I’ll make the most of it…

Woke up with Fiona visions.

 

Filed under: Video , criminal, fiona apple, Video

Fat Twinks, Rage and Dancing Like Black People

You’ve just got to love the searchabilityness of the interwebs. We say it all the time, but NOTHING get’s lost on this thing. Every bobble of information, every bit of conversation, every off handed tag you’ve ever tugged is always there somewhere lurking, ready to pop up on a search engine in all it’s embarrassing glory. It’s kind of like your mom showing up at your office with photos of you as a kid in your Spider Man underoos. Good thing I was a cute kid.

Filed under: Media, Um WTF? , Funny, keywords, Random as a MF'er, search, tags

Don’t drop acid before you pitch a major league game.

Or maybe, if you’re Dock Ellis, you should.  Here’s your Monday motivation:

Filed under: Um WTF? , acid, animation, baseball, Dock Ellis, Funny, Sports

Spells, media and male feminists: new interviews

So now that Oakland Local’s out of the gate and in the race I’ve been getting back into the swing of reporting after spending most of the year on marketing projects.   It’s amazing how a few months can add dust to your dancing shoes, but I figure I’ll be back to fighting weight and ready to clean off a place on the mantle for a Pulitzer by, um, realistically, next Tuesday.

But in the meantime I’ve been grabbing lots of impromptu interviews (which I’ll get around to posting soon) in addition to more structured dealies.   Lots of talk about art, media, journalism, and the general grappling with the WTF world that we do around these parts.   A lot of the interviews were for Oakland Local but of course my alter ego-The Long Winded Inquisitor-made sure to cover enough ground to be able to chop, screw and parse till my little editor’s heart is content.  I like the idea of a longer book project, but then so does everybody else, so we’ll see how that goes.

For right now just check a couple of edited pieces that I have up now. I’ll be posting more regularly and figuring out what to do with the raw (rawr baby) material.

Filed under: Art, Interviews, Media , Activism, alters, Art, curation, feminism, Interviews, Media, richmond rape, visual art

Coloured is better

Good morning,

Watch this.  It’s hilarious. Don’t think about it too much about it though. Just laugh, and continue with your day.

more about “Coloured is better“, posted with vodpod

Filed under: Marketing, Media, Video , Commercials, humour, italy., Race, Video

“Liberty is not granted, it must be taken”-Meret Oppenheim

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

Wake up sleepyheads

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

1 for the people, 2 for the globe, 3 for the people. Keep it Eco.

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.

Filed under: Activism, Art, Media, Music, San Francisco

Why you should care about Net Neutrality

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

Oakland Local: News for the people

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