Projects

New work: Putting names, faces, and stories to the US’s outsize problem of pregnancy-related deaths. Heartbreaking reporting @ByNinaMartin. twitter.com/ProPublica/sta…

Big week for our Cabinet Cards project: it received an @SND Award of Excellence, and @JessicaHuseman and I discussed it on the @RWD podcast. twitter.com/RWD/status/836…

The Trump administration is keeping me busy this week. propublica.org/article/the-ch…

Congrats if you managed to snag Mike Flynn’s rookie card in the brief time it was available. propublica.org/article/the-ch…

If you want to add to your collection, there are several new additions to our Trump administration trading cards. propublica.org/article/the-ch…

We just added a printable PDF version of our trading cards of Trump’s Cabinet picks. Last-minute stocking stuffers! propublica.org/article/the-ch…

New work: @JessicaHuseman and I are making trading cards of Trump’s Cabinet picks, with a reading guide for each. propublica.org/article/the-ch…

Barbara Crampton on Stuart Gordon, Chopping Mall, and the new wave of indie horror

For fans of 1980s B-horror, here’s a good AV Club interview with the delightful Barbara Crampton.

Anti-Christ in a custom van: The churchy cheap thrills of A Thief In The Night

It may seem impossible to not think of the end of the world in poetic terms, but never underestimate the premillennialists.

Why Punching Down Will Never Be Funny

Watters and… See more →

Bumping this for the fiends in the PDT morning / EDT afternoon / GMT evening crowds. twitter.com/robweychert/st…

I couldn’t get the vocals right on The Misfits’ “Hybrid Moments,” so this cover is an instrumental. Happy Halloween! soundcloud.com/robweychert/hy…

I finished piecing together the 2016 edition of Robtober, my annual horror binge. Follow along at home or join me: letterboxd.com/robweychert/li…

Every October, I put together a sizable schedule of horror/thriller/exploitation films, most of which I haven’t seen before. Dates and times (subject to change) are listed for any friends who want to join me. Also available as a handy Google calendar!

Don't Breathe

Fede Álvarez (USA, Hungary, 2016)

Three delinquents break into the house of a war veteran who is blind to steal his money. However, they discover that the man is not as defenseless as… See more →

I had fun making animations for @JuliaAngwin’s story on Amazon’s questionable practices. propublica.org/article/amazon…

Just stumbled upon a 2015 forum post in which hobbyist animators say nice things about an amateur film I made in 1998. Kinda made my night.

I designed this @propublica app promo page two weeks ago. Every time I see it, “Take Me With U” plays in my head. propublica.org/mobile-apps

Pretty stoked to have worked on a Pulitzer Prize-winning story! Huge congrats to @txtianmiller and @bykenarmstrong! propublica.org/article/propub…

We made a new @propublica iOS app! If you like your investigative journalism on the go, you should get it. itunes.apple.com/us/app/propubl…

Maybe there’s a better method than the one I concocted, but achieving this effect was more complicated than I expected. It needs some cleanup, but I’m happy with the result.

In honor of its 10th anniversary, Virtual Stan has been updated for a modern audience. virtual-stan.com/10/

Every October, I try to watch as many horror/suspense films that I haven’t seen before as possible. Dates and times (subject to change) are listed for any friends who want to join me.

The Devil’s Backbone

Guillermo del Toro (Spain, Mexico, 2001)

After Carlos – a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War – arrives at an ominous boys’ orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets which… See more →

US Air Guitar first came to Philadelphia in 2008. It was my first air guitar competition and I approached it with the expectation that it would also be my last – it didn’t occur to me that this was something anyone did more than once. I was disabused of that notion by the many wonderful weirdos I met in the green room before the show, some of whom had been traveling up and down the… See more →

Just unearthed the powerfully nutritious Musical Breakfast, a video oddity I made back in 2005. youtu.be/1wLeM6te__M

