http://www.cazart.net The home of Evan Ratliff Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:48:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After some months of neglect, this weed-filled patch of Web real estate is about to undergo a significant overhaul. There are a lot of ins and outs to these changes, a lot of what-have-yous, but the gist is this: Later this summer, a new publication will be taking up residence at ... http://www.cazart.net/2010/06/02/impending-changes-at-the-atavist/ My entire Wired story is now available in the December issue, on newsstands now, or online here (the same spot that held the Vanish blog throughout the contest). It includes an interactive map that shows my route with some of the locations of the people who hunted me, and way ... http://www.cazart.net/2009/11/24/and-thats-the-rest-of-the-story/ In advance of my upcoming piece in Wired recapping my effort to Vanish, I can be found hawking it in multiple mediums this week. First, tonight, live on CNN's Campbell Brown Show at 8:30 pm. [UPDATE: It's not terribly easy to find, but the video from this is available at ... http://www.cazart.net/2009/11/17/vanish-related-media-sightings/ Twenty-five days. That's how long I lasted on the lam. Most people arriving at this site will already know the basics: Last month, after writing a story for Wired about people who faked their own deaths, disappearing from their lives to start again, I set out to do something similar ... http://www.cazart.net/2009/09/14/found/ What does it take to up and disappear these days? Not to head off the grid for a few days, mind you, but to actually vanish from your life? That question is the subject of a two-part feature I've been working on for Wired over the past few months, the ... http://www.cazart.net/2009/08/16/vanished/ Somewhat belated in this round of story hyping, but my latest for Wired is out in the July issue. Headlined "Origin of Species: How a T. Rex Femur Sparked a Scientific Smackdown," it concerns a research dispute that grew out of the discovery of T. Rex protein fragments, announced in ... http://www.cazart.net/2009/07/06/t-rex-chicken-and-other-biological-curiosities/ My story from this week's New York magazine, in which Mr. Lewis helms the squad in a tense late-inning affair, and I draw the ire of parents in the Berkeley-Albany Softball League for nine and ten-year-olds. http://www.cazart.net/2009/06/01/in-the-dugout-with-michael-lewis/ [If you are a New Yorker subscriber, you can read it here. For a PDF copy, click here.] THE NEW YORKER February 23, 2009 Shoot! An Appalachian gunsmith's robot army. BY EVAN RATLIFF At the age of seventy-four, Jerry Baber has winnowed his primary interests in life to four subjects: shotguns, robots, women, and cars. When ... http://www.cazart.net/2009/04/24/shoot-full-story/ UPDATE 2: Thanks to everyone who attended, and also to all the contributors for their truly fantastic pieces. The whole thing surpassed our wildest expectations. If you couldn't make it, you can check out the Chronicle's write-up here. And for those curious about the final lineup, here was the Table ... http://www.cazart.net/2009/04/15/popup-magazine-live/ It's difficult to say for certain, but if you look closely at the illustration immediately to the left, you might conclude that it is a rendering of a man, in silhouette, bent over and having just vomited (and quite possibly standing in the results). That man is me. The ... http://www.cazart.net/2009/04/14/on-becoming-violently-ill-in-a-foreign-land-and-other-joys/