“Do you maybe live with Tim Pool?” he asked. “The guy who streams Occupy Wall Street?” The complainers weren’t sure. Wikipedia and news photographs were consulted. Matthews and Conner realized that the short guy who had been sleeping on a deflated air mattress in their closet was indeed Tim Pool, a Chicago citizen journalist who was nominated for this year’s Time 100, for his Livestream of the O.W.S. protests. And the tall man who was sleeping on a love seat in the living room was Geoff Shively, who, with Pool, built the Occupy Wall Street drone.
The pair were crashing in the Crown Heights apartment during a spree of media appearances. “We’ve been doing the panel thing,” Shively, who is twenty-nine and missing at least one tooth, said the other evening in the living room, twirling a forkful of sauceless spaghetti. Pool, who is twenty-six and is never seen without his gray beanie, jumped in. “I did South by Southwest, too,” he said. “People want to talk to us about the politics of Occupy, but our thing is that we just want to get information out. This one time, on MSNBC, the interviewer says, ‘So, Tim! You’re considered the face of Occupy Wall Street.’ And I said that wasn’t right, so they cut the camera and started over. And then she says, ‘So, you’re the voice of Occupy Wall Street.’ And I’m, like, ‘Still no.’ ”
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