The plush, brightly lit green room at the House of Blues on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles is clean, colorful, and carpeted, with two large couches, a bathroom with a shower, and an abundance of mirrors. It is probably the most spacious and comfortable backstage area of any we’ve encountered, but it’s still inadequate. Between organizers, performers, friends, and photographers, the room is at more than twice its capacity, topped off with a showgirl’s ransom… See more →

When it comes to aging, there is nothing I am more wary of than nostalgia. There’s a fine line between basking in fond memories and believing your best days are behind you, and getting older presents ever more opportunity to cross it. For many people, and certainly for myself, nostalgia’s gauzy glow is most acute in music. After all, it’s the soundtrack to our lives, and for whatever reason, most of us tend to engage… See more →

Bedroom Recording

Every October, I try to watch as many horror/suspense films that I haven’t seen before as possible. This is the first year the films were somewhat carefully selected and scheduled in advance. They span seven decades and eight countries. Dates and times (subject to change) are listed for any friends who want to join me.

Don’t Look Now

Nicolas Roeg (UK, Italy, 1973)

A married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are… See more →

Recently revisited some of the films we made years ago for @48HourFilmProj and @film_challenge. I miss doing those. + @iancorey @mSutters

Telling the story of my web standards awakening in a talk I’m putting together. Ten years later, it still gives me goosebumps. /cc @zeldman

Excited to be speaking at my alma mater later this month! facebook.com/events/2384066…

With all manner of unnecessary vitriol flying to and fro, social media can be a nasty thing during an election year like this one, but the most unfortunate thing I’ve seen in my social graph lately had little to do with politics. It had to do with punk rock, and a friend’s expressed preference for The Misfits’ post-Danzig era; that is, the seminal horror punk band’s mercenary reformation without its creative mastermind, Glenn Danzig, more… See more →

Every October, I try to watch as many horror films that I haven’t seen before as possible.

Corman’s World

Alex Stapleton (USA, 2011)

A documentary on DIY producer/director Roger Corman and his alternative approach to making movies in Hollywood.

Not of This Earth

Roger Corman (USA, 1957)

An alien agent from the distant planet Davana is sent to Earth via a high-tech matter transporter. There, he terrorizes Southern California in an attempt to acquire blood… See more →

There is a popular myth in geek circles which claims that the QWERTY layout standard for Latin keyboards was actually designed to slow down typing, since early typewriters were prone to jam. While this is a misunderstanding (jams were caused by the mechanical proximity of common letter pairs, not the speed of typing), it has occasionally made me wonder: could technological shortcomings that ostensibly get in the way of the user experience actually, ultimately, be… See more →

Oh, hey, here’s an interview @aarron did with me about the musician templates I recently designed for @Mailchimp: mailchimp.com/musician-templ…

This is the most fun I’ve had with Illustrator and Photoshop in awhile.

I have owned LetterMpress from the beginning, but this is the first time I actually dug into it. Fun!

Every October, I try to watch as many horror films that I haven’t seen before as possible.

Hostel

Eli Roth (USA, Czech Republic, 2005)

Three backpackers head to a Slovak city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.

Saw

James Wan (USA, 2004)

Two men awaken to find themselves on the opposite sides of a dead body, each with specific instructions to kill the other or… See more →

It is no secret that Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. Is there any other event celebrated on a mass scale whose very purpose is to challenge the tenuous divide between pain and pleasure? Halloween encourages us to enjoy our fear, to find mirth in the macabre, to recognize how death enriches life. On every other day, fear holds us back; on Halloween, it propels us forward. What’s not to love?

And so it… See more →

I had only just recently decided to leave the game industry and return to the web when A List Apart published Ethan Marcotte’s pivotal article, “Responsive Web Design”. Since Ethan is a close friend, I assumed and continue to assume that his landmark discovery was specifically timed to validate my decision with firm authority. This was very, very exciting stuff.

This site is my first full-scale attempt at responsive design. It uses one template for… See more →