David A. Schneider is looking for interesting projects in media. He is a writer, editor, consultant and web strategist with over a decade’s experience in luxury hospitality marketing. He studied journalism at the Medill School of Northwestern University, and creative writing at Middlebury College, before becoming the first American student in living memory to transfer into Oxford University, where he worked with renowned 19th-century scholars Jonathan Wordsworth, Stephen Gill and Seamus Perry. He graduated from Oxford with high honors in English Literature, receiving highest honors for his research on Romantic epistemology.
While surviving seven consecutive Chicago winters, David worked with Bridge Art Fairs founder Michael Workman on the online edition of Bridge Magazine, creating a column called Intertext (2002-03) which interrogated politics and society from literary and theoretical vantage points. One of these columns, a remarkably prescient analysis of the run-up to the Iraq War, is featured on this blog. From 2003-04, he wrote reviews and features on music, architecture and culture for the Chicago alt-weekly NewCity. He contributed to the resurgence of electronic music culture in the city with a groundbreaking writing style, and was tapped by Slick Design + Manufacturing principal Rocco Laudizio to write proposals for hip interior design projects.
A proud New Yorker since 2004, David was from 2004-07 Senior Strategic Marketing Writer at Travel Dynamics International; his clients included the Smithsonian Institution, Ivy League universities, and national non-profit foundations including the Audubon Society and the American Institute of Archaeology.
Embarking on a freelance career in 2007, he today remains the creator, writer and administrator of Travel Dynamics’ blog, as well as a media strategist and copywriter for prestige projects. In 2007, he founded the extraordinary Boy Bedlam Review, a fully hyperlinked, intertextual, multimedia magazine of arts and ideas for the 21st century. On a shoestring budget, with a staff of four, he corralled the ingenuity of over 300 artists and over 50 writers for a collaborative interactive pro bono art project. On hiatus during reorganization efforts of 2008, The Boy Bedlam Review is slated for a revival in October 2009.
David is currently a columnist on current affairs, media and psychology at the acclaimed cultural website 3QuarksDaily.com. He is a web media consultant for flatfeerentalsnyc.com (a spinoff of The Brissi Group), website writer and staff member of Web Generation Media (website forthcoming), an editor and consultant for Blur Advertising, and a copywriter for Anomaly NYC, working on the ‘wichcraft account. He was an alpha-tester for the social media/writers’-review site, scribnia.com, and his reviews include this measured analysis of David Brooks. For the past year, he has collaborated with independent New York filmmaker Jeff Burns (Talkie 21 Films) on a series of music-video/art-film/edu-tainment/propaganda shorts collectively known as WHEN HISTORY ATTACKS! He operates the promotional blog at whenhistoryattacks.wordpress.com.
David is currently completing a study of American cultural perception, media and politics 2001-08 entitled The Fragment Torch; and he is progressing on a script for a graphic novel. He enjoys working on visionary projects with exceptionally talented partners. He would also enjoy working on a spectacularly profitable, broadly-based commercial venture but, as an eternal idealist in this age of renewal, rebuilding and hope, he yet believes that the two are not mutually exclusive endeavors.
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Recent Praise
“A must-read for anyone remotely interested in tv series or science fiction.”
Shawn Y., Nuclear Powered Soup, for Of Sleuths and Starships
“Now that was one fantastic roller coaster ride. Fab, all the way, sorta blew my mind in all the right ways, effort alone should be applauded, content, kept on exceeding expectations…”
Bailey Alexander, Owner, Webconsult Inc, for The History of Tomorrow
“A must-read on elite education not so long ago.”
Mark Bauerlein, Professor of English Literaure, Emory University, for The Character of an Education
“This was a great pleasure to read. I read the first 3/4 with a kind of brotherly love.”
Maeve Adams, for The Character of an Education
“Splendid essay. This comment comes from one who had U.S. graduate-school and professorial contact with Oxford (and Cambridge) dons.”
W. Royal Stokes, PhD, for The Character of an Education
“I haven’t quite had time to look over this article. The reason being: my mind can’t currently process reading this. I am too excited by the concepts.”
Natalia Maia Nodiff, Massachusetts, USA, for A New Spectrum of Mental Illness
“…no doubt I enjoyed reading this eloquent article and found it stimulating; I generally try to avoid the latest evolutionary psychology theories because I find them inevitably, terribly wrong, but a well-represented update definitely inspires me to refresh my knowledge of these topics.”
M. Nestor, for A New Spectrum of Mental Illness
“Nice post, and the historical linkages were enlightening. Being one of the bloggers pioneering this theory I can sympathize with you when you face the skepticism in the comments.”
Sandeep Gautam, Project Lead: Starent Networks and Editor of The Mouse-Trap, for A New Spectrum of Mental Illness
“‘Because we can all be Spider-Men on this Web.’ (This piece is quite the ramble, but somehow beautiful in all its tattered and incoherent glory, a grunge aesthetic as applied to poetic prose.)”
mitten on delicious.com, for The History of Tomorrow
