Mark Pike

The article in Duke Magazine about the Photobooth Project is online. Give it a read and let me know what you think! Enjoy.

Also, don’t forget to click on the cool multimedia project that accompanies the article!!!

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Birthday Party Recap…
The party was called Noah’s Arrrrk. It was billed as a seafarin’ hearty pirate party o’ biblical proportions.
The DJ was from Venus, and a timequake relative of an alien named Valiant Thor who landed near the Pentagon in 1957. More specifically, the DJ was my roommate’s boyfriend and is the lead singer of [...]

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On my first day after my 23rd trip around the sun, I dressed up as Spiderman and roamed the streets of Georgetown. People were searching for me, once again, as a planted actor in an urban scavenger hunt. It’s like Where’s Waldo?, but in real life.
In my best Peter Parker impersonation, I put on the [...]

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What do Malcolm X, Ho Chi Minh, Pete Townsend, and I have in common? We all had a great day today. Well, some of us, at least. Thanks for all the wishes!

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Duke Magazine will be running an article on the Duke Photobooth project in the very near future. My friends put together an amazing multimedia presentation utilizing the photos we archived for my senior year documentary project. Check it out by clicking below!

I’m sure I’ll write about this more later… I was just so stoked to [...]

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I haven’t been writing as often as I would like. Part of the reason is that I was out of town. The other part of the reason is that I was out of town at a bachelor party.
To see the sun rise in Montreal, there are stories to be told. They are not stories to [...]

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Happy Graduation to the Class of 2005.
It’s that time of year. A year ago, I had the opportunity to speak to my classmates. Here’s what I said.
Thirty five years ago, Kurt Vonnegut had the opportunity to speak to some college graduates. This is what he said.
Also, here’s some fresh iPod material out of WUNC fm [...]

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I receive lots of spam e-mail. Usually, it’s from random anonymous computer-generated aliases, informing me that my house mortgage needs to grow 10 more inches or offering me really cheap aspirin and naked pictures of Angela Lansbury.
I was very very surprised to receive junk mail today from somebody with my own last name! I decided [...]

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Any accurate road trip story originating from DC involves a traffic jam. This one is different because it involves women in sundresses hanging out of sunroofs, and truckers honking their horns while catcalling on their CB radios. We were on our way to the Virginia Gold Cup, a costume party for some and a tradition [...]

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