JESSICA ZETA!

Creative Mornings New York hosted Seth Godin, entrepreneur...

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:58:00 -0400

Creative Mornings New York hosted Seth Godin, entrepreneur extraordinaire to speak about work that matters. A real treat to find this morning, since Seth is an amazing public speaker. Think Ira Glass for media, marketing, and design nerds. A must watch for anyone doing creative work.

Spoiler: We have it all backwards, folks. We no longer live in an industrial economy with a mass market, we live in a connected one where the most popular beer is None of the Above - where creating connections create value. “I have no doubt that the people in this room are going to be successful. The question is, Are you going to matter?”

Cities by night - European Space Agency

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:14:00 -0400

Milan

Cities by night - European Space Agency

I’m really just a sucker for anything Dilla. Sunshine...

Sat, 11 May 2013 16:00:00 -0400

I’m really just a sucker for anything Dilla.

Sunshine Screwface - Mos Def.

Wet hair in my towel turban

Sat, 04 May 2013 17:48:00 -0400

Wise words from my wise friends have been jiggling around my brain a lot lately. I suppose it’s because I’m done with most of my projects and so I have a lot of extra space in my head. Some nugz are as follows:

“I’m not worried. There is a time for everything.” - J

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” - Paulo Coelho

“In college, I didn’t even think about how good things come to those who make good things happen. It was just instinctive.” - S

Aaaaand add that on to all the Thoughtcatalogs I’ve been reading… Not even sorry, AT ALL.

It’s times like these I feel so dang young. It’s times like these I feel most…empty. Not empty like I have nothing, but empty in a nostalgic sense. Most of the things I loved most about this semester are over. The things that made me excited and woop crazily and wrack my brain too much and wake up early (consistently!) and feel proud to be part of, they were all pretty fucking great. and I miss them, terribly.

It’s the same kind of missing (terribly) that I experienced the worse half of the past year. The quotes I was reading back then were much different than the ones I am now, trust. But the missing is the same: this feeling of looking down at what I have, scratching my head, and saying, “Now, what do I do?”…which explains why I have a certain someone stuck in my head at the moment, to much of my chagrin.

But the feelings are different. My heart is lighter. My head, for as muddled it feels like right now - it is peaceful. The words I read lift me up, for I understand the beauty in what I’ve found and more importantly, in what I’m looking for. For once, I’m itching to be back in LA and continue blazing my path. I think about this certain someone, and there is less wanting, less regret. The chagrin is not anger anymore - it’s an all-too settled, familiar feeling. I’m going to be better than that. I’m going to contribute to the joy.

When I think about how much I’ve grown since then, I’m reminded of how blessed I am and continue to be. The combination of these quotes just kill me with how close to home they are. This sort of peace, outpouring of love takes time - it’s simply instinctive. The realization that I have gotten this far is humbling. There is a grace to this journey.

I’m definitely still scratching my head: “What do I do now?” But the hurt is gone, the confusion is gone, the anger is gone. Now there’s just wonderment, and hopefulness, and most of all, thankfulness for my beautiful bewilderment. Greater things, both good and bad, are yet to come - I’m tackling them headfirst, with a smile.

I’m really just a sucker for anything with a jazz...

Fri, 03 May 2013 17:36:00 -0400

I’m really just a sucker for anything with a jazz sample

Letter Home - Blu

Omelette, Adorable Animation About a Dog Who Makes an Omelette...

Fri, 03 May 2013 17:35:00 -0400

Omelette, Adorable Animation About a Dog Who Makes an Omelette for His Owner

Photo

Thu, 02 May 2013 03:00:10 -0400

TODAY WAS A GREAT DAY. Finished two of my most meaningful...

Wed, 01 May 2013 04:12:00 -0400

TODAY WAS A GREAT DAY. Finished two of my most meaningful presentations/ videos strong, with work that I’m proud of, with people who I have come to love, and got a few laughs along the way. I take it that these greatass vibes from this incredible semester are the world’s way of telling me that entertainment and producing is really where my heart is at right now. I’m all smiles tonight.

On that note, I present my first short film - or, more like mini-film. Wrote this at an interesting time in my life, and so glad I went out and went for it. This is very dear to me and I hope that it translates. Enjoy.

I have many dreams, but the one most fantastic, challenging, and...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 07:12:00 -0400

I have many dreams, but the one most fantastic, challenging, and awesome to me is to travel across the world teaching English for a spell. I’ve struggled with this push and pull of being young and traveling, or going headfirst into my career - but something of late that I’ve realized is, to quote my good friend Brandon Taylor, “Por que no los dos?”

This photoset reminds me of this dream and the small, but growing, fire within me to fulfill it.

