Brian Thomas Clark

“digital senior”
Sr Director, Digital Experience at Rhode Island School of Design

[Brian Thomas Clark @BrianThomClark]

It’s live! The new https://t.co/ucMPBpqXsD is another huge step in @risd’s digital transformation. Our amazing internal team, and exceptional partners @codeandtheory, @mediacurrent & @acquia, developed a modular design system & cms foundation for our emergent ecosystem. #risd

[Benjamin Carlson @bfcarlson]

In 1977, media prophet Marshall McLuhan discussed CIA and FBI surveillance, and then turned it into one of the most mind-bending riffs on identity in the digital age I've ever heard.

[Brian Thomas Clark @BrianThomClark]

https://t.co/xIjSyDWT7t

[Brian Thomas Clark @BrianThomClark]

"Twitter is no town square. It’s more comparable to Times Square. Scrolling through the platform is the mental equivalent of people-watching on the corner of Broadway & 42nd. No sane person wants to spend meaningful time there, but they do anyway." @terrygtnguyen in today's Dirt.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Social Media in 2022, explained

[Brian Thomas Clark @BrianThomClark]

"The options now are to disengage from the zeitgeist completely to finally achieve peace of mind, or fully submerge oneself into contemporary culture, overindulging while hemorrhaging brain cells." https://t.co/S2AwfWqze4

[Kyle Chayka @chaykak]

"His presence caused, or forced, the fashion industry to accept the values it had dismissed as unserious: earnestness, excitement, credulity, love. What could be more serious than love?” https://t.co/zqLWYxBzXd

[Matthew Perpetua @perpetua]

New playlist SHE LOVES ME FOR WHO I AM, a soundtrack for doomed yuppie romance based on the vibe of this image from a Drakkar Noir ad, featuring some of the most devastating and desperate love songs of 1987-1993
Spotify: https://t.co/bJlXkiVbu0
Apple: https://t.co/R4vt3QDlqK

[Brian Thomas Clark @BrianThomClark]

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[John Fanta @John_Fanta]

100% @MikeGorms. @griffintclark is as hard of a worker and as nice of a guy that anyone will come across. He’s an absolute star and is just getting started. @PCAthletics is lucky to have Griffin!

[Kevin Farrahar @Kevin_Farrahar]

Then there's Ed Cooley @CoachCooleyPC encouraging a young reporter to keeping growing and asking questions after last week's Creighton game.

[Brian Thomas Clark @BrianThomClark]

Brian Eno’s Music for Anxious Times https://t.co/dlmftfEWK7

[Brian Thomas Clark @BrianThomClark]

Thinking about grad school for art/design? Applicants admitted into an @risd graduate program for 2021-22 will be considered for our Society of Presidential Fellows program, which offers competitive full-tuition funding to select admitted students. https://t.co/etBZ22QDQg #risd

[Christopher Hooks @cd_hooks]

I respect 2020 for figuring out how to do this in a way that provides no catharsis

[RISD @risd]

Today we share a mid-semester update on our progress and next steps towards honoring RISD's commitment to being proactively anti-racist in principle and practice, making consequential, scaled changes throughout the institution: https://t.co/slCbTBaQAh

[Brian Thomas Clark @BrianThomClark]

@micahmicah Congrats on this business here: https://t.co/O3RWF3Lx25 🔥

[Brian Thomas Clark @BrianThomClark]

@jhsilverman TI-99 4A!

[Stephen malkmus @dronecoma]

This one ☝️ ❤️

[The Freelance Creative @TheFreelancer]

Meet Griffin Clark. He writes for a national magazine and website. He's also in middle school. Be like Griffin. https://t.co/K5OdD0kP50

[Brian Thomas Clark @BrianThomClark]

Want to Learn How the World Sees Your College? Look on YouTube https://t.co/XZRXHeooEe via @chronicle

[Joel Anderson @Joel_C_Anderson]

At RISD, students are painting/sculpting/animating/architecting/etc. and it all looks *insanely cool*, and it actually shows kids interested in art the kind of art they can do/make at RISD. IT’S GOOD MARKETING.