This is Happening

March 6, 2012

i’ve been seeing this & talking about it for a while. communications are increasingly visual rather than language/text based. A consumer movement toward a more visual culture brought on by technology and media. Smarter devices are prompting more occasions for people to create and consume visual content, while social media is encouraging that content to [...]

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monday morning dance party!

March 5, 2012

it’s only monday morning but we have this to look forward to. dude, where are my coolats?

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a week of awesome

March 3, 2012

this week was a week of awesome. monday night i spoke to a class of 80 kids  in the school of Film & Television at NYU. rarely do i get the opportunity to speak in front of large groups and impart what i know. consequently i am not a good speaker. practice makes better so [...]

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got to get over the hump!

February 29, 2012

i love funk. funky da dunky.in college we listened to parliament constantly. we dressed up like funk masters and even performed to parliament’s “give up the funk” in a lip sync contest (note to self: get that posted on youtube already!). here’s photo-documentation (Notre Dame Knott Hall circa 1993). on wednesdays whenever people say “hump [...]

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qotd

February 27, 2012

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.” - Henry David Thoreau

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melted my heart

February 25, 2012

my cousin’s 10 year-old daughter Essence came into NYC today to hang. she is the coolest girl. smart, sensitive, gentle, observant. after a long day filled with activity (including the matching manicures modeled below), we sat sharing dinner. Essy looked up at my Godmother and I and said, “When I’m grown up and have children [...]

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everything is a remix

February 22, 2012

“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” – Ecclesiastes 1:9 working in the entertainment industry you quickly realize that there are good ideas in unique combinations but no idea is truly original. the last original idea was when eve decided to [...]

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monday morning dance party!

February 20, 2012

“da butt”by e.u. this one goes out to liam andrew kenny, my godson who was utterly shocked and delighted to discover this song. especially when i personalized the chorus at the end … “liam got a big ol butt. nina (his sister) got a big ol butt. auntie col got a big ol butt.”

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last night’s 30 rock

February 17, 2012

“Commissioner Kelly & I are friends. We have competing columns in Irish Arguments Weekly - America’s only ALL CAPS magazine.” – Jack Donaghy RECAP: http://www.vulture.com/2012/02/30-rock-recap-season-6-episode-8.html FULL EP: http://www.nbc.com/30-rock/video/the-tuxedo-begins/1385738 #30 Rock is SO inside the tv biz, new york, and the new york media elite. i love it. it feels like it was made for me! given how [...]

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collage montage world: life + times

February 16, 2012

As my 2 year old blog banner suggests, I love collage. I have always loved making art from other art. My freshman year college dorm room was my canvas for this love. I covered the walls in a giant collage of imagery clipped from magazines, photos and some sketches of my own. It’s exciting to [...]

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