April 23, 2009
Ratatat at Terminal 5
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 Terminal 5 with over 1000 people last night. Nice. Here is a little video I threw together from the show. Enjoy:)
Myspace: myspace.com/ratatatmusic
RATATAT Loud Pipes (Filmed, Edited, and Produced by Yours Truly)
Posted by Jay
April 13, 2009
On the Set of KNUCKLEHEAD
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, The Savages, Law and Order, Cold case) struggling to survive the projects of Bed-Stuy Brooklyn with Autism, fetal alcohol syndrome, and an obsession of a cure for his developmental disorders.
This is an inspiring story of someone who will not accept “no” for an answer, regardless of the circumstances. A story of persistence without exception. A story about overcoming odds and creating your own reality, regardless how feasible the dream may actually be.
View the complete Gallery from the shoot.
Posted by Jay
April 8, 2009
How Much Is A Trillion Dollars?
$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 cash in one place unless you work in a bank or are a high-level drug dealer:
$100,000,000
Here we have $100 million – neatly fits on any standard pallet, weighing in at a little over one ton. You could stash this away in your bedroom and never work another day in your life. No one will ever see this kind of money in one place except Britney Spears and other celebrities:
$1,000,000,000
Now we’re talking big bucks… $1 billion – ten pallets worth of cold, hard cash. This is more than some countries’ GDP (Gross Domestic Product):
$1,000,000,000,000
Finally, here we are – one trillion dollars. That’s twelve zeros, go ahead and count ‘em! One MILLION million, or one thousand billion… This is just an obscene amount of money – the dollar value is more than all that are currently in circulation:
Imagine this pile of cash burning… would be almost a spectacular as the recent stimulus package – and as effective too. Source: http://deliveriesgalore.com
Posted by Jay
April 8, 2009
Corporations Using Social Media Gratuitously and Getting Away With It?
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 with gratuitous self promotion under the pretense of social responsibility.
BUSTED! Watch this response by Greenpeace.
Posted by Jay
April 2, 2009
Low vs Diamond. Must see.
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 “Don’t Forget Sister”
Posted by Jay
April 2, 2009
Cramped fingers.
I have cramped fingers from typing love messages to Jamie.
Posted by Jay
April 1, 2009
Google Autopilot? Can’t Wait For 2023.
Google announced “AutoPilot” yesterday. Their CADIE technology is a huge step towards technological singularity. Love it or hate it, technology is taking over our lives and as log as we embrace the conveniences it affords us, we will continue this stalwart march towards singularity.
Ray Kurzweill, the foremost authority on predicting the future claims that a $1000 computer will have greater calculating power than the human brain by 2023 and singularity (when artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence) will happen around 2045. Considering that he has be spot on with virtually all of his previous predictions for the future, including the year that Big Blue would beat Gary Kasparoff, its no wonder that Bill gates considers him the most trustworthy predictor of the future.
Wikipedia — The technological singularity is a theoretical future point that takes place during a period of unprecedented technological progress sometime after the creation of a Superintelligence [1].
Statistician I. J. Good first wrote of an “intelligence explosion,” suggesting that if machines could even slightly surpass human intellect, they could improve their own designs in ways unforeseen by their designers, and thus recursively augment themselves into far greater intelligences. The first such improvements might be small, but as the machine became more intelligent it would become better at becoming more intelligent, which could lead to an exponential and quite sudden growth in intelligence… [full wikition]
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