My words on technology, the environment, politics and culture have appeared in print and online, including in Time, Newsweek, The New York Observer, The New Yorker, Science, Foreign Policy, Icon, I-D, Domus, Fodors, The New York Sun, Paper, China Dialogue, The Far Eastern Economic Review, Entertainment Weekly, Architectural Record, Clog, Vice, Present!, Popular Science, The Guardian, Sunday Telegraph, New York, The New York Sun, and the ESRI Blog. I've been a Princeton in Asia fellow and a member of the US-Russia Volunteeer Initiative, and my work has been supported by the Earth Institute at Columbia University, the International Reporting Project, and the Stanford Rock Center Program for Journalists.

Previously, I founded Urbane, a Beijing-based magazine about cities, art and design, under the That's Beijing umbrella. Inspired by transport elsewhere and dreaming of better ways to move at home, I co-founded Bandwagon, a Brooklyn-based ride-sharing system for taxis.

As well as producing short documentaries, I've been an advisor to science video platform Labocine, and have advised film projects including The Most Unknown, All Light Everywhere (with a wonderful interactive companion website, alllightexpanded.com), Asteroid City, and The French Dispatch, for which I edited a companion magazine called The French Dispatch.

For story ideas or work ideas or play ideas you can reach me at apasternack at gmail or pasternack at protonmail dot com or find me on Twitter at pasternack or on Signal at alex.263.

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