Online at Pop-Smack.Com, Smackers are original, one-off broken ceramic and concrete hanging wall sculptures by artist Scott Bruce.

Founded Bughead to make custom neoprene kayaking jackets (aka tuiliks) for traditional or Greenland-style kayakers, who build their own skin-on-frame kayaks and love to roll (a tuilik keeps you relatively warm and dry when upside down in frigid sea water). Oversaw all stages of manufacturing and marketing from design and production through web and event sales.

Launched a successful vintage cereal box and premium collectibles and publishing business through collection building, and authorship of reference books, flake.com website and magazine Flake, which Newsweek hailed as a “real journalistic gem” and counted Jerry Seinfeld as a subscriber.● TV appearances on Today, CNN, A&E Biography (Kellogg Brothers), and To Tell The Truth● The New Yorker reviewer Leo Carey praised my book Cereal Boxes & Prizes: The 1960s as “an eccentric and extraordinary work.”● Profiled in The New York Times, Newsweek, GQ, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and People● Customers included Star Wars actor Mark Hamill ● Wrote business plan for proposed Las Vegas destination FlakeWorld, which mega­developer Herb Simon called “one of the best business plans I’ve ever read!”

Single­handedly created a national vintage lunch box collecting craze by amassing definitive collection at flea market prices, publishing zine and reference books to excite public interest, and then promoting books and lunch box collecting in the free media.● More than 100 radio interviews including BBC, NPR’s All Things Considered and Fresh Air with Terry Gross● TV appearances on Today, CNN, Entertainment Tonight, ABC World News and CBS NightWatch with Charlie Rose● Profiled in Forbes, Delta Sky, Washington Post, Money, MTV To Go, Boston Globe and The New York Times