We all have fond and cozy memories of the first few months of COVID in 2020– hunting for decent masks, social distancing at the supermarkets, spraying everything that came through our front doors with alcohol. Here’s my summer-of-2020 story. One of the ways I coped was to take a lot… Continue reading
UPDATE, April 2023: Osceola is now available to watch via streaming, on Tubi! How did we do this? The story’s at the very end, under “Post-Production.” About a year ago, I did the last round of shooting nature footage at the Wissahickon Creek, for my project The Wissahickon Creek (available… Continue reading
Here’s a project that took a few risks. The biggest risk is that this was an actual artistic design, instead of making variations and embellishments on an established design. It would also be on the front of my house, exposed to the elements as well as the critical eye of… Continue reading
The following is a collection of my Facebook posts from when I went to Paris, in July 2017. I’ll add photos later. July 1 at 4:07pm · In prep for my trip, I got L to watch a Rick Steves show on Paris last night. So we’re watching it, and… Continue reading
by Brian Siano A shorter version of this article appeared in Skeptic magazine, Vol 4, No. 3., 1996 Introduction Charles McCay did not make an idle choice, in titling his classic study, by explicitly mentioning “popular delusions” and “the madness of crowds.” Panics and hysterias are always associated with screaming,… Continue reading
Most people I know who are fans of some kind or another collected stuff that kept getting more and more popular: Star Trek, Star Wars, comics, certain SF writers. Not so with the stuff I went for: Harlan Ellison’s still a cult writer, the Flashman books never made it big… Continue reading
Somehow my previous promo work attracted the attention of playwright and performance artist Joy Cutler, who hired me to help create a promo video for her one-person play Anatomy Lesson. The goal here is to get people to book Joy for a performance; ideally, the audiences would include people who… Continue reading
Around 2010 or so, Anthony West, editor of the Philadelphia Public Record, asked me to suggest revisions to the newspaper’s website. At the time, the paper maintained two websites. One contained an archive of older issues in the “Issuu” format (a way of displaying PDFs as an animated newspaper), and… Continue reading
Introduction for 2015 This was probably the most substantial piece I’d ever written. I can’t take complete credit, as it builds from the work of a lot of other writers, and if there’s any prescience here it’s mainly because I made a few connections between public relations and the compromising… Continue reading
So far I’ve shot two of Kyle’s photo sessions for an upcoming book of knitting patterns by Joan of Dark, titled Geek Knits, which shall be a collection of knitting patterns with a science/science fiction theme. Kyle’s been blogging about the project as he collects photos; a number of famous… Continue reading