November 6, 2009 • 3:16 pm 0
Good morning,
Watch this. It’s hilarious. Don’t think about it too much about it though. Just laugh, and continue with your day.
Filed under: Marketing, Media, Video , Commercials, humour, italy., Race, Video
November 3, 2009 • 2:28 am 2
One of my new favorite artists.
“Provocatively antimonumental, this object reverses all sorts of expectations”-Ann Umland on “Object”
Filed under: Art , Art, Meret Oppenheim, Surrealism
October 23, 2009 • 2:08 pm 0
Quite possibly the coolest thing I’ve seen in the last 20 minutes. Goes good with coffee.
Good morning.
Filed under: Art, Film , Passion pit, sleepyhead, trippy, video art
October 22, 2009 • 5:53 pm 0
Ambessa Contave, one half of Oakland hip hop duo Fiyawata, organizer and green movement mobilizer giving a shout in favor of climate change regulations. This Saturday is the International Day of Climate Change Action and eco activists around the world are hosting over 1500 actions in over 125 countries, calling for climate justice at the Copenhagen climate talks from Dec. 7-18. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: Activism, Art, Media, Music, San Francisco
• 2:54 am 1
Think about it. Do you want AT&T, Comcast and Verizon controlling your access to the net? Which websites you can visit? How quickly you download porn? That’s not the America I signed up for.
Do the right thing: support Net Neutrality. Sign the petition and leave a comment in favor of making Net Neutrality a law.
Filed under: Activism, Media, News , At&T, Comcast, justice, Media, Net Neutrality, Save the internet, verizon
October 21, 2009 • 10:41 pm 0
Hyperlocal. Citizen journalism. User generated content. All of these new buzzwords are being thrown around as possible solutions to the current journalism crisis. All around the country some really brilliant people are producing some really great projects in a collective effort to save the news business. Or at least to shape what comes after it’s demise.
We recently threw our hat into this idealistic ring with the hopes that we can better serve the Oakland public and turn some of those buzzwords into tangible next steps and a sustainable journalism model. This past Monday we launched Oakland Local, a new hyperlocal news site that incorporates traditional journalism with multimedia, user generated content and citizen journalism all in one place.
Filed under: Media, News, Oakland , journalism, Media, new media, Oakland, startups
October 14, 2009 • 7:53 pm 0
This makes me smile. A lot.
I’ve been getting my grumpy old man on for a minute when it comes to the current crop of “freestyle” MC’s and their shifting idea of what that means: spitting prewrittens, doing internet research and bringing out all types of props and skits and ish. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: Music, Oakland , Art, Bay Area, Doseone, freestyle, Hip Hop, MC, Oakland
October 7, 2009 • 7:20 pm 10
(Props to The Hood Nerd for his original post.)
CNN, we have a problem.
By now most people have heard of Derrion Albert, the 16 year old Chicago honor student killed in the middle of a gang brawl last week. The incident was caught on video and has sparked all the moral outrage, tears and calls to action such tragedies are known to inspire.
It’s a terrible situation any way you slice it and in situations like these there are always loads of valid questions, anger and finger pointing-merited or otherwise. People are hurt and looking for culprits, some unwavering boogie man to pin the issue on before burning them at the stake. And it’s here that CNN steps in with the reporting equivalent of a sucker punch, landing a two piece right on the jaw of the hip hop community.
Over the weekend, CNN’s Don Lemon did a story package that included an emotional interview with Albert’s mother, a Q&A with a couple of Chi-town community activists and a sit down with the rapper Nas, who had penned a letter entitled “An Open Letter to Young Warriors” that addresses the violence and calls for young cats to rethink priorities, drop some of the stupid shit and and make more positive choices. All in all not a bad look, and so far it’s the most action taken by anyone from the mainstream urban entertainment community.
August 27, 2009 • 4:25 pm 0
The Bay’s been bubbling about this conference for the last few weeks and now it’s finally here!
The Seize the Moment Media training is two days of budget conscious (hella cheap) media trainings focused on community and ethnic media (but all are welcome).
There’s a long list of training sessions, including one on using online tools to promote your brand, which, ahem, I’m leading the with most fabulous Sarah Dopp *does a happy little groupie dance*.
But don’t think that just cuz I managed to finagle my way onto the team that’s it’s an event for lightweights. The trainings are bring together some serious using media muscle with sessions being led by the likes of Susan Mernit, David Cohn, JD Lasica, Kara Andrade and a lot of other internet famous smart as hell new media types.
Filed under: Media , journalism, Media, multimedia, newspapers, training
August 26, 2009 • 4:02 pm 1
A left coast, black futurist take on art, life, culture, and randomness.
Heavy on the randomness.
My name is Kwan and I write things.
Features, news and essays, fiction, poems and collateral, marketing strategies and bits of conversations, genius words of inspiration and dada nonsense couplets.
It's a bit of an addiction.
But it helps to put things in perspective
And so far it pays the bills.
But you're not here to pay the bills are you? If you were, you'd be over here. Where I write for the big bucks.
You're here to get some of those not so random words aren't you?
I can see it in your eyes-the deep longing, the searching, the need.
It's okay, really. That's why I'm here too:
-to toss sentences into the air and see what soars
-to chase ideas with butterfly nets
-to figure out the what's and why's
-to find out the who's and when's
-to grab all the little slices
-and wrap arms around the big questions.
I think you'll dig it
KwanDammit
Boothism
Boothism
