Other Minds’ Associate Director, Blaine Todd, studied Literature at San Francisco State University and Aarhus University in Denmark. In addition to his work as a fundraiser and arts manager, Blaine curates Other Minds’ Latitudes concert series and directed the Latitudes documentary video series. Prior to Other Minds, he was a fundraiser for The Studio Museum in Harlem and the New-York Historical Society in New York and worked as an Associate Editor at Francis Ford Coppola’s short fiction magazine Zoetrope: All-Story. Blaine also helps curate Full Spectrum Records and the Los Angeles-based publisher and record label Besom Presse.

A poet and musician, he has performed in and written for several Bay Area projects including Night Collectors; Common Eider, King Eider; and Real Life Rock & Roll Band. Under his own name, his songwriting blends low-rent tragedy, pioneered by writers like Raymond Carver and Lucia Berlin, with a reverence for nature and rural life. In addition to an obvious literary country influence, his music is informed by Mississippi trance blues, the avant-hillbilly music of composers like Henry Flynt, and the Western-tinged drone of Earth. His music is available via Perpetual Doom, Worried Songs, Full Spectrum Records, Debacle Records, and others.