Seize The Moment! Media Training Conference starts today

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

Why don’t you follow me?

After a recent suggestion that this become the new Twitter theme song (love it!) I had to dig up this vid.  So Classic.

Filed under: Dance, Music

Mothafucka, play the 20 minute version.

Doesn’t matter how you feel about Diddy, electro, pop, yadda yadda yadda.  This mix is sublimely, supremely unadulteratedly dope as fuck.  Period.

‘Lectro Black-The Last Train to Paris Mixtape is an extended electro love letter from Felix Da Housecat and Sir Puff that unfolds over 59 minutes of the most gorgeous, razor edged beats I’ve heard in a minute. I mean, after all, it is Felix on the cuts.  He of Kitten & thee Glitz royalty.  Dude’s almost like God.

I once heard a quote from Gregory Hines about how hoofers never turn in their tap shoes, and, well, you could kinda say diddy’s a bit of the same. There’ve been a lot of shiny, ghostwritten permutations since the days he made his bread as a dancer for Father MC but every once and a while the roots show through.  Remember Get Off?

This 8 minute spoken word piece from DJ Hell and his diddyness  (IMO one of the best spoken word/electro joints since Coded Language) should put things back in perspective:

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Why we love Dylan Thomas and Rodney Dangerfield

A little morning motivation

DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

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Go Go for the people

Woke up this morning with DMV dreams and Go Go visions.  It’s hard as hell describing a Go Go to someone’s who’s never been so here ya go.  Rock with me…

Filed under: Uncategorized , DC, DMV, Go go, Gogo, Northeast groovers

Underword tonight? In Oakland? Fuck. At least I’ve got the video…

If you’re in the Bay and haven’t, unlike some other preoccupied morons who also happen to write this blog, made other plans tonight, there’s absolutely no excuse for not going to this show.  I mean fuck, look at this video.  I need some of what this guy’s on.   Catch the british bleeps of Underworld tonight at the Fox in Oakland.

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Music for Lazers

It’s just dope, no questions.

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Afrofuturist down. RIP Charles Huntley Nelson

more about "Mutropolis on Vimeo", posted with vodpod

While a lot of the future soul crowd has been (rightfully) mourning the death of Slum Village MC Baatin, another afrofuturistic luminary passed over the weekend.

Filed under: Uncategorized , Afrofuturism, Art, avante garde, baatin, Charles Huntley Nelson, dj spooky, rebirth of a nation, slum village, Video