Is this good?
Will this be good?
Every movie trailer answers or challenges those 2 questions. The ham-fisted rebuttal comes swiftly, however: no you don’t need to always see a movie to know it’s tank.
Do you really need to sit through a Michael Bay Transformers movie to know for sure? Tank is Tank. And Fresh…well Fresh is always Fresh. I’m down like I’m Brown for that.
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My Summer Lair Chapter #121: As In Photography As In Life…Follow The Light. So What’s It Like To Follow The Light?
Listening to legendary photographer Jamel Shabazz speak it’s clear he deftly fulfills Jenny Holzer profoundly popular truism: “Use what is dominant in a culture to change it quickly.”
By picking up his camera daily and, in his words, “documenting the world around him”, Jamel is known for the culture he created and influenced as much as that culture influenced him.
Whenever a celebrity perishes there’s a lazy reduction by the media and (worse) by the fans that naturally occurs. We endured this when Prince passed away: it’s difficult to articulate in a meaningful way what Prince contributed to music and ultimately what his legacy is and will continue to be as time slowly unfolds.
Similarly Jamel Shabazz’s legacy is unique because it is divided into two significant works.
There’s the photographs he’s known for…the photographs have effectively established his platform while simultaneously functioning as icebreakers for him to start significant conversations with his subjects.
Those conversations are his additional legacy…and probably his greatest work. When that sad day comes and he’s no longer with us we’ll have the photos: we’ll always have the photos. But we’ll also always have the ripple effects of those conversations that he initiated because they’ve changed people. What was destroyed in the dark has been restored in the light.
Jamel has heavily invested in people and the ROI for those potent conversations is the changes love has sown. Like Prince’s musical legacy it is difficult to articulate in a meaningful way just it’s so obvious.
We just don’t have artists like this anymore. Conscientious and meticulous with a deep intentionality. As much as it inspiring it’s also distressing because this is how we used to be. Perhaps some time when the pendulum swings back as it often always does this is who we can become again.
As always we are faced with two roads and its remains up to us to take the Robert Frost less traveled road. Because as Jamel Shabazz can testify it makes all the difference.
My Summer Lair Chapter #120: Who Are The WingaDoos?
This stimulating interview was set up by Brian Meece.
I met Brian when he was repping RocketHub, a crowdfunding site…we had a passion for music and entrepreneurship so we quickly became friends.
Fast forward to 2019 and I’m in New York City; we’re out for dinner in Chelsea Market at a Japanese-Mexican fusion joint…we’re catching up and he tells me some of his new projects including WingaDoos.
WingaDoos offers online interactive lessons to teach kids (kindergarten to grade 3) financial literacy. Fresh!
Set it up Brian: we cheers drinks. And that’s the short version of how I found myself talking to Sam Wils Cofounder and WingaDoos CEO.
In this current climate student debt forgiveness is popular, basic income is another issue that we really didn’t touch (my bad!) all these mad money ideas floating in the air but the idea of equipping children with financial literacy is powerful. That type of education opens so many doors while cultivating confidence.
More than just talking about money (which doesn’t talk it swears!) Sam and I discuss his Haymakers for Hope experience which lead to boxing at Madison Square Garden and working with FlickerLab, who are responsible for the dynamic WingaDoos animation.
I feel like this conversation is at the beginning of the WingaDoos story; it’ll be fascinating to check in on em later…to hear how they’re doing and where they have gone. After all that’s their…bread and butter!
Is this good?
Will this be good?
Every movie trailer answers or challenges those 2 questions. The ham-fisted rebuttal comes swiftly, however: no you don’t need to always see a movie to know it’s tank.
Do you really need to sit through a Michael Bay Transformers movie to know for sure? Tank is Tank. And Fresh…well Fresh is always Fresh. I’m down like I’m Brown for that.
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