Gawd, someone just take Chrysler out back and put ‘em out of their PR misery! From the blog, AgencySpy:
Fox Business Happy Hour co-anchor Cody Willard called out Chrysler today during an afternoon broadcast. Willard held up a copy of the Wall Street Journal, which had a full page ad (rated at $200k) that stated, “Thank [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Find Your Inner Patti Smith in ‘09
Posted in art, tagged Bowery Ballroom, NYC, Patti Smith on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Originally uploaded by lownight66
Photo stream from Patti Smith’s 62nd birthday show at NYC’s Bowery Ballroom is here. Oh yeah.
Bush To Screw America Up To Very Last Minute
Posted in Journalism, Misc, Multimedia, Oh Shit, tagged Bush, Midnight Regulations on December 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
2008 – The Year In CJ Videos
Posted in citizen journalism, tagged Multimedia, the best of 2008 in citizen journalism, video countdown 2008, WaySouth Media on December 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wow. What a year it’s been! 2008 was one for the ages. And one whereby I got out the camera and the Windows Movie Maker and became a hardworking citizen v-journalist… or whatever you care to call it. Here are some of my video highlights for 2008. In no particular order:
1.) Coming in with the [...]
Rev. Joseph Lowery Talks About Obama
Posted in Presidential '08, citizen journalism, tagged Manuel's Tavern, Obama, Rev. Joseph Lowery on December 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Back in July, I caught a few moments on video at Manuel’s Tavern with Reverend Joseph Lowery… talking about, at the time, the Obama candidacy. And hope. And promise.
ANP – Building The New Journalism Army
Posted in Journalism, Multimedia, tagged ANP, Bush Administration, James Risen, Journalism, new media, NYT on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This mercifully short video accomplishes so much: it is not only watchable, with compelling music to get us beyond simple talking heads, it wets the appetite for more.
It makes the viewer want to explore what James Risen, the National Security reporter for the NYT, knows. Risen obviously knows a lot. Much more than [...]
Caroline Kennedy To Save Old Media!
Posted in Journalism, Multimedia, tagged Caroline Kennedy, Democratic Party, Huffington Post, Kennedy family, Matt Towery, new media, New York, old media, Paranoid Nation on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Now that Caroline Kennedy has been cured of her allergy to the Democratic Party, she should certainly be designated Senator from New York just because she feels like it. Think of how a slide show a day of old Kennedy family photos could breath life into old, flagging media plantations!
The never-flagging, trend-setting Huffington Post shows [...]
Quote du Jour. Possibly of Year.
Posted in Atlanta Media, Oh Shit, tagged AJC, Atlanta, bankers, builders, economist, economy, Elliot Eisenberg, Georgia, housing market on December 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yeah, we are robbing Peter to pay Paul, he said. But that’s OK because Paul is dead.
The above bon motes are from Elliot Eisenberg, an economist with the National Association of Home Builders. Eisenberg then went on to say, according to the AJC, ‘Atlanta should continue to build even though demand isn’t there.’
Full story is [...]
All Saints’ Parish Habitat Build Fall 2008 on Vimeo
Posted in Misc, Multimedia, WaySouth Media promotions, tagged All Saints', Atlanta, Georgia, Habitat for Humanity on December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Together with the new homeowners, Ponchitta Ridley and family, and Habitat for Humanity, All Saints’ parishioners built a home. Fall 2008. Atlanta, Georgia.
more about "All Saints’ Parish Habitat Build Fall…", posted with vodpod
New Video, Shadden’s Grocery, From AllYall.tv
Posted in Southern Culture, tagged AllYall.tv, online video, Shadden's Grocery, Southern Culture on December 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
more about "New Video, Sadden’s Grocery, From All…", posted with vodpod
A Preview Of Prints To Come
Posted in art, tagged family, photography on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a preview of the “Do Over” photo session. (See some post below.) It was taken with my really crappy 3 megapixel cam, so it’s not great. Merely a preview of the good stuff to come from some other person’s camera.
Cox Media Plantation Assaults Audience With Garbage
Posted in Atlanta Media, Utter Shite, tagged AJC, Atlanta, Cox Media Plantation, Georgia on December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Below is the news alert found my InBox today from the increasingly hideous Cox Media Plantation product, AJC.com:
AM News: Man assaults girlfriend with cheeseburger
It lives on their homepage this morning too. See for yourself, but you’ll have to get there on your own devices. Out of principle, imaging that I have some that is, [...]
Do Over
Posted in art, tagged Blake Praytor, photography, portrait on December 4, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Over 30 years after this portrait was taken of my family/step-family in the 70’s (I forget which year. ‘72 or ‘73 likely), my family/step-family will be gathering for a portrait again. Same people, same place. Minus that wonder dog, Spud.
Spud belonged to the photographer, a family friend. She, of course, has long since gone to [...]
The Magic of Twitter
Posted in art, tagged art, Mike Darnell, political pop art, Twitter on December 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I thought of Twitter as chiefly a news dissemination and babble-lite tool. Until it introduced me to Israeli political pop artist Mike Darnell and his powerful work. Now if I could only understand Hebrew, I could even hear his words! But art offers its own language of course.
more about “Digital Zion: The interview“, posted [...]
Atlanta Fire Station #23 To Be Closed
Posted in City of Atlanta, Oh Shit, tagged Atlanta, Atlantic Station, fire and rescue, Fire Station #23, Howell Mill Road on December 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ok, it’s official. Despite sending out possibly THE most convoluted, confusing press release ever written (so I won’t bother you with duping it over here, even if I could as it came in as a .docx file) the Atlanta Fire and Rescue Dept. confirmed the closure of Fire Station #23 on Howell Mill Road by [...]
Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin’s FAILURE To Communicate
Posted in Events, Oh Shit, tagged Atlanta City Council, communications, Fire Station #23, GWTW on December 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
NOTE: Atlanta City Council members can’t really be expected to communicate what they don’t know. I heard from District 9’s councilperson, Felicia Moore, today Dec. 2nd at 1pm that she knew nothing of fire station closings in the city, BUT that the Mayor Franklin could close stations without Council approval. Or notification for that matter. [...]
