Social-Creature

While still in college I became the assistant to a front-woman in an up-and-coming Boston band. Her name was Amanda Palmer, and her band was called The Dresden Dolls. Years before anyone was talking about “social media,” I got started in fan engagement, working for the woman whom the LA Times would later name “The queen of cloud-enabled process art.” The photos on left are of the Dresden Dolls performing at Amanda’s house on New Year’s Eve 2002.

Two years later, living in Los Angeles, I organized the Dresden Dolls’ crowd-sourced fan performers community, know as “The Brigade,” for some of the band’s very first West Coast shows.

In 2004 I introduced Amanda to my friend, Katie Kay. The two would later go on to partner in creating Post-War Trade, a vision for combining fan-generated art and profit-sharing in the democratized creation of band merchandise.