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:)

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RATATAT Loud Pipes (Filmed, Edited, and Produced by Yours Truly)

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.

$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

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.

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”