Tyler Maxin is a high school senior from Southern California. He is currently interested in the fields of film, music, and mathematics, and devotes a large percentage of his time watching films, listening to records, and reading a wide variety of material. Recently, he has been working on an extended essay as a school project on the role of paranoia and hypertext in Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire and Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49. Some of Tyler's favorite films are Fellini's La Dolce Vita, Jacques Tati's Playtime, Woody Allen's Broadway Danny Rose, Bela Tarr's Werckmeister Harmonies, and the films of Luis Bunuel, the Marx Brothers, and Werner Herzog; some of Tyler's favorite musical artists and composers are Pere Ubu, Captain Beefheart, Charles Mingus, The Velvet Underground, Morton Feldman, Les Rallizes Denudes, and Fela Kuti. Tyler is currently in the admissions process for applying to colleges/universities.

He has worked on the timelines of history.