Ratatat and I go way back… way before iTunes where good music still had legs. I remember when I first heard them like it was yesterday. Its great to see how talent and persistence pays off sometimes. In a big way. These guys went from playing empty clubs to rockin…

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Easter weekend, 2009, marked a very exciting time for my young career as an indie film producer. In three days of shooting, we shot 14 pages of script for a short film called KNUCKLEHEAD. The film is about a young black man named Langston (played by Gbenga Akkinagbi, The Wire,…

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$1,000,000 This little pile of cash can easily fit into any backpack and weighs just about 22 lbs. Just in case you didn’t believe that those criminals in the movies couldn’t fit a million bucks in those briefcases, it’s very possible! You’re not likely to ever see this amount of…

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Gratuitous and opportunistic are the first two words that come to mind here. Watch this video put out by Dove (a Unilever company). A great piece that is very compelling, but hyprocritical at best. Social responsibility is all the rage nowadays and it seems that some corporations are getting away…

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Ok, so you gotta give it up to some great talent busting their chops for nothing other than a chance at your fanhood. Lukas Field (yes the brother of our very own Zachary Field) is the next Coldplay meets U2. (kinda generous I know, but for real.) Low vs Diamond…

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