Writer
Gawker Media
Jason Torchinsky is mostly a writer and artist based in Los Angeles. Jason has built a functional, 15x-scale Atari joystick, a hoax Kyrgyz arcade machine, and several kinetic sculptures and installations that have been exhibited at LACMA, Indiecade, LAX Art, and the Hammer museum. As a writer, Jason has written for the Onion News Network and has a book, Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture. Jason has worked with groups like Machine Project—giving talks and teaching classes, usually about odd mechanical things and the loons that made them. To fund his lavish, decadent lifestyle, he is Senior Writer and artist for the automotive website Jalopnik.com.