@videojay
Music listener, not player. Ska and Hip Hop fanatic. Buddhist. Obsessed with NDE videos on YouTube. Filmmaker. Advertiser. Madly in love & married to everyone's dream, but especially mine. Ice cream aficionado.
Empty convex full
of refracted light
Ground brown drowns
in bubbling water
Again and again
Full convex emptied
Into a whimsical mug
#poetry #poetryexercise #poetry101
I read non stop. As soon as one book closes another opens. I rarely feel compelled to come tell social media about what I just read.
5 stars, would recommend
Ultimately, I found this to be an eye opening lesson in empathy and education, something that I think is only uniquely possible in the written word (despite my love of film and other art forms). It is too bad the people who need to read this the most would never.
And finally, they talk about the aftermath that we all witnessed and lived through: the largest civil rights protest movement to unfold since the 60s, and at the height of a global pandemic.
They gave Derek Chauvin's family a similar look back as a compelling point of contrast.
They also placed the Floyd family lineage in the greater tapestry of American history, going back to a great grandfather who was the largest Black land owner in North Carolina until Jim Crow laws carved up his property to the highest bidder.
They did not gloss over his addiction or legal troubles. There is such a vivid portrait painted of a very loving man who constantly strived to overcome his demons and become a better human.
Hoo boy, what a powerhouse of a book. The authors committed to a Herculean effort to depict who George Floyd was as a person, without speculation, direct from the mouths and memories of those who knew him best.
And then I placed it on a shelf. I think that must've been 3 or 4 years ago.
I finally read it this year. Finished it the past weekend, in fact.
One year for #BlackHistoryMonth, Leo Burnett let its employees pick one of a handful of relevant books for the month and sent it to our houses. I chose His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and The Struggle For Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa.
Edging towards a finished state with this piece ✍️
#art #drawing #charcoal #darkart
I just published Driving Past Greatness | My Late Discovery of Motown’s Front Door medium.com/p/driving-pa...
I fixed it. Cleaned up the list to just ska bands, podcasts, and record companies instead of having every profile I could find with ska in the description. Way more ska-specific content now. Let me know if there are other bands or ska entities I should add to it.
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I made what was supposed to be a ska-themed feed, and it's somehow full of the wrong accounts and irrelevant content. Running a feed on Bluesky is no joke. #ska #bskyfeeds
Love this
Update: I've since acquired 2 more Brownies.
Now I'm looking for a band who can find the budget to shoot a music video on 8mm film.
I started a ska list. I'm trying to figure out how to make it a feed, haven't done that before. But, hey, let me know who else should be added to this:
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I made a new music video! This is the official music video for Matt Wixson's "If You Weren't A Witch"
Let me know what you think!
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#ska #musicvideo #indiefilm #indiemusic
I directed a #48hourfilmproject again this year. We're premiering it digitally Sunday at 7pm ET. Join us!
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I appreciate Quinn Zeagler's work on the facilities committee and believe she gives a shit about Ferndale. But if this is a race between Mikulski and Zeagler, Mikulski gets my vote every time.
I don't know much about Eddie Sabatini yet, and will withhold my opinion there until I know more.
Terrible take. Laura Mikulski has a long history of finding nuance in every issue, doing deep dive research, and making a pragmatic choice that's best for citizens.
Four people posing in front of Hitsville USA, the front of the Motown Museum.
4 people inside studio A of the Motown Museum
Two men in front of a wall of mounted records at Motown Museum.
Motown Museum day with Ian and Michelle! #motown
So, about this weekend...
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#48hourfilmproject #48hrfilmproject #creativity #filmmaking
I returned to my computer in a state of peace, ready to do the next right thing. And then I found the file accidentally buried in a subfolder. All is not lost after all. It never was.
I have no idea why the file didn't turn up in the initial search.
7/7
The universe is never wrong, even when it's uncomfortable. 6/7
In that moment, I accepted it all. Nothing is forever. Sometimes it's our fault when it ends prematurely. I will have to take it on the nose when I go tell one of my musical heroes whom I'm working on another video for that I lost it all. 5/7
I took this realization to the kitchen with me, where I make my pour over coffee. I use this activity I use as a daily moment of zen, staying present and aware as the boiling water penetrates the beans, the froth never bubbling up in the same way twice, but always aesthetically pleasing. 4/7
This morning I went to reopen the project and it was gone. Like, couldn't-find-it-with-a-tailored-search-only-going-through-exactly-those-project-file-types gone. Gone gone. I must've deleted the wrong folder in my purge. 3/7
So I cleaned up my hard drives over the weekend, deleting and reorganizing a bunch of files on both an external project drive and my internal drive. 2/7