But we didn’t want to end it there. We needed it to be fully-functional, so we decided to add a nerdy element to an already hypergeeky idea. To be just like the Street View guy, people would need to be able to track us on a map and actually see our honest-to-goodness “Street View” (which would physicalize itself as a live UStream from iPhones in our pockets). We pulled Mags Chau onto the project to make this nerd’s wet dream come true. Thus, Google Street Boo was born.

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With the help of a couple others, we compiled a huge list and I got the site up—all within 24 hours of the idea.

Within 2 hours of its launch, it was tweeted by Aziz Ansari himself, as well as featured on many popular sites like New York Magazine, BuzzFeed, Entertainment Weekly, and Urban Outfitters. But, possibly the coolest is both Aziz & Amy Poehler talking about it on the red carpet.

The site has received over 1 million visits to which 16 million Haverfoods have been served.

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Starting as wanting to do something for the homeless population of NYC, the idea focused itself on giving them a voice—and what’s better for giving a normally ignored population a voice? The web. But, with no homes, these disenfranchised citizens have no computers, so it was decided—with prepaid cell phones, they would be able to tweet their experiences, reaching a mass audience. That is, if there were people willing to listen.

Listen they did.

Over 15,000 total people followed the four chosen for the project in just three weeks, while numerous media outlets (New York Times, BBC, LA Times, CNN, CBS, and Mashable, to name a few) picked up the story.

But more importantly (for the brief, and for mankind), there was measurable success for the four Underheard: a job offer, a paid transit fine, and even the reunion of one and his daughter. Not to mention the thousands of tweets of support that poured in.

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We ended up deciding on helping me, newly out of a long-term relationship and brand new to NYC, get a date. Well, not just one—thirty. In thirty days. But, I couldn’t do it myself, so we recruited the internet at large to help me out. Girls (or their friends) applied to date me online, I kept a video diary of it all, and people gave me tips on Facebook, Twitter, and even in person a couple of times when they recognized me.

Our project and my lack of a dating life was featured on The Daily News, Mashable, NPR, and lots of other press as well.

I still update the Twitter from time to time as my dating alter ego, so feel free to follow me if you want to witness how a dork from WI dates in NYC in realtime.

I collect them on Type Napkins.

Based on World War II propaganda posters, the posters have been rethought in contemporary context, remixed for today’s Internet culture.

As seen on The Guardian, Boing Boing, and a few others.

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See the others on Flickr

Go Vote Absentee received over 250,000 unique visitors, was featured on venues such as MTVu, and ended up being the margin of difference in the Minnesota Senate election.

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Winner of Best Nonfiction film at Latent Image Film Festival

Screened at the Boston Bike Film Festival

was born in Milwaukee,
lives in Brooklyn,
and is a Digital Creative at
Barton F. Graf 9000, LLC.

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