Jacinta Moore

This past month has been crazy and it’s just about to get...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:42:00 -0400

This past month has been crazy and it’s just about to get even more ridiculous - in between my final presentations, end of year festivities, and freaking chilling - I just gotta remind myself to GROOOOOOVE and Miguel’s Adorn lets me do just that. Add in some Tokimonsta and I’m golden.

It’s almost summertime! and that means some funky fresh beats,...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:46:47 -0400

It’s almost summertime! and that means some funky fresh beats, ala last summer’s Odd Future obsession. I’m sorry to say I’ve been sleepin on Thundercat, but NO MORE. Whimsically wandered to Potholes this morn while waiting for vids to import, and came across this lovely, nuanced song. Clicked through and saw a Vine video of Flying Lotus introducing J Dilla to Herbie Hancock….WHAT THE FUCK!

Star Wars Vehicles as Buses and Taxis by Mattias Adolfsson

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:29:00 -0400

Star Wars Vehicles as Buses and Taxis by Mattias Adolfsson

"But for now, at least, Netflix is refusing to play the all-American numbers game. In a letter to..."

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:19:57 -0400

“But for now, at least, Netflix is refusing to play the all-American numbers game. In a letter to investors a few weeks ago, company CEO Reed Hastings dropped a pretty big hint about why, and it boils down to this: At least in the near-term, data on how many people stream House of Cards right after it goes up is meaningless. “Linear channels must aggregate a large audience at a given time of day and hope the show programmed will actually attract enough viewers despite this constraint,” Hastings wrote. “With Netflix, members can enjoy a show anytime, and over time, we can effectively put the right show in front of members based on their viewing habits … For linear TV, the fixed number of prime-time slots mean that only shows that hit it big and fast survive … In contrast, Internet TV is an environment where smaller or quirkier shows can prosper because they can find a big enough audience over time. In baseball terms, linear TV only scores with home runs. We score with home runs, too, but also with singles, doubles, and triples.” It’s not that Netflix doesn’t care about how many people watch its original shows; it does, very much so. It just can happen over a much longer period of time. “If they like [a show] they watch more,” Netflix programming chief Ted Sarandos told the The Hollywood Reporter last year. “If they watch more, they will value the service more.” What separates Netflix from ABC or even AMC is that it truly doesn’t care if that engagement takes place tomorrow night at ten or six months from now when you come down with a cold and decide to spend the day watching Kevin Spacey sneer at people.”

- I love Josef Adalian’s Vulture article about Netflix’s decision not to follow the ”linear TV” traditions of posting metrics after a series airs. Giving the message that it won’t play to the rules of this industry is a great move for a disruptor that has as much power and possible leverage. Not to mention, it bodes well for web-series creators - there are people out there in the space who will champion their digital content.

Coffee and showers

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:01:00 -0400

As thee Beyonce would say, “Feel bad for yourself for one day..then use that to get better the next day.”

Seize the opportunities man. They’re right in front of you and they make you happy.

And, DIVE.

And, why am I on facebook still?!

Photo

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 03:55:04 -0400

I was in a funk so I listened to some funk and now I feel funky...

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:54:00 -0500

I was in a funk so I listened to some funk and now I feel funky fresh

nprfreshair: Jon Stewart is getting serious this summer. No,...

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:51:00 -0500

nprfreshair:

Jon Stewart is getting serious this summer. No, seriously: John Oliver is going to fill in for him as Stewart takes three months off from The Daily Show to direct a film. A drama, no less. It’s based on the book Then They Came for Me: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity and Survival” by Maziar Bahari. Stewart wrote the screenplay and The Daily Show actually appears as an plot point in both the book and the script.

New York Times ArtsBeat:

A Canadian-Iranian journalist and documentarian, Mr. Bahari was jailed in Tehran in 2009 for four months, accused of plotting a revolution against the government. Shortly before his arrest, Mr. Bahari had participated in a “Daily Show” sketch, conducted by one of the show’s correspondents, Jason Jones, who was pretending to be a spy. Mr. Bahari’s captors used the footage against him.

“You can imagine how upset we were,” Mr. Stewart said, “and I struck up a friendship with him afterward.”

Mr. Stewart said he eventually read Mr. Bahari’s book and “because I’m naïve about the movie business” started to think about a film. He said he did not intend to also adapt the screenplay. “It just kind of happened,” he said.

Here’s an interview with Maziar Bahari (in which he talks about The Daily Show incident) and one with Stewart.

The Daily Show | June 7th 2011 [x]

Everything about this is great. I hope to do things like this someday.

Photographs of the Pistorius Case in South Africa

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:56:05 -0500

Photographs of the Pistorius Case in South Africa:

I don’t know how I feel about gun control.

"In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully..."

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 05:50:00 -0500

“In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.”

- Buddhist Saying

Wes Anderson’s obsession with hands.

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:21:00 -0500

Wes Anderson’s obsession with hands.