About Manning Krull

Hello! Here's a little info about me:

I'm a New Orleans-based creative technology director and all-around digital consultant; please see my Digital Philosophy website for info on my professional career — and here's my LinkedIn.

I'm also an occasional illustrator and paper maché artist. I love making art, and I love writing about making art. I spend about half my year planning art projects for Halloween and the other half planning art projects for Mardi Gras; I blog about all this stuff. I'm a proud co-founder of a Mardi Gras marching krewe called Cryptique, Krewe of Cemetery Shamblers (and I made their website).

I was born in New Jersey. During my professional career, I've lived in Philadelphia, then Paris, and then NYC for ten years, and now I'm here in lovely New Orleans. When I lived in Paris I used to try my hand at some travel writing; Cool Stuff in Paris is still live, but I don't work on it anymore. While I was living in France I met my wife, and thanks to her I eventually became fluent in French; it's still our main language at home 95% of the time.

Several lifetimes ago I was a semi-professional cellist for a few years, but I don't play music much anymore. These days my main hobby, besides all the art projects, is birding. I go on a two-hour early-morning walk every day before starting my work day. I've identified about a hundred bird species with my own eyes and ears here in the New Orleans area. I usually get to see some alligators too. Pretty exciting for a Jersey kid.

Feel free to get in touch! manning@manningkrull.com

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