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brain leaks

What Parents Should Know About Toyota’s ‘Small Talk’ Campaign

May 8, 2010

Integrated marketing campaigns can be immerse experiences that add to an ongoing dialogue, inspiring positive change. But more often than not, they can be creepy as hell and make me vomit in my mouth a little. Enter the “Small Talk” Campaign, a new partnership between Toyota and YouTube that encourages parents to whore out their [...]

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My Homie, The Interwebz

May 3, 2010

This is my story, told through search.

If you’re curious about more details, I wrote my “origins” post back in 2007. I did a 5 year benchmark post last fall, where I dissected some of the events that helped me “get here.”
One thing is for sure: I would not be where I am today without [...]

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On Working At SXSW & Online Life Colliding With Offline

April 1, 2010

Back in 2006(7)? one of my bosses called me into his office to warn me about blogging.
Apparently someone had submitted a “tip” that I was talking about my job on my blog. Luckily, I wasn’t an idiot and what I had written was purely factual and easily found in an existing press release…

All this to [...]

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Brain Leaks: Fear & Femininity

February 23, 2010

related post: Girl Antagonists In Cinema
I’ve noticed that a lot of my favorite films, books, videos and works of art have to do with a fear of the mystical/”unknown” aspects of femininity.
Frequently, the content creator is preoccupied with his/her discomfort around femininity and is outright with it or tries to disguise it with symbolism.
One [...]

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On Nicki Minaj, Sexuality & Media Literacy

January 29, 2010

Nicki Minaj is not the first female artist to use her sexuality as a platform for success and she certainly won’t be the last. This post isn’t intended to blast her, I’m actually a fan. I think her lyricism is clever and playful with a subversive streak. She’s hot. She’s smart. She knows exactly what [...]

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Thanksgiving In New York: 5 Years Later

November 26, 2009

Five years ago, I spent Thanksgiving back in Sacramento, CA. I had only lived in New York for four months but was already struggling with my new reality; I needed to escape for a while.
What I am remembering right now is the conflicting ball of feelings that I had during that Thanksgiving — happiness, extreme [...]

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@dcap’s Twitstory Thoughts + 3 Cool Discoveries

October 10, 2009

Before Oprah and that Ashton guy joined, I was a Twitter OG. Back in 2007, none of my friends were using the microblogging service and I was sending updates into the ether that weren’t benefitting me very much. Thankfully, my ludite homies clued in and now everyone and everything seems to be on Twitter, including [...]

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The Bronx: A Home & Path To Transformation

September 8, 2009

Hello, readers. It’s been a while.

I’m back in NYC, having spent the last week of August packing and moving to a temporary residence in the Bronx. Why such an extreme move, you may ask? Like many young people affected by the economy, I no longer have a staff job with company subsidized benefits. Unlike many of [...]

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California Dreamin’

August 6, 2009

July 28th was my last day with MTV News. After three incredible years, I knew it was time to go. Here are some photos that encapsulate what my time there was like:

I decided to leave because I’ve wanted to be a film director/producer since I was 10 years old. After five years of working in [...]

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Thank You, Michael Jackson

June 29, 2009

Since the announcement of Michael Jackson’s death, the media has been scrambling to find a way to encapsulate, document and wrap up a life that, to many, means so much more than what simple words could ever express.
At MTV (which wouldn’t be what it is today without him) this past week, people had to [...]

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