Alex Black

Alex Black

Community Manager

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Uncle Alex was born in Santa Barbara, CA, where he grew up doing typical Santa Barbara things like hiking, biking, skateboarding, going to punk shows, and going to the beach. After high school he moved to LA to attend UCLA, where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Spanish. A scholar of culture, he bolstered his studies with semesters in Prague and Madrid, as well as extensive research on things like Brazilian transgendered prostitutes, negotiated meaning in haircut-interactions, and ritualized homosexuality. Don’t ask him about bones, or archeological ruins – those are other kinds of anthropology for which he possesses only a cursory knowledge.

After graduating he remained in academia, working as an ethnographic assistant for CELF (Center on the Everyday Lives of Families), an interdisciplinary research group that in 2003 filmed a week in the daily lives of 30 Los Angeles families, creating a vast digital archive from which they currently conduct detailed ethnographic studies. At CELF his main endeavor was a linguistic analysis of families eating meals together. After spending countless research hours watching, talking about, and writing about families eating dinner, he decided it was time to leave the ivory towers and take up residence in the real world. Plus he was sick of talk about food. So he got a job at a café.

Making cappuccinos was great and all, but his interest in new media and hunger for a challenge led him to Revver, where he is now Community Manager. This means that he makes sure Revver’s members are heard, helped, and happy. When not trolling the Revver forums or writing about the next great video on the Revver blog, Alex likes to listen to, collect, write about, and make music. Other interests include food, fashion, fiction, fact, film, and alliteration (apparently).

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