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Michael Bloom (born 1971)is an American journalist, filmmaker and radiologic technologist of Irish and Jewish descent.

A 1992 graduate on New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where he majored in screenwriting, he began writing for the features section of The Washington Square News at New York University in 1988. His first article covered a speech given by Malcolm McLaren at the Fashion Institute of Technology in the fall of 1988, where McLaren was on a panel with fashion designer Stephen Sprouse. He began to write interviews including subjects: Joey Ramone, Dee Dee Ramone, Sham 69, Alien Sex Fiend, Spin Doctors and Kurt Loder. While a sophmore in 1990 he began a fanzine called The Sylvan Muse including interviews with Sam Raimi, Jello Biafra, Trent Reznor, Diamanda Galas and Penelope Spheris.

As a documentary filmmaker he produced Jack Parsons Legend in 1998 with Patrick Esposito, while both were underlings at Fox Studios in Los Angeles. The two collected interviews with JPL Oral Historian John Bluth, Phd., author Robert Anton Wilson and Bill Heidrick in an effort to produce a movie on the historical figure Jack Parsons; based on his unproduced screenplay Liber 999. A re-edited version called JPL later won the Horrible Truth award at a small independent film festival called Creepfest held at a gothic club Bar Sinister in Hollywood in 2003. He had a brief association with Kenneth Anger to try and produce the screenplay, which resulted in a tangential short documentary called Ackerman Confidential featuring Kenneth Anger interviewing Forrest Ackerman in his Hollywood home. After a split with Anger, Bloom edited the footage into a 10-minute short called The Curse.

As a filmmaker he wrote, produced and directed Adam's Apocalypse a 23-minute short film in 2003. This effort included the collaboration of cinematographer Gary Graver, who worked with Orson Welles for over a decade until his death. A follow-up short film Adam's Awakening was also shot with Graver a year later. The final film in the trilogy Adam's Apotheosis was never completed.

Changing career paths he entered the Bellevue Hospital School of Radiologic Technology in 2006 and was certified a Radiologic Technologist (RT) by the American Association of Radiologic Technologists in 2008. During this time he continued his passion for journalism with an interview of author Nick Tosches in Scram magazine.

He works as a 3-D Post-Processing Specialist in the New York University Langone Medical Center's department of Radiology.


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 * Scram Magazine Interview with Nick Tosches
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