Buy Nothing challenge-2 Street graffiti from one of the first “Buy Nothing” days in 2005. (Photo from Flickr by Resa & Krister) Alex Stonehill Alex is a cofounder and editor of The Seattle Globalist. He's a visual journalist whose work has been published by PBS, The Seattle Times, FRONTLINE/World and the Seattle Weekly. Alex teaches journalism in the University of Washington's Department of Communication and recently directed the documentary film Barzan.