Jon

emmy-nominated video producer

pondering ways to make a new style of web video specific to glossy magazines, thinking about but never actually taking a hip-hop dance class, 'project runway, ' converse hightops, hanging out in hells k, never using the g train again, guacamole-chips-frozenunsaltedlimemargaritas, teeth-whitening gum, flirting with the latina hottie in the art dept (you know who you are, frangry), not using collegiate and post-collegiate degrees, paying off collegiate and post-collegiate school loans, las borrachas

tom wolfe, john irving, ayn rand, augusten burroughs, david sedaris, mitch albom

whatever is projecting over my head at the moment

sia, mika, keane, imogen heap, frou frou, brmc, coldplay, the killers, the postal service, radiohead (ok computer may be the best album of all time), lamb, bjork, franz ferdinand

all the clichs: weeds (best show on tv), ugly betty (justin, justin, justin), project runway, six feet under, sex and the city (thank you, netflix). some not-so-clich: pbs documentaries

Libra

shy (until I've had a few beers), friendly (especially after those beers), passionate (about politics, architecture, magazines, and good books), independent (to a fault), silly (but only around the chosen few), fairly smart (but always sticking my foot in my mouth), weak (for brown-hair, brown-eyes), and, it would seem, looking for friends in all the wrong places (here).

oh yeah, i shoot and edit award-nominated videos for newsweek.com. my 'voices of the fallen' video--along with a companion piece by my colleague, jenn molina--was nominated for a 2007 emmy for outstanding current news coverage for broadband by the national academy of television arts and sciences. you can see a collection of my work at jongroat.com