Hellertown-based digital media producer Ian Thompson is a lot of things. A pop culture-oholic. A music aficionado. He’s a bit too pop for the punk kids, yet he’s too punk for the pop kids. He’s also done quite a bit despite just being 23. He’s worked on video projects, short films, and television pilots while also having written for online publications, hosted a radio show, and helped build a promotional network for rising electronic music producers.
Heavily influenced by the animated shows he grew up watching, Ian knew from a young age he wanted to work in entertainment in some capacity. Throughout his adolescence, he was constantly creating. As apart of the creative collective CGYT with his childhood friends, he ran the Plasmaskiff Industries blog from 2011 to 2017, starting off largely dedicated to the Cartoon Network series Regular Show before branching out into other animation and nerd culture news.
He began making videos in 2012, starting off with Lego stop-motion animations and meme videos before branching out into gameplays and comedy skits. Still within the CGYT fold, Ian became a moderator, A&R, and curator at Rhebok Music, a promotional music network for independent electronic music producers. Outside of the group, Ian ran the short-lived film review blog CinemaSkiff over the summer of 2016. At school, he DJ’d for school clubs and wrote for the school newspaper.
After graduating from Saucon Valley High School in 2017, he began attending Northampton Community College, where he took his first steps into the industry: working on video projects, short films, and television pilots and hosted the radio show The Echo Base from October 2018 to May 2019 on the college’s radio station WNCC. He also ventured into freelance journalism, contributing to the alternative music sites All Punked Up and the Spinning Thoughts podcast on idobi Radio, as well as the nerd culture site But Why Tho? He graduated from NCC in May of 2019 with a Associates in Applied Science in Media Production.
These days, he’s a recent graduate of East Stroudsburg University, earning a Bachelors of Science in Digital Media Technologies with a concentration in Video and Television. He is also a co-founder and member of the creative media collective Cinematic Gadget, who are working on their debut short film Climacteric Desperada, which Ian co-wrote. In his free time, he DJs and occasionally produces music under the alias Blitz Comet and is also working on a novel. He hopes to enter the world of entertainment, whether it’s through writing, producing, or voice acting.