mystery.

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"Not Guilty" Pleasure: Why We Love but Distrust True Crime

The elixir that transforms a crime into a true crime story is not necessarily truth. High production value, superlative writing, and exemplary editing are the alchemic ingredients of the medium.

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Where Is My Mind?

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Tumblr is for angsty teens playing around with their identity, right?

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TV Channel Guide from the Future

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How Netflix Broke The Unbreakable Spoiler Alert

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I sing songs to my dog in the morning. ... She's a good girl. ... Loves horses. ... It's a long day. ... There's a freeway. ... Running through the yard. ... Walking through the valley. ... I wanna write your name in the sky.

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I made a timeline!

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I made maps! For my essay about what it has been like to live about the World Trade Center site. Life Atop Ground Zero It is a series of vignettes about watching, being watched, tourism architectural #selfies, Conde Nast, land reclamation, BASE Jumpers, Occupy Wall Street, Goldman, 25th Hour, the dream of the city, surveillance, American fantasy, memory, and forgetting.

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The Artist, the Thief, the Forger, and Her Lover How did the “Mona Lisa” become famous? In part five in this series, the biggest art heist of all time connects the forger and the thief.

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The End of Authentication

Woo-hoo! You just discovered a Vermeer in your aunt’s basement. But who will verify if it is real? In part four of this series, we find a surprising answer: maybe no one.

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Forgeries Gone Wild!

How widespread is art forgery? Experts say it’s wildly rampant. In part three in this series, we ask: Is it time to reconsider the economy of images?

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This Is Not a Vermeer ™

I'm doing a series on Medium about art authenticity, which is hopefully more interesting than that sounds: Part 1: This Is Not a Vermeer ™ Part 2: Uber for Art Forgeries Discussed: art forgery, Chinese labor, art authentication, Nazis aesthetes, and something called the Replicant Culture Matrix.