Company creator, experience designer, and artist.

Danielle Baskin

I make interactive art, companies, and delightfully weird events.



I’m currently building Moonlight, a platform for virtual Tarot.

 
 
 
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I previously co-created Dialup—a voice-based social network that connects friends serendipitously in phone calls.

 

I once hid links to a short game called Cofounder Quest on floppy disks around the city to help me find engineers to collaborate with.

 
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I founded Maskalike—the viral service that prints your own face realistically on your mask.

 

I also created Branded Fruit—the first company to print logos on avocados and clementines.

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I organize surreal experiences, like LineCon—the conference that takes place while waiting in lines, the Hold Music Awards, and Oracle Open World—a divination summit.


I host funerals for expired domain names.


My hand has been featured on AliBaba.


 
 
 

A directory of my projects.

My work often blends playfulness and practicality. Some are surrealist ideas I take very seriously. Some are actual companies. Some are not companies.

 

I've sold products to:

 

Salesforce, Mozilla, NASA, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Nickelodeon, Viacom, Toys R Us, Naked Juice, Reebok, United States Gypsum, Amazon Web Services, Twitter, Lyft, and more.

 
 

I’m hiring.

Here are current open roles at a few of my companies. Don’t see anything that quite fits, but want to be involved? I’m happy to hear from you!

Full-Stack Engineer (Bay Area)
Moonlight
Architect and build sleek interactive, live tarot sessions connected to a marketplace

Assembly Line Member
Various Projects
physical tasks, visual coordination

 

PHYSICAL

From custom avocados to drone sweaters to cloud storage — I make products you've probably seen followed by "lol", "whoa!", or "actually, that's useful".

DIGITAL

I create Internet jokes, databases, and tools — like a dead URL graveyard, a tour company for demolished buildings, and a phone network for self-employed people.

EVENTS

I organize surreal conferences like LineCon, Oracle OpenWorld (for oracles), outdoor games, dating experiences with drones, pranks, ARGs and more.

ARTWORK

I’m a visual artist too! I make theater sets, sculptures, miniatures, oil paintings, illustrations, diagrams, and graphics for digital experiences.

 

Tweet at me @djbaskin.

 

To learn about new projects, art, and jokes you can subscribe to my mailing list or support me on Patreon.

 
 
 

Speaking engagements

If a Tree Falls In Latent Space, Who Owns the Tree?
Creative Tech Week, New York, May 11, 2019

Secret San Francisco: An Underground Arts Lightning Talk
The Secret Alley, Immersive Design Week, February 20, 2019

Immersive Design Fireside Chat
The Laundry, San Francisco, CA February 11, 2019

WedX: Ideas Worth Marrying
A joke for a wedding speech! Portland, OR, November 10, 2018

Always be Pranking: Joey Skaggs vs. the Media
Odd Salon, San Francisco, CA, June 19th, 2018

Arts + Tech Panel
Sentry Scouts, San Francisco, CA May 30th, 2018

Should Drones Be Wearing Sweaters?
Maker Faire Bay Area, May 19, 2018

North Brother Island: a Journey Through New York City’s Forbidden Island
Odd Salon, San Francisco, CA, April 17, 2018