Surfing the Cosmos

Marketing & Publicity Campaign

·       Interest already from ENERGIES Magazine and CNBC.

·       Pursuing features, along with reviews, author interviews, and slide shows, in print and digital publications covering the topics of Science & Environment, News & Culture, and Art & Photography. These include Symmetry Magazine, which explores the intersection between particle physics and pop culture, and other heady magazines and websites like n1, Mental Floss, The New Yorker, Mother Jones, The Atlantic, etc.

·       Scheduling interviews with the author on Public Radio shows and affiliates around the country

·       Pitching national science television programs like  

·       Planning events with art, science and cultural organizations, along with bookstores, in NYC. There is likely to be an  event at the Museum of Natural History featuring the author in conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson.

·       Author lives in Sagoponac, NY and shops at Book Hampton, (East Hampton, NY), Sag Harbor Books (Sag Harbor, NY), and Harper's Books (East Hampton, NY).

Surfing the Cosmos is an original book of photographs and text that visually explores the high/low of energy in the slums of Rio de Janeiro as compared with the high-tech physics of CERN, where discovering the origins of the universe and the elementary particles from which it is made are examined. Within this visual story are the unplanned beautiful drawings that humans make in space with electrical wires, whether from the favela or CERN. These "drawings" inspired a series of artworks/photographs that are pictured in this book, often along with their photographic source or the spirit of the community from which they are derived (either favela or CERN). The human energy of the favela is also mirrored in CERN with one specific comparison of the graffiti from Rio and the chalkboards of CERN, both viewed as works of art and sources that motivated the author’s response as demonstrated in his previous works through examples including paintings, fashion scarves, handmade rugs from Nepal, bamboo cotton face masks along with surfboards (chalkboards) and skatedecks.