The minute you begin asking for permission, is the minute you begin getting in your way.
*(You can quote me on that. I speak from experience.)
internerd:catchstars:quote-book:peetypassion:
Stop Asking For Permissionshe has greatness in her hand.
sorry to state the obvious.
but some might not have caught that.
and i feel as though it’s half the point.this is awesome. i have lots of love for strong women.
I will reblog this every time it comes up, because it is that awesome.
My first boss at UTA once told me “No one is ever going to give you permission.” I remind myself of that as often as possible.
I’m finding the Craiglist web series to be very entertaining.
From the YouTube page:
Craigslist tv is a new documentary series that follows real craigslist users, in real time, as they use craigslist to make things happen.
New Mediacracy Episode 13: The One About the IAWTV
It’s a lively one, and a bigger group than usual joins us on this episode, which we recorded immediately after the first Los Angeles meeting of the IAWTV which took place at the WGA. Tony Valenzuela, Casey McKinnon, Barrett Garese, Brett Register, and Rudy Jahchan join regulars Chris McCaleb, Zadi Diaz, and Steve Woolf to share their thoughts on the meeting and what it means for the future of the first organized member body dedicated to web video.
We spend some time talking about the Streamys, but a lot more time talking about the things we took away from the meeting and what the ramifications are for everyone invested in making web video a sustainable, progressive medium. Also, we drink wine and laugh a lot.
Most importantly, listen and leave a comment so we can get some outside feedback on the topics we discuss, such as the idea of the new gatekeepers, why we are trying so hard to replicate tv and film models, the vision of the IAWTV, and Chris McCaleb jumping out of planes.
Fun! Forbidden Zone, directed by Richard Elfman (Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo), will have its New York color premiere March 20, 2010 at the Museum of Modern Art, in conjunction with the Tim Burton exhibition. It’s also opening as a stage musical at the Sacred Fools Theater in LA on May 21st!
:)
Today we announced that we’re opening an L.A. office for blip.tv and hiring the awesome Steve Woolf from Epic Fu to be our West Coast Director of Content Development.
Check out the story by Liz Shannon Miller on blip.tv’s West Coast expansion on NewTeeVee here.
Steve knows all aspects of producing, distributing and monetizing a Web show through his work with Zadi Diaz on Epic Fu. He’s been working with us at blip.tv since we started the company 5 years ago. We couldn’t be more excited about expanding operations out West, working more closely with the incredible talent in Los Angeles, and having Steve on board. This is a great day for blip.tv, and for show creators looking to stay independent and build a brand on their own terms.
Blip.tv Aims to Engage L.A. With Epic Fu‘s Steve Woolf
Absolutely! Great things ahead. :)
Super excited about this. I love Steve and Blip.tv both so much. This is going to be huge for the community, you watch.
Hundreds of thousands of people devote their lives from childhood to learning to twirl their legs rapidly (dancers), or to touch notes and strings very rapidly (musicians), or to draw with paint and represent what they see (artists), or to turn every phrase inside out and find a rhyme to every word. And these people, often very kind and clever, and capable of all sorts of useful labour, grow savage over their specialised and stupefying occupations and become one-sided and self-complacent specialists, dull to all the serious phenomena of life, and skilful at rapidly twisting their legs, their tongues, and their fingers.
Julius Caesar of the Internet - WSJ.com
My head is exploding. WTF? Skewed is a very kind word. There’s a long battle ahead and we are running out of time.
Remember folks: The WSJ opinion section is where facts go to die. If it’s so skewed that it can’t legally be called objective news, don’t worry, we’ll just run it in opinion.
Go ahead and read this, and then wonder whether we’re winning or losing with Net Neutrality.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-9)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
The Monster In Your Head » Thirty Reminders of a Mindful Leader
1. Take time to meditate, reflect, and study.
2. Cultivate a household that appreciates the training of a mindful leader.
3. Create moments of silence: retreat to be alone on occasion.
4. Contemplate the impermanent nature of wealth and career.
5. Show respect to those who teach you how to become a mindful leader.
6. On occasion, meditate and study with others who aspire to become mindful leaders.
7. Work hard to open to life’s circumstances; step beyond resistance.
8. Permit life to reveal its fundamental nature: free, vast, and confident.
9. Put others ahead of your self; focus on promoting their welfare.
10. Carefully examine all insults; quietly wish the best to those who are rude.
11. Clean up messes and difficulties, even if they are not of your making.
12. Treat adverse circumstances as your teacher.
13. When hurt by those you trust and love, show kindness.
14. Never lose courage in the face of physical pain and difficult circumstances.
15. When praised, carefully examine your tendency toward pride and arrogance.
16. Take full responsibility for your anger; lay it down gently but quickly.
17. Abandon addiction and compulsive attractions; savor pleasures with dignity.
18. Dispel the blinding effects of making “me” the center of everything.
19. When grieving, contemplate the passing nature of everything.
20. Enjoy bestowing gifts on others.
21. Cultivate your natural tendency to be decent toward others.
22. Patiently invite all that arises-good, bad, happy, sad.
23. Never give up inspiring others and contributing to the world.
24. Rest in the ease of synchronized mind.
25. Recognize that the world is free of your story lines. Notice the situation directly.
26. Reflect on your mistakes, make them friends, not enemies.
27. Create a household environment that is uplifted and wise.
28. Abandon harsh language.
29. Be sharp and quick to cut the root of arrogance and stupidity.
30. Dedicate all success to the benefit of others.
Nothing cures a bad migraine like good coffee and a cocolate croissant in a mellow NYC cafe… at least for me. :)
ORO Cafe, East Village, NYC
Over the past three months, she collected more than 5,000 images and screen grabs from the Facebook profiles of people from all over the world, most of whom she doesn’t know. She spent literally hundreds of hours trolling profiles—friends of friends, friends of friends of friends, and beyond—collecting the images of their lives. She then took these idealized images of youth and printed them on t-shirts, made them into popstar-esque posters, and framed them as if they were her own. The result of her obsession is something both beautiful and creepy, depending on how you look at it.
Crazy how your face could be on someone’s T-Shirt.
Stranger on my T-Shirt.
- Page 12 of 396
- Next »
- « Previous
What you'll see here: Musings on the intersection of filmmaking, the web & tech, videoblogs, documentary photos and videos, citizen journalism, writing, creative inspiration, scientific exploration, internet culture..... and a bit of personal randomness, art, and music mixed in. ;)
