I attended the 140 Conference, an event to teach companies, brands, and Internet celebrity wannabes how to use Twitter to pimp themselves. Founder Jeff Pulver positions Twitter as a reflection of how the Internet is becoming a medium of “the now”, meaning it’s coming to life in real-time. The conference took place in a theater, [...]
A piece of mine for RT: How does the media choose what they are going to cover, and who chooses it, and doesn’t it seem like they all collectively decide to cover the SAME thing at once, no matter how much is going on in the world?
I had the privilege of sitting down recently with Daniel Pinchbeck, author and all around genius who’s an expert on the the apocalyptic theories surrounding the year 2012. For quite a while now, people have been writing in and asking me to cover 2012, and I never knew what it was about other than something [...]
A piece of mine for RT: When do nude pictures stop being artistically graceful, and become obscene?
This week, I visited the International Gift Fair at the Jacob Javits Center, where suppliers displayed their wares to potential retailers. Basically, people who make things set up a booth in hopes that people who own shops will attend the convention and order lots of the things for their stores. So, imagine this: 3 floors [...]
This is a fun political video if I do say so myself. No one would deny this is a pivotal election year in the United States. Since each American has to choose which candidate gets his or her vote, you’d think our media would focus on presenting helpful information to inform citizens’ voting preferences for [...]
As the US plummets into an economic recession, many bad side effects are being felt by all: the higher cost of gasoline and oil is translating to a higher cost of everything. This sucks. But, I can’t help but wonder: is there a glaring positive side to this social issue for our culture and society, [...]
One of the names people like to call me on social networking sites, which I find extremely irritating, is a feminist. Why does this bother me? Isn’t feminism a good thing? I mean, it’s basically a social responsibility movement bent on giving men and women should have equal social, political, and economic rights (Texas accent [...]
See “Prejudice” for the inspiration for this li’l social responsibility video. But this little social humor video is basically me asking people what they are prejudice about, and them actually responding and quite easily ‘fessing up to their cultural –ism of choice. That to me broke one of my preconceived notions. I thought for sure [...]