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WHAT GETS YOU MOVIN?: inspirational souls

25 Dec


Somewhere between my quick business trip to Barbados with Dj Dummy and returning to the cold of NYC, I got a bit of my mojo back!

As my return to NYC tweet last night stated, I’m back on my grind:

…oddly enough in the process of looking for some info and reading the January 2012 issue of Self magazine, I ran into this video featuring A-trak, Curtis Kulig, Carlos Quirarte.  The video is a piece on people grinding in NYC that went with HBO’s now cancelled show, How to Make it in America (I’m sad about the cancellation, but they needed better writers, and needed to stop showing the obvious and develop the not understood). 

As i digress, this is a great piece to get motivated if you lost a little bit of your mojo.

WHAT GETS YOU MOVIN?: inspirational souls

16 Nov



The best thing I heard all day.

I love Keith Olbermann, this is the 2nd time he’s been posted under my inspirational souls (here’s the 1st).  Listen to Olbermann go seriously in on Mayor Bloomberg, and his efforts to eradicate Occupy Wall Street.  As someone who was stuck in my car for almost 2 hours in traffic on Saturday, I’m pissed at the “God Damn Batman Movie!”

WHAT GETS YOU MOVIN?: inspirational souls

13 Nov



I just finished watching Red Bull Academy’s 2 hour lecture series with Erykah Badu! It’s hard for me to watch movies because I get antsy watching a screen for too long, but this was time very well spent, quite the engaging 2 hours!

The video came at the perfect time. I had literally finished writing my 1st journal entry in 16 months, and had written about finding inspiration, and getting reconnected with my soul again. And then BAM, right at the top screen, I see a Tweet Deck notification from Witches’ Brew saying “Erykah Badu – Up Close.”  My photographer’s mind figured it was a picture so I clicked, but it turned out to be an interview with Ms. Badu.

As a music lover both on the creative side as well as the business side, the interview was enlighting, vivid, warm and refreshing.  And made me wish i had reached my goal of being a producer by 30.  More importantly is that you can’t help but love Erykah!  I know she’ only 8 years older than me, but I want to be her when I grow up!  She’s so chill, level-headed, funny,  sexy without realizing it or trying know who she is and knows what she likes.  Some how what most the video resonated with me so much in regards to today’s journal post today is how’s she’s ever evolving, how it drives her.  I think somewhere in my trying to reach these many goals of mine, the movement towards them and the person controling the movement, got out of sync.  And that person, that soul, is quite a few steps behind my movments. But anyway…

She might not affect you in the same way, but there’s no doubt in my mind that her energy will consume you in some way.  So if you have some time, check, check, it out!

Anyway that’s something I’ll have to figure out, she may not affect you in the same way she did me. But there’s no doubt that her energy will consume you in some.

WHAT GETS YOU MOVIN: video

27 Oct



On Tuesday, Duck Sauce (A-trak and Armand Van Helden) debuted their new video Big Bad Wolf.  As some know, not only am i a big fan of A-trak as a DJ, he’s sort of my weird entertainer crush, so of course I was delighted to check out the video!

I’ve watch Big Bad Wolf  2 or 3 times, and i’m not sure how i feel about it.   It’s amazingly innovative, captivating, funny, perfect for Halloween; it’s disturbingly good.  It’s just something about A-trak representing gentalia, or just being that close to another man’s crotch that weirds me out.  Fortunately i know those or camera tricks, so i’m more entertained than disturbed.  I do wonder though, how it was on set, because I’m pretty sure the guys, and girls for that matter, had to bare it all, so that they could super-impose the genitalia heads.   The outtakes are probably the most disturbing footage, hahaha.

Enjoy!

 

WHAT GETS YOU MOVIN?: inspirational souls

12 Mar

JR


JR is a photo street artist who is changing the world, well at least it’s perspective, through art.  Watch this video and be inspired.

Visit www.insideoutproject.net to learn more and get involved.

WHAT GETS YOU MOVIN?: inspirational souls

6 Mar

I saw this video a while back and have recently seen it popping back up multiple places.  Narayanan Krishnan shows the power of compassion, he moves me to do more.  Every time I watch his story of giving, a smile comes on my face and I tear up a little bit.

Enjoy. Be inspired. Get Movin’.


WHAT GETS YOU MOVIN?: style

21 Feb



About 2 weeks ago I got a long overdue real hair cut; it’s been 6 months which feels like an eternity to me.  When deciding on which direction to go with the cut I referenced a picture that had struck me last spring.  It was a picture of fashion stylist and Fashion Editor for Big Magazine Dianna Lunt from the Spring 2010 J.Crew catalog.  I had saved the picture and ran into it in October.  From there it’s gone back and forth from my vision board to my purse (note the wrinkles) and back to the vision board. Dianna has sort of become my hair muse of the moment until probably summer/fall, plus I LOVE her style.

WHAT GETS YOU MOVIN?: inspirational souls

9 Jan

Keith Olbermann

Amazingly strong words by Keith Olbermann about the political violence in Arizona and its tone on our politics and country! Please watch, although the people who really need to watch this, won’t….