Richard Schave
Richard attended UC Santa Cruz, where he studied under the English design critic, Reyner Banham, author of, Los Angeles: the architecture of four ecologies. He matriculated in 1990 for a B.A. in Art History with a focus on French Gothic Architecture and the modern built environment. Out of this work came the impetus for his subsequent five years of wandering across the country in and out of the construction trades and alternative living spaces.
In 1996 he came in out of the cold and took the reigns of his grandfather's investment properties in Oakland, Calif. In 1998, a chance encounter brought him back to Los Angeles to continue his work in film. Of the many projects he was subsequently involved in, "Treasure Island", won an award at Sundance 1999 for cinematic vision.
After several years spent exploring the problem space around the financing and distribution of independent film, Richard enrolled in the bachelor's program for Computer Science at Cal State Los Angeles. He graduated in the Fall of 2005.
Richard considers constructing online communities to be the most challenging habitat in the strangest environment he has yet to encounter: cyberspace.
Kim Cooper
Dumplingfeed's media and editorial consultant, Kim Cooper is a writer,
editor, event promoter and curator of neglected knowledge. Since
1992, she has published Scram Magazine, and has edited two anthologies, "Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth" and "Lost in the Grooves: Scram's Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed."
Under the Scram banner, Kim has hosted a series of successful
celebrations of unpopular culture, including the Bubblegum Achievement
Awards, the Scramarama music festival, and free concerts featuring artists like P.F. Sloan, Steve Wynn, Alicia Bay Laurel and Janet Klein & the Parlor Boys.
Kim recently launched Explosive PR, a publicity service for artists,
performers and writers seeking professional help promoting their
work. Kim works closely with her clients to create effective
press releases, and circulates them to a hand-picked network of
international media contacts.
Kim is the author of the 33 1/3 book "Neutral Milk Hotel's 'In The Aeroplane Over the Sea,'" and collaborated with Austin's Alamo Drafthouse Cinema on International Bubblegum Month, a world-wide celebration of Bubblegum Music commencing in October 2005.
