How It Started
🔥 Why I Created MIS🟥
I’m Brian Rund — an Emmy-winning audio mixer, sound designer, and composer.
The idea for MISRD began while I was serving in the Navy, stationed on a submarine out of New London, CT. When my shipmates found out about my religion, the stereotypes came fast. I couldn’t believe some of the things they genuinely thought — and said out loud. I had to live and work alongside them, with nowhere to go and no way to escape. It wasn’t easy — and trying to change their minds felt pointless.
After the Navy, I went to school and eventually found work in the entertainment industry. I commuted into New York City wearing ripped jeans, a black t-shirt, a hoodie, and headphones — surrounded by people in suits who looked at me like I didn’t belong, or worse, like I was trash. They wouldn’t sit next to me unless they had no other choice. I worked long hours while helping raise two daughters with my wife. I loved my job. But whether it was strangers on the bus or people I knew, the same thing kept happening:
I was judged without anyone asking a single question.
That feeling — of being misread, again and again — stuck with me.
I created MISRD as a way to wear what I couldn’t always say — to quietly challenge every quick judgment and stereotype.
What started as something personal became something bigger:
For anyone who’s ever felt the same. And anyone ready to show they won’t live inside someone else’s box.