The Team
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JASON BITNER - Creator Jason Bitner is the co-creator of FOUND Magazine, and editor of DIRTY FOUND and the FOUND Polaroid Book. Also, check out his neat photo book about LaPorte, Indiana out now on Princeton Architectural Press. |
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DANIELLE MALKOFF SMITH - Producer Danielle was born and raised in California and now lives in Brooklyn. As a producer, she spends her days at Shilo, a collective of directors working in film, commercial and broadcast. She helps curate Shilo’s gallery site, We Make It Good, which recently started an awesome mix series of its own featuring the likes of Pretty Titty and Spankrock’s Chris Devlin. Prior to her east coast move, Danielle performed in Chicago bands like Ribbon Effect and Cabin before going solo with Exercise Tiger. If you’re lucky, you might get to hear her DJ somewhere in New York. |
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MICHAEL HEARST - Producer Michael Hearst is a musician and a writer. He is a founding member of the band One Ring Zero, which has released at least seven CDs, including their lit-rock sensation As Smart As We Are. His most recent work is a solo album titled Songs For Ice Cream Trucks, which, to his surprise, is actually being used by several ice cream trucks throughout the country. As a writer, Michael’s work has appeared in such journals as McSweeney’s, Parenthetical Note, and Post Road. He also hosts a podcast series with Rick Moody called Eighteen Fifty Nine. |
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KATIE KRENTZ - Producer Katie Krentz works at Twentieth Century Fox TV, helping develop and produce primetime animated shows. At night, Katie is in the sketch comedy writing program at Second City – LA, and is a contributing writer for Big News Report at Improv Olympic. Her work has been featured on The Daily Reel, LA City Beat Magazine, and Arlene’s Grocery Picture Show. More importantly, she can karaoke ALL of the parts to Bohemian Rhapsody and blow your mind. She lives in Santa Monica, but her heart is all Midwest. |
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DAMON LOCKS- Producer As lead singer & keyboardist of the Chicago-based band The Eternals, Damon is well known for luring listeners into a brand new world of music. Before that, he fronted another equally border-blurring band, Trenchmouth. In addition to bringing outrageously great music to the people, Damon is a fantastic illustrator, designing countless album covers as well as providing art for various features in URB, XLR8R, Flaunt and Resonance. You can catch his recent interviews with Darryl Jennifer (Bad Brains), Jeff Parker and Filmmaker Edward Bland (Cry Of Jazz) in Stop Smiling Magazine. |
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LARRY SMITH - Producer SMITH Magazine founding editor Larry Smith has whirled around the media landscape for the past 15 years. He most recently was the articles editor of Men’s Journal, has been the executive editor of Yahoo! Internet Life, senior editor at ESPN The Magazine, a founding editor of P.O.V., and editor-in-chief of its sister publication, Egg, as well as an editor of Might magazine. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Popular Science, Men’s Health, Salon, Slate, and other places. He has contributed personal essays to the anthologies Maybe Baby and Modern Love. |
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DEXTER RANDAZZO- Producer Dexter Randazzo splits her time between Los Angeles and New York city these days. Wearing many hats, she’s one of the hardest working gals around, making her mark in broadcast television, film, print and web. Recently, she produced Gasoline, a film by Andrew M. Hulse, helped find awesome people for the super popular kids show Yo Gabba Gabba and manages the Unearthen jewelry line. In addition to her numerous side projects, she’s the west coast sales rep for Shilo, a collective of directors, who work in film, commercial and broadcast. Enjoying her new found inner Californian, Dexter is getting fit and tan. |
They were into you, so they made you a tape. Today you don't have a cassette player, but you still can't toss that mix. We share the stories and the soundtrack to your earliest loves.
Excellent idea! I look forward to see if this will work behind my company’s firewall tomorrow!
Interesting approach. I have some of these, though made for group enjoyment, party tapes/discs.
Looking forward to more submissions.
Fantastic concept, but extremely poor streaming. I guess I’ll come back off-peak. I hope you keep at it, great idea. I can’t help but wonder if any of my ex’s add any of the gems I spun for them.
[...] FOUND Magazine co-founder Jason Bitner and his team of like-minded creative nostalgics (including music producer Damon Locks and SMITH Magazine [...]
where are my girls and all the tapes i had prepared? i use foreign language and i live in hostile country; england. z zacisnietym gardlem niemy niewyrazalny wstyd mnie pali wstyd mnie spali(l) very emotional site
i love the concept but wish you would stream the songs one at a time!
Loved, loved, loved, loved the site. Great idea, great texts, great songs and I love that you kept the cassette sound instead of uploading “new versions” and that is one continous line and that you don’t put wich song is playing… just like a cassette. oohh, the nostalgia… thank you so much.
i like this site.. good idea. awesome i like the songs and i remember the last time when i used cassette, i hate the news cd
and cassettes are cute but it could be more tecnology and smallest
So how Do I submit a Mix tape to the site?
What a great looking group of people! I have a crush on at least three of you.
Hi guys, what a fantastic concept! It’s funny I watched High Fidelity last night, and was thinking back about the mixtape I made for my teenage sweetheart (we did a swap), she’s now my wife after a gap of 20 years :)
Listen, we run a user driven mixtape site http://www.theplayers.fm, and the new version we’re developing features a cassette tape interface. Please get in touch if you’re interested in collaborating in some way.