Not too long ago, I spent some time reviewing FinalCutsMedia5, a site centered on visual storytelling, branding, and certainly prioritizing audience connection. Coming back to it, what I believe still stands out most is the clarity of its original purpose. From the get-go, the site had a strong sense of… Continue reading
This website initially began as a basic class project and gradually became something much more coherent to me, now functioning as a digital writing portfolio with a recognizable voice of my own, a niche thematic focus, and a far clearer understanding of its readers. At the start of the semester,… Continue reading
I’ve published one more original piece on the site: “The House Beneath the House.” It’s a short story about grief, accumulation, and the terrible discovery that rock bottom occasionally has a basement. If you’ve been reading this site for a while, you already know I’m interested in rhetoric, memory, and… Continue reading
There is a point in life at which sorrow stops behaving like weather and begins to take on architecture of the mind. I used to think grief arrived like a storm. Loud and brief. Cinematic. I imagined it as something that passed through, wrecked a few things, and moved on… Continue reading
I’ve added a new article to the site, and it’s one of my favorite kinds of pieces. It’s part rhetorical analysis, part digital autopsy, and part “why does the internet solidify our forsaken digital footprints like this?” The new essay, “Why the Internet Remembers in Fragments,” uses a bizarrely specific… Continue reading