After being canceled twice, the punk rock flea market has finally found a venue and will be taking place this Sunday at the Electric Factory. Copied below is a letter from Sean Agnew, the man behind R5Productions, with all the juicy details. As a short note, the PRFM is an awesome place to go, walk [...]
Want something to do on Tuesday nights, get in on Story Slams, part of the First Person Arts Festival. This Tuesday’s theme is “Bad Idea.” I’ve got a few of those I could share. Anyone interested in going? Even if you don’t tell a story it sounds like a good opportunity to have a laugh. [...]
What you’ll need: Black leotards Double-sided sticky tape The innards of some bean bag chairs An industrial fan A fun song What you’ll have: Goodtimes *note: the video is worth the 30 seconds of load time. Have some patience, damnit. Friendly Fires ‘Skeleton Boy’ by Clemens Habicht from Nexus Productions on Vimeo.
Some of you may know that ocassionaly the creative department likes to complain about the PCs at the office, like the fact that there still isn’t a Mac that’s hooked up to the conference room screen. Just imagine how Obama’s team felt on Wednesday. When Obama was campaigning they used Macs, Blackberrys, Facebook, Gmail, Instant Messaging, everything that your typical modern day consumer brand would use to communicate internally and externally. They even managed to overhaul the White House web site, they put a little bit of Obama flavor into it, and added a blog.
We learned awhile back about how attached Obama is to his blackberry, and never before has a President been allowed to have email (WTF?) or even a cell phone (WTF?), personally I’m okay with a President been able to keep in touch with his staff and family while on the move. However, now they’re not campaigning and they’re back to having government jobs, which isn’t Mac-friendly, and not exactly open to the idea of it’s employees logging onto Facebook, AIM, or even having external email accounts. There’s a great little story over at the Washington Post about the shock Obama’s staff got regarding the lack of current technology at the White House. They’re using Windows versions that date back 6 years.
It’ll be interesting to see how and if the Obama presidency can change the culture at the White House to become more contemporary in the means they use to stay in touch with each other, and with us.
My new favorite form of on-line entertainment, Hulu.com, has posted an awesome series of all the inauguration speeches dating back to William McKinley, our 25th President. Now all they need are reenactments for Presidents 1-24. I particularly like to watch FDR’s speech since it is so familiar to present day occurrences.
Jay-Z My President is black Remix LIVE 1-18-09 from pleasedontstare on Vimeo. Okay, so maybe Jigga didn’t perform the song you were really hoping to hear at Barack’s Neighborhood Inaugural Ball, he did sport that fresh black eyewear. What you really wanted to hear was at Jeezy’s presidential block party, and here’s the video of [...]
