Raphie Frank

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Communications or Media
Occupation Business Artivist
Location New York, New York
Introduction Raphie Frank is a New York City-based interactive producer, writer, photographer and designer with sixteen years of hands-on cross-industry experience in a variety of managerial, creative and technical capacities in media including journalism, film & video, theater, music, commercial design and marketing communications. At heart, however, he considers himself a storyteller with the desire to tell reality-based stories with happy hopeful endings. He is currently engaged in a process to create the stories he wants to write about within a business context as founder of Boojummy Business Artivism, conceived as a seamless blending of business, art and non-partisan activism. See Raphie Frank: Business Artivist for more
Interests storytelling, photography, graphic design, interviews, songwriting, progressive politics, theatrical lighting, art history, psychology, behavioral economics, the connection between things, the Internet in all it's many forms, entrepreneurship
Favorite Movies Five Easy Pieces, Brazil, Clockwork Orange, Apocalypse Now, What Have I Done to Deserve This?, Underground, Dancer in the Dark, Scenes from a Marriage, The Soft Skin, It's a Wonderful Life, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?, and on and on and on...
Favorite Music Radiohead, Nina Simone, Manu Chao, Coltrane Byrd Monk, all the Blow man blow! crowd, Stones, Pixies, Elliot Smith, Nirvana, Nada Surf, REM, Bach's Cello Suites
Favorite Books Brothers Karamozov, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Jitterbug Perfume, (Ovid's) Metamorphoses, The Great Gatsby, Consciousness Explained, Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Lolita, The Castle, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, The Tipping Point